Please click on the links below to browse a selection of abstracts for BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures.
Abdolazim Amirshahkarami and Maliheh Mehdiabadi:
The Importance of Road and Bridge Engineering in Ancient Persia
Alastair Noble, UK:
‘Compleating the Union’ and the Construction of Bridges in the Post-Culloden Highlands
Alessandra Tosone, Matteo, Abita and Danilo, Di Donato, Italy:
The Lost Heritage of Iron Bridges in the Eternal City
Alessandro Stocco, Italy:
The Golden Horn Metro Crossing Bridge in Istanbul: Between Development and Universal Values
Alexander Heid and Christopher Tallman, USA:
Landscape Architecture as Bridge Between People, Knowledge, and Place
Alistair Black, USA:
Bridging the Two Cultures: The architecture of the new British Library at St. Pancras
Ali Ulvi Altan, Turkey:
Functional Assesment of New Bridges in Qualified Areas
Cultural Impact Assesment Process of Halic Metro Crossing Bridge
Amrita Madan, Sindhuree Iyengar, India:
Ana Porok, Slovenia:
Plečnik’s Bridges in Ljubljana
Andrea Valori, Italy:
The problem of the difficult bridges
Andrew McClelland and Mark Boyle, Ireland:
Refashioning a Contested Historic City: The case of ‘post-conflict’ Derry~Londonderry
Ann Maudsley, Sweden:
AnnaMarie Bliss and Carla Santos, USA:
Voices from Olivença and the Oliveça Bridge: A contested heritage between Portugal and Spain
Anna Mistewicz, Poland:
Anne Delano Steinert, USA:
How Did That Ever Get There?: Locating the Covington-Cincinnati Bridge in the Industrializing City
Anni Turnbull, Australia:
The Sydney Harbour Bridge: Through the eyes of artists and writers
Antonia Koukouvelou,
Antonio Soukef:
Bridges and Walkways for the Passage of Pedestrians
Ashish V Trambadia, Poonam A Trambadia, India:
Ellisbridge: the connection of growth from walled city to megacity Ahmedbad
Astrid D’Eredita, Italy
Ponte Girevole in Taranto: the Swing Bridge between a city with many souls
Atefeh Razmjoo, Iran:
Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed, Sudan:
Balaji Venkatachary, India:
Ram Setu: The Indian cultural landscape of Ramaâs bridge
Beniamino Polimeni, UK:
Bill Harvey, UK:
Bob Daimond, UK:
The Menai Strait – Obstacle or Corridor?
Bob Clarke, UK:
Brian Rosa, USA:
The City Below: Elevated Railways and the British Urban Landscape
Bruce Watson:
Heavenly work on earth: medieval bridge building as an act of piety
Camilo Contreras, Mexico:
People and Coal:The railway bridge support and witness the development of the coalfield Coahuila, Mexico
Camilo Conde Aldana and Alejandro Valderrama Herrera, Colombia:
Carly Guest, UK:
Remembering the ‘Bridge of Peace’: Women’s stories of peace, solidarity and feminism
Caroline M. Wisler, USA:
Catherine Hoggarth, UK:
Gathering Movement and Memory: An exploration of Rome’s Tiber bridges
Ceri Houlbrook, UK:
Cezary Bednarski:
Bridge as a tool of Urban Acupuncture
Chao-Shiang Li, Taiwan:
Charles Laurier, Japan:
Bridges in Modernizing and Militarizing Japan
Chen Zhou, China:
The research on the bridge cultural tourism-Taking Chinese ZhaoZhou Bridge for example
Christopher Koziol, USA:
The Ups and Downs of Chicago s Bascule Bridges: From transport necessity to placemaking resource
Chris Landorf, Australia:
Bridging space, place and power in a mining community
Christopher McHugh, UK:
Sunder Land: Exploring the changing iconography of River Wear bridges through Sunderland pottery
Christopher Tallman and John Koepke, USA:
Gidaazhoganikemin “WE MAKE A BRIDGE”: Landscape Architecture Practice as Social Bridge Building
Claudine Deom, Canada:
A Cultural Landscape of Bridges
Constantin Canavas, Germany:
Coralie Acheson, UK:
Crisitna Matouk, México:
Bridge Ojuela, 1898. Mapimí, Durango, México
Damian J. Kulash, USA:
On the Money: Bridge imagery on coins
Daniel Strack, Japan:
Danielle Delon, Trinidad and Tobago:
Bridges of Trinidad and Tobago
Danielle Willkens, USA:
Dario Foppoli, Italy:
The Knowledge of a Three Arched Stone Bridge
David de Haan, UK:
The Coalbrookdale Iron Bridge – the transition from wood to cast iron
David Harrison, UK:
The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Stone Bridge
David McFetrich, UK:
David Prochaska, USA:
Jewelry in Mykonos Bridging Museum Culture and Tourist Economics
Dawn Duensing, UK:
Hawaii’s Hana Belt Road: 74 bridges in 60 miles
Denis Gojak, Australia:
The Timber Truss Bridges of New South Wales, Australia: Conservation challenges
Denise Santos and Nuno Martins, Portugal:
Bridge over the Tagus: Urban transformation and social segregation
Dennis Wardleworth, UK:
Bridges, Engineering, Architecture and Empire: Dorman, Long and Co in the 1920s and 30s
Desmond Kraege, Switzerland:
Dilek Darby, Turkey:
Galata Bridge as a physical and social construct in the collective memory of Istanbul residents
Eamonn Cannon, Ireland:
Eberhard Pelke, Germany:
The main directions taken by road bridges in the 20th century
Ebrahim Raiygani, Iran
Ece Kaya, Australia:
Pyrmont Bridge: Symbolic marker in the industrial landscape of darling harbour
Eduardo Oliveira, Brazil:
The Ponte do Silvestre (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): A junction of technology, iconography and heritage
Edvin Lamce, Kosovo:
“Bridges that divide…” How bridges divide people and ethnic groups in the Balkans of 2017
Elina Manushi, Lorenc Basho, Bianka Beka, Albania:
PARANOIA: Connecting through disconnected places.
Emanuela Zilio, Roberto Maggioni, Anna Giorgi, Italy:
UNESCO sites: Cultural, natural and structural bridges in the Alpine Macroregion
Emanuela Zilio, Italy:
Emek Ergun, USA:
Emily Makas, USA:
The Bridge Metaphor for Bosnia
Eric Gobetti, Italy:
Stari Most and Bruce Lee. Symbols, myths and reality between division and coexistence in Mostar
Evangelos Chrysagis, UK:
‘Crazy Waters’: The Sliding Bridge in Chalkida, Greece
Evrydiki Katsali, Greece:
The Evripos channel and its bridges over the centuries
Francesco Zavatti, Sweden:
Fredric L Quivik, USA:
Steel Bridges on the Great Plains: Connecting the Desolate Plains with Industrial America, 1880-1920
Furan Cao, China (IIICH, UK)
Flavio,Carsalade; Diomira,Faria; Frederico, Marinho; Paulo, Siffert; Josiane, Barbosa, Brazil:
Building bridges through culture
Gareth Evans and Rada Djermanovic, Serbia:
Perception of ownership of Most na Adi in Belgrade
Gediminas Lankauskas, Canada:
Gert Jan Luijendijk, Netherlands:
Giacomo Tabita, Italy:
Giovanna Rita Bellini & Saverio Urciuoli, Italy:
Giusy Sica, Italy:
Bridge across borders, bridge across our ideas
Graham McLaren and Kayla Rose, UK:
Gregory Gan, Canada:
Gwen Burnyeat, UK:
Bridge-building in Transitional Geopolitical Conjunctures: Colombia’s Hidden Peace Processes
Heather Braiden, Canada:
Heng-an Su, Taiwan:
Bridgescape: A Represented Terroir in Taiwan
Hisham S. Gabr, Aliaa AlSadaty and Lamiaa Shehata:
Bridges in Historic Areas: Juxtaposition of value and incongruity
Howard Bossen, USA:
The Forth Bridge: Picturing a marvel in steel that spans water, time and cultures
Hulya Sonmez Schaap, Qatar:
The Bridge as a Witness to life, Comrade to people and an Essential piece of a city
Hulya Yuceer, Turkey:
Hussein Khalaf and Haluk Aktan, USA:
Verifying Automated Prestressed Concrete Design Software for MDOT Bridge Design Standards
Ian Berger and David Greenfield, Australia:
Ian Berger and David Greenfield
Ian Brodie, Canada:
Painting the Trestle: Adolescent negotiation of space and place
Irena Weber, Slovenia:
Ivan Marowa, Zimbabwe:
Musukwe Bridge: A landscape of changing socio-political and symbolic meanings
Ivan Grinko, Russia:
Bridges in contemporary museum: objects, symbols, functions
Ivy Maria Lim and Wu Bing Sheng, Singapore:
Jacqueline Naismith, New Zealand:
Jayashree Shamanna and Martina Bacarella, USA:
Harrison Ave Bridge: The Life and death of a small town icon
Jeffrey L. Beard, USA:
Indifference, Bobbie Gentry and Tallahatchie: Gothic fascination for decayed, neglected and abandoned spans
Jeffrey L. Beard, USA:
Joan Buchanan, UK:
John Wyatt Greenlee, USA:
Jon Volkmer, USA:
A Bridge to the Past: Mapping Wilson Trail
Jonathan McDowell, Nye Parry and Madi Boyd, UK:
John Laurence Busch, USA:
Steam Bridges: Revolutionary Linkages Using the First High Technology in History
Jianmin Li, Singapore:
Withstanding Time, Connecting Cultures: The Elgin Bridge in Singapore
Joost Coté, Australia:
The Red Bridge: A bridge to national liberation
Juan Shen, China:
Judit Erika Magyar, Japan:
Amanohashidate, the Bridge of History and Cultures
Judy Jones, UK:
Karen Astwood, New Zealand:
Beyond engineering achievement: Heritage New Zealand’s recognition of why bridges are important
Katherine Russell, Australia:
Kate Lynch, UK:
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct: ‘The bridge that joins’
Kayla Dettinger, Canada:
Bridging the Border Cities: A History of Windsor and its Twentieth-Century Cross-Border Relationship
Kamila Zacharuk, Poland:
Cultural heritage as a reason of misunderstanding. Poles from right- and left-bank of Ukraine
Kevin Moore
The Humber Bridge: engineering triumph and cultural icon
Komson Teeraparbwong, Thailand:
Krupa Rajangam, India:
Lara Slivnik, Slovenia:
Hradecky Bridge: The Story of the oldest three-hinged bridge still in use
Laura A. Macaluso, USA:
Lindy Stiebel, South Africa:
Bridging the Indian Ocean: In conversation with Lindsey Collen, writer from Mauritius
Lokesh Ohri, Germany:
Suspended Beliefs: Wire Suspension Bridges in the Himalayas
Luke Heslop, UK:
M. William Steele, Japan:
Magdalena Ozarska, Poland:
The Rialto Bridge and the Charles Bridge in 19th Century Women’s Travelogues
Manuel Patzke, Germany:
Bridges as Barriers – The role of bridges in the Yugoslav wars of succession
Marco Luitprandi, Chiara Masiero Sgrinzatto and Luca Nicola Vascon, Italy:
Flowing through the bridges of Venice: A virtual bridge to heritage reality
Marcus Jecock and Lucy Jessop, UK:
The Historic bridges of the River Aire and The case of Tadcaster Bridge
Margaret Stetz, USA:
Bridge Across a City, Bridge Across Time: The Book of New York Verse, 1917
Maria Balodimou, Greece:
Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly and Nadia Babazia, Belgium:
Red Star Line. Bridge to a safe Home
Marina Svensson, Sweden:
Mario Andrea Valori, Italy:
The problem of the difficult bridges
Mark Langridge, Canada:
New Bridges in a Canadian World Heritage Site: An Architect’s Perspective
Mark Watson, United Kingdom:
World Heritage Bridges in Steel: Types linking communities
Mark Whitby, United Kingdom:
Maryam Molaei and Mozaffar Zarrinkouh, Iran:
Bridge as a communication node The case of Safavid bridge in Karaj near Tehran
Mattias Legnér, Sweden:
Unifying rhetoric, dividing reality? Mitrovica Bridge, Kosovo
Maya Guez:
Paris’ bridges as Life and Death Arteries
Meighen Katz, Australia:
Bridges and Curves: Female artists and the fascination with urban engineering
Mervat Abdel-Nasser, Egypt:
Hermopolis: The art of bridging the world with an idea
Michael C. Wilson, Canada:
Bridges as Corridors and Filters: A Biogeographic and Ecological Perspective
Michele Sbacchi, Italy:
Mikael Strömberg, Sweden:
Popular Entertainment as Bridge
Mithilesh Kumar, India:
A Bridged Air: Imagining Empire and War through Air Routes
Natsuko Akagawa, Japan:
The Bridge: Embodiment of pleasure, enlightenment, guilt, agony and death
Ndanji Lesetedi and Olivia Molefe, Botswana:
Nermina Katkić, Bosnia and Herzegovina:
The Symbolism of the new Old Bridge in Mostar
Nicholas Temple, UK:
Tracing Heidegger’s Bridge in the Pons Neronianus, Rome
Nick Pollard, Joseph Butler, Ruth Fuller and Bill Hewlett, UK:
Nigel Baker, UK:
Crossing Sabrina: Archaeology, history and the bridges of the River Severn
Njabulo Chipangura, Zimbabwe:
Spirituality and community attachment with Birchenough Bridge, Eastern Zimbabwe
Nora Prekazi Hoti and Lulzim Hoti, Kosovo:
The Ibar Bridge: Dividing or connecting Serbs and Albanians in Mitrovica, Kosovo
Opudo Dennis Okeyo, Kenya:
Building bridges as social constructs in the African context
Patrick Fitzgerald, Northern Ireland:
Across the Bridge of Hope: Crossing divides in an Irish migration context
Paul Belford, UK:
Under the arches: urban life, art and contemporary archaeology
Paul Yandle, USA:
Paula Matiz, Colombia:
Bridge of Sighs: Bridge as a boundary
Penny Grennan, UK:
Was your bridge made in China?
Peter McCurdy, New Zealand:
Wood, Steel & Thousands of Rivets: the Last of the Waitemata Steam Ferries
Peter McKeague:
A Review of the evidence for English bridge chapels
Peter Merrington, UK:
Inhabiting the four level stack
Plácido Muñoz Morán, Spain:
Walking pathways: The heritage that crosses the Strait of Gibraltar
Popescu Cornel, Cirjan Marius, Romania:
Rebecca Burrow, USA:
A Bridge to Nowhere: Building the Astoria-Megler Bridge
Renato Morganti, Alessandra Tosone, Danilo Di Donato and Matteo Abita, Italy:
The short Span: Symbol and constructive nature of steel footbridges in Italy
Richard R. Dion, USA:
The Bridge Museum: An essential institution for our times
Rob Hedge, UK:
He carries his griefs on a shoulder: Archives of construction and collapse
Roberto Maggioni, Emanuela Zilio and Anna Giorgi, Italy and Germany:
The Alpine Range: a Bridge between Cultures
Roger H. White, UK:
Valley of Invention: bridges within the Ironbridge Gorge
Roger Pamponet da Fonseca and José Manoel Morales Sánchez, Brazil:
Emílio Henrique Baumgart (1889-1943): The Brazilian bridge builder of the firm Wayss & Freytag
Ronald Cox and Dermot O’Dwyer, Ireland:
Linking North and South: Ireland’s pioneering railway viaduct
Rosemary Kerr, Australia:
Bridging Europe and Asia: Crossing the Bosphorus
Rutger Noorlander, Ecuador:
Crossing the Ij river in Amsterdam: on the desirability of a connection
Sanja Peter, Sweden:
From Älvsborg bridge to Göta river bridge, and back
Sean Weiss, USA:
The Pont Mirabeau, Photography, and Urban Collectivities in Third Republic Paris
Senat Haliti and Margarita Azizi, Kosovo:
Senem Kaymaz Koca and Jonathan Hale, Turkey and UK:
The Flesh of the Mostar Bridge: Merleau Ponty’s body toing and froing on Heidegger’s Bridge
Seyyed Akbar Shafaei, Iran:
Shane Kelleher, UK:
Sharon J. Hepburn, Canada:
The Friendship Bridge on the Nepal-Tibet border: Liminality and the nation(s)
Shayan Khalesi & Pouyan Khalesi:
The sociological aspects of Isfahan bridges as binders of the subcultures
Shi Xiuyong, China:
City Symbols: Cultural Analysis of Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
Shu-yi WANG, Taiwan:
From Segregation to Social Inclusion – Bridging the Difficult Past
Sian Mitchell, UK:
The Poetic Bridge in the Nineteenth Century
Sigrun Prahl, Germany:
Bridges in Berlin: Before and after the reunification
Silvia Irene Arroyo Duarte, Panama:
History, conservation and maintenance of the colonial King´s bridge of Panama
Simon Ellis, Canada:
It’s all Water Over the Bridge’- Maintaining the flow on aqueducts as bridges
Sinah Kloß, Germany:
Sofia Vyzantiadou:
LitBridge- Connecting Cultures through Literature
Sofia Aleixo and Victor Mestre, Portugal:
Heritage interpretation of a Portuguese historic bridge
Soheila Hadipour Moradi and Mozhgan Hadipour Moradi, Iran:
Soner Sahin and Dilek Darby, Turkey:
Bridges as Shopping Streets: Irgandi Bridge in Turkey
Stefania Toma, Romania:
Real Bridges and Mental Borders in a Transylvanian Ethnically Mixed Community
Stelios Lekakis, UK:
Finds and uses under the bridge of Ilissos River in Athens
Stephen Jones, UK:
Susan Clayton, France:
Wordspree Viaduct: Spanning with bridges or words
Tania Ali Soomro, Pakistan:
Historic Bridges of Pakistan Endorsing Communities
Tayeba Batool, Pakisan:
The City in Passing: How the Metro Bus on Overhead Bridges connects Time and Space
Timoleon Kouimtzoglou, Greece:
The Historical Stone Bridge of Plaka in Greece. Historical, architectural and constructional documentation after the collapse in 2015
Tom Gregory, UK:
Tonka Maric and Rafael Lopez Guzman, Spain:
Bridges as symbols of cultural identity: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Tony Seaton, Ireland:
Tosh Warwick, UK:
Trevor Hughes, France:
Ulf Zander, Sweden:
Vacharee Svamivastu, Thailand:
Viviana Martini,Slovenia:
William Day, UK:
Menai Suspension Bridge: Maintaining an essential connection
William Fulton, New Zealand:
Bridge of Remembrance: World Wars and Earthquakes
Win Scutt,UK:
Tintagel, Cornwall – reconnecting a medieval fortress
Wojciech Eckert and Bartosz Michalak, Poland:
The historic steel bridge in Stany. Heritage preservation. Changing the function.
Xing Rong, China:
The design of Chinese Traditional Garden Bridge in the Summer Palace
Xiuyong Shi, China:
Yanwei Han, China:
Heritage Narratives, a Bridge for Transformation, Connection and Communication
Yi Fu and Hui Zhang, China:
Yilong Qiu,Chen Zhou, China:
Yina Sima, UK:
Connected Space: The Changing form of Melbourne’s Skywalks
Ying-Li Peng:
Heritage Narratives, a Bridge for Transformation, Connection and Communication
Yuko Shibata, Australia:
Considering Historical Chasms in Stories of Hiroshima Peace Bridges
Zachary Barlow, Elizabeth Jamison and David Hurwitz, USA:
The Impact of Bridge and Road Developments on Rural Communities in the United States (1920-1950)
Zhou Dandan, China:
Rethinking on the Functions of Fortune Bridge of Dong Ethnic Minority in Contemporary China
Zhang Baoxiu and Cheng Zhifen, China:
Bridges’ effect on the place-making of San Jiadian historic and cultural village in Beijing