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First deadline:
Submission of abstract for peer review: November 15, 2016

Full details here:

http://arch.kuleuven.be/incubators

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Construction Materials is planning a themed issue for 2017 on historic building materials.

The history of construction includes a variety of traditional materials that have been developed over the centuries through trial and error or experimentation. Protecting historic structures preserves not only the materials, but also the traditional skills and techniques employed by builders of the past. Understanding the character and condition of historic building materials is paramount to the development of appropriate building conservation programmes and repair strategies.

Although standard techniques for modern materials are often used to great effect, historic building materials can present problems for analysts due to their comparative rarity and unusual characteristics.

This themed issue of Construction Materials will bring together the experience of researchers and experts to discuss the unique problems and best practices for the investigation and scientific analysis of all types of historic construction.

Please submit a 200-word outline of the article you would like to write by 30th November 2016.

To learn more about the themed issue and for a list of topics please download the Call for Papers. For more information on the journal, please visit the website.

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2017’s Milan conference will investigate methodologies of representation, communication, and valorisation of Historic Urban Landscapes and cultural heritage but also placemaking and local identity enhancement.

The conference will promote holistic and multidisciplinary approaches to design which are adapted to meet the challenges of tomorrow, and which support the unique heritage, cultural landscapes and communities that have been developed by local traditions around the world. Participants will share case studies and current practice on the documentation of settlements that should be preserved, focusing on innovative solutions, design challenges in placemaking and identity conservation, cultural issues in heritage assessment, and the technical and craft expression of culture. Critical to the presentation of case studies and current practice will be the use of drawing as a tool for design and creativity.

 The conference aims to foster an international exchange of research, case studies, and best practice to confront the challenges of designing places, building cultural landscapes and enabling the development of community. The conference also aims to promote research on new core knowledge in the field, and on applications of this knowledge that are contributing to our understanding of the evolution of traditional and historical knowledge.

Further information and Call for papers here…

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The history of construction includes a variety of traditional materials that have been developed over the centuries through trial and error or experimentation. Protecting historic structures preserves not only the materials, but also the traditional skills and techniques employed by builders of the past. Understanding the character and condition of historic building materials is paramount to the development of appropriate building conservation programmes and repair strategies.

Although standard techniques for modern materials are often used to great effect, historic building materials can present problems for analysts due to their comparative rarity and unusual characteristics.

This themed issue of Construction Materials will bring together the experience of researchers and experts to discuss the unique problems and best practices for the investigation and scientific analysis of all types of historic construction.

To learn more about the themed issue and for a list of topics please download the Call for Papers. For more information on the journal, please visit the website.

Please submit a 200-word outline of the article you would like to write by 30th November 2016.

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Bridges physically and symbolically connect places, communities and cultures; they remind us of division while at the same time providing the means for unification. This conference seeks to explore heritage of bridges –not only as remarkable physical structures connecting places and cultures but also as symbolic and metaphorical markers in the landscape.
Indicative themes of interest to the conference include:8

•       The materials and technologies of bridges – the heritage of form and function
•       National and local iconographies of bridges
•       Narratives of bridge construction and destruction
•       Communities united and communities divided by bridges
•       Poetics of the bridge – representing the bridge in art, literature and film
•       Love and death on the bridge
•       The language of the bridge – metaphors and meanings in social life
•       Touring bridges – travel narratives and tourism economies
•       Alternative bridge crossings – tunnels and ferries

The conference welcomes academics from the widest range of disciplines and wishes to act as a forum for exchange between the sciences, social sciences and the humanities. The conference will draw from anthropology, archaeology, art history, architecture, engineering, ethnology, heritage studies, history, geography, landscape studies, literature, linguistics, museum studies, sociology, tourism studies etc. The conference will take place at the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge Gorge – the birthplace of the industrial revolution and the home of the World’s first iron bridge.

See how to submit an abstract and further details here.

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