*MOBILITY HISTORY, HERITAGE AND DESIGN *

*Second Call for Papers for the*

*Fifth Annual (Jubilee) Conference on the*

*History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T^2 M)*

*to be held in *

*HELMOND, THE NETHERLANDS*

*25 – 28 October 2007*

* *

This second Call for Papers for the fifth international T^2 M 
conference, with the theme 'Heritage and Design,' to be held in Helmond 
(near Eindhoven), in the Netherlands, is meant to ask your attention for 
the now rapidly nearing deadline for submissions of *31 March 2007*. 
Individual paper and entire session proposals are welcome, either on the 
conference theme, or on /any other topic from the broad domain of 
transport and mobility history/. A panel consists of a chair and 
normally up to three speakers and a commentator.

Both 'Design' and 'Heritage' direct our attention to the artefact and 
its context of production, use and re-use, in the latter case either as 
a museum exhibit or as an object of leisure consumption by 'amateurs.' 
However looked upon, recent scholarship in both Design History and 
Public History has pushed the 'user' or 'mobility consumer' into the 
centre of our analysis. Whereas the former studies the interaction 
between producers and consumers, the latter develops concepts of 
presenting transport and mobility as a lens to our current joys and 
chagrins in an increasingly 'liquid world' (Baumann). Submissions are 
invited, not only on what engineers know and how they know it 
(Vincenti), but also on the 'doings and sayings' (Schatzki) of the user 
and consumer. This conference provides a platform for historians of 
technology, museum curators and design historians to join the debate of 
transport and mobility historians about the cultural and material turn 
in mobility history, nurtured by T^2 M since its foundation. Because T^2 
M wishes to provide a meeting space for all transport and mobility 
historians, proposals not directly related to the conference's main 
theme are welcome, as well. This is all the more true for this jubilee 
conference, where overviews of the state of the art after five years of 
T^2 M are especially welcome.

The deadline for abstracts and a short cv (English only) is *31 March 
2007*: maximum one page for individual papers or one page per 
presentation within a session proposal, including a CV per person of 
max. 1 page as well. Session proposals should be accompanied by a 
separate one-page overview of the session, including chair and 
commentator and their CV's. Please send proposals to: *[log in to unmask]*.

Submitters will be notified by *30 April 2007* whether their proposal 
has been accepted by the Programme Committee, and will then be requested 
to send in a full paper by *1 September 2007* at the latest. A CD-ROM 
will be sent beforehand to all participants so as to facilitate only 
short presentations with an emphasis on debate and discussion.

The conference will coincide with the internationally renowned Dutch 
Design Week in nearby Eindhoven (with 60,000 visitors expected). The 
city of Helmond, on 15 km from Eindhoven, will support this event by 
organizing its own exhibition dedicated to design and heritage. This 
year, T^2 M celebrates its fifth consecutive annual conference. In 
cooperation with the city of Helmond a special social program is in the 
making dedicated to the efforts of the local and regional authorities to 
turn a small industrial town into a post-modern (and controversial) 
marvel of town planning and architecture within a European context. Part 
of this is the attempt to make the region around Eindhoven into one of 
the European hot spots of mobility design and heritage. Participants to 
this jubilee conference are therefore encouraged to bring their spouses 
and partners to make the conference into a truly memorable event.

The Programme Committee:

Gijs Mom (chair)

Mathieu Flonneau

Bruce Pietrykowski

Corinne Mulley

For information on previous conferences and the T^2 M association, and 
for any other information, see www.t2m.org <http://www.t2m.org>. Further 
details of the 2007 conference will be posted there in due course.


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