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With more than 50 sessions in its main program, navigating the Ideas Festival program can be a little daunting. Here are our ten top tips for the festival. Or, visit our searchable events listing and search for the latest information by stream, keyword or venue.
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 | Helen Greiner on Innovation - 5pm–6.15pm
qtix $35
The inventor of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner talks about robots in everyday life and beyond. | | | Chris Jordan on Running the Numbers - 1.45pm – 3pm
qtix $35
World-renowned photographer and environmental activist Chris Jordan has documented the excesses of western society with a series of startling images.
Presented by Griffith University | | | The Big I Opener - 8pm – 9.30pm
qtix $15
Ideas Festival in association with QPAC presents The Big I Opener
To welcome our national and international Festival guests, join Phillip Adams as he encourages Bryan Dawe, Ernie Dingo, Charles Landry and Carmen Lawrence to invent and reinvent some big, bold ideas. | | | John Howkins on Creative Ecologies - 2pm – 3pm
qtix $30
International consultant John Howkins, author of Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job, argues that thinking is a proper job. | | | Are We Cooking the Planet? - 10am – 11.15am
qtix $20
Hear from experts in the field of atmospheric biological indicators of climate change.
Professor Ian Lowe asks climatologists Dr Graham Pearman and Professor David Karoly, and theoretical ecologist Professor Hugh Possingham. | | | Futures of the World Economy - 12noon – 1.15pm
qtix $20
Political scientist Dr Sohail Inayatullah looks at possible futures of a world transformed by a global economy crisis. | | | Charles Landry - Intercultural Cities - 3:30pm – 4.30pm
qtix $35
Charles Landry is an international authority on city futures and the use of culture in city revitalisation. | | | Sunday Brunch - 10am - 11.30am
qtix $20
Brunch host Phillip Adams gets robotics engineer Helen Greiner, activist and photographer Chris Jordan and satirist Bryan Dawe talking. | | | Masterclass: Creative thinking and the universal brain software - 2:30pm – 4.30pm
qtix $40
Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, author of the best-selling book Software for the Brain, gives participants a software upgrade for their ‘necktop personal computer’, to help them become better at anything. | | | The Future of Creativity and Education - 7:30pm – 8.30pm
qtix $30
Anna Craft is Professor of Education at the University of Exeter and The Open University, and Government Advisor (Creative and Cultural Education) in England. She discusses how to foster creativity in education.
Presented by the Year of Creativity | |
The Ideas Festival program of events includes international, national and local speakers on a broad range of topics. The Festival is committed to presenting an accessible program with a range of session styles to suit the formal and less formal exchange of ideas.
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In 2009 there will be ideas lectures, panel discussions, debates, question and answer and interview sessions along with a school's program "Think Do Tank".
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A series of five streams will converge to help us venture in new directions and explore solutions that matter to our lives. Each stream acts as a key to open a door to the big room of IDEAS. Our framework is represented by the five letters of the word IDEAS:
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Directing innovation and creativity toward fostering a culture of creativity and receptiveness to innovation. Also: Creativity in industry, the market/product relationship, changes with value, product commercialisation, entrepreneurship, IT.
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Major political and social trends. Development in broader terms: expanding freedoms in education, health care, political rights. Also: the physical, political, ecological and economic and creative considerations of design: everything from products to built environment. Research and Design, Enterprise development, Technology Commercialisation.
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Identifying emergent global challenges to environmental issues. A human relationship and response to Climate Change, Peak Oil, Energy Futures, Population Growth, Food Security and Global Ethics. Also: Ethics in work, politics and the media.
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Personal responsibility in issues: speaking for or on behalf of people and causes. The engaged public: investigating the practice of change agents, lobbyists, citizen journalists, and Mass Media. Citizen involvement in democracy, the law and social justice, and creative action: social entrepreneurship, volunteerism and building social capital.
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Work/life/self issues: working futures, education and skills, major social and organisational trends, psychology, philosophy, faith and religion, culture and the arts
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The Ideas Festival program will be available in the State Library of Queensland magazine.
To keep up-to-date about Ideas 2009 or about our and partner's occasional events, sign up to our email list using the link in our main menu.
For highlights and selected audio downloads from past Festivals visit the 'Past Ideas Festivals' pages.
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