Get involved in the ideas that will change your world in 2011/12, as The Brisbane Institute delivers a diverse and engaging program on topics affecting your life and the lives around you.
Simply click on the hyperlinked titles below to find out more details, and to register your interest in attending. Some events are still in planning, but full details will be available in the coming weeks, so please check back or register to receive our event alerts as we welcome your support and participation.
Positive Energy Futures
How can Queenslanders afford their single-passenger car trips, their Tasmanian strawberries and their plasma TVs without new sources of fuel and energy?
What’s all the fracking fuss about?, examined the energy and fuel options in Queensland on Tuesday, 23 August, 2011. A podcast of this event is available through the State Library of Queensland webcast page. Please click here to view this page. Alternatively, you can read a full transcript of the event here.
Seriously, renewable?: This forum discussed when renewable energy will become a viable alternative in this country and what potential alternatives we have. A podcast of this event is available through the State Library of Queensland webcast page. Please click here and scroll down the page to listen. Alternatively, you can read a full transcript of the event here.
Save your energy!: discussed how we could do for energy and fuel what we did as a community for water while looking at what barriers we must overcome to achieve this.
IQ: Innovative, Intelligent, Imaginative Queensland
It takes a lifetime to develop IQ, POSTPONED: What are the most exciting and engaging developments in childhood education? How can we ‘teach’ an attitude and aptitude for innovation? How can we promote lifelong learning as a natural, indeed inevitable, consequence and benefit of technology?
Future IQ: These ideas will change your world!, This forum examined innovation, intelligence and imagination in Queensland on Tuesday, 27 September, 2011. We were joined by Lauren Anderson from Collaborative Consumption, Ben Hamley from Hello Sunday Morning and Smart Artz, Rolf Kuelsen from Transition Towns Hub and Craig Rispin from Future Trends Group.
Annual Steve Irwin Memorial Lecture
With University of Queensland’s Faculty of Science, The Brisbane Institute was proud to once again present the annual Steve Irwin Memorial Lecture on 4 October, 2011. Participants enjoyed a fascinating insight into the fight to save Australia’s Tasmanian Devil, featuring UQ alumnus and Oxford researcher Dr Shelly Lachish. Click here to read more.
Bridging the Digital Divide
From the press column-centimetres and radio talkback minutes devoted to debating the NBN, you might expect Australians to have a good understanding of what the NBN is (or could be), what it will cost (and how we might afford it), what benefits it will bring (or not), and why it could be the vital, missing link bringing Australians together (or a tragic waste of public funds, or something in between). This is will be stage one of a two year project to connect disadvantaged communities with technology. Click here to register for event alerts about this project as more details are released.
Queensland Foresights
With CSIRO and some of Queensland’s leading companies, the institute is developing a significant research project into the trends likely to affect Queensland over the next 20 years.
Packed Lunch Series
This popular Packed Lunch Series will return and continue to provide terrific opportunities for networking and development for young Brisbane professionals. Click here to register for event alerts about this series as more details are released.