Program
Program
Workshop,
3pm - 3.50pm | Saturday 14 July
Take a horizontal stand against succumbing to an ever-increasing pace of life. In this experiential-educational mini-siesta, we will take a collective kip, while learning about the science behind the power nap, so you can integrate it safely and effectively into your day.
Solo event,
3pm - 3.50pm | Saturday 14 July
How is the brain, with its unique capabilities, dealing with modern global challenges? A neuroscientific perspective on our biological and cultural evolution will give a more realistic view of the dangers confronting our species. Scientific humanism may be our best chance to adapt for survival instead of failure and perishing.
Solo event,
3pm - 3.50pm | Saturday 14 July
From tool libraries and repair cafés to platform cooperatives, urban agriculture and makerspaces, communities around the world are co-creating civic infrastructure for the common good. Join Darren, from Shareable, for a tour of Sharing cities: activating the urban commons, the new how-to guide for urban transformation.
Solo event,
3pm - 3.50pm | Saturday 14 July
Duncan will take you into the secret world of mathematics and how it helps to solve some of the most complex crimes. His talk spans millennia – from the time of ancient Sparta to the artificial super-intelligence of the future, examining how our use of data continues to evolve.
Solo event,
4pm - 4.50pm | Saturday 14 July
How do we leverage the amazing benefits of both man and machine? Positive human connection creates physical synchronisation that affects everything from health to trust and problem-solving. Increasing technologisation impacts this, delivering transformative benefits and capacities coupled with drawbacks around interaction, thought and emotion.
Solo event,
4pm - 4.50pm | Saturday 14 July
In Eastern Europe and many parts of Asia, governments are neither freely elected nor accountable, while the freedoms indispensible to democracy are withheld. In the United States, Britain and Australia, politicians and public institutions are held in disrepute. What light can history throw on this disillusionment with democracy?
