Program
Program
Solo event,
11.30am - 12.20pm | Saturday 14 July
Citizen science is burgeoning, boasting thousands of projects and millions of participants. Members of the public are making valuable contributions to research in a range of fields, from refining protein structures to recording new species and identifying new astronomical objects. Learn about citizen science and how to become involved.
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,
2pm - 2.50pm | Saturday 14 July
Intergenerational dementia programs purposefully bring young people and people living with dementia together, for mutually beneficial interventions. Learn what happened when, over eight weeks, Ashleigh conducted lessons about dementia with year 4/5 students at Unley Primary School followed by six excursions to an aged care day respite facility.
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,
1.30pm - 2.20pm | Friday 13 July
Whether you're in government, healthcare or enterprise, or with an NGO, Rob will share how open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation offer the ability to discover, evaluate and action the best ideas and insights from those whose experience can help your organisation to do things better – for your citizens, customers and partners.
Solo event,
10.30am - 11.20am | Sunday 15 July
Language revival is right, beautiful, and beneficial. Ghil’ad proposes Native Tongue Title, compensation (for linguistic activities) for peoples whose mother tongue was subject to linguicide (language killing), making Indigenous tongues the official languages of their region, and erecting multi-lingual official signs, changing the lanGscape (linguistic landscape).
Solo event,
11.30am - 12.20pm | Sunday 15 July
The impact of medical treatment upon transgender people’s fertility has received increased attention. At the heart of the topic of fertility preservation lies the question of futurity. This talk explores how transgender people negotiate decisions about fertility, focusing specifically on resistance to, and engagement with, pronatalist discourse.
Solo event,
11am - 11.50am | Friday 13 July
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Solo event,
3pm - 3.50pm | Sunday 15 July
On Earth, archaeologists study long-vanished cultures through the rubbish they leave behind. In this talk, we take the perspective of a future archaeologist surveying the solar system, and investigate what they might learn about human culture from the junk we’ve abandoned in space.
Solo event,
2.30pm - 3.20pm | Friday 13 July
Ethical enterprise and democratic business ownership models shape who's at the wheel. Hear from SA's next Thinker in Residence. A leader in the co-operatives sector, Guy has received multiple awards for his role championing social enterprise in the disability and care sector in the UK.
