Program
Program
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?
Panel,
4pm - 4.50pm | Saturday 14 July
. . . a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. In this picture, Jesus looks kind and gentle; he gazes down at me lovingly. He is also light-haired, blue-eyed, and very white. The problem is, Jesus was not white.’ Rev'd Whitaker, The Conversation
Solo event,
4pm - 4.50pm | Saturday 14 July
After 5 years of tracking buying habits, attitudes, trends and media, ekko.world is looking to mother-ship leadership to subvert the inertia in the general population's seeming lack of responsibility for their planetary diet. What is the conspiracy, why does it involve women's logic and how do we build a self saucing system to inspire better behaviour? And a global movement to counter consumption marketing?
Oration,
4pm - 4.50pm | Saturday 14 July
With escalating energy costs, uncertainty in energy supply reliability and security, and the need to halt greenhouse gas emissions, the energy supply industry is at a crossroad. This panel presentation will consider the questions: Can we move to a zero carbon future? What does tomorrow’s smart grid look like? And what innovations are being developed at UniSA to help reach this goal?
Panel,
4pm - 4.50pm | Sunday 15 July
As we career headlong through the anthropocene period where human activity leaves its indelible, and often destructive, trace on the planet, we ask: how do artists respond to this? Hear three wonderfully diverse speakers, including artists, discussing their own practices and perspectives on nature.
