Live @ Melbourne

The New Generation and Climate Change: Repairing the Ills of the Old

• What are the perspectives of future leaders to current issues and challenges of climate change?
• What cultural changes might we learn from our young people who have visions for a sustainable future?
• How do we remedy our current status from ills of the past?

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Start time: 3:30 pm AEST

The Suburb Redeemed and the End of the Quarter Acre Dream

• How do we create in the suburbs centres of interest, excellence and exchange?
• How do we make them productive?
• How do we give them a touch of 'urbanity'?

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Start time: 1:30 pm AEST

The Architect and the Art of Architecture: Victims or Heroes of Climate Change?

• Can architecture re-tool itself as a discipline and shape the clean, green, responsible environment?
• Do the imperatives of climate change spell the end of of an architecture individuality and expression?

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Start time: 10:00 am AEST

Keynote: The Responsive City: Urban Change in a Time of Climate Change

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Start time: 7:00 pm AEST 

Home-Grown Remedies for Global Ills

Can Australia act alone to save itself?
Can Australia become the laboratory of the world?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Start time: 3:30 pm AEST

Food Fights/Food Security

• Is the looming food crisis at the sharpest end of climate change?
• Can Australia change its farming habits and its appetites in order to survive and thrive?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Start time: 1:30 pm AEST

The Warning of the Warming World

• Can Australia be cured of its carbon addiction from brown coal for electricity to petrol for its transport system?
• Will the change be traumatic or transformative?
• Can we afford to make the change? Can we afford not to?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Start time: 10:00 am AEST

Fanfare to Festival – "Havaiki" by Lia Avene of Tuvalu.

Keynote: Climate Change/Cultural Change

Monday, June 15, 2009
Start time: 7:00 pm AEST

Launch of the Festival of Ideas 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Start time: 10:30 am AEST

Launch of the Festival of Ideas 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Start time: 10:30 am AEST