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Ideas Bazaar
Free events, sessions and activities were scheduled throughout
the four day program of Ideas at the Powerhouse. There was a wild
program of free Kids Ideas and the Turbine Hall
of the Brisbane Powerhouse was alive with the Ideas
Bazaar, an open and free marketplace of ideas with Soapbox
Speakers, displays, information booths and exhibitions. There
was something for everyone with things to see, do, hear and talk
about.
Ideas Bazaar
All day every day, August 16-19, you could wander through the
Ideas Bazaar. Here's what was on:
- Solutions and Pipedreams.
- Inventions from industry and from the backyard, see both the
successful and the not so successful. A new exhibition demonstrating
Queenslanders' inventiveness, ingenuity and amazing capacity to
make do. Presented by the Queensland Museum.
http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au
- Ideas about ourselves. Images of ourselves.
- Visionary Images was an exhibition of work by young Melbourne
and Brisbane people who have taken control of the way they and
their concerns are represented. Presented by Access Arts, Maria
Fillipow and Visionary Images artists. For more information about
Visionary Images visit
http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/02_program_2001/_exhibit.htm#aa
For more information about Access Arts visit
http://www.accessarts.org.au
- Campfire Ideas. Borderless Worlds - an installation about
a Utopian world.
- Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists collaborate to present
different ideas about landscape and identity. An exhibition, sculptural
installation and discussion corner was presented by Fire-Works
Gallery and Campfire Group. For more information about Fire-Works
Gallery and Campfire Group visit
http://www.fireworksgallery.com.au
- Mindbenders, puzzles and puzzling.
- Do you start at the beginning or at the end? Do you go on or
do you give up? Take your time, test your skills, try your patience
with this series of new interactive exhibits from the Queensland
Sciencentre. Visit the Sciencentre website at
http://www.sciencentre.qld.gov.au
- Ideas about our City. Writing the City.
- A story about Brisbane, a story about place. A story written
in chalk on the walls of the Brisbane Powerhouse while suspended
on a rope from the side of the building. Artist Lisa Anderson
presents Writing the City Part 4. For more information about Writing
the City visit
http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/02_program_2001/05_field_of_spectator.htm#city4
- Problem = Project.
- How to make a school safer, how to make it healthier, more beautiful,
more inspiring, more stimulating. When students of Kelvin Grove
tackled the redesign of their school in the Living City 2001 Design
Challenge, what did they come up with? For more information about
Brisbane City Council projects, services and initiatives visit
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au
- Whose Idea Was That?
- Got a question? Get an Answer! From the State Library of Queensland
Question and Answer information booth. You could enter your question
online on the Ideas website or face to face in the Ideas Bazaar.
Visit the State Library of Queensland's website at
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au
- The roof over your head.
- Healthy housing, smart use of water and energy, rainwater tanks,
the old and the new. Presented by Brisbane City Council Urban
Management. For more information about Brisbane City Council projects,
services and initiatives visit
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au
- Where do we get our ideas?
- Bio-mimicry is the new buzzword in primary industries: innovation
and ideas inspired by nature. The Department of Primary Industries
explained the nurturing and the nicking of ideas from nature.
The Department of Primary Industries' website is at
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au
- Smart Intelligent Materials.
- Used in nature, used in architecture. Glen Hendersons' installation
'the architecture of a bug' asked us to think about our readiness
for change, our millennium metamorphosis. Glen Henderson's website
is at
http://www.users.bigpond.com/glenhenderson
- An Ethical Line.
- Gene Therapy, Cloning, Genetic Testing. What is OK? What's not?
The CRC Discovery of Genes for Common Human Diseases walked you
through applications of the new genetics and asks you to draw
your line. It may not be as easy as you think ... Visit the Gene
CRC's website at
http://www.genecrc.org
- Ideas Bookshop.
- Over 200 titles of ideas, innovation and invention. Books by
Ideas' guests, books by Ideas' guests' friends and their enemies.
Books for kids, books for the beach, books for the brain, brought
to Ideas by the Queensland University Bookshop. The Queensland
University Bookshop is at
http://www.bookshop.uq.edu.au
 Soapbox Speakers
Passionate about the ideas they love and hate, Soapbox Speakers
provided fast, sharp and engaging presentations from rant to mime
in this open and informal environment. With speeches from five to
seven minutes, there were serious and comic commentaries by people
from all walks of life. The Soapbox Speaker challenged us with their
ideas from the soapbox in the Ideas Bazaar.
Kids Ideas
The kids weren't forgotten with Kids Ideas running every day during
Ideas at the Powerhouse with over 379 kids participating. Kids could
be their own invention, create future fashion and play games from
around the world. Kids Ideas involved children in a while array
of free activities exploring their own brand of creativity and dynamism.
At Kids Ideas, four to eight year olds shared their capacity for
ideas, invention and problem solving with each other and adult participants.
Specialist facilitators ran practical, hands-on workshops and shared
their knowledge about Indigenous technology, renewable energy, design
for the future, dance and movement, storytelling, water conservation,
songwriting, making do and more - all while exploring two really,
really important kids' questions: why? and what if?
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