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EVA COX
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- 'A crisis
of trust in political systems'
- 5.30pm, Thursday, August 16
Hear audio
highlights from the session
Eva Cox takes an active interest in the social impacts
of public policy on daily life and has undertaken research
about child care, superannuation, taxation, workplace
and community life. Having piloted the concept of Social
and Ethical Auditing, her research is focused on what
makes societies more civil and she particularly examines
social capital and social ethics as constitutive of
a civil society. As a Senior Lecturer at the University
of Technology Sydney, she emphasises how research influences
processes of social change.
Stemming from her work on civil societies, Cox is involved
in a range of projects including working with the Body
Shop (Australia), piloting the concept of Social and
Ethical Auditing (SEAR) and the development of social
audit indicators for community organisations with a
Victorian Foundation.
Cox has participated and continues to remain active
in community activities, research and advocacy. She
contributes regularly to a range of media. She has worked
for the public service, for politicians, in community
organisations and run her own business.
In 1995, Cox presented the Australian Broadcasting
Commission Boyer Lectures exploring her ideas for creating
a truly civil society. In 1996, her book Leading Women,
challenged all Australian women - and men - who are
dissatisfied with their present leaders to initiate
change and become leaders themselves.
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Mark Creyton
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- What
to do with all that spare time
- 3.30pm, Thursday, August 16
See the online
transcript of the session
Mark Creyton is Education Manager of Volunteering
Queensland. He has over fifteen years experience as
an educator and consultant working with a range of voluntary
and non-profit organisations and groups.
Creyton specialises in the areas of non-profit and
community leadership, community participation and personal
and organisational wellness. He facilitates a range
of projects and workshops to develop more effective
leadership within communities and on boards, to assist
organisations and groups work with volunteers and to
support staff within nonprofit organisations to work
at staying well. He has worked with over 5,000 community
and non-profit projects over the past five years. He
is the Queensland consultant for the Australian Journal
of Volunteering.
Creyton believes that volunteering can provide an
opportunity for anyone to make a difference in the world,
to put their values into action and to engage in community.
Volunteering should provide a space and a place for
everyone who chooses to be involved. If the world of
volunteering is to achieve these aims, we will need
to focus on meaningful work, developing community leaders,
inclusive practices and a human-centred rather than
human resource approach to working with volunteers.
He is currently working several projects including
co-authorship of a book about volunteerism and facilitation
of a range of youth, education and community initiatives.
He is also a member of the Training and Skills Development
Subcommittee of the Interdepartmental Committee for
the international Year of Volunteers.
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IAN DEARDEN
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse sessions:
- Taking a
very long time to learn very little
- 11am, Friday, August 17
Ideas that really
bug me
- 6pm, Thursday, August 16
Ian Dearden is a criminal lawyer and the President
of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties. He has
often been called on by the media to provide expert
comment on civil liberties, censorship, incarceration
and human rights.
On many occasions he has been at loggerheads with the
government of the day. When the former Coalition government
in Queensland moved to ban single men and homosexual
couples from becoming foster parents, Dearden accused
them of breaching the state's anti-discrimination legislation.
Similarly, Dearden opposed the Premier when, during
the most recent election campaign, he said that if re-elected
the government would give judges the discretion to publicly
name violent juvenile offenders convicted of crimes
such as murder or rape.
As well, Dearden has participated in delegations and
committees for civil liberties. He was a member of Free
Speech in the Mall committee which entreated the Brisbane
City Council to acknowledge the right of free speech
and political activity in the Queensland Street Mall.
Born and raised in Rockhampton, Queensland, Dearden
studied law at the University of Queensland. Having
formed bands and played live gigs, his passion for folk
music has spanned more than 25 years. He currently writes
and performs folk music as part of a duo.
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PETER DOHERTY
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse sessions:
- What are
we doing with our ideas?
- 11am, Thursday, August 16
'Once the
genie is out of the bottle, there is no putting it
back.'
- 7.30pm, Thursday, August 16
Hear audio
highlights from the session
ABN AMRO Business
Ideas Forum
- 10am, Friday, August 17
Professor Peter Doherty is a former Australian of the
Year. Currently, Professor of Biomedical Research and
Chair of the Immunology Department at St Jude Children's
Research Hospital, Tennessee, he advocates for increased
support and funding of research. He has said that "unless
you have that basic scientific discovery going on in
your institution or your country, you are not going
to do anything new; you are just going to be a derivative
culture."
Doherty and Professor Rolf Zinkernagel were awarded
the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the
discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected
cells. Their discovery has laid a foundation for an
understanding of general mechanisms used by the cellular
immune system to recognize both foreign microorganisms
and self molecules. Highly relevant to clinical medicine,
this discovery relates to both efforts to strengthen
the immune response against invading microorganisms
and certain forms of cancer as well as efforts to diminish
the effects of autoimmune reactions in inflammatory
diseases, such as rheumatic conditions, multiple sclerosis
and diabetes.
The two Nobel Laureates carried out the research in
1973-75 at the John Curtin School of Medical Research
in Canberra, Australia, where Doherty already held a
position. During their studies of the response of mice
to viruses, they found that white blood cells (lymphocytes)
must recognize both the virus and certain self molecules
- the so-called major histocompatibility antigens -
in order to kill the virus-infected cells. This principle
of simultaneous recognition of both self and foreign
molecules has since then constituted a foundation for
the further understanding of the specificity of the
cellular immune system.
Born in Australia, Doherty completed his BVSc at the
University of Queensland in 1962, and his MVSc in 1966.
He then travelled to Scotland and completed his PhD
at the University of Edinburgh in 1970.
Peter Doherty is a recipient of:
- Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science
(FAA), 1983
- Paul Ehrlich Prize, Germany, 1983
- Gairdner Foundation International Award, Canada,
1986
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS), 1987
- Alumnus of the Year, University of Queensland,
1993
- The Albert Lasker Medical Research Award, 1995
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WINKA DUBBELDAM
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- 'A new
hybrid architecture - a new spatial order'
- 1pm, Friday, August 17
The Ideas
Debate
- 7.30pm, Friday, August 17
Architect, Winka Dubbeldam is the principal of Archi-Tectonics,
founded in New York in 1994. She is also an Adjunct
Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University
in New York City and an Adjunct Assistant Professor
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She
has taught and lectured at numerous Universities in
Europe, the United States and Canada. In her writings
and lectures, she provides critical commentaries about
architecture as a profession and an artform. "For
architecture the study of science, like philosophy,
mathematics or micro-physics, will become of critical
importance, causing the transformation from a mechanistic
approach to a organismic, process-oriented approach."
With Archi-Tectonics she has constructed an Art Gallery
on West Broadway, the new offices for Gear Magazine
and several loft renovations - all in New York City.
She has developed urban planning proposals as consultant
to the City Councils of Dordrecht and The Hague in Holland.
Her current work includes a new Digital Imaging Facility
in Midtown Manhattan, a mixed-use building in Brooklyn,
a private residence in Upstate New York, a residential
building in SOHO, and a proposal for three residential
towers in Rotterdam.
Dubbeldam's work has been exhibited in solo shows in
Europe and the United States. Along with her Monograph
published in 1996, her work has been published in the
periodicals and in the books.
A graduate of The Institute of Higher Education, Faculty
of Arts & Architecture, Rotterdam and the Academy
of Architecture, Rotterdam, she also received a Masters
Degree from Columbia University in New York City in
1990. She has previously worked in Holland as well as
in the offices of Bernard Tschumi Architects and Peter
Eisenman Architects, NYC.
More information including past and current projects,
publications and statements is at http://www.archi-tectonics.com
Read and respond to Winka Dubbeldam's commentary in
the Ideas Online light discussion. Dubbeldam asks "Could
it be that architecture is simply too slow? It took
architects a century-and-a-half to recognize mathematics'
relevance to their practice. Now that mathematics itself
has progressed, when is architecture going to 'catch
up'?"
To get there, go to the light discussion, click on
the topic Ideas about Architecture, and then click on
the title, Is Architecture Dynamic ... Or Not?
http://www.ideasatthepowerhouse.com.au/6_forum/forum/forum.asp?id=7
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