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SOHAIL INAYATULLAH
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse sessions:
- The last
1000 years, the next 1000 years
- 5pm, Saturday, August 18
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highlights from the session
ABN AMRO Business
Ideas Forum
- 10am, Friday, August 17
'The unsettling
reality of the futures of health'
- 11am, Saturday, August 18
Dr Sohail Inayatullah has been writing in the area
of future studies for over 20 years. Regarded by his
peers as one of the leading 'futurists' in the world,
he conducts research into alternative futures with specific
interest in examining non-western futures. Currently,
he holds a number of academic positions: professor,
Tamkang University, Taiwan; adjunct professor, University
of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore; Professor, International
Management Centres; and visiting academic, Queensland
University of Technology. Inayatullah is trained as
a political scientist. His research areas include: the
long term 1000 year future; Cyberspace futures; Governance
and the future; Multiculturalism; and New approaches
to planning and strategy.
As an advocate of Futures Studies, Inayatullah says
that this area of inquiry has benefits and applications
in everyday life particularly in the area of creating
alternative organisational futures. He encourages us
to look for futures beyond the 'official' world views.
Most recently, after working with numerous Australian
government departments, he has begun focusing on moving
from the learning organization to the healing organization.
This ties into his research on health futures. "As
the web develops, we can anticipate health-bots or health
coaches, that is, always-on wearable computers. They
will provide individualized immediate feedback to our
behavior, for example, letting us know caloric intake,
the amount of exercise needed to burn off the pizza
we just ate." His completed research projects for
2001 include a report for the Foundation for the Future
titled Methodological Aspects of Humanity's Long-Term
Future and a report for the Western Agri-Food Institute
(Western Canada) on the Futures of Food, Agriculture
and Farming.
He has worked all over the world including for UNESCO,
the Islamic Development Bank, the European Commission,
the United States Justice Institute, numerous universities
and non-governmental organisations as well as community
organisations and businesses in the food, health and
banking areas. Inayatullah is a fellow of the World
Futures Studies Federation. In 1999 he was the UNESCO
chair in International Studies at the University of
Trier, Germany and Chair in Futures Studies at Tamkang
University, Taiwan. He has also presented lectures and
workshops globally.
Inayatullah is co-editor of the Journal of Futures
Studies and associate editor of New Renaissance. Inayatullah
is on the editorial boards of Futures, Development and
Foresight. He has written over 200 journal articles,
book chapters, encyclopedia entries and magazine pieces
which have appeared in over 40 different journals. Inayatullah
has also written and co-edited a dozen books including
Chaos and Coherence in our Uncommon Futures, Macrohistory
and Macrohistorians, Understanding Sarkar, Transcending
Boundaries, Situating Sarkar, and The University in
Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of
the University.
While in Australia, he is a frequent contributor the
Australian Financial Review, having published articles
on cyberlobbying; revolutions in governance; digital
home futures; dissent in universities, ageing, capitalism
and the Internet. Most recently he has written for The
Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Find our more about Sohail Inayatullah or read some
of his articles by visiting his website http://www.metafuture.org
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DAVINA JACKSON
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse sessions:
- 'A new
hybrid architecture - a new spatial order
- 1pm, Friday, August 17
Is this the
comfort zone?
- 5pm, Friday, August 17
Davina Jackson records and promotes progressive architecture
and design. During the 1990s she was editor of the RAIA's
national journal, Architecture Australia. She is co-author
of Australian Architecture Now, and has curated two
exhibitions highlighting contemporary architects and
artists. Of one of these exhibitions, 40 UP: Australian
Architecture's Next Generation, Jackson writes, "the
impulses of most architects - even those labelled 'innovative'
- are more nostalgic than futuristic."
After the 2000 Sydney Olympics, she delivered 16 lectures
across the United States and Europe explaining the current
themes of Australian architecture. Since returning from
her lecture tour, Davina has been writing on architecture
for Wallpaper, Vogue Living and The Sydney Morning Herald.
In March 2001, she joined the Hon. Michael Egan MLC,
NSW Treasurer and Minister for State Development, as
an adviser and speechwriter.
Jackson was born in New Zealand and has been working
in Sydney since 1979 as a writer, editor and photographic
stylist for style magazines and newspapers. She is a
regular commentator on architectural affairs at conferences,
university seminars and on radio and television, and
has been a juror for various national and foreign design
awards.
In 1997, she gained an M.Arch (history and theory)
degree from the University of New South Wales. Her thesis
explored digital age ideas about the home.
Jackson is the recipient of The Multiplex Vision Award
2000, National Association of Women in Construction,
2000
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JACQUI KATONA
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- Late Night
Ideas - Ideas to fight for
- 9pm, Thursday, August 16
'Australia
is not an island'
- 5.45pm, Thursday, August 16
Campaign leader to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine,
Jacqui Katona is also the Executive Officer of the Gundjehmi
Aboriginal Association representing the Mirrar clan,
traditional owners of parts of Kakadu National Park.
Since 1996, she has attracted more than 2000 protesters
to join the blockade camp against Jabiluka. Some had
observed that this environmental battle is the biggest
since the Franklin Dam blockades.
"The fact is that the traditional owners of the
north Kakadu region own one of the most valuable pieces
of real estate on this planet. Any notion that this
cannot be converted into a viable Aboriginal economy
runs contrary to the very economic theories that have
been used to brow beat us in the past. We will resurrect
a distinctive Aboriginal economy in Kakadu. It will
be helped along with the reform to the Kakadu National
Park Lease; the legal recognition of Mirrar ownership
of Jabiru; and the gradual transfer of jurisdictional
and economic power to the Aboriginal landowners."
An ABC profile of Katona revealed that at 18, after
meeting her grandmother in Tennant Creek, she vowed
to gain skills to help her family and people. A recent
arrival to Kakadu, having been raised in the south eastern
corner of Australia, Katona was invited to help with
the Jabiluka struggle by a relative and senior traditional
owner of the Mirrar clan.
Katona has worked for several Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander organisations, media and campaigns.
Prior to her appointment to Gundjehmi, she had worked
as the Coordinator of the National Coalition of Aboriginal
Organisations Secretariat to establish an organisational
structure for information movement within a nation-wide
network of Aboriginal organisations. As well, Katona
represented this organisation at the United Nations
Working Party on Indigenous Populations in the area
of information. In 1995, she was Stolen Generations
Project Officer for North Australian Aboriginal Legal
Aid Service, providing assistance for the coordination
of litigation in High Court and Federal Court cases
on behalf of the Stolen Generation of the Northern Territory.
Katona's professional experience also includes consultancy,
training, editing and advisory work on deaths in custody,
stolen generations, childcare and cross cultural awareness.
She has given several lectures as well as produced papers
and submissions.
Jacqui Katona is the recipient of:
- Peter Rawlinson Environmental Award, Australian
Conservation Foundation, 1997
- Goldman Environmental Prize, Island Nations, 1999
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PETREA KING
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- The pros
and cons of death
- 1pm, Saturday, August 18
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highlights from the session
Petrea King recovered from leukaemia in 1984. Her recovery
inspired the founding of the Petrea King Quest for Life
Centre of which she is Program Director. Located in
Bundanoon in the southern highlands of New South Wales,
the Centre is owned and operated by the Quest for Life
Foundation which is a non-profit registered charity
established by King in 1990 to further her work.
As a qualified naturopath, herbalist, homoeopath, yoga
and meditation teacher and counsellor, she has earned
a national reputation for her approach to healing and
health for people in crisis. King's approach to crisis
is to view it as a catalyst for spiritual growth and
understanding as well as an opportunity for healing
and peace. She does not impose and particular belief
system, instead "preferring to meet people where
they are and helping them to discover their own best
answers."
In 1995 King and the work of the Quest for Life Foundation
relocated from Sydney to Bundanoon. In 1999, the Petrea
King Quest for Life Centre was opened and has become
the base for King and others to continue their work.
The Petrea King Quest for Life Centre now houses the
residential programs, counselling and therapies provided
for people with serious illnesses and for those living
with loss, grief and tragedy.
For thirteen years, from the former Crows Nest based,
weekly support and meditation groups were organised
for more than 200 people with cancer, HIV/AIDS and other
life-threatening illnesses. King also worked in Long
Bay gaol with prisoners with HIV/AIDS for two and a
half years. King introduced the first voluntary massage
program for people with AIDS in St Vincent's Hospital,
Sydney in 1985.
King's three books Quest for Life, Spirited Women and
Sometimes Hearts Have to Break are a core resource in
many health and cancer support settings. Since 1984,
she has recorded 20 relaxation, meditation and inspirational
tapes and has counselled tens of thousands of people
individually and through residential programs. King
also lectures regularly around Australia to doctors
and health professionals.
King is the recipient of:
- Advance Australia Award, 1993
- Vocational Service Award from the Rotary clubs
of the Southern Highlands, 1998
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