ideas bazaar

All day, every day the Ideas Bazaar was a marketplace of ideas with installations, exhibitions and demonstrations. Brilliant and bizarre ideas, people’s passions and projects bought together for four days in the Ideas Bazaar.

World class robot soccer

Are robots skilfull enough to play soccer? Are they tactically intelligent? Recently returned from the RoboCup Finals in Italy, see the Griffith University robot dogs go for goal.

Water Heater Dinosaurs

Artist David Atkinson will build an installation using coal powered electrical hot water systems stretching the length of the Powerhouse entrance walkway. A bi-product of the Brisbane City Council's Green Homes project - to get you thinking about sustainable homes of the future!

Five Billion Years on Earth

Weave your way through the Powerhouse and through our five billion year history. Find your own way or meet up with the Gone Walking tour guides for a trip through time and space.

Whose Idea Was That?

The State Library of Queensland has the answer to what you need to know. Just walk right up and ask.

Speed, Robotics, Data and Physics

The Technology, Math and Science Centre for Excellence in Schools demonstrate and test new interactive technology. They may well test it on you!

Music about Ideas

The Queensland Conservatorium presents music to think by. The creation of music as the creation of an idea. New ideas about music and new music about ideas.

Invention-ville

Models, prototypes and in production inventions from people who are sticking with their ideas and turning them into reality.

Innovation Info 101

One on one advice about the process and pitfalls of progressing your great idea. Take your ideas and questions to the Triton Foundation invention info booth.

Tea Break Ideas

What ideas do you come up with at work? What if your workplace let you nut out and try out your ideas? Check out these ideas taken from the Brisbane City Council tea-room to the drawing board and beyond.

Solar Model Car Challenge

The statewide challenge, bringing together secondary students to test, share and compare their car building, energy saving and design skills.

Body, Sound, Back Then and Here Now

A series of roving ideas inspired performances in dance, music and word by the students of the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts.

Image control

What happens when you take control of images: images of place and images of self? See what happened when the Tripod project took youth, culture and cameras and mixed them up.

The Doctor Is In

A doctor of what? Doctor of rock’n’roll, doctor of roaches, doctor of… Meet the determined souls who have landed a phd. What do they know, what do you what to know?

Where Are We?

Check out the view of your place from space. Find out just where you fit in the stratosphere and see what the spatial information innovators are up to.

The Ideas Engine Room

Use new technology to get together and put forward your ideas in the ideas engine room. How many ideas are there?

The Ideas Bookshop

Books by and about ideas speakers, ideas, innovation and invention. Ideas to take away with you.

Ideas Fuel

Grab some stomach food to go with the brain food. Try the selection of food stalls and refreshments on site at the Powerhouse.