Ideas Power CS Energy and Ideas at the Powerhouse worked together to develop the Ideas Power Project. This collaboration extended access to the Brisbane based Ideas festival to a number of regional communities and schools in Queensland. Several school students have written and contributed essays about the Power of Ideas.

ideas online

Leading up to and throughout Ideas at the Powerhouse, Ideas Online was interactive and open to all. Ideas Online featured Whose idea was that?, a collaboration with the State Library of Queensland, and Ideas Links.

Ideas Online was updated regularly with new links, more Q&As, readings and information.

Whose idea was that?

Your questions - theoretical or practical, historical or futuristic - about ideas, innovation and invention were answered though a direct link to the State Library Reference Centre. Read the Q&As.

Ideas Links

Ideas Links provided further information about speakers and the ideas they presented during the festival. The links connect you to silly and serious ideas, innovation and invention websites and organisations globally.

Ideas Resources

You’ll also find a range of online resources for research, reading and general interest.

• 2001 and 2003 archives featuring documentation of the 2001 and 2003 Ideas Festivals including program details, speaker bios and transcripts and audio grabs of Festival presentations.
• Full biographical details of Ideas speakers.
• Event information including a full program of events.
• Ideas Magazine featuring papers and research documents by Ideas speakers as well as Festival updates and news.

The Power of Ideas

The collaboration of CS Energy and Ideas at the Powerhouse made the 'Ideas Power Project' possible. Eminent Australian and Ideas Advisor Ian Lowe headed west to present a series of lectures on The Power of Ideas in schools, pubs and bowling clubs in Chinchilla, Bioella and Mt Isa.

Students in these towns worked with Ideas Online resources and a number of students from Mt Isa, Bioella and Ipswich were guests at Ideas at the Powerhouse in August as a result of the Ideas Power Project.

Several senior students from Spinifex College in Mt Isa – Jeffery Lever, Soeren Oppermann and Kylie Howe - submitted essays which were published in the Ideas Magazine.