Bridge8
Exploring how science informs our future
Exploring how science informs our future
We’re working on…
We’re thrilled to see the release of the James’s second series of critical thinking animations for TechNyou – “This Thing Called Science“. Covering principles such as skepticism, empiricism, blind testing, and hypothesising, they also look at ethics and citizen science.
It’s our birthday! Bridge8 turned 9 in May 2013. Kristin and former staffer Sarah Keenihan enjoyed a little reflection…
Our March event for I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here! hosted three zones – agriculture, disease and wet & wild – with 751 registered students asking 793 questions, posting 444 comments and participating in 49 Live Chats. We’ve recently visited scientists across 6 cities to say thank you, and released our new video showing just what it’s like to talk to scientists online! Registrations for our next event in August 2013 are now open at imascientist.org.au.
The start of the year has seen us deliver two courses in Foresight and Social Change for the Pitcher Partners Institute facilitated by the University of Adelaide. The courses cover technological and social change, foresight processes and images of the future, and aim to expand thinking around risk, opportunities and anticipating the future.
See us at…
James, Kristin & Dee will be asking participants at Science Rewired on 6-7 June to visualise their desired futures through rich picturing the five conference themes of engaging all Australians, citizen science, the media landscape, cross-sector collaboration and the evidence base for science communications.
Kristin will be giving the opening keynote on “Anti-Fragility and Risk Aversion” with Prof Lenore Manderson at the Australian Theatre Forum and Tipping Point in Canberra on 29th May.
Kristin will be tweeting TEDxAdelaide Change on 4th April, and hosting TEDxAdelaide on the theme of Explore at Bonython Hall at the University of Adelaide on 4th May. Check the TEDxAdelaide website and Facebook page for details.
James is establishing our new Melbourne office within Studio Sisu, a creative work space for designers and artists based in Northcote.
Kristin will be speaking at the launch of a new book she has co-authored with the Australian Academy of Sciences for the Australia 2050 project. Negotiating our future: Living scenarios for Australia to 2050 will be launched by the Governor-General in Canberra on 21 February 2013.
