Ideas at the House
Talks and conversations from the Sydney Opera House featuring the world’s greatest minds and culture creators
Would you quit your job to serve others?
These two high-achievers sacrificed successful careers in journalism to take up the rigorous study necessary to become medical doctors. What drives such a sacrifice, and how does it feel to be called to serve?
Lisa Pryor, previously a lawyer and a columnist is now a psychiatry registrar, listening and responding to human stories in a different way. Amy Coopes was a journalist dispatched to meet victims of violent crimes, left the newsroom to pursue medicine in rural areas. At Antidote 2022, they spoke to Norman Swan, who famously switched from medicine to journalism, about what compelled them to abandon successful careers in order to embark on the ultra-demanding profession of medicine and how it gave their lives a bigger sense of purpose.
This event was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
Is Covid just the beginning? The climate crisis has created a unique situation that has the potential to breed many more viruses, forcing animals to migrate to new habitats, creating new inter-species infections. This means more and more of the world's viruses could leap from animals to humans.
Science journalist Ed Yong - who won a Pulitzer Prize for his COVID explanatory articles and Professor Raina MacIntyre - epidemiologist and UNSW Chair of Biosecurity tell host Rebecca Huntley at Antidote 2022 what we can expect in this new era and how we should prepare for it.
This event was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
There are over 150 Indigenous languages actively maintained by community groups in Australia, and a growing movement to protect, revitalise and promote Indigenous language.
There are 7000 languages in use worldwide - but many Indigenous languages are falling out of use. What does Australia need to do to preserve, revitalize and promote Indigenous languages? Uncle Gary Williams, Shelley Ware & Kirli Saunders sat down at Antidote 2022 to embark on an agenda-setting conversation.
Hosted by Daniel Browning, in collaboration with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, this event was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
Bodies carry and represent so much, these fragile vessels that we are "stuck in" can dictate privilege or oppression not only within ourselves but in wider society.
In a talk recorded at our Antidote festival in September 2022, trans and non-binary author, Olivia Laing is joined by host Jessie Tu in a profound discussion about the ideas in Laing's latest book 'Everybody', which draws on figures such as Malcolm X, Andrea Dworkin, Nina Simone and more, exploring the human body and its effect in our world today.
This event was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
Should government step in to protect us from Big Social Media?
Conspiracy theories and false news are spread by social media, with real and dangerous consequences for society. Is it time for governments to consider dealing with algorithm bubbles?
At Antidote 2022, journalist Karen Middleton was joined by former PM Malcolm Turnbull AC and Ed Coper, author of Facts and Other Lies, to discuss how false information affects governments delivering services and ask whether social media networks are out of control and posing a threat to democracy.
This event was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?
Jarvis Cocker, founder and front man of legendary English band Pulp finally found the time to rummage around his attic crawl space and write a book on the rediscovered hoarded objects and mementos that tell a lifetime of incredible stories.
In this show and tell with Myf Warhurst as part of Antidote 2022, Cocker explores questions of creativity, music, and the deep significance of everyday objects that most people throw away.
This talk was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
This episode of Ideas At The House features an Antidote festival event like no other. As a response to the brutal invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine, the event features sombre and beautiful works by Ukrainian poets, musicians, and storytellers Maria Tumarkin, Serhiy Zhadan, Billie Tumarkin, Anatoli Torjinski & Olga Boichak.
Hosted by Chip Rolley, this event was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
This episode, we begin a season of talks from our Antidote 2022 festival, starting with an in-depth discussion with renowned actor, Brian Cox.
Famed for his portrayal of the media patriarch, Logan Roy, in the television series Succession, Brian Cox has built a brilliant career exploring power, control, and fallibility. Fellow actor David Wenham sits down with Brian Cox to discuss the actor's unmatched ability to fulfil characters that burn with rage and fury.
This talk was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022.
This episode is the second talk from the Build conversation series, which explores new perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, science and The Arts to reflect on how these disciplines can address the urgent issues of our times. Each of the talks in this series respond to one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Sydney Opera House's Joni Taylor, chairs a conversation with two visionary thought leaders, using their exploration of design practices to reflect on our relationship to Life Below Water - Global Goal number 14.
Dr Danièle Hromek is a Budawang woman of the Yuin nation. She works as a spatial and cultural designer and researcher, considering how to Indigenise the built environment. Alex Goad is an industrial designer and founder of Reef Design Lab. Together, Daniele and Alex discuss how we can create non-human centred design to preserve biodiversity, restore and regenerate marine life and waterways. And how seahorses have come back to Sydney harbour!
This talk is supported by the Ove Arup Foundation and was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House Centre for Creativity in September 2022.
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For more about this topic please check out the Recommended Reading, Listening & Watching Lists from our speakers:
Dr Danièle Hromek
- 1 Recommended website: https://danielehromek.com/
- 1 Recommended book: Our Voices series with Rebecca Kiddle, Patrick Stewart and Kevin O’Brien as editors
- 1 Recommended video: Songlines on Screen (SBS)
Alex Goad
Recommended reading & websites:
The BUILD conversation series is a new series of talks that explore new perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, science and The Arts, to reflect on how these disciplines can address the urgent issues of our times. Each of the talks in this series respond to one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In the first episode of the series, Sydney Opera House's Joni Taylor, chairs a conversation with two visionary thought leaders, Jefa Greenaway and Liane Rossler, using their exploration of design practices to reflect on our relationship to Life on Land. - Global Goal number 15.
Jefa Greenaway is an architect, interior designer, academic, director of Greenaway Architects and co-founder | Chair of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, Australia’s only Indigenous design association. He is of Wailwan | Kamilaroi and German heritage.
Liane Rossler is a designer, artist and curator championing design that balances perspectives of nature, sustainability, creativity and community. She co-founded Sydney’s internationally renowned Dinosaur Designs, and in recent years founded Superlocalstudio– ‘a space that enables the creation of thoughtful practises’
This talk is supported by the Ove Arup Foundation and was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House - Centre for Creativity in May 2022.
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For more about this topic please check out the Recommended Reading, Listening & Watching Lists from our speakers:
Jefa Greenaway
- 1 recommended website – https://indigenousdesigncharter.com.au/
- 1 recommended Podcast - S2. Ep1. Talking with Jefa Greenaway about Indigenous Design and the Built Environment | Building Environs Recruitment | [The Building Talks Podcast with Martin Preece]
- 1 recommended book – Our Voices Volume 2: The DE-colonial Project , Stewart, Patrick, Kiddle, Rebecca & O’Brien, Kevin (Eds.), 2021 Oro Editions, USA
Liane Rossler
- 1 recommended website – https://assemblepapers.com.au/
- 1 recommended online video - https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/
- 1 recommended book - Glimpses of Utopia by Jess Scully https://glimpsesofutopia.com
The Pasi Sahlberg conversation series is a 3-part series of urgent discussions about the Australian Education System.
In this final episode of our three-part series, Pasi Sahlberg is joined by Professor Sharon Goldfeld, a paediatrician and director of the Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health and theme director for Population Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Also joining the conversation, is Ann King, parent at Mosman High school and, giving a young person’s perspective, year 12 Mosman high school captain, Will Osborne.
The discussion was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in 2022 and explores the question: “what might schools look like if health and wellbeing were considered one of the basics like numeracy and literacy?”.
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The Pasi Sahlberg conversation series is a 3-part series of urgent discussions about the Australian Education System.
In this second episode, Pasi Sahlberg is joined by Ricky Kradolfer, music educator, guitarist and frontman of The City Riots, and Sarah Donnelley, 2020 ARIA Music Teacher of the Year and deputy principal of Wilcannia Central School, to discuss the lack of music education in the Australian school system. From lived experiences, these teachers have seen music inspire engagement and give children a different way of expressing themselves, especially those who struggle with traditional methods of learning.
Pasi Sahlberg and the panel explore the sense of connection music brings and the excitement that children feel coming to school knowing they will partake in musical activities.
This talk was recorded live at Sydney Opera House in 2022.
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The Pasi Sahlberg conversation series is a 3-part series of urgent discussions about the Australian Education System.
In this, the first of three episodes, Pasi Sahlberg talks with the acclaimed businessman David Gonski about the impacts of the 2011 Gonski report. Joining them is president of the NSW Teacher’s federation, Angelo Gavrielatos and Principal of Ulladulla High School Denise Lofts as well as year 12 student Mim Macdonell, together they address the various persistent challenges in education, and how the report did and did not address those.
This talk was recorded live at Sydney Opera House in 2022.
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