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  • The Purity of Geometry

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    Did you know that the Opera House was almost never built? Maths solved the problem! Find out how geometry and Utzon’s ‘Spherical Solution’ resolved the construction dilemma that the unique design of the arched sails caused with Eddie Woo and Peter Mould, former NSW Government Architect.

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  • Calculating an Impossible Number

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    Investigate how algebra was used to calculate the exterior tiling of the Opera House sails. Eddie Woo is joined by Ken Kobayashi, a BIM Integration Specialist who has digitally reconstructed the Sydney Opera House using modern computers.

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  • Acoustics – Mathematics to Make Your Ears Ring

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    Are your ears ringing? Deconstruct the science of acoustics and sound with superstar maths teacher Eddie Woo and Mitch Allen, Soundscape Designer from the engineering firm Arup, whose founder worked directly with Utzon on the structure of the Opera House.

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  • A Platform with a Room (Episode 5)

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    In this exercise you are going to work with a platform and shells, like Jørn Utzon did with the Sydney Opera House.

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  • A Chair with Form (Episode 4)

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    In this exercise you are going to let yourself be inspired, like Utzon, by the gentle and organic forms of nature in designing a chair.

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  • A Soft Cave (Episode 3)

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    In this exercise you are going to build a model of a cave without right angles - maybe inspired by Jørn Utzon's proposal for the Jorn Museum in Silkeborg.

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  • A House in a Tree (Episode 2)

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    In this exercise you are going to build a model of a house which fits perfectly to the place where it is to be built, just like Jørn Utzon did when he built Can Lis. Your house needs to be built in a tree.

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  • A Figure of Yourself (Episode 1)

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    In this exercise you are going to build scale figures of yourself in different sizes and in different situations and work with the body's size relationships in the same way as Jørn Utzon did.

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  • Guwanyi Walama

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    Join our Indigenous narrators on a journey into the history and culture of Bennelong Point in this digital tour created especially for kids!

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  • Sovereign Ideas (Premiere)

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    Celebrate National NAIDOC Week with an inspirational line-up of iconoclastic young Indigenous Australian cultural thinkers and leaders.

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