2010 Programme: Festival weekend overview

The Festival weekend includes more than 70 debates which are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday or Sunday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme.

Or view and print out the Timetable as a two-page PDF.

Saturday 30 October: 9.30am-11.00am
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
Happy-clappy architecture: designing for well-being
Provocation Zone Student Union
Going nowhere? Staying local in a global village
Saturday 30 October: 11.15am-12.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Student Union
Plug in, turn on, drive off: the future of cars?
Sunday 31 October: 8.45am-9.30am
Breakfast Banter Student Union
Blue-skies thinking is dead: long live blue-skies thinking?
Sunday 31 October: 12.45pm-2.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Engineering the future: cautionary tale or utopia?
Sunday 31 October: 2.45pm-4.15pm
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Innovative engineering: within limits?
Sunday 31 October: 4.30pm-5.30pm
Thought for the day Lecture Theatre 1
The energy challenge: can we keep the lights on?

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The art of criticism: judgement in crisis?

"Disagreement has never felt more important and more enjoyable than at Battle of Ideas."
Jess Search, Chief executive, Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation