Macquarie’s Dr Yvette Blount and Professor David Christian recently took part in the Vivid Festival’s Ideas Exchange, engaging a broader audience in the innovative thinking being generated on campus.
At Business as Usual: Mobility and Working Anywhere on 29 May, Yvette explored the latest research on how to achieve productivity targets and serve customer needs while staying connected in the workplace.
She was joined by Lino Caccavo from AMP Capital to explore innovative concepts on creating physical work spaces that are collaborative and enhance productivity, and Troy Roderick from Telstra to examine how employee diversity, inclusion using flexible work practices links to employee engagement and retention.
On 1 June, Professor David Christian spoke to a packed house about developing a multidisciplinary approach to telling the story of our universe that has been adopted in high school curriculums around the world, and his most prominent advocate, Bill Gates.
Vivid Ideas Speakers 2014 from Destination NSW on Vimeo.
Big History, which is currently taught at both undergraduate and graduate level at Macquarie University, has now gone global. Over 300 high schools in a dozen countries are now teaching Big History in their classrooms, a collaborative project, pioneered at Macquarie University, which will aid the process of sharing the most interdisciplinary subject ever conceived.