2013 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 19 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
The crisis of innovation: Dude, where's my flying car?
Pop Ups Free Stage
Pop-ups: overhyped and everywhere?
Saturday 19 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
3D printing: a new industrial revolution?
Saturday 19 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
Infrastructure and investment: have we lost our nerve?
Urban Life Cinema 3
Master-planning the future?
Saturday 19 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
Technology and sustainability: kill or cure?
Urban Life Cinema 3
Policing public space: banned in London
Saturday 19 October: 5.30pm-6.45pm
School Fights Frobisher Auditorium 1
Debating Matters Competition International Final 2013
Battle for technological progress Frobisher 1-3
Laptop University? The future of HE
Sunday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Urban Life Cinema 3
Designing citizens: architects as nudgers?
Sunday 20 October: 3.30pm-4.45pm
Urban Life Cinema 3
Grow your own? The urban agriculture revolution

Loyalty in an age of whistle-blowing and Wikileaks

"To contribute to Battle of Ideas is to add a few words to a giant, communal speech-bubble out of the gap-toothed mouth of British opinion. It is a strong reminder that the joys of free, uncalculated speech and the right to attack orthodoxies can in no way be assumed in 2012 – that we use them or lose them."
Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast

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