Trams, Surf Boards, Slices of History and a Bridal Veil at the Gold Coast Many footsteps were heard making their way to the Southport Community Centre on the weekend of the 19, 20 and 21 May for the “Footsteps in Time” Conference and Fair. Trams trundled past the nearby corner, surfers carried their boards past … Read more
Queensland’s ‘maker’ culture is a growing force and will be explored at BrisMakerFest when international and local ‘makers’ and designers take over SLQ, The Edge on Saturday 3 June to share their knowledge and skills. At the BrisMakerFest, hear from Tom Allen who is an award-winning design strategist and social entrepreneur working passionately on projects … Read more
Since February the Digital Futures Lab has been home to Paro, the therapeutic seal. Paro is an interactive robot designed to administer the benefits of animal therapy for aged and special care environments, improving the socialisation of patients and caregivers and significantly reducing loneliness and stress. With five sensors (tactile, light, auditory, temperature, and posture) … Read more
Join us on Saturday 3 June 2017, for the inaugural BrisMakerFest. BrisMakerFest is an event designed to showcase advanced manufacturing and emerging technologies in Queensland; promote STEM skills and their fundamental importance to advanced manufacturing; encourage the sharing of ideas and techniques between industry and makers; and promote opportunities for attracting younger people into a manufacturing … Read more
In a recent ABC Radio interview with Steve Austin, Professor Peter Corke discussed the future of robots and the way they are already integrated into our everyday lives. He suggested that increasingly, robots will carry out dangerous and unpleasant jobs in the mining and agriculture industries – a positive use of technology in which human … Read more
More than 30 volunteers contribute to a range of State Library activities to support our Q ANZAC 100 initiative. Projects include transcription work of WW1 manuscripts, The Queenslander Pictorial issues and other collection items; the Discovering Anzacs project, matching digitised WW1 soldier portraits and National Archives of Australia records, and curating and text correcting digitised … Read more
Will Wood, a librarian at State Library of Queensland, gives his thoughts on libraries in the future Twenty years ago in 1997 the world had never heard of Google, Wikipedia or peer to peer file sharing. Amazon and eBay were fledgling tech companies in a newly created online marketplace. Wi-Fi had just been accepted as … Read more
We’re continuing our series of blog posts featuring stories from some of our regular visitors to State Library of Queensland. My name is John, I was born in England in 1940, I migrated to Australia in 1960 and lived here ever since. Never got back to England to live. Who would? I got to tell … Read more
The second half of the ever-popular UQ Architecture lecture series resumes in May to inspire the designer in everyone. Hear from talented Brisbane-based architects Melody Chen of Atelier Chen Hung along with Rebecca Caldwell and Emily Juckes of Maytree Studios who will discuss new practices and models of practice on Tuesday 2 May. The general … Read more
Part laboratory, studio, game space and exhibition, the Digital Futures Lab offers a stimulating experience for visitors of all ages; but a special and direct connection exists for “digital natives,” those born after the internet had become part of everyday life. The interactive nature of the space engages students with a variety of learning styles, and … Read more