THINKtent stands in real contrast to today’s social media. This extraordinarily inventive travelling tent is an intimate, enclosed and exquisitely decorated space for thinking, talking and listening. THINKtent allows people to slow down and participate in a real-life, face-to-face, stimulating and meaningful exchange of views and ideas. 

THINKtent doesn’t ask participants to come to a university campus or other established venue for public discussion. It takes conversation to the people. THINKtent is led by well-known change agent, Natasha Cica, who will sow the seeds of discussion.

THINKtent is internally adorned with specially commissioned furniture and décor by Tasmanian designers and makers. It provides a beautiful, ‘safe’ space for people to come together for conversation and reflection.

The tent accommodates up to five people at a time in programmed conversations lasting about 45 minutes each. Participants decide how to arrange their seating and shared time in THINKtent. 

Featuring specially commissioned works by leading Tasmanian designers:

Simon Ancher - Bench
Angela Griffiths – Light Sculpture
Rachael Rose - Textiles
Penny Malone - Textiles

You can read the Designers' Statements for their THINKtent works here.

Session times and Speakers are as follows:

BURNIE, Saturday 16 March
10:30am - 11:15am
with Greg Leong, General Manager, Theatre North, Launceston: Too Many Festivals?
11:30am - 12:15pm
with Scott Rankin, Creative Director + Executive Producer, Big hART: My Mediocrity Addiction
12:30pm - 1:15pm
with Steve Kons, Mayor, Burnie City Council: Visions For Burnie
1:30pm - 2:15pm
with Nick Towle, Systems Thinker + Designer: Thriving 21st Century Communities
2:30pm - 3:15pm
with Eliza Wood, Co-Manager, Mount Gnomon Farm: Food, Values + Consumer Choice
3:30pm - 4:15pm
with Esa Laaksonen Director, Alvar Aalto Academy, Finland: Democratic Design

LAUNCESTON, Sunday 17 March
10:30am - 11:15am
with Gary Cleveland, Social Entrepreneur: Are Organisations Responsible?
11:30am - 12:15pm
with Sue Kilpatrick, Director, Centre for University Pathways and Partnerships, UTAS: Valuing Education
12:30pm - 1:15pm
with Owen Tilbury, Director, BOFA Festival: Tasmania - Creative Island?
1:30pm - 2:15pm
with Esa Laaksonen, Director, Alvar Aalto Academy, Finland: Democratic Design
2:30pm - 3:15pm 
with Kim Seagram, Co-Owner, Stillwater & Black Cow: Tasmanian Food + Wine

GREATER HOBART, Saturday 23 March
10:30am - 11:15am
with Tony Thorne, Animator and Artist: The Last Days of the Mill
11:30am - 12:15pm
with Danielle Wood, Author: Tasmania's New Story?
12:30pm - 1:15pm
with Damon Thomas, Lord Mayor of Hobart & Pippa Dickson, Project Manager & Designer: Local Meets Global  - Here!
1:30pm - 2:15pm
with Kristyn Harman,  Historian & Educator: Aboriginal Convicts
2:30pm - 3:15pm
with John Armstrong, Author & Philosopher: Idealistic or Realistic?
3:30pm - 4:15pm
with Esa Laaksonen, Director, Alvar Aalto Academy, Finland: Democratic Design

GREATER HOBART, Sunday 24 March
10:30am - 11:15am
with Sir Guy Green, Chair of TMAG and Ten Days on the Island, Honorary Antarctic Ambassador for Tasmania: Tasmania's Antarctic Connections
11:30am - 12:15pm
with Matthew Lamb, Co-Editor, Island Magazine: Australian Literary Culture
12:30pm - 1:15pm
with Mark Kelleher, Secretary, Department of Economic Development, Tourism & the Arts: Tasmania's Economic Options
1:30pm - 2:15pm
with Diane Caney, Poet: Power, Play + Patrick White?
2:30pm - 3:15pm
with Heather Rose, Author, Entrepreneur & Creative Thinker: Life As Fun
3:30pm - 4:15pm
with Graham Gourlay, Culture Change Consultant: Unmagical Tasmanian Moments
 

Presented by:
The Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society in collaboration with Liminal Spaces, in association with Ten Days on the Island. 

    


Details of Ten Days event venues can be found here.