Our Projects

 

Free Range Science

Free Range Science brings science and scientists out of the lab and into the towns of regional Victoria. Funded by the Victorian Government, the program puts locals in touch with the people who research, design, create and use the science and technology that powers our lives.

Solargraphy Project

Join us for our Solargraphy Project, which will form a component of our upcoming exhibition, Winning Sky Photos: the David Malin Awards 2011.

Book Club

The Riaus Book Club has a science and technology focus that embraces sci-fi, biographies, speculative fiction, young adult fiction and more. Book club events are all about participation. They usually don’t feature a presenter (although sometimes we meet the author). They’re for those who’ve read the featured book and are keen to talk about it with others.

Film Club

Lights, camera, science… The RiAus Film Club is dedicated to screening films with science- and culture-based themes. Our selections span science genres from the classic to the modern, and include features and documentaries, sci-fi and sci-fact, and explorations of utopian or dystopian futures.

Science Outside the Square

Science Outside the Square (SOS) is a successful program of high-profile public events on topical and sometimes controversial subjects which has been run in South Australia since 2005. Employing innovative event formats and venues, SOS brings together scientists, artists, musicians, athletes, and people of all ages and from all walks of life. Science Outside the Square is part of RiAus’s mission to position science at the heart of the community.

2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge 

The 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge combined innovative research and the latest in alternate transport technologies in a gruelling and prestigious challenge across the continent. The world’s best designed and built original cars that crossed Australia using the silent power of the sun.

Adelaide Festival of Ideas

RiAus was delighted to be a presentation partner for the Adelaide Festival of Ideas.The theme for 2011 was ‘planning for uncertainty.’ RiAus presented a range of sessions exploring how science and technology are changing our world.

Club Cosmos

These events are presented by COSMOS magazine and RiAus in association with Science in the City. They are supported by the Council of Australasian Museum Directors and the Science Connections Program of the Federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

Great Big Science Read

The Great Big Science Read is a special opportunity to focus on science books, both fiction and non-fiction,  coinciding with National Science Week in August each year. The Great Big Science Read is held in association with COSMOS magazine, the South Australian Premier’s Reading Challenge and Public Library Services.

SBS & RiAus Science Season ‘Secrets of the Human Body’

The five events that made up this series were special previews of the SBS Science Season Secrets of the Human Body, which screened on Sunday nights from 5 December 2010. Online content created out of each RiAus event was shared between RiAus and SBS.

SCINEMA 

SCINEMA Festival of Science Film, video and multimedia showcases science dramas, docos, animations and shorts.  In 2011 SCINEMA received over 400 entries from 35 countries, and featured entries from professional filmmakers, amateurs, and student-groups, making it one of the foremost science film festivals in the world.

Seven Deadly Sins

Since biblical times people have conceptualised their shortcomings through the tradition of the seven deadly sins. But modern science can now shed new light on these ancient beliefs. This series explored each sin from a new perspective, using disciplines such as evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology and ethics.

TEDxAdelaide 

TEDx is a program established by the international organisation TED to bring remarkable thinkers and do-ers together. RiAus is delighted to collaborate with Bridge8 to give fresh and engaging ideas their place in the spotlight. The aim of TEDxAdelaide is to give ordinary people from Adelaide a chance to share their extraordinary stories with a global audience.

Thinking Critically about Sustainable Energy

Can we replace fossil fuel energy with energy derived from solar, wind, geothermal or nuclear power, and if so, by when? In this series of six public forums experts examined a range of alternative energy sources and discuss their potential to deliver a sustainable solution.

Tipping Point Australia

In 2010 RiAus proudly supported TippingPoint events in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane during October and November.

TippingPoint is a UK-based network organisation that connects the arts and climate science worlds, and these unique events will stimulate artists and scientists to re-imagine our global future.

Understanding Water

Water is the most important, integrated and complex environmental element in any city. The launch of the book Adelaide: Water of a city brought some of the contributing authors together in a series of three RiAus public forums examining water from several perspectives.

2011 Science Excellence Awards

The Science Excellence Awards was South Australia’s premier event to recognise and reward outstanding scientific endeavour, including its application in industry and the advancement of science and mathematics education.

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