Finding Infinity’s Off The Grid, Melbourne’s solar-powered, zero-waste music and arts festival, has announced its interactive conference program, Palimpsest.

The Palimpsest presents some of Australia’s leading environmentalists, architects, activists, entrepreneurs and foodies, including Timothy Hill (founder of Partners Hill), Peter Malatt (former president of the Australian Institute of Architect’s Victorian Chapter and director of Six Degrees) and Clare Cousins (founder an principal of Clare Cousins Architects), who will participate in a conversational stlye discussion.

The Palimpsest is a platform designed to promote the exchange of ideas and innovations by exploring experts’ visions of future cities and transforming them into micro-action nowisms for festival goers to take with them.

The Palimpsest lineup is:

Timothy Hill

Hill is the previous director of Donovan Hill and founder of Partners Hill. He is constantly evauating the success of transformation in cities and his current work with Partners Hill includes Long House (Daylesford) and the 2016 MOFO Aesop festival chamber (Hobart).

Natalie Isaacs

Isaacs is the founder and CEO of 1 Million Women, a United Nations award-winning movement of 450,000 women who take practical action to fight dangerous climate change by changing the way we live.

Paul Gorrie

Gorrie is the Victoria State Coordinator of SEED, Australia’s first indigenous youth climate network, and is responsible for fostering a movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people for climate justice, as a branch of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.

Adele Winteridge and Joost Bakker

Director of Foolscap Studio director Adele Winteridge recently headed up the fesign of the sold-out Noma Australia pop-up at Barangaroo South in Sydney and Sheveen in Melbourne. Joost Bakker will join Winteridge, founder of Melbourne’s first zero-waste cafe Greenhouse, Silo and Brothl.

Tané Hunter

Hunter is a science communicator, futurist and bioinformatician at Future Crunch, working with big data in the biological realm and specialising in cancer research.

Peter Malatt and Clare Cousins

The Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter past president and director of sustainability-focused architectural practice Six Degrees, Peter Malatt, will join multi-award winning residential architect Clare Cousins to discuss why they are passionate about new ways of doing business that are financially, socially and environmentally sustainable.

Rob Murray-Leach

Murrah-Leach is head of policy at the Energy Efficiency Council, the peak body in Australia for energy efficiency, demand-management and cogeneration. After founding and running the Council as its CEO for six years, Murray-Leach stepped down in 2015 to focus on policy and outside interests.

Ellen Sandell

Sendell is the first Greens MP elected to the lower house of Victorian Parliament. With a dual Bachelors of Arts/Science Degree from the University of Melbourne, Ellen began her career as a researcher with the National Science agency, CSIRO before moving into climate change policy, and later becoming the chief executive of a national climate change non-profit organisation, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.

Bronwyn Johnson

Johnson is executive director of Climarte, an arts programs that is produced to harness the creative power in informing, engaging and inspiring action on climate change. Bronwyn Johnson is the former Director of Australia’s visual arts flagship event the Melbourne Art Fair and CEO of Melbourne Art Foundation.

For further information about Off The Grid and to purchase tickets visit the Off The Grid website.