PARTICIPATE: Urban-Rural Survey
We’re on the hunt for memories, stories and opinions, about how landscape and where we reside affects our outlook on life. Therefore, we’ve put put together this survey to gather some little standalone snapshots/quotes about the urban-rural divide. The hope…
The vernacular is alive and kicking!
As this recent article from the New Zealand Herald illustrates…”I think we should take it as an acknowledgement that we have our own New Zealand way of talking and what we are saying is seen (as) important enough they want…
120 years of Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand
In 1893 today New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in national elections. South Australia was the next country to grant women the vote in 1895, although it was not until…
A visit to Margaret Lawlor Bartlett’s
On Thursday last week peace activist Ruth Coombes, Linda Blincko, Ruby Watson and I met with Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett at her home studio to discuss her involvement in the peace movement and the many ways in which we can explore what…
The Cultural Mapping Project Update/an introduction to the National Vernacular Museum
You may have read in the last post that The Cultural Mapping Project was moving to Kerr St, at the foot of Mount Victoria and we are delighted to confirm that the move is underway! The project is still represented…
Cultural Mapping as a methodology has infinite applications:
You could for example map the development of the hamburger across a chronological or a geographical axis… This was a little gif we made for a YouTube video which didn’t make the cut. Thought you might like it anyway. The…
