A peaceful Wednesday afternoon – Visiting Ruth Coombs
Last Wednesday Linda and I paid a visit to Ruth Coombes at her house here in Devonport…
The Vernacular Blackboard
A vernacular is “the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is not native to the population, such as a national language” –Wikipedia The Vernacular Blackboard is one of…
What is The Cultural Mapping Project? What is Cultural Mapping?
These are two questions I daily try to address in various forms of communication. Sometimes I am more successful than others. I managed possibly the most succinct explanation so far in the PDF I made today which you can view…
Peace is not merely the absence of war
The peace movement has had considerable impact on our cultural development, our identity and our perceived identity abroad as New Zealanders: from the early peaceful protests of Te Whiti and Tohu, to VAANA, to our present environment. ‘Peace is not…
The Cultural Mapping Project Exhibition update
The Cultural Mapping Project Exhibition will open in the second week of August 2012. The exhibition will include mapping examples which explore the contributing cultural, social and creative aspects of the New Zealand vernacular and personal/communal identity, experience and expression….
Cultural Mapping and The Vernacular Lounge
The project is getting big. Fast. It’s so big it’s taken over a whole room and in early February it will take over a whole building! At the moment the project is represented by a new installation The Vernacular Lounge…
An introduction to the Depot’s Cultural Mapping Project on YouTube
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At2lWeMrckA] The first of a series of videos that introduce the Depot’s Cultural Mapping Project. This clip delivers a brief overview of the project offering an explanation of Cultural Mapping by definition, the inspiration for the project, how it is…