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Steam’s up for the Prime Minister
Well that was an interesting afternoon. We’ve been to the opening of the Emperor’s Dragons at the Otago Museum. Then, after nearly 90 minutes of speeches (being translated three ways), Phil and I dashed to the Dunedin Gas Works Museum for for another function. The reason for the busyness was the Prime Minister. […]
Heritage wayfaring
November 26, 2007
Did I mention that I take pictures of signs? Yes, I believe I did. As part of the Dunedin heritage project we’re looking at a permanent record of the city heritage. So, in my travels I’ve been looking at heritage wayfaring. Here’s the Flickr set. The trick now is going to be to integrate the […]
Te Reo o Otakou: telling stories, building capabilities, connecting people and landscapes
November 23, 2007
There are a thousand stories to tell of the ancestors’ exploits. Stories of romance and battles, exploration and betrayal, adventure and sadness… We are aware that, over the years, many ancestors have left the kaik’, the local village, and now thousands of our relations are spread all over the world unable to return when they […]
Streaming Kaikorai plans
November 19, 2007
Dr Simon McMillian is a science teacher at Kaikorai College in Dunedin. We have worked with him previously when he had a Royal Society Fellowship to work on community-based environmental management around the Kaikorai Stream. One of my project groups helped him establish teaching resources based around the installation of a real-time monitoring station in […]
SimPa connecting stories and landscape
November 12, 2007
One of the exciting things about the SimPa project is that we don’t really know where it is headed. We’re working with various Kai Tahu runaka to help them retell their stories in different media, primarily in a 3D game environment. We have no preconceptions about the stories or the forms they might take. As […]
Computing for Sustainability 
September 16, 2008
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