Pity poor Dai Henwood! In an echoing, vast room with hundreds of noisy design darlings from all over the country, Dai had to power through a list of nominations, place-getters and award-winners, longer than the King James Bible. Meanwhile, the crowd (and yours truly) consumed vast quantities of wine and beer and a three-course dinner ... [Read More]

A big thank you to the Interpretation Network New Zealand (INNZ) for organizing another stimulating Spring workshop on the 3-4 September. This year INNZ took us to historic Timaru, structuring the event around Te Ana: The Ngāi Tahu Rock Art Centre. Story Inc worked together with Ngāi Tahu to design and develop Te Ana so ... [Read More]

ZEALANDIA: The Exhibition has made the finals of New Zealand’s Best Design Awards, in the Spatial Design/Exhibitions category. We are proud of our in-house team and everyone else who worked so hard on this project. And congratulations to our client, ZEALANDIA!.. [Read More]

The United States Marines sure know how to do ceremony! In the gigantic atrium of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, under the watchful gaze of huge photos of battle-hardened men, the tables are laid out for the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s Awards Dinner. I’m here at Quantico, south of Washington DC, to receive ... [Read More]

On Saturday Feb 26th, I attended Curatopia: Museums and the Future of Curatorial Practice—a workshop about the trends in museums focusing on the role of the curator put together by Victoria University Professional and Executive Development. An array of curators and scholars from around the world presented interesting and provocative papers on different curatorial perspectives ... [Read More]

Story Inc would like to offer office space to any Christchurch company affected by the earthquake that wants to continue operating out of Wellington in the interim. We only have space for 2-3 people, but would share our internet, phones, etc. Please contact us if you are interested. We are also making this offer via ... [Read More]

New Zealand Pavilion, Shanghai Expo: May-October 2010 On October 31 the Greatest Show on Earth came to an end. The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai was over after 6 months, and we began the work of packing up the New Zealand Pavilion. The statistics around the Expo – like all statistics about China – are ... [Read More]

Ashley E. Remer and Faith Chisholm participated in the Interpretation Network New Zealand (INNZ) Spring Workshop on October 16/17 in Wellington. While the weather was not particularly cooperative, we were able to visit the Wellington Zoo, Carter Observatory, Zealandia: Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, and Te Papa... [Read More]

His 2009 book On the Origin of Stories argues that telling stories is not just something we humans like to do, but something we need to do – in fact, something that evolution has hardwired us to do. We asked him why… Telling stories – whether about real things or imagined things – is obviously ... [Read More]

Wellington, 1999 Three worried-looking men in their late 30s and 40s sit in a grimy office above Dixon Street. Smoking having only been confirmed to be a health hazard a few decades earlier, it is still legal to smoke in offices. So they do, imagining that it helps them concentrate as they debate the big ... [Read More]