14 Mar 2024 | Our stories, Storytelling
I’m a baker, so I like having a recipe to follow. It’s comforting to have a set of ingredients and a list of instructions to start with — even if I treat the recipe as more of a guide than directions for a science experiment. Knowing where to start, and what I will...
4 Mar 2024 | Our stories, Storytelling
4 March 2024 A collaboration between freshwater ecologist Kati Doehring and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Tēnā koe – let me introduce myself. My name is dacrydium cupressinum, but most of you would know me as rimu. Gather close, for I have a...
20 Dec 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling
20 December 2023 A collaboration between market analyst Hamza Ajmal and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Objects are collections of essences. I am sitting in my living room on a leather chair against a wall. The living room walls are off-white...
4 Dec 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling
4 December 2023 A collaboration between wildlife biologist Isabel Castro and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Kiwi are a group of five extant species of birds endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. Their bodies are rounded, and they have a long bill...
7 Nov 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling
7 November 2023 A collaboration between sociologist Holly Thorpe and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Aroha* turned 16 just one week before the first nationwide lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand. Before the arrival of Covid-19 on our shores, she...
3 Oct 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling
3 October 2023 A collaboration between ecologist Will Godsoe, educational theorist Kirsten Locke, and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Anna Brown and Jonathan Burgess. One of the amazing things about nature is the sheer diversity of living things. There are...
