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- ItemVote Local: Design & Democracy ProjectKane, K; Parkin, TJ; Robinson, C; Le Bas, TVoteLocal is an online tool to help young New Zealanders engage in local elections. It is a game-like questionnaire that guides voters towards the mayoral candidate whose policies and ideals best match up with their own. It provides information directly from the candidates about what they stand for, informs users about what councils do, and debunks any assumptions that they aren’t relevant. Designed with and for 18–24 year olds, VoteLocal sparks conversations about local politics with friends and family. For 2016, VoteLocal focuses on the mayoral races in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington.
- ItemOn The Fence : Design & Democracy ProjectKane, KW; Parkin, T; Robinson, C; Stowers, KOn the Fence is a web tool designed to assist young undecided and first-time voters to make informed electoral choices and transform disengaged youth into active civic participants. Users indicate how they feel about a selection of issues statements, to find out which parties or candidates most closely reflect their values. On The Fence is: Social and shareable: sparks conversations about politics Approachable: playful and easy to understand Adaptable and scalable: responsive to culture and context Educational: introduces youth to issues Collaborative: connects to other voter engagement initiatives Responsive: accessible from any device Super smart: innovative algorithm uses expert political analysis responsive to political positioning. Voter participation has been declining in the Western world, particularly amongst young people who don’t see politics as addressing issues they care about and struggle to cut through party-political tribalism, rhetoric and spin. Voter participation has been declining in the Western world, particularly amongst young people who don’t see politics as addressing issues they care about and struggle to cut through party-political tribalism, rhetoric and spin. But young people are far from apathetic: they volunteer, campaign online, want to make a difference and make values-based choices. Young people want non-partisan information about their political options and the confidence that their vote aligns with their values. On the Fence is a proven concept; in New Zealand’s 2014 General Election it was successful in encouraging 30,000 non-voting 18-34 year olds to vote, representing 7% of the total eligible youth population, at a cost of $1.13USD per voter. The New Zealand experience has yielded a wealth of data, insights and user feedback that will contribute to further development of On The Fence in an international context. We have assembled a team of expert designers, web developers, and researchers, and are partnering with Stanford University as we look to scale up for the US. On The Fence is a product of the Design & Democracy Project, a research unit at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts (New Zealand) with a track-record of enhancing the role that design and design thinking has to play in 21st century citizenship. The team is built around a core group of researchers, advisors and mentors from the University. We work in partnership with industry, Government, and the social sector to harness the technology that has made it easier than ever to access information, connect, and communicate ideas, in order to re-engage citizens with the political process. For the On The Fence initiative, the Design & Democracy Project is working in partnership with Springload, a pioneering New Zealand web design and user experience agency equipped to deliver mission-critical projects at scale. The Project is situated within Massey University’s Open Lab, a space established to harness and develop the design expertise of students and graduates via active collaboration between academia and business.
- ItemWestern Australia Symphony Orchestra, 2014O'Sullivan, A; Chilcott, BI was commissioned by Western Australian designer Becky Chilcott to design and produce hand printed typographic artwork for the branding and design promotion for the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra 2014 season. The interaction of the players with historic and often metal instruments and classical music was the conceptual inspiration for the use of hand stenciled historic brass letter forms. I stippled the letters using a stencil brush and acrylic ink to create a sense of the hand made. My collaborator scanned and digitally incorporated the letters into a modern design context for production. It was widely disseminated in a number of media. The work was reviewed by the commissioning committee for the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra. August 2013
- ItemTrigger PointsGalbraith HL; Saluti AJ; Heather Galbraith and Andrew J SalutiTrigger Points draws together contemporary and historical works from New Zealand, the United States, Australia, Finland and the United Kingdom to explore the potent and slippery nature of memory. It examines the way memories are triggered by sensory stimuli, haptic encounters and visceral prompts, and how episodes, actions or encounters are felt physically and emotionally as well as understood rationally.
- ItemManagement system(1/04/2014) Tookey LM
- ItemBetween Zero and OneMaxwell WInvited to perform acoustic guitar as part of a global multi-media performance piece composed by John Psathas and members of Strike (Wellington Classical Percussion group).
- ItemForward pass calculation on activity on node Pt4(1/05/2014) Tookey LM
- ItemUnderstanding the node Pt2(13/04/2014) Tookey LM
- ItemDiptych SouthFebvre-Richards, ER; Merlino, D; Lux Light Festival PanelDiptych South is an audiovisual project that explores the physiological effects of the rhythms of colour and music in relation to memory and place. It questions the nature of our memory and connection to place by playing with repetition and difference. The two video pieces for the work are almost identical and are inspired by Febvre-Richards’ regular ‘journeying’ in the New Zealand forest. The repetition of such journeys – the memories and anticipations, the expectation of familiar sensorial experiences – provides rich inspiration for mark making on paper. There is a potentially static nature to this representation, which may convey a momentary sense of place but cannot capture the experiential journey to and through the forest. This problem is ameliorated by the reworking into video form. It is here that the temporal interplay between past as memory plays with the present as experience and the future as anticipation. However, not every experience is identical. To explore the nature of the difference of these temporal experiences, Merlino has provided two contrasting sound pieces that are not juxtaposed with the video work, but rather attempt to show how the experiential sameness of the video actually inspires difference and uniqueness. It is the sameness of our sense of place that inspires a variety of affective responses, thus dispelling the idea that our experiences, when tinged with memory and anticipation, must always remain the same.
- ItemWairua, Affect and National Days Project (Website Design)Muriwai, EM‘Race’, culture, and nationhood are continually reproduced in both daily activities and key events, through embodied social meanings and practices. Our research project explores little-studied acts of commemoration/celebration that express nation and community. Waitangi Day, Anzac Day, Matariki, Chinese and Gregorian New Year, build and divide, acknowledge and deny, include and exclude and are focal points where we represent ourselves to each other and the world. They are rich in meaning, wairua and emotion for all citizens, whether participating directly or not and have major implications for identity, wellbeing and social cohesion. Our research focuses on the affective politics evoked as people relate, engage and grapple with cultural observances and often-charged acts of remembrance in Aotearoa New Zealand. We are producing new conceptual knowledge around wairua and affect as neglected dimensions of relationships between Māori and non-Māori. Innovative methods have been produced in a convergence of kaupapa Māori and affect theory approaches, using multiple qualitative techniques to gather rich, diverse, multimodal data from Māori and non-Māori. The project is a strong collaboration between Māori and non-Māori team members that is training two doctoral students and building new theory, method and research capability in a cutting edge investigation of great salience to national life in Aotearoa New Zealand.
