Mick Abbott, Cameron Boyle, Kate Blackburne & Woody Lee
New Zealand is often imagined as a handful of islands in the Pacific—but its territory is now mostly ocean. This study explores how mapping can reshape our sense of national identity, proposing a shift from “clean green” to a more expansive “clean, blue, green” vision grounded in conservation and connection.
“From these new expressions of a ‘clean, blue, green’ nation-state, it becomes imaginable that in years to come New Zealand school children might sketch their country, not as a series of three islands, but rather as a wedge of the globe with differentiated ocean realms as distinctive as its range of land-based terrains.”
