Arthur’s Pass National Park Visitor Engagement Strategy
A strategic insight plan identifies key moments along the Arthur’s Pass route—like the highway, village hub, and visitor centre—where visitors can be warmly welcomed into conservation through tailored information delivery. It maps out how to spark first-time engagements across the entire experience.
Arthur’s Pass National Park Visitor Centre Redevelopment
A user-centered redesign for the Arthur’s Pass visitor centre redefines the facility as a Conservation Hub. Layered stories and experiences become the means with which to invite people to become part of the country's conservation mission.
A restoration design reimagines a degraded wetland into an inspiring outdoor classroom where planting events connect people with place. The landscape's patterns evoke inanga, tuna, and a lazy river, nurturing both ecological renewal and a community of learners and stewards in a shared space.
Kiwi Ranger is a hands-on education programme designed by WildLab to connect tamariki and their whānau with the natural world through playful, site-specific activities. From tasting honeydew to sculpting driftwood and exploring barefoot, each location offers a unique, sensory experience. The programme ran at 16 sites and was the nationwide pilot for DOC's Kiwi Guardians initiative.
The Abel Tasman Virtual Visitor Centre App is a mobile guide offering curated information on walks, history, and biodiversity through wireframe and high‑fidelity prototypes. It also invites visitors to contribute to local restoration by uploading bird sightings like the weka.
Guide Hill Station Outdoor Museum Interpretation Design
A sequence of interpretation panels weaves stories through tussockland, guiding visitors across Guide Hill Station’s landscape. These panels unfold the history and ecology of merino sheep, mountains, wild Pūkaki, lakes, and restoration efforts—bringing the land’s heritage vividly to life.
A series of interpretation panels brings local nature stories to life, guiding volunteers through the plant nursery, sharing the project’s mission, and helping them become storytellers themselves—turning each visit into an engaging, educational exploration of this coastal restoration effort.
Waitui Farm explores how residential development can actively contribute to native forest restoration, reconnecting Geraldine to the Southern Alps via ecological corridors. By integrating biodiversity goals into land-use planning, the project demonstrates a regenerative approach to rural-urban design.
The Springs is a long-term landscape vision for Whitehaven Wines - restoring native ecosystems alongside a working vineyard in the Wairau Valley. This project weaves together ecological design, viticultural insight, and community storytelling to show how wine and wild nature can thrive side by side.
A small urban pocket transforms into a vibrant, native‑plant sanctuary around three homes, offering more than housing. Thoughtfully designed landscapes, with decks oriented toward Aoraki, welcome native birds and foster ecological renewal—turning a modest development into a green, community‑inspired haven.
An industrial warehouse site is transformed into a warm, welcoming learning environment with themed gardens, fruit trees, and a reflective walk. Outdoor classrooms, native plantings, and productive gardens invite students to nurture and care for their surroundings—blending place, spirituality, and nature.
The Greenhill Lodge masterplan creates a welcoming retreat where gardens, pathways and views flow together with the surrounding landscape. It brings together planting, architecture and outdoor spaces to offer guests a richer connection with nature while enhancing the lodge’s character and sense of place.
Air New Zealand Long-haul Catering Weight and Waste Reduction Project
This study analysed long-haul operations to reduce catering-related waste and carbon emissions. By streamlining food, bar, dry goods, and equipment services—and optimising facilities across global hubs—it identified efficiency gains that cut 3,950 tons of CO₂-equivalent per year while lowering costs.
Antarctica New Zealand’s Scott Base Waste Reduction
This review identified ways to reduce environmental impact at Scott Base—including comparing air- vs sea-freight emissions, cutting food waste to 20%, improving storage and stock control, optimizing recycling systems, and ensuring unnecessary items are returned efficiently to New Zealand.
The Mackenzie Basin Drylands Park is a design-led exploration of what conservation could look like when integrated with tourism, agriculture, and cultural values. Inspired by the Mackenzie Agreement, this project proposes an alternative future where ecological protection is not separate from - but interwoven with - our productive and recreational landscapes.
The Franklin–North Waikato Tracks and Trails Strategy sets out a vision for how trails can connect communities with the Waikato River and its surrounding landscapes. By building on existing opportunities and aligning with local aspirations, the strategy provides a pathway to grow active, healthy, and connected communities.
The Matakana Coast Tracks and Trails Strategy provides a roadmap for how the community can channel its energy and commitment into creating a truly connected regional network. Through careful analysis and collaborative planning, the strategy sets out a vision for trails that link coast, forest, and community, strengthening both place and people.
