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.
Set close to Lake Pūkaki and Aoraki, the design establishes a low impact visitor facility. It blends infrastructure upgrades—like accommodation, a chapel, restaurant, stables, research hub, and stargazing—with ecological restoration of Black Hole Lake, weaving heritage, hospitality and conservation together.
Spanning 3,500 hectares, this restoration strategy weaves ecological renewal into working merino farmland. It safeguards critical habitat for the rare black stilt (kakī), restores ecological corridors like Bolton’s Gully, and balances dryland farming with long-term cultural and environmental resilience.
This initial design layers ecological restoration with native planting and productive gardens to highlight terroir. Designed as an animated narrative, it invites people to experience the vineyard’s unique climate and story through immersive landscapes that celebrate place and provenance.
A sweeping, distributed native forest of 1.2 million plants springs to life across 20 farms, weaving biodiversity through farmland. Designed with fractal, braided‑river patterns, it creates a 350‑hectare ecological “bird bridge,” connecting the Southern Alps with Banks Peninsula.
Storytelling panels and wayfinding signs guide vineyard visitors along Yealand's White Road Tour, explaining sustainable winemaking practices—like caring for water, nurturing vines naturally, and repurposing prunings—with engaging visuals and clear directions, turning each stop into an immersive, educational journey through the vineyard’s regenerative processes.
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.
