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...
4 Sep 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling
4 September 2023 A collaboration between scientist Céline Cattoën-Gilbert and illustrator Jean Donaldson. It’s Sunday 14 August 2022, and I’m sitting in front of my computer. I feel a surge of numbing emotions and prickly memories gushing through me. My eyes scan the...
3 Jul 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling
3 July 2023 A collaboration between scientist Markus Luczak-Roesch and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. In 1975, a student working in Japan made a mistake. They misunderstood some instructions in Japanese and added 1,000 times more of a...
