by admin | Jun 22, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ, Project ClimateChangeNZ, Project ForesightNZ, Project OneOceanNZ, Project PublicScienceNZ, Project ReportingNZ, Project StrategyNZ, Project TacklingPovertyNZ, Project TalentNZ
From 11 June to 15 June Wendy was part of a panel of futurists on the TVNZ show What Next? hosted by John Campbell and Nigel Latta. The show included live viewer voting on key questions and issues, with results displayed in real time and post-show interviews streamed...
by admin | May 25, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ
On the evening of Wednesday 17 May a diverse group of forty individuals gathered at the McGuinness Institute office to workshop the idea of a civics strategy in New Zealand. The purpose of the event was to explore the current state of civics and citizenship education...
by admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ
Tuesday 11 April saw the launch of Max Harris’s book The New Zealand Project at the Royal Society of New Zealand. The launch featured Harris in conversation with Māmari Stephens, discussing his ideas. One of Harris’s key goals for the book is to get people in a...
by admin | Feb 28, 2017 | Project CivicsNZ
Tomorrow marks a year since Dr Ranginui Walker passed away. His engagement with cultural politics will continue to shape civics in New Zealand. Throughout his academic career, Dr Walker published 12 books on Māori activism, education and the politics of culture. Dr...
by Wendy McGuinness | Dec 20, 2016 | Prime Minister's Summer Reading List, Project CivicsNZ, Project ClimateChangeNZ, Project ForesightNZ, Project OneOceanNZ, Project PublicScienceNZ, Project ReportingNZ, Project StrategyNZ, Project TacklingPovertyNZ, Project TalentNZ
SCITILOP 2016 – the year politics was written back to front The readjustment that is taking place across the democratic world has been astonishing. For those sitting at the bottom of the planet, it has been like watching giant dominos falling, hearing the sound...
by admin | Sep 28, 2016 | Project CivicsNZ, Project ClimateChangeNZ, Project ForesightNZ, Project OneOceanNZ, Project PublicScienceNZ, Project ReportingNZ, Project StrategyNZ, Project TacklingPovertyNZ, Project TalentNZ
This newsletter shares our updated work programme, giving you a summary of what we have been doing since our last newsletter in February 2016 and detailing what we hope to achieve before the end of the year. Issue 17 also announces the launch of our new McGuinness...
