A bit of fun for a Friday night
We had a great week last week hosting 28 young New Zealanders, who came together to stress-test the Treasury’s Living Standard’s Framework. The Institute, in collaboration with the New Zealand Treasury, brought together 28 participants from all around New Zealand – Northland to Southland. The final presentation and resulting booklet will be published next week, but...
A bit of fun for Tuesday night!
Our Reform pizza evening is fast approaching. Join us this Tuesday to listen to Kimberley Trewhitt and Tara Macpherson from UK think tank Reform, who will be speaking on strengthening our long term fiscal position. Delicious pizza and drinks provided! Send an RSVP email to Renata at [email protected] if you haven’t already.
Final call for flight to Mars
The deadline for applications to join the Mars One mission is fast approaching. According to the Mars One website living on Mars will be ‘no picnic’ but that hasn’t stopped the 165,000 people from 140 countries applying to be among the first humans sent to Mars. Mars One has estimated the cost of putting the...
A Bit of Excitement for Friday night!
Sam Morgan founded Trade Me and is involved in a series of philanthropic projects in Africa. Sam spent two hours with the participants of the LongTermNZ workshop in December 2020. His thoughts and ideas resonated with us all, so much so we thought you might like to sit down over the weekend and be challenged,...
New Zealand’s Got Talent
In the past few months we have met some incredibly talented young people. For this week’s Friday night blog post we wanted to share some of the exciting things a couple of these people have been up to. Christian Silver was in Year 10 at Kirstin School in Auckland when he attended the StrategyNZ: Mapping our...
A Bit of Fun for a Friday Night!
The first Information is Beautiful Awards were recently held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and we have been checking out the winners. The awards are named after David McCandless’s best-selling book, and are a celebration of ‘excellence and beauty in data visualisations, infographics, and information art.’ We were particularly impressed by Michell...
A Bit of Fun for a Friday Night!
Today we met with Kieran Stowers and Chris Nicholls, design students at Massey University, who have developed a website that aims to increase youth engagement with New Zealand elections. Kieran and Chris were among the passionate and talented group of participants at the EmpowerNZ workshop in August – so it was great to catch up...
A Bit of Excitement for a Friday night
We realise this is a few weeks old now (and in the world of social media that makes it archaic), but a couple of our staff members hadn’t seen this until yesterday. Cure Kids is a great cause, so we thought we would share it on our blog to encourage further donations. Have a good...
A Bit of Excitement for Friday Night!
Following on from the 1st of June post that looked big ideas in marketing, we thought you might like to look at big ideas in the creative arts, in particular how photography, music, and technology are being integrated to develop new forms of entertainment. This is a great little clip that my 15 year old...
A Bit of Excitement for Friday Night!
Occasionally we come across something that really makes us laugh out loud. So just for fun, we thought we would do regular posts on something that has made us smile. Hope you enjoy it! This video shows a creative advertising stunt by a Belgian TV channel. It reminded us of the Channel Four Duck that...
Invasion of New Zealand by Australia
If you haven’t seen these they are definitely worth a watch: Two Australian advertising agencies prepared mock ads for a TV programme called The Gruen Transfer (which screens on ABC in Australia on Monday nights) promoting an invasion of New Zealand. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQwTYEWkDU&fs=1&hl=en_GB] One agency’s approach was to suggest that conquering Aotearoa was a good way...
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