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Restaging a Garden Party: Sharing Social Histories through the Design of Digital and Material Interactive Experiences
software developer time from within the Polytechnic. This is clearly not a sustainable business model, but we
are hoping that this fully functioning prototype will provide proof of our capability and that this will provide
a platform for future growth. These difficulties may have come about as a result of using new technology, prior
to industry standardization, and with working within an educational institution rather than an IT company.
However as our capability is proven, with more successful museum engagement we hope that these limitations
will be overcome. This is a challenge for museum professional as well as educators. We need to reconsider
each other as financial partners with shared educational values, and able to work together beyond traditional
expectations.
Once complete our Toy Hunt application and game will be tested using local school children, and refined before
going live. Olveston House has recently installed an upgraded wi-fi network, which will be available to toy
hunters in the garden.
Our thanks to Olveston House, for the opportunity to present concepts, and further develop and reflect on
these. Many thanks to the staff and students at Otago Polytechnic involved in the development and design of
these projects. This list is not extensive, but thanks must go to Zoe Paterson, Greg Thomas, Fran Shaw, Rachel
Hay, Marcia Stewart, Megan McPhail, Laura Benjamin, Laura Carr, Mattea Stahl, Sarah McDonald, Hannah Poole,
Kristy Lind, Carla Galdeman, Shayne Hughes, Matthew Paterson, Finn Glover, Beaute Tanapura, Oliver Powell,
Sean Moran, Finn Gallagher, Stuart Stoddart, Caleb Dudley, Connor McGregor, Mattea Stahl and Jamie Russell.
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