Jess Morgan and Nick Yeats from Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum present at NDF25.

Abstract:

Auckland Museum has partnered with the University of Auckland to create a digital interactive public engagement experience that elevates the voices of the young people that contributed to the Our Voices study.

Our Voices is a cohort of 800 13-year-old participants enrolled in the Growing Up in New Zealand Study led by the University of Auckland that aims to capture the ‘voices’ of the young people in the study, using a co-developed digital platform to understand well-being from the young persons’ perspective. The key message for this exhibition is around raising awareness of youth perspectives on current issues and how the findings of the Our Voices study may have an impact in New Zealand.

Auckland Museum have worked closely with the Our Voices team and a creative partner, PHQ, to collaborate, design, produce and deliver this experience. This experience harnesses the power of digital tools to showcase the voices of young people and engage visitors with how young people across the motu see the world. This exhibition had a dedicated summer student as part of our internship programme who contributed to the evaluation of the experience to provide audience engagement insights included as part of this presentation.