3. Collect the content
Capture what you can in your chosen method(s), whether through your own creativity or content you have asked people to share.
Be transparent with people about your plans for this content so they can give informed consent when participating.
Make a plan for how you will organise and store the content. Decide what you want to keep; you don't need to keep it all!
Keep a list of what you have collected. Describe the content e.g. What is it, who created it, where was it, when was it
Create a consistent and descriptive file naming convention for digital files e.g. 20250601_WinterParty_001.jpg
If it's physical, keep it somewhere cool and dry with minimal light. If it's digital, then make sure it is backed up in more than one place in either external storage or cloud storage.
*See further preservation tips in the appendix
Be transparent with people about your plans for this content so they can give informed consent when participating.
Make a plan for how you will organise and store the content. Decide what you want to keep; you don't need to keep it all!
Keep a list of what you have collected. Describe the content e.g. What is it, who created it, where was it, when was it
Create a consistent and descriptive file naming convention for digital files e.g. 20250601_WinterParty_001.jpg
If it's physical, keep it somewhere cool and dry with minimal light. If it's digital, then make sure it is backed up in more than one place in either external storage or cloud storage.
*See further preservation tips in the appendix
Example: Narrative Mapping
Talk to people in your community about the places and spaces that are important to them. Mark these out on a map - it could be physical or digital. Capture why each place is important to your community layering stories onto the spaces around you.
Talk to people in your community about the places and spaces that are important to them. Mark these out on a map - it could be physical or digital. Capture why each place is important to your community layering stories onto the spaces around you.
Walking Radical Wellington
A radical history walking tour through central Wellington on the Pocket Sights app. This tour invites the walker to view well-travelled streets through the history of working-class and socialist organising in Wellington. The familiar sights of shopping outlets, hotels, and innocuous street corners are also the locations of radical bookstores, social struggle, subversive socialising, and sites of violent protest. It aims to connect the walker with the city as a place of history and historical memory, and to connect past and present. Check it out here
Walking Radical Wellington map