Conference Speakers
8th September 2025
Combined HPA/ICOMOS conference – Speakers’ Programme
Thursday 9 October
1.00-5.00pm field trips
Friday 10 October
11.30-12.30 lunch & registration
12.30-12.45 welcome from both chairs
Session 1: setting the scene
12.45-1.15 opening address: Pam Bain Something for every explorer: how Tohu Whenua connects new audiences with heritage through authentic tourism experiences
1.15-1.35 Chris Hay: The Landscape Tells the Story: Designing Place-based Narratives
1.35-1.55 Lianne Cox and Max Wiles: Who Tells the Story? Changing Mechanisms of Interpretation in New Zealand Architecture
1.55-2.15 questions & discussion
2.15-2.45 afternoon tea
Session 2: telling local stories
2.45-3.05 Arlene Baird: Ng King Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement – Interpreting our heritage
3.05-3.25 Charles Ropitini: Hastings Eclectic Revivalism: A Whakapapa of Ornamentation
3.25-3.45 Robyn Burgess: Transit of Venus Observation Site: Not much to look at, but, baby, she’s got it
3.45-4.00 questions & discussion
5.00pm welcome drinks
Saturday 11 October
Session 3: Issues and challenges in telling the story
9.00-9.20 Kate Hooper: Gaps in the protection of cultural landscapes as Aotearoa adapts to a changing climate
9.20-9.40 Sally Hughes: Preserving Auckland's Heritage: The Battle for Special Character Areas
Session 4: short papers - short stories, big issues
9.40-9.50 Anna Renton Green: Who Tells the Story? Authority and Voice in the Interpretation of the New Zealand Heritage List Rarangi Korero
9.50-10.00 Alex Vakhrousheva: Tasmania 2.0 - A Practical Experience
10.00-10.30 Moring tea
10.30-10.40 John P Adam: Your Stories: As told by Barbara W. Matthews Garden Journalist.
10.40-10.50 Mary O’Keeffe: What's the story?
10.50-11.00 Questions & discussion
11.00-11.15 Elizabeth Pishief: Heritage awards
11.15-12.00 individual organization sessions and AGMs
12.00-1.00 lunch
Session 5: storytelling methods
1.00-1.20 Ann McEwan & Tim Holmes: The Conservation Plan Stripped Bare [with apologies to Duchamp]
1.20-1.40 Renata Jadresin: Revealing the Unseen: Digital Interpretation of St. David’s Memorial Church, Mt Eden
1.40-2.00 questions & discussion
2.00-2.30 afternoon tea
2.30-5.00 walking field trips
7.00pm conference dinner
Sunday 12 October
9.00-9.30 Presentation from Andrew Coleman & Dame Jo Brosnahan, HNZPT
9.30-9.40 questions & discussion
Session 6: seeing the story through a lens
9.40-10.00 Richard Norman: Sacred Spaces – stories of faith shown through architecture and art in Central Wellington
10.00-10.20 Lynda Burns: Interpreting Otautahi / Christchurch through a bicultural lens
10.20-10.30 questions & discussion
10.30-11.00 morning tea
11.00-12.30 AGMs
12.30-1.00 lunch
Session 7: Here and there - stories from different places
1.00-1.20 Jeremy Smith: Women’s Rest restoration
1.20-1.40 Arnika Blount: Paths, Places, and their Narratives – the Iron Age Wall of Mértola
1.40-1.50 questions & discussion
1.50-2.00 conference summary & close 2025