PickPath

20/01/2026

Keep an eye out for even more minikins on the trail in February!

28/11/2025

PickPath has been chosen by Creative Capital Arts Trust (the people behind CubaDupa and New Zealand Fringe Festival) and Wellington City Council to help encourage active transport options for Wellingtonians of all ages to get to this year’s Glover Park Christmas Market on Saturday 29 November.

Creative Director Joel Baxendale has developed a PickPath experience for travellers on the Island Bay cycleways from Island Bay to the city.

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“Follow the Island Bay cycleways from Island Bay to Town, helping the hidden residents of Pōneke, the Minikins, with some little errands.

This community art trail celebrates imagination, nature, and exploration. Hidden along the city’s cycle and walking routes are miniature dioramas revealing the secret world of the Minikins, the small, kind-hearted beings of folklore who live quietly alongside humans.

Each tiny scene offers a glimpse into their hidden lives. their homes, workshops and daily routines, all crafted from natural and upcycled materials.”

The PickPath experience, The Mini Lives of Minikins, guides curious Wellingtonians to all of these dioramas before arriving at Glover Park to start the Christmas celebrations.

While the experience is launching on 29 November, it will be available to curious travellers for the entire summer.

PickPath and the Minikins are grateful for the support of Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage and Newtown Community Centre - Te Whare Hapori o Ngā Puna Waiora.

📸 Jinki Cambronero

29/06/2025

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland friends! You have two weeks left to enjoy the Miki Rapu Waiata: Taonga collaboration between Geneva AM, Binge Culture, PickPath and the Matariki Festival. It's an app-guided audio treasure hunt around the waterfront where you will uncover hidden tracks, including archival recordings of well-known waiata Māori provided by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision and new covers with a contemporary twist.

An eye-catching installation in Te Komititanga Plaza will alert passersby to Miki Rapu Waiata: Taonga, an app-based audio experience audiences can choose to do at any time.

23/06/2025

Miki Rapu Waiata: Taonga is available to experience now!

Geneva AM and Binge Culture launch immersive audio experience honouring waiata Māori with PickPath.

As part of this year’s Matariki Festival, acclaimed artist Geneva AM (Ngāti Ruapani mai Waikaremoana, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Aitutaki, Palmerston) and experimental performance collective Binge Culture unveils a powerful new collaboration that blends treasure hunts, technology, and taonga in a unique, self-guided experience on Tāmaki Makaurau's waterfront.

Learn more here: https://www.pickpath.com/blog/miki-rapu-waiata-taonga

02/04/2025

The Anderson Localisation by Afterburner is a new show in the Dunedin Arts Festival that takes the PickPath platform into the quantum realm! Here's co-creator Marty Roberts talking to RNZ about it (and all the other shows he is working on for the festival).

When it comes to innovative performance, designer and theatre maker Martyn Roberts is something of a quiet tour de force. This season he's been juggling work on no less than five new Aotearoa New Zealand shows for the Dunedin Arts Festival.

30/03/2025

Check out this new video introducing the Te Huanui a Māui experience that's now available at Te Papa. It shows rangatahi on the experience in the Te Taiao | Nature exhibition and gives you some background on the PickPath platform and what museums, galleries, historic places and tourism organisations can do with it (with a little imagination).

28/02/2025

Yesterday, the PickPath team joined our Te Papa colleagues at the entrance to Te Taiao | Nature to officially launch our latest collaboration: Te Huanui a Māui | The Path of Māui.

This interactive mobile experience unlocks the stories within the exhibition – visitors can now explore Te Taiao | Nature through the eyes of Māui, the legendary adventurer, innovator, and shapeshifter. With immersive soundscapes, custom narration, animations, and fun interactive surprises, it’s a whole new way to engage with the exhibition and uncover hidden stories.

We’re thrilled to bring this experience to Te Papa’s visitors, offering fresh perspectives on one of Aotearoa’s most loved exhibitions – all while empowering them with mātauranga to be kaitiaki taiao (protectors of nature).

Scan the QR code at the exhibition entrance to download the free PickPath app and start your journey with Māui – the greatest innovator of them all.

16/02/2025

All of us on the PickPath team are delighted that Afterburner have chosen to use our platform for their forthcoming show at the Dunedin Festival. The Anderson Localisation is a going to be a fascinating combination of art and science as it "takes you on a journey into the quantum world where the past, present and future co-exist." Only five sessions over two days – tickets are strictly limited.

Using Pickpath, a cutting-edge interactive app on your phone, you’ll be taken on a unique, audio-driven, individual journey into the quantum world and through one of Ōtepoti’s hidden laneways. The Anderson Localisation reveals a hidden realm and tells a story of how the tiny atomic world can sh...

10/12/2024

Encounter opens today as part of the BATS Theatre 6 Degrees Festival and co-creator Cadence Chung spoke to RNZ Culture 101 about it. The show uses PickPath as the platform for a guided audio-walk around Te Aro that follows the stories of early Chinese immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.

If there’s an aspect of the arts Cadence Chung isn’t involved in, you sense it won’t be long before she tackles it. Encounter is a narrative-led audio walk in Pōneke that follows the stories of early Chinese immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. Premiering this month, it is presented by...

18/11/2024

Coming soon! PickPath is delighted to be the platform for Encounter, the forthcoming innovative theatre piece by Cadence Chung and Dog Year Productions. An interactive guided walk through Wellington Chinese history, the show runs from 10-14 Dec around Te Aro. Book at BATS Theatre.

Step into the past and explore the untold stories of Wellington through the eyes of early Chinese immigrants.Poignant, immersive, and deeply moving.

15/10/2024

Multiple choice steps are some of the most powerful tools for building creative guided experiences on the PickPath platform. They offer opportunities for interaction, they give users the power to engage with versions of an experience tailored to their choices, and they encourage your audiences to return over again to try the different choices. In the third video in our "introduction to PickPath" series, Karin shows you how to integrate them into your projects with some simple examples. You can get some very sophisticated outcomes using these tools.

This how-to series is your ultimate guide to getting started with PickPath. In mere minutes, you’ll learn how to create your own PickPath experience, with an...