Interview 20952 – Caption Index: 309
How important are amenities at a zoo?… Read More
How important are amenities at a zoo?… Read More
Do you think people who are designing think enough about them?… Read More
I think it’s really important to have good toilets. In fact, one of the toilets that we we designed in Singapore was that we created this Balinese toilets where we go into the toilet and there’s a garden inside the toilet. The urinals could be outside in the garden. There… Read More
And how does that message fit into a storyline for the whole zoo?… Read More
And I think that’s the purpose, really the powerful purpose that zoos have on this earth. I mean, there’s probably a billion people that are go visiting zoos around the world. And we’re sort of squandering the messages that they could be leaving with, especially in the poly-run zoo. I… Read More
And if you’re sitting in a auditorium in a zoo and the messaging comes through through the presentation, which it should be, and although it can be entertaining and fun and have a laugh, there should be powerful moments punctuated through the presentation where messages, subliminal and also very pertinent… Read More
Why are we doing it?… Read More
What’s the message?… Read More
How do we get that message across to the visitor?… Read More
And I think the interpretation doesn’t come by a zoo designer designing an exhibit and then finishing it and then saying, well, I’ve got a piece of wall here, which you can put a graphic on and got a piece of space here, which you could put a touchscreen on. Read More
I think it has to be part of the whole design process where the, not educators, but interpreters need to get in there right at the beginning with the initial designers and the zoologists, the curators, and come up with this, what’s the purpose of this exhibit?… Read More
They’re actually quite cool. So they’re really not wild animals at all. They are actors in a film set. Zoos have set that conservation education research are important for zoos. Read More
What should be the primary goal of a zoo aquarium and why?… Read More
I think conservation is probably the only reason that you can justify keeping animals in captivity. And it’s not necessary conservation through captive breeding or ex situ conservation or supporting in situ conservation. But I think basically it’s interpretation and interpreting to the visitors how important it is to conserve… Read More
You said that zoo animals are like characters in a film. Read More
What did you mean?… Read More
Well, I don’t know if I was thinking of the life at that time when I said that, but I think that zoo animals are obviously not wild animals. They’ve been taken from the wild, so their ancestry is from the wild, but they’re very different from wild animals as… Read More
Why and why was it important?… Read More
Well, it comes back to this sort of creative design team and the creative design groups I used to develop. And I think it’s important to bring in people from outside the industry to not necessarily advise you, but to throw you ideas. And as I say, my skill, if… Read More
I think it was a stupid idea. I didn’t want polar bears. My chairman wanted polar bears. And he had bumped into a guy called Jim Dolan in San Diego on one of his previous tours before I’d ever been with him. And they were looking at… For some of… Read More