Time Capsule

Toby Morris

The Spinoff Aotearoa 2020 Time Capsule: an update

The contents list is nearing completion, and the location options are coming together nicely.

By Toby Manhire | 22nd December, 2020

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In they go! Image: Tina Tiller

Our experts pick 12 things to go in the Spinoff Aotearoa 2020 time capsule

Our experts nominate entries for our mechanism to literally encapsulate (and bury) the year 2020.

By Group Think | 21st December, 2020

A bunch of people

An old pic. Image: Tina Tiller

Jacinda Ardern on 2020, what pundits get wrong, and the great Fruju debate

Coffee habits. Waiheke ferries. Hair straighteners. The scoops were served up faster than a midsummer beachside dairy.

By Toby Manhire | 21st December, 2020

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It will be the best of us, it will be the worst of us. It will also be the Six60 of us. (Image: TinaTiller)

The Aotearoa Spinoff Time Capsule 2020: Culture on a USB stick

Sam Brooks fills up a USB with everything that our descendants will need to understand the crapshoot that is life in 2020.

By Sam Brooks | 18th December, 2020

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The Aotearoa Spinoff Time Capsule 2020: Mementos of a hōhā year for te ao Māori

The Aotearoa Spinoff Time Capsule 2020: Mementos of a hōhā year for te ao Māori

Like a yuck hāngī filled with bewilderment and Zoom, it's time to bury this year in the ground.

By The Spinoff Ātea | 17th December, 2020

Image: Tina Tiller

We’re going to fill a time capsule with 2020 Aotearoa. Where on earth will we put it?

Between a rock and a mysterious monolith: All the places we can bury a time capsule.

By Josie Adams | 17th December, 2020

Contributing writer

Get it to the time capsule: Hayden Donnell on what we should bury to sum up 2020

Get it to the time capsule: Hayden Donnell on what we should bury to sum up 2020

Nobody loves collecting up things and trying to put them in another thing like Hayden Donnell.

By Hayden Donnell | 16th December, 2020

Image: Alice Webb-Liddall and Toby Morris

A brief history of the world in six time capsules

Burying things under the ground has been a human tradition for thousands of years, but when did 'time capsules' begin?

By Alice Webb-Liddall | 15th December, 2020

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Toby Morris

Announcing: the Spinoff Aotearoa 2020 Time Capsule

How to deal with a year like no other? Let's bury it together.

By Toby Manhire | 14th December, 2020

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