Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

Technical Session II
What do you stand for?
Mission
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n What is your purpose?
n Why do you exist?
Vision
n Where are you going
n How do you want to be known?
Design Innovation
l What are the most
limiting factors to zoo
improvement?
n Attitude of scarcity
n Conservatism that
only copies proven
success (and
mistakes)
n Copies of copies
reduce innovation
n International Best
Practice – a 25 year
old idea that just
got here
Message
n What do you want visitors to
remember after their visit?
These affirmative statements
should be prepared for the zoo
as a whole in the Master Plan and
also should be re-defined for
each project undertaken.
Design Innovation
n “Innovation does not
swim in the main
stream.”
n Innovation prospers in
an environment of both
great need and great
freedom.
n Potential breakthroughs
are found at the
intersections of strong
technologies or
philosophies.
n Build bridges not boxes,
share ideas freely.