Puna Kōrero: Decolonial design and indigenous placemaking in the Wairaka Precinct
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Tan, Leon
Reihana-White, Hinewaimarama
Renata, Hohepa
Lamwilai, Peeti
De Groot, Christian
Smith, Emma
Goldsmith, Ellana
Reihana-White, Hinewaimarama
Renata, Hohepa
Lamwilai, Peeti
De Groot, Christian
Smith, Emma
Goldsmith, Ellana
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2025-02
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Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation
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Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka
Unitec, Te Pūkenga
Carrington Residential Development (Mount Albert, Auckland, N.Z.)
Mount Albert (Auckland, N.Z.)
Tāmaki Makaurau (N.Z.)
Auckland (N.Z.)
Aotearoa
New Zealand
urban streams
urban ecology
urban development
Matariki
place-based knowledge
mātauranga ā-rohe
Unitec, Te Pūkenga
Carrington Residential Development (Mount Albert, Auckland, N.Z.)
Mount Albert (Auckland, N.Z.)
Tāmaki Makaurau (N.Z.)
Auckland (N.Z.)
Aotearoa
New Zealand
urban streams
urban ecology
urban development
Matariki
place-based knowledge
mātauranga ā-rohe
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Tan, L., White, T., Renata, H., Lamwilai, P., De Groot, C., Smith, E., & Goldsmith, A. (2025, February, 25-27). Decolonial design and indigenous placemaking in the Wairaka Precinct [Poster presentation]. Thinking, Learning and Doing: Plural Ways of Design - Nineteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6910
Abstract
INTRODUCTION
The current and former campus areas of Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka (Unitec Institute of Technology) are undergoing massive change because of the Carrington Residential Development, an urban intensification project that will eventually account for tens of thousands of new residents and visitors in this area. Puna (pools, streams) nurture life in and around their flow paths, but they are also vulnerable to the negative consequences of the prevailing urban development paradigm. Many puna traverse our campus, connecting it with other parts of the Albert Eden local board area and beyond. Puna Kōrero is an interdisciplinary design research project providing opportunities for ontological reorientations in the Wairaka precinct of Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland City), such shifts in worldviews hold the potential to improve the quality of relationships between people and this place over time, particularly its wāhi tapu (sacred sites). Te Wai Unuroa o Wairaka (an aquifer-fed freshwater stream) and Te Rangimarie Pā Harakeke (a plantation of flax).
Developed over several months, the project brought together staff, students and the local community across three collaborative strands culminating in a public event celebrating Matariki (the Māori new year) through a working bee to care for the whenua (land), a projection-mapped motion design show, the launching of a new puoro ataata (music video) entitled Manaakitia, and the prototyping of a mobile app to share stories of significant sites of the campus inclusive of the marae (Māori meeting house) and its wāhi tapu.
[Tanya White now known as Hinewaimarama Reihana-White]
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