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Embracing tradition: Classical Studio in 2022
(Epress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-12-31)The year 2022 saw the return of Classical Studio the Unitec | Te Pūkenga School of Architecture after a ten-year hiatus. In Classical Studio, the goal isn’t necessarily to teach how to design a classical building, but to ... -
Early reflections on a collaborative research project about the safety of rainbow ākonga on Te Pūkenga campuses
(ePress, Unitec | Te Pūkenga., 2023-11-29)This paper reports on the experiences of a research team designing and beginning to implement a research project exploring how safe and inclusive the various campuses of Te Pūkenga are for Rainbow ākonga (students). As ... -
Learner engagement with where-to-next feedback in early tertiary studies
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-29)Learners on the New Zealand Diploma in Business are early tertiary learners and do not perform as well as it is believed that they should. In addition, there is a disparity between ethnicities and age groups. This study ... -
An early childhood education lens on the practice of reflection in Aotearoa New Zealand
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-29)Reflection is a well-researched concept in the field of education. However, the authors find the book resources are limited in terms of current practice in early childhood education (ECE) within the context of Aotearoa New ... -
Cultural perspectives on the concept of whānau and health decisions
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2023-11-27)This is a combined reflective presentation developed from the series of the Chinese and Pacific cultural perspectives workshops that the authors have designed and delivered at Unitec for the Social Practice, Medical Imaging ... -
Field study to compare and evaluate summer thermal comfort of school buildings with different moderate thermal mass in their building elements
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2023-11-22)Previous studies show that moderate thermal mass in school building elements can pos itively impact the winter indoor thermal environment in a temperate climate with mild, humid winters. Based on a field study, this research ... -
Designing neighbourhoods to facilitate intercultural encounters: Negotiating between self, society and place
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Globalisation, and the consequent migratory processes, have radically transformed many countries across the world. A greater number of people with diverse backgrounds have been travelling to more places for numerous reasons. ... -
A pleasurable methodology: Joyously reimagining our neighbourhoods
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland neighbourhood of Ellerslie has undergone destructive erasures of ecology and indigeneity since colonisation. This is exemplified by the filling with concrete of the sacred subterranean caves, ... -
The fires of ambition: Te Awa Tupua 2040
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Upon introduction, Māori will often, ask “Ko wai koe?”, or at the beginning of a pepeha, Māori might say, “Ko wai au?” The concept of ‘ko wai au’ is both a question and a statement in one. In one sense ‘ko wai au’ is asking ... -
Katamari Kart: A serious and hilarious sub/urban game for more serendipitous, playful and friendly public art
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The article presents the sub/urban game-method Katamari Kart, where people roam industrial and suburban areas collecting waste materials and progressively building a large and mobile public sculpture. This game-method ... -
Decolonising and re-indigenising neighbourhood design
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)How do we create a fairer, more equitable future? How do we create neighbourhoods that serve and nurture us; spaces that reflect us, that bring beauty, that inform our identities? Urbanists are generally reluctant to address ... -
Developing urban furniture by Unitec students for an emerging urban fabric in Auranga, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland: The socio-ecological dynamics of creative sustainable prototyping production during the Covid-19 crisis
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)As the number of suburban communities in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland grows, it’s essential to consider the social component when planning and developing these communities in order to improve social resilience and reduce social ... -
Distributed resource centre: A soft Infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)This article presents the Distributed Resource Centre as a soft, low-cost, generative, and fun decentralised infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity. The article defines the concept (as flow vs stock), outlines some ... -
Walking backwards into the future in Te Pokapū Tāone, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s city centre
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Te pokapū tāone o Tāmaki, Auckland’s city centre, is the belly of Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand’s fastest growing residential neighbourhood and a significant contributor to the region and to the country. Globally, ... -
Resilient hub
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The proposal describes a community hub; a site located within the suburban and urban built environment, made up of an arrangement of community-run buildings and facilities. Modern sustainable technologies and building ... -
Can form-based codes be the opportunity to achieve a quality built environment in Aotearoa New Zealand?
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)This article suggests that our current land-use planning is routinely failing to make good places where people want to live. The inability of land-use zoning to generate mixed-use neighbourhoods is one reason. Instead of ... -
Imagining a narrative form for place
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Applying long-term thinking to placemaking is challenging when practitioners work within short timeframes to deliver a project – usually from the length of a funding window to that of an on-the-ground build. In order for ... -
A contemporary Pacific village: A proposal
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)This paper proposes a contemporary Pacific village as a response to the pressing housing issues of Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. More specifically, the proposal explores this at the scale of a neighbourhood. ... -
Improving the quality of information: Does Integrated Reporting matter? Evidence from Sri Lankan listed companies
(STIE Malang Kucecwara, 2023-11-04)This study examines the information quality of integrated reporting (IR) adopted companies in comparison to non-adopted companies. Information quality was measured in terms of the decision usefulness approach based on ... -
Whakarongo ki te tangi! : Listen to our tears, listen to our call! learnings from a summer research mentorship to grow kaupapa Māori community health researchers
(ePress, Unitec | Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-02)This co-authored paper centres the Māori cultural practice of tangi, both as a way to heal and to be heard, for four new and emerging Māori community health researchers involved in a Kaupapa Māori research mentorship. If ...