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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
The third teacher: An architectural project that encompasses the Reggio Emilia pedagogy
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a New Zealand kindergarten encompass the Reggio Emilia approach as its architecture? ABSTRACT The future is changing, so New Zealand should prepare the next generations by adapting its ... -
Way back home: A new care environment for dementia
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can architectural stimulation improve the wellbeing of individuals with dementia in care facilities?” ABSTRACT 50 million people are living with dementia and an estimated 70,000 of those are in ... -
Aspiring higher: Connecting the experience of churches and mountains
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can we connect the human experience of the alpine environment to the experience of church architecture? ABSTRACT This project works in two parts, seeking to understand the human experience of ... -
A day along the river: Creating a Fuding in the image of the greatest Chinese painting
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can an architectural intervention help to rescue and educate on intangible cultural heritage and identity in Fuding, China? ABSTRACT China has become the largest construction site on earth, over ... -
To craft a piece of timber: A place for learning timber craft construction
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a place of learning and its approach to architecture and building revitalise timber craft construction in New Zealand? ABSTRACT The demands of society have favoured a standardised approach ... -
Fekumi kihe potupotutatau ʻa e Tonga: Finding a balance of Tongan identity
(2022-05)RESEARCH QUESTION How can traditional Tongan narratives shape and inform cultural learning spaces? ABSTRACT Like most stories and traditions learned as children, it is through word of mouth. With every passing generation, ... -
Tutū faʻatasi: A natural disaster relief centre in Poutasi, Sāmoa
(2022-05)RESEARCH QUESTION How can integrating cultural Sāmoan tectonics into a modern disaster relief centre help bring Sāmoan communities together while providing solutions for disaster relief issues? ABSTRACT The South ... -
Transformation beyond restoration
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a performing arts centre in the historic town of Ōamaru help create a more enticing environment for the younger generation? ABSTRACT Small towns in New Zealand are a pleasure to be in because ...