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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Through constructing two large structures on Auckland’s waterfront, students of Unitec’s Te Hononga Maori Architecture Studio aim to celebrate the local and specific history, identity and culture of Tamaki’s mana whenua.
“We want people to participate and visit and enjoy these installations. I feel the experience would be just great,” says Akshay Shah who is a part of team involved in the project.
Looking towards the future and within the context of a fast growing multi ethnic city, this project provides opportunities to further the dialogue around the ways in which the 19 Tamaki Iwi groups reposition themselves in terms of their kaitiaki (stewardship) roles and begin to reassert their identity in the physical environment.
Matariki Paparewa is one of 5 projects that will be presented and developed within Auckland Art Gallery’s Lab, a joint project between the architecture and spatial design faculties of AUT University, The University of Auckland and UNITEC. Students, local academics, designers and architects are working collaboratively to develop a series of two to three week-long interdisciplinary design projects.
Through constructing two large structures on Auckland’s waterfront, students of Unitec’s Te Hononga Maori Architecture Studio aim to celebrate the local and specific history, identity and culture of Tamaki’s mana whenua.
“We want people to participate and visit and enjoy these installations. I...
Through constructing two large structures on Auckland’s waterfront, students of Unitec’s Te Hononga Maori Architecture Studio aim to celebrate the local and specific history, identity and culture of Tamaki’s mana whenua.
“We want people to participate and visit and enjoy these installations. I feel the experience would be just great,” says Akshay Shah who is a part of team involved in the project.
Looking towards the future and within the context of a fast growing multi ethnic city, this project provides opportunities to further the dialogue around the ways in which the 19 Tamaki Iwi groups reposition themselves in terms of their kaitiaki (stewardship) roles and begin to reassert their identity in the physical environment.
Matariki Paparewa is one of 5 projects that will be presented and developed within Auckland Art Gallery’s Lab, a joint project between the architecture and spatial design faculties of AUT University, The University of Auckland and UNITEC. Students, local academics, designers and architects are working collaboratively to develop a series of two to three week-long interdisciplinary design projects.
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