The 2012 students’ perspective about Māori relationships and identity to lands between Waiwiri to Waitohu, has been turned around. Since their involvement with iwi and hapū in an intensive learning environment in a marae based setting, the students were able to delve into the intricacies of this relationship, better. Rae ki te Rae wānanga are also leading to new areas of research endeavour and means to disseminate knowledge by using innovative 3D spatial modelling technologies and other visual technologies. Kaumatua, kaitiaki and local environmentalists see the outcomes for regions being enhanced by students’ skills. Kaitiaki buy-in has increased considerably.
Rae ki te Rae Bicultural Design Studio and Wānanga, Landscape Architecture and Manaaki Taha Moana Research Project, 2012.
411 Land paper for LA students
Manaaki Taha Moana: Enhancing Coastal Ecosystems for Iwi and Hapū
On 20 June 2012, the 4th Year Landscape Architecture student presented to members of the End User Kaitiaki Group at the School of Architecture and Design, Victoria University as part of students’ evaluation and marking for LAND 411 paper. Presentations formed part of collaboration with Manaaki Taha Moana research project funded by Ministry for Buisness, Innovation and Employment until 2015. [Rangi Kawe’s designs for Waikawa beach shelters pictured below.]
Rae ki te Rae Bicultural Design Studio and Wānanga, Landscape Architecture and Manaaki Taha Moana Research Project, 2012. Landscape Architecture student presentations to End User Kaitiaki Group for 411 Land Paper - 20 June 2012
Rae ki te Rae Bicultural Design Studio and Wﾄ］anga, Landscape Architecture and Manaaki Taha Moana Research Project, 2012.
Rae ki te Rae Bicultural Design Studio and Wﾄ］anga, Landscape Architecture and Manaaki Taha Moana Research Project, 2012. Landscape Architecture student presentations to End User Kaitiaki Group for 411 Land Paper - 20 June 2012
Purposes of this visual document Given that Aotearoa New Zealand is recognised as a bicultural country and that a country’s landscape is a reflection of its culture (Lewis, 1979), one would expect to see more evidence of Māori influence in its cultural and public landscapes. However, apart from the shift to a greater environmental awareness reflected in the ‘greening’ of most urban centres, and increased focus on place and sustainability precipitated by the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), there is very little in our designed landscapes and public spaces that better reflects our status as a bicultural nation. (Smith and Allen 2012) The purpose of this visual document is to highlight the context of teaching a bicultural design studio. It aims to engage Landscape Architecture students and staff in relevant landscape programme of studies and activities with iwi and hapū. Yearly wānanga are underway as part of the collaboration between the MTM research team of Dr Huhana Smith, Aroha Spinks and Moira Poutama, Associate Professor Penny Allan, Tutor Jaime Macfarlane and senior students from School of Architecture and Design, Victoria University. The collaboration forms part of six year funded project called Manaaki Taha Moana: Enhancing Coastal Ecosystems for iwi and hapū.
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Rae ki te Rae/Face to Face Bicultural Design Studio and Wānanga Rae ki te Rae is an enhanced learning opportunity that attempts to overturn the perceived lack of Māori influence in cultural and public landscapes, by accelerating the learning of senior and Masters Students in Landscape Architecture from Victoria University, Wellington. As part of the innovations within the MTM project, the method encourages kaitiaki from the four research areas of Waitohu/ Waiorongomai, Waikawa, Kuku/Ōhau and Waiwiri regions, Horowhenua to work collaboratively with senior students to determine best visual design and plans that might actualise environmental enhancement projects in the case study region. Rae ki te Rae engages with kaumatua, resources gatherers’ knowledge of place, the marae, tikanga and associated Māori relationships to the environment with key local experts. External experts’ seminars and visual presentations are held on the first, four mornings of the week-long wānanga, followed by hikoi or walking/talking hui of the region, in the afternoon. The evenings and final day are dedicated to students getting their initial ideas down and articulating them to the class with local kaitiaki taking part. The enhanced Rae ki te Rae methodology was used very successfully in March 2012. There are Māori land holdings between Lake Waiwiri and Waiwiri Stream mouth, two Māori dairy-farming incorporations on the coastline between the Ōhau and Waikawa Rivers, who have objectives for environmental sustainability in their strategic management plans. There are aspirations from shareholders in various parcels of coastal land, stretching to the Waitohu Stream, north of Ōtaki. They seek to drive change in the health of their coastal ecosystems. There are interrelated historical/ancestral associations of iwi and hapū to these lands and waterways, and to the and sea and sky within this case study region too. MTM triggers environmental sustainability objectives for Māori owned assets and resources. It also encourages other organisations or territorial authorities to collaborate better with Māori, to achieve better levels of environmental sustainability within the case study region. In 2012, Rae ki te Rae refined its approach and conducted a far better, more comprehensive, week-long wānanga for students, based on what did not work the year before. The following pages documenting the presentation hui at Victoria University on 20th June 2012, are testament to the growing success of the Rae ki te Rae enhanced bicultural learning model. In 2013, Rae ki te Rae shall introduce new areas of research endeavour whereby innovative 3D spatial modeling technologies and other visual technologies designed by Waka Digital (another player in the overall research collaborative for Tauranga case study) will be revealed.
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Examples of dune wetlands to sea on Horowhenua coast between ĹŒhau and Waikawa Rivers. Areas pictured from left to right include: Te HÄ kari Dune Wetland and stream to estuary (near forest block), Incorporation of Ransfield wetland (boldest line) next to Taratoa Pekapeka former harbour now dune region, and Whakahoro river transect to sea near Waikawa township.
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Rangi Kawe delivering his presentation for Waikawa with Penny Allan, Te Waari Carkeek, Moira Poutama, Brad Dodson, Aroha Spinks, Aunty Nellie Carkeek and students as pictured.
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Jess Scheurich presents on her Lake Waiorongomai project of collapsible bird hides
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Te Waari Carkeek, Moira Poutama, Kiinui Osbourne , Aunty Nellie Carkeek, Jaime and Anita
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Jordan Read and her work inspired by Waikawa Beach.
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Greta Christensen and her Waikawa River moveable weir project
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Jacinda Brandley presenting on Lake Waiwiri using the concept of mauri to anchor her work
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Paggy Shen delivers her presentation on a potential eco festival for Kuku-ĹŒhau coastal region to the student body, lecturing sta, tutors and kaitiaki.
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Kendra Manning offers a unique and respectful persepctive on the restoration of wāhi tapu at Ōhau pā site, as places of ongoing cultural significance and use by iwi and hapū.
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Caitlin Wallis presented on retreating from coastlines with a focus on the Kuku ĹŒhau region
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Jade Au Morris provided solutions for the Kuku ĹŒhau estuary area and for a wider transect between mountains and sea.
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Jordan Kuiti offered sites of reconciliation for Lake Waiwiri (Papaitonga)
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Future Landscape Architecture student Kiinui Irirangi Wehipeihana Osborne
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Matthew Bangs and sleeping Kiinui
Tavete Fau and his vision for skywalks in trees and other aspects for Waikawa
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Kristyn Aldridge and her innovative opportunities for dairy farms at Waiorongomai
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Vinnie Billet and his simple but innovative solutions for Lake Waiorongomai.
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Viv Chong and her intricately designed weirs for Waiwiri Stream
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Brad and Kiinui (previous page) and Amy Collingbourne and her Lake Waiwiri (Papaitonga) project
Getting into details...
Michael Chu delivers on Waiwiri Stream and its relationships to MĚ„ aori knowledge systems
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Nathan Dodds provides a transect overview from sea to mountains for a landscape wounded by modifications
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Matt Bangs reworks Waikawa for a better balance between human and ecological cohabitation
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Announcing last delivery for the day...
Brad Dobson finishes off with an animated and comprehensive overview of Lake Waiorongomai potential rehabilitation.
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Simple shelters against Dobson’s structures
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Ngā mihi nui ki ngā tauria, 2012 Kristyn Aldridge Jade Au Morris Matthew Bangs Vinnie Billett Jacinda Brandley Myren Burnett (Presented earlier Viv Chong Greta Christensen Michael Chu Amy Collingbourne Brad Dobson Nathan Dodds Tavete Fau Rangi Kawe Jordan Kuiti Kendra Manning Jordan Read Jess Scheurich Paggy Shen Caitlin Wallis
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Special thanks also to the organisers and helpers for Rae ki Te Rae wānanga: Penny Allan Jaime Macfarlane Amanda Ross Moira Poutama Aroha Spinks Huhana Smith
Special thanks is extended to all kaitiaki of the MTM case study region for their ongoing support...