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Kaiarataki Te Hīhiri

Principal / Strategic Advisor Māori

As a Strategic Advisor Māori, I work with whanau, hapū and iwi Māori across Aotearoa in a diverse, wide range of capacities - from landscape architecture to resource management, planning and ecology. I am driven by ensuring the outcomes reached within our projects meaningfully consider and reflect a Te Ao Māori worldview.

With a background in landscape architecture, I have played significant roles on project teams involved in many of the key anchor and regeneration projects of the Christchurch rebuild. I was seconded to the Matapopore Charitable Trust from April 2017 – August 2021 as a landscape architect specialising in providing strategic writing and review, facilitation of engagement and working as part of design teams for both public and private projects.

More recently, I have become increasingly involved in weaving together mātauranga Māori (traditional knowledge) with western science through significant cultural health monitoring and ecological work across Te Waipounamu/the South Island, particularly in the Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere catchment and forming meaningful relationships with Papatipu Rūnanga.