Keri Whaitiri   BArch(hons); MA(hons)

Pae Matua

Te Wai Pounamu Art, Landscape Architecture, Architecture

Ngāi Tahu + Ngāti Kahungunu

Keri has professional experience as an Architect, artist and educator. She has progressively broadened spatial design practice to include multimedia installation, object design and landscape architecture. Over the past four years, she has worked closely with mana whenua organisation Matapopore to provide cultural design guidance in the recovery of post-earthquake Christchurch (Aotearoa/NZ), contributing towards a number of large-scale built-form, infrastructural and public realm anchor projects for the inner city. For Keri, indigenous imperatives embedded within local government policy and decision-making should be fundamental to the regeneration of our future cities