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Hawke’s Bay Productivity and Innovation Through Design
This is a regional development project funded by NZTE through the HB Regional Council. The Awatoru...
Beyond Consultation: Getting Good Outcomes For Everyone  In Cross-Cultural Resource Consent Practice
Beyond Consultation: Getting Good Outcomes For Everyone In Cross-Cultural Resource Consent Practice
The 3-year research project “Māori Knowledge and the RMA” was funded by the Foundation for...
Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate. A Guidebook for Candidates & Supervisors
These writings are essential reading for all PhD students interested in making their critical work...

Branding and Identity
This is a student project based around the branding and identity for an outdoor activity-based...
Maori Brand and Identity
This was a student project and live brief for Mad Ave Studios, who specialise in working with maori...
T Shirt Design
A student project to create a tshirt design from a movie quote to celebrate the New Zealand Film...
Maumahara mo Waiparuru
The stone and steel markers of Maumahara mo Waiparuru trace a meandering pathway reminiscent of...

Pae Matua

Hihiaua Cultural Centre
Hihiaua Cultural Centre
Collaboration of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to provide a place-based Maori Cultural...
Maori Television
Interior Design + Art Direction, Commission and Install Artworks for new Maori Television Studios...
Hokotehi Moriori Trust
The Awatoru Project Team commenced discussions with the Trust in May of 2006 to undertake a pilot...
Te Puia, Whakarewarewa Rebrand
Award-winning Architecture
Client and Client contact: Iris Kirimaoa, Te Puia
Construction...
Institution Marae project
Developed concept design for a Marae in Tamaki Makaurau.
Christchurch Mixed use Breath competition
Starfish consortium is a collective group of industry professionals from all over Aotearoa who...
Archipelagic Passage
A university project which began with the observation of the sea, and a study of our position as...
Tu Mai Magazine
Graphic and Design layout for Tu Mai magazine
Beachlands Maraetai Walkway
Beachlands Maraetai Walkway
A five kilometre coastal walkway connecting the communities of Beachlands and Maraetai
Te Whare Maumahara
This is part of my masters thesis demonstrating how the spaces of my architecture are organised...
Mapping Conflict
This is a project I am currently working on as part of my Phd research into the Kainga whenua programme....
Te Hiki a Hine Ruhi
An architectural response to the tradition of Whare Tapere, creating a temporary performance space...
Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Nga Taonga Tuturu ki Tokomaru
Additions to accomodate a kura expanding to wharekura.
Te Reo Rarotonga Early Childcare Centre
Extensive additions to an existing community centre in Otara, South Auckland.
Pehiāweri Marae Papakāinga
Concept design for an 8-unit papakāinga for Pehiāweri Marae, completed as part of my 2015 M Arch...
Takamore Masterplan
Takamore Masterplan
The Takamore Masterplan was prepared to demonstrate viable options for the future development of...
Life lessons from the landscape: spatial education for earthquake preparedness
Life lessons from the landscape: spatial education for earthquake preparedness
A 120 point thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of...
Whare Ora
Whare Ora
This is an affordable housing project located in kaitaia that I am currently working on with He...
Puukenga
University elective undertaken with Gary Lawson in 2009. This paper looked specifically at critical...
Ringa Taura
Te Ringa Taura project is a new re-invention of the urban marae. Located on the edge of the Panmure...
Toi Ake
Toi Ake
Toi whenua was a major arts programme that was run at Iwi and Hapu level across Toi Aotearoa
Papakura Library, Museum and Community Facilities
Large scale, comprehensive public artworks representing the Papakura iwi, natural environment and...
Tangata Whenua
“‘Desna Whaanga-Schollum’s works drift lines of moko as mist over the land but deal with...
Taone Tupu Ora
A co-edited publication on: How can traditional Māori built environments inform contemporary urban...
He mea it, he mea huna
Silver work for group exhibition 'Te Whai Ao' 2013.
Ngahere Kauta
This project involves strategies for the revitalisation of a rural marae on the right bank of the...
Landscape Foundation
This new Journal aims to stimulate debate about landscape. Your opinions, ideas and comments about...
Ūkaipō, o tatou whakapapa: Taonga Māori Exhibition
Ūkaipō is our identity, our home ground, our upbringing, our mothers. This is who we are as tangata...
16/2: Te Whenua
16/2 publication features the original work of eight international designers in a 16-page section...
Manu Sculpture
Manu sculpture in place outside the new campus buildings at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi (Indigenous...
Pegasus Town Development
Pegasus Town Development
Town development (5000 pp, 1900 house lots) atop and adjacent to ancestral pa sites in North Canterbury....
Timatanga Reflections
Timatanga Reflections
poems and reflections inspired by local and international speakers at the inaugural I Te Timatanga...
Māori Co-Design
Work on a range of co-design projects that contribute to Māori community welbeing, including health...
I Te Timatanga
I Te Timatanga was a multidisciplinary indigenous design conference, for any indigenous person...
Building sustainable papakāinga to support Māori aspirations for self-determination
This gold medal award winning Ph.D research and architectural practice is focused on indigenous...
KO TĀNGONGE TE WAI
Tāngonge Wetland Restoration in Kaitaia, Northland, NZ
Kāpiti Town Centres and Connectors Transformation Project, Kāpiti Coast
Kāpiti Town Centres and Connectors Transformation Project, Kāpiti Coast
This project involves both large scale long-term masterplanning for the towns of Waikanae and Paraparaumu...
Culturally Enhanced Stormwater Stewardship - Integrating Te Ao Māori
Culturally Enhanced Stormwater Stewardship - Integrating Te Ao Māori
Widespread adoption of a holistic culturally enhanced stormwater stewardship approach.
Paparahi Toi
Paparahi Toi
Te Paprahi Toi, Maori design Research, publication, guide and digital App,

Pae Tahi

Te Paea Tohora
Inspired by graphic photography of Farewell Spit strandings inside the observatory space, Te Paea...
Ko wai au
Exploration of the individual forms and shapes within a marae context including the environment...
Whakapapa O Nohoanga - Waka Huia
What is the Whakapapa of our seating within the Marae context? The design research project Whakapapa...
Matariki Paparewa and The First Borough
Matariki Paparewa Drawing cues from the historical ‘Hakari stages’—a traditional form of...
Te Kahui Tepua AV units
Design prototype of Audio Visual units for Te Kahui Tepua tourism.
Final Year Student Project
This was my Final year student project that focused on integrating an alternative mode of transport...
Garden Design
Landscape Design.
Muramura 2008
This project was an investigation into how Maori visual culture can continue to assert significant...
Art Gallery
To design an art gallery on Ponsonby Road for specific works by a specified artist
Our House (Quarters)
'Our House' is a short film written and directed by Jessica, and is one of four short films that...
Urban Marae
An Urban Marae that exhibits Maori art and houses Maori artists in a creative community in which...
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“I don’t just want to be seen as ‘Māori’ when I am doing something Māori like ‘pūkana’...
Barry's Point
Barry's Point
This project is a narration and an interpretation through architecture of a story of site. The...
Opouriao Tuhoe Co-op
Thesis, in partial fifilment of the M.Arch (prof) at the University of Auckland. Supervisor Dr....
Ngahere Atawhai
This thesis was an exploration of my local native ngahere and an architecture driven by this place...
Whare Whakapapa
As a response to a second year studio brief exploring the values of Maori culture I developed the...
Matariki Calendars
Each year, Native Council design and produce the Matariki Calendar for Mana Recruitment and the...
Boundary Definition
Boundary Definition
It is difficult to apply a European understanding of land ownership and boundaries directly to...
A Tale of Settlement told through Conflict
The thesis explores a Māori relationship with land and place through the examination of an historic...
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What pedagogical approaches foster Hauora in a secondary school
Space and Place
Space and Place
We were required to explore an idea that we believed it situated us. We had to investigate and...
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Abstract Illustration taken from free form influenced by nature and how nature can be seen as a...
Maori and Mining
A multi-disciplinary study on how mining in New Zealand relates to and impacts on Maori - Iwi,...
Papa
Papa
Our contribution to the earth seems meaningless as technology production increases, when we eventually...
Educational Shelter of Aspendos Theatre
Create an educational shelter to preserve the Aspendos Theatre in Turkey.
Striking a Balance
Balancing Cultural and Productive Uses of Maori Freehold Land
Te Motu Kairangi
Watts Peninsular Community Engagement
Kahikatea Tu Te Uru - A co-design approach to connections
On any given night within a 3km radius of the sky tower, there are approximately 150 people sleeping...
He Piko He Taniwha
Masters of Architecture (professional studies) thesis.
M A D Interiors
Interior Furnishings
M A D Stores
Everyday Home + Office Décor and selected Fashion pieces made worldwide with NZ + Maori Designs...
Waka Wairua
A sustainable, low cost and simple to manufacture casket.
Healing the land, healing the people
This project is based on a yearlong thesis. The thesis is exploring concepts of mātauranga Māori,...
Part time
Just a small piece that I did in my spare time - always working on something. Currently not doing...
Boon
Street art festival. artist invitation only
Masters of Interior Architecture,
Masters of Interior Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013
Pahaoa Marae DIY
Volunteering with Marae DIY to enhance our beautiful Marae Pahaoa, Eastern Bay of Plenty.
Toku tūrangawaewae My place to stand.
This project attempts to establish a means by where architecture can tell a narrative which is...
Maori Cultural Heritage Project
The purpose of the Māori Cultural Heritage Project (MCHP) is to improve the identification, mapping...
How to Prep a Hāngī
Recently completed as part of my MArch(Prof) qualification, How to Prep a Hāngī was an exploration...
Pathways to Health & Wellbeing
Pathways to Health & Wellbeing
This research project centres on promoting health and social wellbeing for the elderly in our community...
X-Section Journal
X-Section Journal
X-Section is a journal published by the Unitec Landscape Architecture Department. The Journal is...
X-Section Journal 2016
X-Section Journal 2016
X-Section is a journal published by the Unitec Landscape Architecture Department. The Journal is...
Exploring Te Aranga Design Principles in Tāmaki
Exploring Te Aranga Design Principles in Tāmaki
This is a report "Exploring Te Aranga Design Principles in Tāmaki" which was developed in 2016...
Tumahu Ipukarea: decolonising Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Toitu te marae a Tane Toitu te marae a Tangaroa Toitu te iwi This project looks into the idea of...
Sharella Nouveau
Multi-unit residential development designed at Solari Architects
Miria Marae
Miria Marae
Re-development of Miria Marae.
MAU Tu
MAU Tu
Pasifika and Maori Creative and Design workshops and Mentoring.
Parawera Marae - New Wharekai
Parawera Marae - New Wharekai
This project involved demolishing an old outdated wharekai and building a new wharekai to suit...
HeMahere Rautaki Hai Haimanu i te reo o Ngati Kahungunu 2006-2027
Tribal Langauge reviatalization strategy and programme of work
Nga mahi a rehia.
Nga mahi a rehia.
Still in building stages

Kaupapa Whanau

Counter Currents: Whare Nui and Fale Abroad
Paper co-authored with Keri-Anne Wikitera, published in Lewis, M. (Ed.)The Pacific Connection –...
Afterlife
Marae based alumni and pedagogical design tool for Department of Photography and Media Arts
Dislocating William and Rau: The Wild Man in Virtual Worlds
Online Working Papers in Communication Research, 2- Locations and Locutions: Constituting Identity...
Masters Thesis
Masters Thesis
For the second year of our Master of Architecture we are required to complete a thesis paper. My...
Captain Cook Passenger Terminal
Captain Cook Passenger Terminal
New passenger terminal for Auckland city
He Kāinga Hou ki te Hau Kāinga Housing development on multiply-owned ancestral land in a high-growth
He Kāinga Hou ki te Hau Kāinga Housing development on multiply-owned ancestral land in a high-growth
Masters thesis submitted as partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of MSc in Urban Management...
A Museum where I Live
A Museum where I Live
A distributed Museum ecology sited in Waikanae
Business Development
Business Development
Here is the release of Calita and my project and crowdfunding video.
A Wahi Tapu Composition
A Wahi Tapu Composition
This project was based at Lake Waiorongomai just north of Otaki in the Kapiti/Horowhenua region....
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Main themes are concerned with magic and nature. Mauri has a huge impact on my practice and trying...
Navigator
Concept: Our ancestors voyaged to this land from across the sea, navigating by the stars. Sailing...
Evidence for the Unitary Plan
I have prepared and presented evidence to the Independent Hearings Panel for the Unitary Plan in...
Manukarangaranga
Manukarangaranga is a placemaking intervention to overturn traditional urban structures that do...
When the moon is overexposed the trenches of the sea are seen in the sky (2015)
Working with a rākau, this mahi occurred during the rise of a full moon revealing abstract forms....
A thing for a decolonised future
As part of the Emerging Technology, Design and Indigenous Culture Symposium myself and Dr Sarah...
Culturally Shared Landscape Wananga
Culturally Shared Landscape Wananga
A multi centre series of one day wananga focused around the issues, opportunities and techniques...
TIKANGA MĀORI CO-DESIGN
My mahi includes supporting the development of Tikanga Maori Co-design in a range of ways, working...
Kape
Title’d Kape or Cape, this fashion collection is an exploration of textile surface pattern design...
A History of the City in Landscape
This is the first part of a project looking into the built history of the corner of Kilmore and...
Te Rongo Aniwaniwa /A Dissonant Harmony
Curated by Ariane Craig-Smith & Chris McBride for The Kauri Project Inhabiting the space where...
Tautua Tahi Ora
A community project in collaboration with kaupapa Māori and Pasifika support services and tangata...
Kihokewin Kumik
Thesis design proposal for a cultural centre at the historic Métis community of Batoche, Saskatchewan...
Spirit Garden
Cultural landscape at public waterfront as part of a masterplan and subsequent redevelopment.
Te Tauihu Te reo Māori Policy
Te Tauihu Te reo Māori Policy
Ki a mātou o Pōneke he taonga te reo Māori, ā, he tino take tōna ki a tātou, ki tō tā tātou...
Màyí
Màyí
Series of multimedia works based on Kiowa ideologies and medicines connected to women and girls....
He Harenga Hou
Tunnel Boring Machine Cover 2013
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