Design work: Samuel Dunstall, Louis Corbett
Visualisations: Bonnie Gray
Whakaupoko o Tipu Matomato te Harakeke Mahika Kai Pā
Whakaupoko o Tipu Matomato te Harakeke Mahika Kai Pā design report for Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki and Komiti Kaupapa Taiao. This body of work, guided by the whakatauki 'Whatungarongaro te tangata, toitū te whenua' with the aim of assisting tangata whenua to return to, and re-generate their whenua after many years of alienation. The proposal includes a regeneration plan (design led through wānaka with Puketeraki own nursery team, ecologists and landscape architects), and a structure to host wānaka on the whenua, the mahika kai beneath Hikaroroa maunga. Whānau accommodation assists rūnaka aspirations of kaitiakitanga. The whare is orientated towards the ancestral maunga Hikaroroa, and represents a return to the whenua.