This report, and accompanying videos, will provide support for teaching and learning in the planning, architecture, engineering and landscape architecture disciplines to help built environment professionals and students learn why and how it is important to engage effectively with Māori.
The report includes a Text-Based Learning Module which explores the “Why” aspect of the engagement process, a Knowledge Assessment Tool that can be used by teachers and students to assess their prior knowledge or for exam questions, a Critical Incident Analysis Tool that can be used can be used as the basis for an assignment or a workshop, and transcripts for use with the four videos in the Te Whaihanga series.
Download the report:
Te Whaihanga – Project overview report (PDF, 1Mb)
Supporting videos:
Presented by UNITEC lecturer in Māori architecture, Rau Hoskings, these videos were prepared by the project team for use in facilitated learning situations.
Background:
This award-winning two-year project, completed in 2019, aimed to develop research-based, online video and supporting material for teaching and learning in the planning, architecture, engineering and landscape architecture disciplines, with a view to preparing student professionals, both Māori and non-Māori, when working with Māori.
The project team included teachers from planning, architecture, engineering and landscape architecture at the University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Victoria University of Wellington, Unitec Institute of Technology, Papa Pounamu, Whenua Design, The New Zealand Institute of Architects, University of Victoria and Glasgow University.
Reports prepared by Dory Reeves and Lena Henry, from the University of Auckland.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund (NPF)