Te Whaihanga – Preparing students to work with Māori
Status
Completed: 19 March 2019
Project Details
Project overview
This award-winning two-year project aimed to help built environment professionals and students learn why and how it is important to engage effectively with Māori. Through action research, the project developed a comprehensive range of evidence-based resources, online videos and supporting material for teaching and learning in the planning, architecture, engineering and landscape architecture disciplines.
The project was a collaboration between:
- Ngā Aho, the University of Auckland
- Auckland University of Technology
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Unitec Institute of Technology
- Papa Pounamu
- Whenua Design
- The New Zealand Institute of Architects
- University of Victoria and
- Glasgow University.
Aims
The vision for this project was to ensure that future generations of planners, architects, engineers and landscape architects, both Māori and non-Māori, are better prepared to work with Māori professionals, iwi representatives and Community Economic Development and Papakāinga Developers in their day-to-day work and assist professionals to build and sustain positive working relationships with Mana Whenua.
Methodology
The project's methodology featured literature reviews, interviews, group discussions and observations. These formed the basis of new teaching and learning materials for the planning, architecture, engineering and landscape disciplines.
Key to this work is understanding what knowledge Māori consider vital for built environment professionals to understand. There is currently a dearth of discipline-specific material available to help prepare built environment professionals to work with Māori. (8.5% of the 25,000 graduates annually represent this discipline).
Project Reference Group
- New Zealand Planning Institute
- The New Zealand Institute of Architects
- Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand
- New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
- Auckland Council
- Landcare Research/Manaaki Whenua
- Te Hana Te Ao Marama Community Development Trust.
Team
Professor Dory Reeves
Project Contact Leader
University of Auckland
Lena Henry
Deputy project leader
University of Auckland and Ngā Aho
Dr. Barbara Kensington-Miller
University of Auckland
Professor Andrew Barrie
University of Auckland
Professor John Tookey
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Fei Ying
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Nicola Naismith,
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
James Rotimi
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Dave Moor
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Rau Hoskins
Unitec Institute of Technology and Ngā Aho
Dr Te Kipa Kepa Morgan
Ngati Makino
Derek Renata Kawiti
Victoria University of WellingtonJacky Bartley
Papa PounamuNeil Challenger
Whenua Design and The New Zealand Institute of ArchitectsDiane Menzies
Ngā Aho and The New Zealand Institute of ArchitectsChristine McCarthy
University of VictoriaProfessor Alison Phipps
Glasgow UniversityStatus
Funding
$300,000.00 (excl GST)
Key Findings
Project outputs and resources
The final project report contains a suite of teacher and facilitator set of resources, which include the following:
- A Text-Based Learning Module - The “Why"
- Knowledge Assessment Tool for Students and Teachers – “WHAT”
- Video material including 4 short videos and scripts
- Critical Incident Analysis Tool for Students and Teachers
These are all available to download and use in the 'Outputs' section.
Key Recommendations
Impact and activities to date
- Presentations to New Zealand Institute of Architects during 2018
- Auckland Council in-house launch of the Te Whaihanga videos
- Training for trainers event, Waipapa Marae, Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau in February 2018
- Ngā Aho Māori Designers’ Network
- University of Auckland Fast Forward lecture and discussion series
- Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS)
- New Zealand Planning Institute Conference
Awards for Te Whaihanga
- Finalist in the 2022 Royal Town Planning Institute “International Award for Planning Excellence”
- Winner of the "Planning for equitable and inclusive cities and human settlements” award by the Commonwealth Association of Planners—Awards for Outstanding Planning Achievement in the Commonwealth
An overview of Te Whaihanga – an action research project which aimed to better prepare built environment professionals to work and engage with Māori, through developing resources for teaching and learning in the planning, architecture, engineering and landscape architecture disciplines.
- 7 November 2018
The final report from Te Whaihanga includes the full suite of evidence-based resources developed by the project to better prepare built environment professionals to work with Mana Whenua. Includes transcripts for the online videos, and a range of teaching and learning supporting materials.
- 19 March 2019
Watch the video, Te Whaihanga Series Intro 2018 (Youtube, 720p, 04:11).
- 8 January 2018
Watch the video, Te Whaihanga 1: Preparing to Meet Mana Whenua (YouTube, 720p, 06.21).
- 8 January 2018
Watch the video, Te Whaihanga 2: On the Mana Whenua Site. (YouTube, 720p, 05.38).
- 8 January 2018
Watch the video, Te Whaihanga 3: Kaitiakitanga and Development. (YouTube, 720p, 07.42).
- 8 January 2018
This Online Survey will help evaluate some of the skills and knowledge professionals need in working with Māori.
This Online Survey will help evaluate some of the skills and knowledge professionals need in working with Māori.
In November, Ako Aotearoa, with the Auckland Council and Te Hana Te Ao Marama, were honoured with the "Planning for equitable and inclusive cities and human settlements” award by the Commonwealth Association of Planners—Awards for Outstanding Planning Achievement in the Commonwealth.
- 8 December 2021
The collaborative Te Whaihanga project received international recognition as a finalist in the 2022 Royal Town Planning Institute “International Award for Planning Excellence”. The prestigious awards were held in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2022.
- 9 December 2022