The 2015 NZILA Awards introduced the Te Karanga O Te Tui award . The winning project , Rae Ki Te Rae , fulfilled the brief to “...[ not ] just reflect Te Ao Māori back to the world , but engage and embrace it as essential to its core .”
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AOTEAROA
The Call of the Tui
Text by Professor Penny Allan , Dr . Huhana Smith , Damian Powley , George Woolford
The 2015 NZILA Awards introduced the Te Karanga O Te Tui award . The winning project , Rae Ki Te Rae , fulfilled the brief to “...[ not ] just reflect Te Ao Māori back to the world , but engage and embrace it as essential to its core .”
RAE KI TE RAE IS A BICULTURAL PROJECT carried out Professor Penny Allan , the Programme Director for Landscape Architecture at Victoria ’ s School of Architecture and Dr Huhana Smith from Manaaki Taha Moana ( MTM ), which is a research programme established to restore and enhance coastal ecosystems of importance to the Ngati Raukawa iwi in Horowhenua
The project was based on work Allan had done while teaching fourth year Landscape Architecture Design students . The students , MTM and the local hapū worked together to design practical restoration options for shoreline landscapes that are significant to the hapū .
As part of the submission to the 2015 NZILA Awards , the project ’ s fulfillment of the ( Te Aranga Principles ?) was itemised . Allan and Smith ’ s clear understanding and commitment to these philosophical imperatives were a key factor in Rae Ki Te Rae being awarded the Te Karanga O Te Tui award .
In 2010 Dr Huhana Smith at MTM and Professor Penny Allan , Director of the Landscape Architecture Programme at Victoria University initiated the Rae ki te Rae Bicultural Design Research Project a ‘ research at the interface ’ collaborative relationship , based on the MTM projects .
The bicultural kaupapa of Rae ki te Rae is : to find solutions , through landscape architectural design , for the rehabilitation of the degraded lands of the
From the NZILA awards entry : All over Aotearoa New Zealand a legacy of Māori land fragmentation juxtaposed with the complexities of tribal land succession has eroded once robust or intricate genealogical relationships between related peoples .
Manaaki Taha Moana ( MTM ) was established to address these issues through the medium of six , detailed hands-on rehabilitation projects , which aim to rehabilitate ecosystems vital to local Iwi and Hapū in the Horowhenua region .
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