Mauri - How can mātauranga inform and drive sustainable and just societal practices?
- 23MR13
Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Pae AhureiPātai MauriStreet design in Aotearoa has had limited involvement from iwi, hapū and Māori hāpori to date and yet streets are everywhere, they connect us to each other, they are communication channels and spaces and places to engage with others. What then might a Māori street look and feel like? The project will take a mixed methods approach rooted in a Kaupapa Māori methodology whereby Māori knowledge is privileged. The project aims to bring together mātauranga Māori – defined here as all types of knowledge – traditional, contemporary, and evolving – held by Māori and design approaches drawn from Western knowledge to elevate Māori aspirations in contemporary urban settings.
- 23MR08
Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Pae TawhitiPātai MauriInspired by a little-known Tīkapa mōteatea, He Uru Mānuka, a love lament set among riverside mānuka groves, this project aims to document and culturally map selected Waiapu River locations pairing customary and contemporary technologies. In February 2023 during Cyclone Gabrielle, Waiapu River flooded to a height of 8 metres which exacerbated existing erosion, and further damaged vulnerable cultural and ecological sites. Once-common species utilised in Ngāti Porou lifestyle practices are severely impacted by rapid environmental change, leading to a loss of cultural knowledge. Yet, these practices foster invaluable and mauri-sustaining relationships with our ancestral river.
- 23MR05
Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Pae TawhitiPātai MauriThe best knowledge/technology is coming together for Tahamata Incorporation and shareholders’ coastal farm, Kuku, Horowhenua. Not only is Tahamata Incorporation aligning itself with Whenua Haumanu program run by Ministry for Primary Industries and Massey University to explore diverse pastures and regenerative management practices for lower North Island coastal farming, but this dedicated iwi-led research team will communicate with shareholders/board/operations via mapping and visuals at winter wānanga.
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Scoping project
Project commenced:Project completedPae TawhitiPātai MauriNgā Pae o te Māramatanga supported Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti (MTT) in their submission to the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Te Wairoa. Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti (MTT) is an informal network of Tairāwhiti residents and others concerned about land use and the impacts of woody debris.
- 21-24RP01 INT
Internship project Research Programme
Project commenced:Pae OraPātai MauriProject supervisors: Professor Chellie Spiller & Associate Professor Jason Mika
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato
- 22-23INT16
Internship project
Project commenced:Project completedPae OraPātai MauriProject supervisor: Professor Melinda Webber
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau
Raumati intern: Kate Palmer-Neels (Ngāpuhi)
- 22-23INT09
Internship project
Project commenced:Project completedPae OraPātai MauriProject supervisor: Dr Erena Wikaire
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Raumati intern: Te Hirea Doherty (Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāpuhi)
- 22-23INT05
Internship project Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Pae OraPātai MauriProject supervisors: Dr Tania Cliffe-Tautari & Dr Luke Fitzmaurice
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau
Raumati interns: Courtney Smith (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa) & Danielle Matthews (Ngāpuhi)
- 21-24RP03
Matakitenga project Research Programme
Project commenced:Project completedPae AhureiPae OraPae TawhitiPātai MauriThis research programme will examine how we might envision an approach to placemaking that would result in outcomes that facilitate the expression of mātauranga Māori, tikanga, whānaungatanga and orangatanga in urban areas. The programme will do this by examining concrete innovations through a series of case studies. These examples will demonstrate the optimism that transformative urban activity brings in terms of the potential to redress the struggles of the past (Awatere et al. 2008; Harmsworth 2004).
- 22MR18
Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae TawhitiPātai MauriOur tūpuna were experts in reading tohu o te taiao to live more attuned with the environment and gather kai at the optimal times. Their understanding of their own local taiao is recorded and woven throughout kōrero tuku iho. The maramataka is an example of kōrero tuku iho which provides a uniquely Māori way to record, organise and understand ngā tohu o te taiao.