Project supervisors: Professor Chellie Spiller & Associate Professor Jason Mika

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato

Project supervisors: Dr Kiri Edge & Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora

Institution: Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga

Project supervisor: Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou

Project supervisor: Professor Melinda Webber

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau

Raumati intern: Kate Palmer-Neels (Ngāpuhi)

Project supervisors: Professor Denise Wilson & Dr Alayne Mikahere-Hall

Institution: Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau

Project supervisor: Dr Jeremy Hapeta

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou

Project supervisor: Dr Erena Wikaire

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

Project supervisor: Dr Karen Wright 

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau

Project supervisors: Dr Tania Cliffe-Tautari & Dr Luke Fitzmaurice

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau

This 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).