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The knowledge, behaviour and motivations of people walking dogs on Te Henga/Bethells Beach.
No full textIntroduction
Legislation
Aim: pilot study
Method
Data collection
Who are dog walkers?
Why walk dogs on Bethells Beach?
By-laws:kKnowledge, awareness & compliance
During summer, do you have your dog(s) on or off leash?
Perception vs reality
Compliance with by-laws
Residence & behaviour
Summary: knowledge and behaviour
Dogs, dotterels and human motivations
Where do the New Zealand dotterels nest?
Do dogs have an effect on native birds?
Benefits of walking dogs on leash
When do you put your dog(s) on a leash?
Summary: motivations for having dogs on- or off-leash
By-laws information source
Observation of dogs – weeks 1 and 4
Summary of findings
Where to from here?
What can be done
Vocational education and training reform in Aotearoa New Zealand: The value of educators and education in a new VET environment
No full textNOTE: Issue Vol. 27 (2021): New Zealand Annual Review of Education -- Updated on 2022-11-24.
The Education and Training Act 2020 provides an opportunity to transform the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system in Aotearoa New Zealand to ensure participants are successfully prepared for participation in the current and future workforce. The authors of this paper discuss current reforms in the VET system beyond the changing of components and the assignation of requisite tasks. While change to processes and systems can have an impact on VET outcomes, the kind of change that transforms individual lives and life chances depends on the decision-making and approaches made possible only by individuals ‘at the coalface.’ Indeed, changes to training programmes and processes alone cannot give effect to improved outcomes. The authors suggest that it is educators, the often unnamed and invisible workforce that will provide the basis for transformational VET based change. The VET workforce who daily mediate training programmes and curriculum as educators, facilitators, trainers, instructors and teachers are central to the transformation of VET. Indeed, the most challenging and complex of changes within the Review of Vocational Education (RoVE) is one that is not yet accounted for or named – the VET education workforce. The authors call for a recognition of educators in VET and an acknowledgement of the centrality of their work in change. A case for planning and strategy that provides direction for the education and training workforce to build their knowledge and capability for a new VET is presented, without which the opportunity for transformational reform is at risk of being lost to componentry change
Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative house-type
Get PDFThe main objectives of housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are to increase the city’s density and to increase its total stock of affordable housing. In the current market, family housing for lower-priced mid-density intensification projects is typologically limited to two low-rise alternatives. These are terraced housing at the lower density ranges and small walkup apartment blocks in the higher scales. From recent practice it is apparent that both typologies have reached their maximum possible site densities, and that further increases can only be gained at the cost of unacceptable residential standards.
To diversify market options, this paper suggests that a third house-type, the mid-density courtyard, could be more widely used. Although a rarity in Aotearoa New Zealand’s cities, it is a house type well-suited to our climate, and it is characteristically private, secure, and buildable using standard practices in the housing industry. The paper argues that in a period of domestic price indicators rising but property price inflation showing signs of receding, architects and developers could consider an additional house-type: one that is widely used elsewhere and that has advantages in Aotearoa New Zealand’s culture of urban housing. Conclusions suggest that the courtyard house-type has not been sufficiently explored in mid-density developments and that more examples would prove the merits of this alternative.
Note: An article based on this paper was published on the Architecture Now website on 27 October 2022 under the title “Courtyard Housing: A Mid-Density Alternative,” https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/
courtyard-housing-a-mid-density-alternative
Analysing and forecasting daily water level fluctuations in water supply dams
No full textDams play a vital role in supplying fresh water to many cities all over the world. With increasing pressure and demand for natural resources, water supply remain a scarce resource worldwide. During times of uncertainty, predicting the future availability of water supply by considering various hydrometric and anthropogenic variables will provide a framework for future scenario forecasting and a model-based approach to sustainable water management. To this end, this project proposes a multivariate time series analysis and forecasting model to both analyse and forecast daily water level fluctuations in three water supply dams-Upper Nihotupu, Waitākere and Mangatangi, located in the Auckland and Waikato regions of New Zealand
Tau-utu-utu: the development of a LIVING VISION for the Unitec School of Architecture
Get PDFNgā Le Vai
To uplift academic success for moana students - achieving equitable success for moana students by 2022
To build capability, capacity, and will for School of Architecture staff to teach cultural content
To develop frameworks, pedagogies, and processes to embed maatauranga Māori and kaupapa Pasifika content into the School of Architectur
Fekumi kihe potupotutatau ʻa e Tonga: Finding a balance of Tongan identity
No full textRESEARCH QUESTION
How can traditional Tongan narratives shape and inform cultural learning spaces?
ABSTRACT
Like most stories and traditions learned as children, it is through word of mouth. With every passing generation, slight changes to those practices are moulded into the perspectives of the time. A big misconception is that youth and young adults in Tonga are fully immersed and involved in the culture. This is simply not the case. The younger generation must learn these traditions before the ‘cultural library’ inside the generation above them is gone. The practices that will be explored in this project are the main three Tongan artforms, tufunga (material arts), nimamea’a (fifine arts), and faiva (performing arts). A fourth discipline will also be explored, lea (language), to help users navigate and utilise both Tongan and English. Providing a cultural learning space will help the youth and young adults who do not experience their heritage fully. By looking at the tala tupu’a e kava (Tongan creation myth of kava), an aspect of Tongan culture known and shared throughout its culture and tradition, a dialogue of connectivity and learning emerges. Kava encompasses multiple customs and connects all three artforms in traditions through protocols like the taumafa kava. Utilising kava’s inflfluence in these artforms can help embed them within the project. Breaking down the myth into core values and ideas, Balance and Honour, an architectural design process can be explored. Tevita Ka’ili’s tauhi vā theory will aid in understanding Tongan spatial relationships (vā ) and will be used to speculate how design might successfully incorporate these sociospatial dynamics. Using the tala tupu’a e kava as a catalyst, this project seeks to design a cultural learning space dedicated to the betterment of Tongan identity and the preservation of traditional Tongan artforms.
OBJECTIVES
• Design a space to bring back a traditional learning environment that locals feel comfortable in.
• To provide an adjustable spatial design for the community for events and activities
• To capture the essence of the myth in the design through the values it demonstrates and help establish a deeper connection to the architecture
• Selecting a site that will achieve the greatest visibility, access, and success for the project
• To provide an emphasis on traditional learning to allow youth and even adults, young and old, to reconnect on an identity level with their culture and each other
• This project will also seek to address how architecture can help facilitate the relationships between people through socio spatial
principles found in Tongan culture
• Illustrate how architecture helps occupants reconnect to their Tongan cultures through learning traditional practices, using the four artforms tufunga, nimameaʻa, faiva, and lea
Site: Neiāfu, Vavaʻu, Tong
The core of coastal communities: Revisioning the surf club
Get PDFRESEARCH QUESTION
How can a multi-use Surf Lifesaving Community Hub enhance the engagement and inclusivity of people in the surrounding context?
ABSTRACT
As most of New Zealand’s communities are surrounded by coastlines, Surf Lifesaving has a considerable presence from the Far North to Oreti, Invercargill. Lifesaving has grown immensely across the country and is established in over 74 locations. The resources of the Surf Lifesaving service are tested due to inadequate funding, limited community involvement, and lack of social networking opportunities across a diverse group of people.
This research project, “The Core of Coastal Communities,” has addressed New Zealand communities’ narrow interests, and social and physical barriers. A change of the traditional typology was necessary to connect the community and the people in it. Developing a flexible framework within the design has allowed the project to be adaptive for future projects. The widespread issue of integrating multiple programs into a building had to be explored to reduce the impact on the users. Through exploring the following aspects, the surf club’s principles were necessary for understanding the space between the community, the coastline, and Surf Lifesaving with an architectural solution that could be implemented around the country.
Architecture has provided a viable solution that adapts the unsustainable surf lifesaving club to include a more collaborative approach with community engagement while still supporting the traditional purpose of the organization. Through the design of a multi-use surf lifesaving community hub, the project has focused on a concept within one community to test the framework of this theory and address the challenges in the surrounding context. Coastal erosion, coastal inundation, and flooding have been explored and addressed by implementing different techniques. To further develop the connection between Surf Lifesaving and the community within a facility Te Aranga Māori Design Principles and fundamental social strategies have been included in the design.
A co-located connected facility has been proposed through research and design; it will potentially positively impact the community’s social behaviors and enhance the local culture.
Site: Mairangi Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
Whakaora ngā Whenua Whāma: Utilising mātauranga Māori and Western science to protect and restore the soil on rural farms in Te Tai Tokerau
No full textMāuranga Māori [Māori knowledge] Before the arrival of the European settlers, Māori society was governed by a system of principles, laws, and customs known as tikanga Māori. The terminology, tikanga, is derived from the word tika that means to be righteous, honest, and just. At the heart of mātauranga Māori is tikanga and both principles conceptualise whakawhanaungatanga (making good kin relationships) and whakapapa (shared ancestry). Through whanaungatanga (kin relations), a Māori world, both visible and invisible, is conceptualised and apprehended as palpable. Conceptually, whakapapa can be understood as the interminable connections from the Atua (Māori gods) to earth to the people. Whakapapa binds Māori people together in a sacred relationship and responsibility to care for each other, the soil, air, and water. Prior to colonisation, mātauranga Māori that included the principles of tika, tikanga Māori, whakawhanaungatanga, whanaungatanga, and whakapapa enabled Māori to live a tika (good, just, decent) life.
Since the beginning of colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand, by the British, kāinga have been damaged by the scientific, calculative, logical discourse. Through the dominant English language and culture, the Māori people have been pressured to obey linguistic conventions which are distinctly Western. In the Whenua Whāma project, the research team has begun to talk deeply of a cultural interface that draws attention to Māori beliefs, interaction, and self-development in the areas of organic and regenerative agriculture across Te Tai Tokerau, Aotearoa
A new chapter in co-living
No full textRESEARCH QUESTION
How can young professionals be better supported through a co-living, co-working, post-pandemic environment in Auckland City?
ABSTRACT
The current growth in Auckland's population and the corresponding rise in property values have seen pressing housing unaffordability and rising rental costs, all due to the high demand for housing. A situation which has caused a backlog of housing availability in Auckland. The current urban typology within Auckland mainly consists of low-density, detached homes in new subdivided areas resulting in high demand for low-density homes. Low-density development is an unsustainable way of housing our growing population. We need to start thinking and build ing different, higher - to medium-density housing that is sustainable and manageable for the diverse population of Auckland.
The Covid-19 pandemic in the past two years has seen a growing interest in collaborative and remote working from home. A working dynamic that has resulted in a new way of how and where we work. This proposal hypothesises the benefits that a co-living, co-working develop ment can have in supporting young professionals in Auckland in a post-pandemic world that aims to densify urban sprawl. The selected site will provide shared living and working with a sense of community for all who need it. The design hopes to act as a step forward in a sustainable, dynamic shift in the way young people live and work. Naomi Cleaver & Amy Frearson, in "All together now, the co-living and co-working revolution", add that "our job as architects is to design spaces that support and enhance the communities we live in, which means you have to be able to use them for more than one function".1 Leading on to the following sub-topic explaining the need for creating flexible spaces for change. All described sub-topics, co-living, co-working, sustainable architecture, in-between space, and dynamic shift in architecture will enhance the production of creating an attractive, interactive, and flexible living and working hub for young professionals and the public.
Site: 117 Grafton Rd, Auckland, New Zealan
Gentification: Change and Glen Eden
No full textHousing New Zealand
What is gentrification?
Gentrification can not be stopped but can be managed
Lessons learned on how to manage gentrification
Immigration and aging
Live-ability and housing type
Intensification is coming
Principles for sustainability and environments friendly to children and the aged
Information from children and the aged
Supply side and demand side approaches
A supply side approach that works
Social housing
The ten largest Auckland Social Housing Providers
Social Housing comes with social issues
Conclusion –what can Local Boards do? Some tentative suggestion