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237.130 Communication for Makers - Session 1: The Consequences of Our Making - Task 3

Article about Urban Design and Tikanga Māori

 Please read the following article by Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe and respond to the questions below:

Why good urban design requires a better understanding of Tikanga Māori

● What is urban design?

● According to the authors, how can urban design be improved with a better understanding of

Tikanga Māori?

The Making of Assignment Brief: 1. Explore

Investigate and build your knowledge of the place in the world you are in, or your whenua, or place that you feel connected with.

What do, or did you observe, gain and learn from your existence in your place? Reflect on

your experience there. Explore while applying what you are learning in the course as you go.

Some of the following may guide you:

• Whenua and the relationship to land

• Whakapapa

• Surrounding land form, geology

• History, and the past

• Where memories reside

• Typical trade or industry in the area

• Who the present communities are, and who were here before

• How the area has been built up or developed

• Ecology (environmental footprint and surrounds)

• Weather patterns, the skies

• The characteristics of your dwelling.

• How have you made a part of your dwelling your own? With whom is it shared?

• How is its atmosphere?

You will gather reseach of various types. This course will introduce some of the ethical

principles toward the care for knowledge. We will elaborate on how ethics and Kaupapa

Māori apply to research and practice. For some of the prompts above, are you able to

carefully find knowledge which is held in the memory of people, who are prepared to speak

to you?

Think also about what you can find in a library, or on-line. Also consider reflecting on your

own experiences. Document the above research process in your journal or workbook.

Form a number of ideas, notions or themes that emerge from this exploration.

237.130 Communication for Makers - Session 1: The Consequences of Our Making

 Task 1: Going for a Walk (walk #1)

Trace a regular route you take (e.g. trip to the supermarket, college etc) without going up or down steps.

Document through photos/film and make notes: Who is the environment made for? What aspects of the

environment are disabling?

Task 2: Walking, Seeing, Thinking (walk #2)

On another walk, collect/document 5 instances that spark your curiosity or imagination about the place

where you are.

On your walk, take photos, drawings, sound recordings, video, write notes or other ways of documenting and communicating what you saw and thought about the place you're in.

Describe what you see, know, wonder, think, feel about them, and/or bring traces of what you saw to class. We will be using these in session 2. Record your documentation and reflections in a blog or a workbook:

● some of these may be disabling spaces but you are not limited to these;

● some say something about you, your interests, your creative practice;

● in some we can see a story, an interesting juxtaposition, or may reveal an agenda or someone's interest.

This was one of the first places I went to when I was 6, I never actually noticed this sign despite it being the first thing you see before you enter the rose garden. Maybe I was still learning English is my reasoning.

Full view of the rose garden.

Floor plaque stating the sun dial was created in 1979. The Taupo Rose Society also put up and maintained all 800 bushes. It mentions the patroness as well as other members donated the fountain, bird bath and sundial.

Full view of the sun dial and my favourite and coolest part of the rose garden. I have yet to master how to read it properly.

Close up of the sun dial roughly around 7-8pm (I wanted a time to be away from nosy people, distractions and screaming kids across the park)

I've already mentioned the sun dial being my favourite and coolest part of the garden; but by far the most beautiful is the pergola where I went on Christmas with my partner.

I always assumed it was a ceiling that met at the centre until I finally looked up and saw it was asymmetrical but creative.

237.130 Communication for Makers Assignment - Process & Final Product

The Behind the Scenes was getting a bit long so I decided for another part. Decided to upload my art progess onto Facebook stories. First I used a mechanical 2H pencil and then darkened it with 2B, then blended it using a B pencil. The coloring was fineliner pens and prismacolor pencils.

Managed to stick everything together using PVA glue, then used gel pens to write little notes down.

Bought differenct coloured cardboard paper with the coloured theme of the Lake and beach at The Warehouse Stationery and some washi tape to make it look more aesthetically pleasing. I also went to the beach and put bags of sand to scatter and glue it around the tape to make it look more realistic and visual to the reader. Knew those paper bags I put in my BP pies would be of some use. I was surprised the rocks and pumice actually stuck on with PVA glue but I did leave it overnight.

Coloured it with prismacolour, used a gluestick and some PVA glue and tape for the leaves to stay down. I probably looked crazy asking my grandma and Uncle if I could go to their backyard and get some dirt and plant leaves for my school assignment. I probably looked even weirder picking leaves and scooping sand up at the lake.

I taped up and PVA glued some leaves and then scattered the sand on top of the PVA glue.

Tried to draw the sleepout and scattered a different type of sand on my paper.

Tried to draw the Waipahihi playground and picked up some bark that I put in my car. Went there at around 6-7pm so nobody would think I was a weirdo.

Use a gluestick and washi tape to hold down the cardboard paper and also to decorate it. Used a white gel pen but I was disappointed at how inconsistent it was.

Tried to draw grandma's gorge and add some colour to the drawings by using pigment pens and prismacolour pencils to draw it. Also used the washi tape around it as reference.

The Final Product (finished 10mins before the deadline with no sleep and also 10mins before work):

237.130 Communication for Makers Assignment - Behind the Scenes

I first began by taking photos to reference for my drawings. Unfortunately, Taupo has changed alot over the years and is becoming more of a tourist attraction so some of my drawings had to be done by memory. I was kind of glad I didn't opt to do the assignment with photos as the last few days have been cloudy/rainy.

I chose Taupo as a large majority of my childhood resides here after I came from Thailand. It's brought alot of fond memories whether I've lived here or not and alot of nostalgia just going past the old places I used to frequent and seeing the next generation using that space, especially the lake where I spent a large majority of my time swimming in as a child.

Alot of these photos have been shot after I've finished work.

The first place I went to was down Richmond Heights where my Aunty and Uncle used to live. Taupo was roughly discovered 700 years ago by the Ngati Tuwharetoa, their explorers Ngatoroirangi and Tia arrived via Te Arawa Canoe. The longer  name of Taupo is Taupō-nui-a-Tia, which translates to, "Great cloak of Tia". In 2021, it was officially changed from Taupo to Taupō.

This is the tree me, my cousin and his friends used to climb when we were kids. The guy that owned the property told us off for climbing on it so my cousin actually jumped on the branch until it snapped off. The neighbour then cut the tree and it was left as a stump for awhile. I don't blame him.

Due to privacy reasons, I didn't want a full shot of the house but here's the first place my aunty and uncle stayed in before they built the new house. Eventually me and dad lived here, then my cousin and me in intermediate, and then it became a mancave. There were lots of memories like me and my cousins singing the Barney theme song, us hiding under the covers because we thought the place was haunted (it was just draughty), watching my uncles and his friends play darts in the kitchen, and lots of family parties and get togethers out here. I also remember breaking that window when I played softball and weirding out my uncle because I'd use up a whole bottle of conditioner for my barbies because I wanted her hair to look like those Pantene commercials.

This became the new place and I remember this is the first time we met my other cousin, I remember playing hide-and-seek in the hallway and us climbing up the wood up to the ceiling so the seeker couldn't find us. We annoyed my aunty and uncle GREATLY.

 I've actually never noticed this sign when I went swimming up the wharf with my cousins.

The wharf me, my cousins, and the neighbourhood kids went swimming in. It's changed because of the metal reinforcing it now but I smiled when I saw some kids doing the same things as we did by jumping off of it.

Around the corner of the wharf where me and my cousins roughly found the hidden boulder to catch mussels and see crayfish swimming at the bottom. No jagged rocks there now which is different. This was also the colour scheme for my assignment book: Greens, blues, aquas, and greys,

Toilets me and my cousins used to change into our swimming togs in. Glad they've panted over the blank cream brick wall.

Where my aunty and uncle got married and where dad shouted at me for the first time cos I was climbing along the edge trying to pretend to be spider man with the other kids in my traditional pink Thai flower dress. There was alot more sand and the weather was much nicer that day.

Grandma's swimming pool me and my cousins used to play in

Back of grandma's house where me and my cousins used to play in with our happy meal toys and rotary phones. Was also a seperate area from the adults too. Had a nice little chat with grandma while I was there.

Grandma's backyard (which was a gorge) not turned into a walkway.

The Taupo Primary school library where I learned how to read without pictures. Still hasn't changed. I took a photo outside of the school because it had a lock and I also didn't wanna ask if I could walk around a primary school to take pictures. Creepy enough.

Where I used to have my lunches when I was a kid.

Tuck shop area and also the assembly further right where we used to sing the national anthem and have discos.

My old class got removed but it used to be next to the Taupo Primary School Sign

The walkway to the Waipahihi playground.

Playground me, my cousin, and the neighbourhood kids used to play in. It was so tiny but when I was a kid I thought it was massive.

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 I do remember going through a GoT phase and being obsessed with Sansa's hair.