On 26 June the students involved made their final presentations to Panuku CEO David Rankin and the Unlock Pukekohe programme team
Our partnership with Panuku Development Auckland, an Auckland Council organisation, and our School of Architecture has provided our students with a number of real-world experiences over the last three years. More recently, in 2019, Architecture students were given the opportunity to re-design two Henderson sites identified for residential development, and are currently underway with a another project to design a pavilion at #5 Trading Place, just around the corner from our Waitākere campus.
Lecturer Jackie Paul, explains how te ao Māori can inform the way we practice as landscape architects
Another collaboration was with our Landscape Architecture students, who were given a real-world design challenge with the Panuku Unlock Pukekohe project, Kia Puāwai a Pukekohe. The plan captures the Council’s desire to deliver urban future-proofing within Pukekohe, which is forecast to experience a population increase of 50,000 people in the next 20 years.
A primary focus for our students’ planning was exploring mana whenua engagement and placemaking as key elements of community development and urban regeneration, in response to the forecast population growth, and the blending of te ao Māori into the creative process.
You can read more about the project in this Panuku Development online article which also quotes our lecturers Sibyl Bloomfield, who talks about the value to our students of real-life projects, and Jackie Paul, who explains how te ao Māori can inform the way we practice as landscape architects. You can also watch the video here»