LandLAB was invited by Dr Diane Menzies to contribute a piece of writing to the first Landscape Foundation publication Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua – People Place Landscape. LandLAB joins the collection of 40 local and international authors in expressing perspectives and knowledge of critical issues linked to the whenua.
The book explores Māori concepts of Whenua in a diversity of ways; from land loss and alienation to whakapapa and identity, Kaupapa Māori, environmental management and how matauranga Māori might be woven into western science solutions.
Our contribution ‘Land, Water, Wellbeing: Ki Uta Ki Tai – From Mountains to Sea’ by Landscape Architect Bela Hinemoa Grimsdale, explores the significance of identity and wellbeing and how it is intrinsically linked to the importance of healthy wai (water). Bela has used our Avon River Park and Long Bay Wetlands projects as case studies as a response to rehabilitation and re-connecting people to wai.
Thanks to Dr Diane Menzies for the privilege of being included in this important publication, and to editor Carolyn Hill for her mahi assembling these articles
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