Browsing by Author "Stokes G"

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    Māori in Engineering Podcast, Episode 9: Georgina Stokes: designing how we experience and understand spaces
    (Māori in Engineering Podcast, 2022-12-07) Stokes G; Lysaght A
    Episode 19 of The Māori in Engineering podcast is now live! A long time coming in getting episodes out, mō taku hē. So it was great to dust off the mic! Awesome to catch up with Georgina Stokes (Ngāi Tahu) - someone who is an incredible thinker in the spatial design space and inspiration to those she lectures at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts at Massey University kei Te Whanganui a Tara. Georgina is an overall awesome wahine, pretty evident in the way she communicates so passionately with the work. Really interesting points of discussions was her mahi in whakapapa plotting to better how we experience spaces and the alignment in her studies and her Māoritanga 🤯 Available on all podcast platforms and the website https://lnkd.in/gPkURGxB Listen on Spotify here: https://lnkd.in/gz3xkQyj #MāoriinEngineering
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    Mātauranga Moana: uplifting Māori and Pacific values of conceptualisation over western co-design constructs
    (Design Research Society, 2023-11-29) Withers S; Stokes G; Jones D; Borekci N; Clemente V; Corazzo J; Lotz N; Nielsen LM; Noel L-A
    This paper offers a critical examination of the problematic use of western co-design methodologies when applied to indigenous and diasporic communities. By centring place-based, relational design approaches to enable cultural conventions from our position in Aotearoa New Zealand, we argue the use of co-design constructs risks overlaying neo-liberal ideologies on top of our resilient indigenous Māori and Pacific knowledge systems, values, ethics, and collective approaches towards design conceptualisation. As design researchers located in te moana-nui-a-Kiwa our discussion is underpinned by our Māori whakapapa, Sāmoan gafa, and relationship to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We present our kōrero through a case study relationship with a local healthcare service, aiming to increase access for Māori and Pacific tamariki through design actions. Our collaboration was developed within the format of a tertiary course involving Māori and Pacific tauira enrolled in Design and Fine Arts degrees at Ngā Pae Māhutonga School of Design, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University of New Zealand. Unlike traditional university design courses that aim to achieve a specific measurable outcome, we focussed on fostering whakawhānaungatanga and evidencing this through activated learning of the cultural conventions of wānanga and talanoa towards weaving together our values through critically reflective practice. Our case study relationship demonstrates the importance of relational place-based knowledge systems and their conditions for enabling reflexivity towards tino rangatiratanga and ola manuia within Māori and Pacific communities; further highlighting the systemic barriers that practices of co-design can seed when attempting to serve our communities in Aotearoa.
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    Whakapapa Plotting: An aotearoa-specific method of spatial communication
    (IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association), 5/10/2022) Stokes G
    Aotearoa New Zealand has a rich history of pre-colonial architectural design embedded in Indigenous Māori knowledge — a unique oceanic cultural spatial sensibility. Whenua (land) activates a metaphysical exchange between people, ocean, and atmosphere to grow the spatial sensibility into an intangible interconnected blueprint for design. Despite possessing a vast body of environment-specific knowledge embedded in centuries of experience, the dynamic spirit of existing Māori architecture stands in sharp contrast to the hermetic design systems brought ashore during the nineteenth-century British colonisation of Aotearoa that inhibited further development of our Māori spatial kaupapa (approach). How can Aotearoa designers uphold the mana (prestige) of Māori cultural spatial sensibilities when designing within the dominant Pākēha (New Zealand European) industry today? This visual essay has been created from the perspective of a Māori spatial designer. It foregrounds the need for all Aotearoa designers to honour the philosophical spatial mātauranga (knowledge) crafted by our tīpuna (ancestors). We have a responsibility to breathe life into these skills so our tamariki (children) can thrive in spatial environments without Indigenous erasure.