scholarly journals Contemporary photography practice: From landscape to expanded modes of place representation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-185
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Broad Field ◽  
Waikato River

Contemporary photographic practice has evolved into a broad field of possibilities, a flux of representational modes that represent emotions, experiences and feelings. In parallel the depth and layering of places offers a stimulating challenge to researchers and artists whom are willing to creatively explore nuances of land and nature as well as the multi-sensorial and spatial “reality” of places. The Waikato River is my research locale, located in the central North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. I draw on contemporary photography practice and theory to develop multimodal approaches to my research place, expanding objective modes of landscape and place representation. I trace a timeline from early landscape photography practice particularly during the British colonisation in New Zealand juxtaposing my photography practice as a counter approach to Eurocentric modes of place representation. This is informed by local Waikato Māori cosmologies and more contemporary readings on place. As a result  I conceptualised a theoretical framework around the notion of place imaginaries as a creative platform for the development of expanded photographic modalities. 

Conception, construction and the cultural significance of Te Parapara Garden in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiremu T. Puke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
The World ◽  
International Visitors ◽  
Ongoing Functioning ◽  
Initial Concept ◽  
Waikato River

Te Parapara Garden is the only complete pre-European-style Māori horticultural garden in the world. Historically inspired and empirically researched, it lies within the Hamilton Gardens on a young river terrace immediately adjacent to the Waikato River in Hamilton (Kirikiriroa), Aotearoa New Zealand. In this article, Wiremu Puke (Ngāti Wairere, Ngāti Porou) – a tohunga whakairo (master carver, including using pre-steel tools) and a tohunga whakapapa (genealogical expert on his tribal affiliations) of Ngāti Wairere (the mana whenua, or first people of the traditional ancestral tribal lands of Kirikiriroa) – describes the design and development of Te Parapara Garden from its initial concept in 2003 and the construction of its many features, including the waharoa (gateway), pou (carved pillars), pātaka (storehouse), whatarangi (small storehouse), taeapa (fencing) and rua kūmara (underground storage pit), and the sourcing and use of kōkōwai (red ochre). The garden was completed in 2010. Its ongoing functioning, including the annual planting and harvesting of traditional pre-European kūmara (sweet potato) using modified, mounded soils (puke or ahu), is also covered. The unique Te Parapara Garden is of great cultural importance and a source of pride, knowledge and understanding for national and international visitors and empirical and academic researchers.

scholarly journals Contemporary photography practice: expanded methodology and critical ways of thinking

DAT Journal ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-442
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Place Making ◽  
The Core ◽  
Methodological Research ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Waikato River

Contemporary photographic practice has advanced into a broad territory of representational flux and modalities. This is a stimulating moment for lens-based practitioners and practice-led researchers willing to explore expanded modes of academic inquiry connected the medium of photography. In this article I draw key methodological insights from my Practice-led PhD project Place Imaginaries: Photography and Place-making at Te Awa River Ride. I explore relationships between photography and place-making and how photography is embedded within place-making processes. As a photographer and artist I developed a methodology based on photography practice and the iteration of curated bodies of photographic work. Te Awa River Ride is my research locale, a shared pathway that edges the banks of the Waikato River in the central North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Photography practice or lens-based practice is located at the core of my methodological research approaches; a space, which informs both theoretical and practice-led research developments en route to expanded critical modes of academic inquiry.

The Maui's Dolphin Challenge: Lessons From a School-Based Litter Reduction Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-308
Author(s):  
Carly S. Townrow ◽  
Nick Laurence ◽  
Charlotte Blythe ◽  
Jenny Long ◽  
Niki Harré
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Embodied Learning ◽  
Whole School ◽  
School Based ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Learning Efficacy

AbstractThe Maui's Dolphin Challenge was a litter reduction project that was run twice at a secondary school in Aotearoa New Zealand. The project drew on a theoretical framework encompassing four psycho-social principles: values, embodied learning, efficacy, and perceived social norms. It challenged students to reduce the litter at the school by offering to donate $200 a week for 3 weeks to help protect the endangered Maui's dolphin. However, for every piece of litter found, $1 would come off this total. The challenge was accompanied by feedback on progress, posters, assemblies, and videos. Both times it was run, litter dropped by approximately half. After the first iteration, a survey found that students (n= 275 surveys) appeared motivated not to litter primarily due to a desire to care for the Maui's dolphin. Interviews and a focus group with staff and students (n= 14) after the second iteration also found the dolphins were important, but there was a cultural norm against picking up litter. The limitations of the project, its impact on the school's sustainability culture, and implications for other whole-school environmental projects, especially those with a waste focus, are discussed.

Book Review: Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Suzanne Robertson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

Book review of Elisabeth McDonald, Rhonda Powell, Māmari Stephens and Rosemary Hunter (eds) Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope (Hart Publishing, Portland, 2017).

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