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CPD points: 0.5

Monday 19th August, 6pm
Adam Auditorium, City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square

Free entry

Rebecca Kiddle

As part of the research programme Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities Becky is leading a project called Where Do We Dance? with dance being the metaphor for socialising, making friends and building community. The project asks where does community physically happen in Aotearoa New Zealand. The suburbs are seemingly the spatial underdog of our towns and cities. How might we improve the way we design and plan our built environments to better serve the making of communities.
 
City Talks is an ongoing series initiated by the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch and presented in partnership with City Gallery Wellington. Its purpose is to foster discussion about architecture for a broader audience in a city that cares to openly discuss ideas relevant to our future.

Rebecca is Ngāti Porou and Ngā Puhi and is a Senior Lecturer at the Architecture School, Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on Māori identity and placemaking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the nexus between community creation, social processes and urban design. She also works to develop better participatory design processes to ensure rangatahi and tamariki voices are heard in built environment decision-making processes. She has a PhD and MA in urban design from Oxford Brookes University, UK and undergraduate degrees in Politics and Māori Studies. She is co-editor of the Our Voices series along with Prof. Kevin O’Brien (Australia) and Dr luugigyoo Patrick Stewart (Turtle Island) which includes Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture (2018) and the forthcoming (2020) Our Voices II: The Decolonial Project. She is co-chair Pōneke of the Ngā Aho Network of Māori Designers.

The talk will be followed by refreshments.

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