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Image: From left to right, Josephine Clarke, Diane Menzies and Lucy Tukua

PDC Places Tāmaki Makaurau is part of the 17th biennial Participatory Design Conference. Through connection to Place as the focus of exploration, PDC 2022 seeks to expand on the idea of the conference to places as points for local and worldwide connections. Visit the PDC 2022 website to learn more.

The first event of PDC Places Tāmaki Makaurau brings stories from Ngā Aho - gathering indigenous practitioners and nurturing networks through whakawhanaungatanga - relationship building and supporting opportunities for knowledge exchange and reflection between tuākana (senior) and teina (junior) practitioners.

Ngā Aho is a national network of Māori design professionals who come together to support each other to better serve the design aspirations of Māori communities. Visit the Ngā Aho website to learn more.

About the speakers

Josephine Clarke

Josephine Clarke has over ten years of experience in New Zealand as a landscape architect, indigenous cultural advisor, project manager, environmental project adviser, kaitiaki team leader and site manager. Josephine’s professional goals focus on the inclusion of Te Ao Māori values as an approach to design. Integrating cultural integrity and authenticity. The current director of Earthfeather Ltd. Josehine’s iwi affiliations are: Ngāti Porou (Te Whānau-a-Hinerupe), Te Whānau-Ā-Apanui (Te Whānau a Kauaetangohia), Ngāpuhi (Ngati Rangi ki Ngawha), Te Rarawa (Ngati Moroki), Te Aupouri (Te Riumakutu, Ngati Mata), Ngati Kahu (Te Hoerewa, Te Paatu).

She specializes in several fields of landscape architecture and urban design, particularly in cultural expressive and integrated design for the public and private sector in Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, and the wider Waikato Region. She also has experience designing for apartment and residential developments, papakainga, master planning, ecological restoration, ecological monitoring (Te Ao Māori perspective, inclusion of maramataka, cultural health index), cultural advising, co-design, māori frameworks and project management.

Diane Menzies, ONZM

Rongowhakaata, Aitanga-a-Mahaki; English and Scottish descent, Diane is a Kāhui Whetū member of Ngā Aho. She is a past president, secretary general and honorary member of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, a trustee of the Landscape Foundation, a past president and life member of Tuia Pito Ora-New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, and a member of the ICOMOS-IFLA Cultural Landscape committee.

With qualifications in landscape architecture, horticulture, business management, mediation, and a PhD. in Resource Studies, Dr Menzies has worked for the government, was a local government elected representative; an Environment Court Commissioner; and is now director of Landcult Ltd. Her research focus is cultural landscape and social justice.