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02 Sep
Live Stream Event - 2024 IFLA World Council
Listen in and Learn
For those of you who cannot attend in person, IFLA plans to live stream the Congress via YouTube. It will …
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27 Apr
Rough & Milne - Flashback 2018 (Music Video)
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I now had the ‘time’ and ‘hardware grunt’ to knit together my earliest GoPro footage and make a music video!
With the modest home computer stored away in the closet, and the hefty work machine and double screens, now shrouding …
22 Apr
A time to think of Papatūānuku
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Na Te Tau-a-Nuku-a-Nuku
Ko Dr Diane Menzies (Ngāti Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga o Mahāki) i tuhi As Aotearoa New Zealand moves to Level 3 …
21 Apr
What will level 3 mean for landscape architects?
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“Our priority is looking after the health of our members, but if people can get back to project sites safely, then the move to Alert Level 3 next week allows that to happen,”
New Zealand will move to Covid-19 alert level 3 next week and for the head of NZILA Tuia Pito Ora, …
15 Apr
Government to fund temporary cycleways
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When people begin to return to city centres following the lockdown we want them to have enough space to maintain physical distance
The Government will provide extra funding to help councils expand footpaths and roll out temporary cycleways to help people keep …
14 Apr
Lockdown learning
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A new way for landscape architecture students
Students around New Zealand are having to change the way they learn while in COVID-19 lockdown, including the 120 studying …
09 Apr
Living with the lockdown - finding the positives
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We’re about halfway through the lockdown. Looking at the numbers it seems like Aotearoa is responding well so far, writes Brad Coombs, the NZILA Tuia Pito Ora president.
Two weeks ago I was really worried. I was processing the news of a major intervention to how I was …
07 Apr
Webinar Series
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Play and fitness
Danish playground designers and equipment manufacturers Kompan are putting on a webinar series on play and fitness related topics. The …
03 Apr
Auckland Urban Design Panel Refresh
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Are you interested in becoming a AUDP panel member for 2021-2023
Tēnā koutou NZILA members, The Auckland Urban Design Panel Governance Board (the Board) is now seeking nominations for the Auckland …
02 Apr
Making the Covid-19 lockdown work
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How has the lockdown changed the way the office works
Isthmus is an integrated design studio with 80 staff. Pre COVID-19 lockdown they worked from two studios - 60 in …
27 Mar
Presidents Update
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March 2020
Tēnā koutou ki te whanau, Nga mihi o te ra. Strange days indeed. I am writing this from my newly …
26 Mar
Pride on Skin - Moko and Landscape
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Na Te Tau-a-Nuku, Ko Neil Challenger i tuhi
As it did to many things in the Māori world, colonisation killed moko (Māori tattooing) – well nearly anyway. Historically …
26 Mar
Be kind - stay calm
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Offices are shut and landscape architects are getting used to new ways of working
As the country begins the four-week Covid-19 lockdown, landscape architecture businesses around New Zealand are adapting and responding to this …