TĀMAKI MAKAURAU + TE TAI TOKERAU ARCHITECTURE 2022 IN ASSOCIATION WITH NGĀ KĀKANO WĀNANGA AT TĀMAKI PAENGA HIRA AUCKLAND MUSEUM
THURS 22 SEP 5PM - 8PM
AUDITORIUM, TĀMAKI PAENGA HIRA AUCKLAND MUSEUM
FREE (BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL)
“Fuluhi ki tua ke kitia mitaki a mua”
Look to the past to clearly see the way forward
The Ngā Kākano wānanga series enriches our Museum spaces with shared cultural knowledge and values that elevate Māori and Pasifika world views and practice.
“E kore au e ngaro, he kākano i ruia mai i Rangiātea”
I will never be lost for the seed was sown in Rangiātea
Ngā Kākano takes its name from this whakataukī and provides an opportunity for audiences to hear from respected Māori and Pasifika leaders and experts, and invited manuhiri (esteemed guest speakers) as they share their unique experience, perspectives, expertise and insights - laying seeds of knowledge at Tāmaki Paenga Hira, in Tāmaki Makaurau , Aotearoa and across Te Moana nui a Kiwa.
Schedule
5.00PM
Te Ao Mārama South Atrium open for viewing
5.30PM
Refreshments
6.00PM
Ngā Kākano wānanga begins in the Auditorium, Level 2
7.15PM
Refreshments break
8PM
Event concludes
Te Ao Mārama: The 'space for decolonisation to begin'?
Opened in December 2020, Auckland Museum’s award-winning Te Ao Mārama South Atrium precinct represents the most significant intervention in the Museum’s architecture in decades. Delivering catalytic change in cultural orientation to the Museum and in public engagement, Te Ao Mārama is very rapidly cementing the role of the Museum as a cultural and social anchor role in Tāmaki Makaurau. Through its specially commissioned artworks, visitors are now experiencing unique mana whenua and Pasifika welcome and narratives. The scale and dimensionality of the suspended Tanoa (kava bowl) architecture has been fully revealed, lifting the cultural dignity of this important threshold to the Museum.
Te Ao Mārama (the Realm of Light) represents a step change in the development of a bicultural and communitarian architecture at Auckland Museum, a building steeped in the formality of the western design tradition. It signals the present and the future of Tāmaki, connecting but also breaking with the Museum’s colonial heritage. Addressing Albert Refiti’s recent provocation, our four speakers will explore the extent to which Te Ao Mārama is the ‘space for decolonisation to begin’.
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PART OF THE NZIA ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 2022