Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Engels-Schwarzpaul, Tina"
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Building Sustainable Papakāinga to Support Māori Aspirations for Self-determination
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This practice based research investigates conditions which restrict Māori from building sustainable and affordable housing in urban and rural areas, and investigates ways to overcome these restrictions. Access to housing ... -
Conversations With the Sea: How Localised Design-things Can Sensitise Communities to the Conditions of the Anthropocene
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)As we attempt to sidestep ecological collapse, new creative methods of engaging publics with the Anthropocene are urgently required. Yet, public indifference and even climate change denial persist, despite the overwhelming ... -
Hands across the sea: situating an Edwardian greetings postcard practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The Edwardian postcard has been described as the Twitter of its age. Earlier regarded as an insignificant pop-cultural trifle, it has, over the last two decades, begun to receive serious academic attention. This attention ... -
Mavae and Tofiga: spatial exposition of the Samoan cosmogony and architecture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)How is space constituted and made manifest in the cultural and philosophical context of Samoan society? And how can a primordial concept of space be constituted in the architecture of the fale (house) and then reconstituted ... -
Moana Cosmopolitan Imaginaries: Toward an Emerging Theory of Moana Art
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This thesis uses a theoretical approach to examine the way a digital native generation of Moana artists with connections to Aotearoa, and part of global worlds today, imagine their subjectivities, their cultures and their ... -
Motion within motion: investigating digital video in light of substantial motion
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Initiated by personal experiences of misrepresentation and stereotyping in relation to Iran, its people and culture, and underpinned by a cultural position aiming to counteract their isolation and disconnection from the ... -
Strange Relations: A design inquiry into infrastructure as topological place
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Infrastructures multiply our connections, mediate our lives, and amplify the range of our effects. To the extent that these bi-directional effects are remote or asynchronous, experienced partially, indirectly, or not at ... -
Te Kore - Exploring the Māori concept of void
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Mohi Ruatapu, a nineteenth century Māori tohunga (scholar) from Tokomaru Bay, positioned Te Kore (which translates as nothingness, void and also potentiality) within Te Ao Mārama, the realm of contemporary human existence. ...