AUCKLAND ECOLOGIES is a new research initiative launched by the Faculty of Creative Industries and Business, Unitec Institute of Technology. Finding connections between different disciplines; the visual arts, business, computing, landscape architecture, and architecture, Auckland Ecologies uses Auckland as a site in which to investigate both historical and contemporary urban issues.
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Sunday, 18 January 2015
Lost City: Forgotten Plans for an Alternative Auckland - Chris Harris
http://www.thesustainabilitysociety.org.nz/conference/2007/papers/HARRIS-Lost%20City.pdf
http://www.slideserve.com/dezso/lost-city
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Dushko Bogunovich / The-future-of-the-cityregion-oxford-university
http://www.slideshare.net/DushkoBogunovich/the-future-of-the-cityregion-oxford-univ-2013?related=2
Monday, 29 July 2013
The Manukau
Water
AND
Weather
Group
A Manukau Harbour event: Onehunga
Foreshore
Participants:
Hannah Alleyne (Spatial designer)
Ruth Watson (Installation, media artist)
Lisa Reihana (Media artist)
Janine Randerson (Media artist)
Nick Spratt (Designer, artist)
Sarah Treadwell (Architect, artist)
Eu Jin Chua (Moving image curator)
Background
The Water and Weather project
draws together a number of artworks, artefacts, projections, and design
outcomes that intervene in or capture the manifold ways in which the identities
and public life of Auckland communities have been tied to our watery
meteorology and geography. This project will draw attention to the histories, Maori
lore, ecological issues around water in the Manukau harbour. It will take a
number of forms;
Manukau harbour waterfront event
Onehunga Foreshore, November 2014
This is a community focused 3-4 day
event orientated around the Old Mangere Bridge, the Holcim cement silos and the
Manukau boating club and foreshore restoration area. Approximately eight
site-specific art, performance and spatial propositions will be staged over a
period from aThursday to Sunday.
Exhibition
Te Tuhi Gallery, November 2014
This exhibition expands and
compliments the site-specific propositions in the waterfront project.
Approximately eight artworks will be exhibited over a two month period. Curator
Bruce Phillipswill work closely with the Water and Weather group on the
exhibition at Te Tuhi.
Screening programme
Curator Eu Jin Chua is developing a
screening programme featuring historical and contemporary artists to either
include or augment works by the current contributors to the Water and Weather
project. His interest in water and weather is twofold: firstly, he is
working on an existing project about ecology and the moving image. Secondly, he
is starting a new research/curatorial project about ‘elementalism’ in
contemporary art.
Publication
Designer and artist Nick Spratt is
developing an experimental digital publication for Water and Weather that
documents the group’s research. The publication will reshape itself depending
on the environmental factors and weather conditions in the reader’s
location, bringing a heightened sense of place to the reader, whether
they be reading in Onehunga, Pakuranga or further afield.
— Water and Weather —
The Manukau Harbour waterfront event,
Onehunga Foreshore, November 2014
The Water and Weather group
will generate light works, video projections, performances, temporary
installations, designs and lithographic prints to draw the community to a four
day event on the Onehunga foreshore. The project focuses on creative
place-making in a transitional foreshore; the variable weathers and tides, the
last days of the old Mangere bridge, a new bridge, the restored beach (in
progress), renewed attention to the harbour’s waters, the Holcim cement silos
and the Port of Onehunga. At centre stage is New Zealand’s second largest
harbour, the Manukau itself, opening out from the South-West of the Auckland
isthmus and flowing into theTasman Sea.
Kaiwhare is the taniwha of the
Manukau, a restless sleeper who creates sudden surges as he rolls over. Water
and Weather group member Lisa Reihana will advise the group on working with
Ngati Te Ata, Te Akitai and Ngati Tamaoho (Te Waiohua), living in the Onehunga
region and the iwi of the wider Manukau, who treasure the harbour for its
fisheries and waterways, yet have long despaired at the despoiling of its
waters.
The
Water and Weather group are concerned with the ecologies of the harbour;
a large part of
the
harbour consists of tidal sand bars, home to an array of species including
scallops, cockles,
wedge
shells, shorebirds and serves as a nursery for many fish species. The recent Three
Waters:
Auckland
as a Maritime City reports
that “during 2011-2012 summer, of the14 bathing beaches
tested
76% of the passed recreational bacteria guidelines, compared to 86% in
2010-2011.
(Three
Waters: Auckland as a Maritime City, 36). This decline in quality is a concern
for the
ecotopes
of the area (distinctive ecological systems) where both human and non-human
interests will be represented by artworks by the group. The artworks will
examine ‘what is’ and provide potentially transformative intimations of ‘what
could be’ in this body of water and foreshore.
Predation by Dr Hamish Foote
How can still
life painting explore the traditional notions of good and evil in the
relationship between indigenous and exotic species?
The investigation
will:
• Generate a
series of paintings and writing that reveals and probes examples of both
mutualistic andvparasitic relationships between exotic and native species in
the Auckland region
• Raise awareness
regarding bio control. In particular, that public as well as council interest
and
intervention is
required to control invasive species and protect threatened indigenous species
• Provide an
account of the relationship between culture and nature i.e. how the creation of
a Neo-
European
environments as well as ongoing intervention has resulted in the current
Auckland region character
• Demonstrate
that a significant part of the foundation for much of scientific endeavour
today has itsvroots in the empirical observation and representation of the
natural world characterised by 15th,
16thand 17th century European
still life art
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
ZANE EGGINGTON
How has Auckland’s
history shaped the city we know today and what could it have looked like if unrealized
projects had be implemented.
This projects aims to present both a
historical account of Auckland as well as research what could have been. The
imagery for this project has a highly technical aspect to it, recreating
historical scenes in a photorealistic manor. The creation of these images will
push the boundaries of digital visualisation and as such the outputs will
document the process.
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