TUA :
Trans-colonising University Admissions

Research Field

Education

principal Investigator

Professor Anthony Hōete

Disciplinary Theme

DT5.2

Transcolonising University Admissions for a more equitable tertiary education system: Māori and architecture school.

Hai matatika ake i te punaha mātauranga mā TeUrunga Panoni Whare Wānanga: Te KuraHoahoanga me te Māori.

Partners

University of Auckland, Kōkōhīnau Marae

Research Team

Professor Anthony Hōete, Kiri Henry, Tepora Hona, Pera Tipene, Taoi Tekura Eruera, Luc-Aime Meurillon, Maddison Axbey, Charlie Belch, Natsune Suzuki, Varna Jagadeesh

Production Team

Professor Anthony Hōete, Matt Barnes, James Corles, Natsune Suzuki, Daniel Trapp, Willem Trapp, Varna Jagadeesh

Success for Māori is a success for all New Zealanders. The current inequities within the education system are evident in university admissions whereby Māori represent 12% of all students yet also represent one-third of all New Zealanders under the age of 25. Improving educational outcomes for Māori is thus a priority and underpins this research project TUA: Transcolonising University Admissions. Given the Principal Investigator is an architect, TUA Asks: how can we get more Māori into architecture school? We started with an environmental scan of the current situation… and then used knowledge production through kōrero offer ways in which university admissions could be transcolonised.

12% anake ngā tauira Māori e uru atu ana ki tekura tuatoru, ka mōhio anō ai he whārite kore kaite punaha kuranga, ā, he hautoru hoki ngārangatahi Māori 25 ngā tau heke iho o roto oAotearoa whānui. Kia whakaarotau te kaupaparangahau a TUA māte whakawhanake i ngāwhāinga kuranga mō Ngāi Māori. Kāti anō hekaihoahoa te Tino Kairangahau, ka ui a TUA: mepēhea rā e pāhaohia ngā tāngata Māori ki roto ote kura hoahoa? Ka tīmatahia nā te ātamātaitanga... ka rapu mōhio mā te kōrero, tēnā,ka whitikoroni te urunga kura tuatoru.

Lift & Shift

Sky Marae

“What can whānau do on our
whenua? More Māori architects
would help drive our kōrero and
aspirations...”
Te Puakākaho Papakāinga Trust
“I wanted to be an architect and I was told the first step was to do Technical Drawing at college... so how do we get Māori interested in ‘tech’?”
Kiri Henry
“If we don’t learn from a Māori worldview first, then what purpose does architecture serve for Māori?”
Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa
“As a principal of a kura, I have a duty to connect Education to Culture. This obligation may not occur for a non-Māori school head...”
Te Kura o Te Teko
“How do we create a desire within Māori to be architects? Change the appearance of architecture, give māori a face such that our people can identify with it.”
Pera Tipene
“Māori are now designing contemporary buildings which have no obvious historical precedent. For example, apartments. Evolving tikanga through discussion and wānanga can help guide Māori towards living in new forms of building.”
Ngāti Awa Group Holdings Limited

Further Reading:

The Māori city
Urban Aotearoa