Ko Wai Ko Au Ko Au Ko Wai – I Am Water, Water Is Me

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aut.publication.placeBasel and Frankfurten_NZ
aut.relation.chapternumber4en_NZ
aut.relation.endpage287
aut.relation.pages12
aut.relation.startpage276
aut.researcherTavares, Tatiana
dc.contributor.authorTavares, Ten_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T22:43:10Z
dc.date.available2020-01-16T22:43:10Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_NZ
dc.date.issued2019en_NZ
dc.description.abstractKaupapa Moana, Kaupapa Wai Maori, Kaupapa Awa Ocean, fresh water and rivers Water is both life-giving and life-destroying. Today, the purity of all water sources are threatened or impacted upon by a range of factors. Both locally and globally, water has become economically, environmentally, ecologically, culturally, spiritually, and politically one of the most significant issues of our times. Aotearoa’s / New Zealand’s international reputation for being ‘clean and green’ has been slowly but steadily eroded over recent years. Significant events over this past summers include swimming has been banned at ten Auckland beaches this summer (2017) due to human and animal waste, rivers becoming too polluted for swimming (with ‘wadeable rivers’ as the national standard for rivers), town water supplies being contaminated (Havelock North), dams being proposed to assist in intensifying dairy farming (Ruataniwha), aquifer rights sold to multinational companies (Ashburton), while drought takes hold (Canterbury, Hawkes Bay and East Cape). Rural and urban areas face different yet connected problems. In this brief, Communication Arts 3rd year students from AUT – Auckland University of Technology initiated enquiry and research into the state of water in Aotearoa / New Zealand, for a global audience. Using storytelling, communication, and visual language, students developed an experimental and exploratory project to consider water in our cultural spaces. Taking WAI – Water, as a theme, they worked to propose strategies and provocations that consider water in both the literal and metaphoric senses. Addressing the political, geographic, socio-cultural, environmental, and ecological issues of water, each student developed conceptual and visual approaches to their selected area of interest. The project was conducted during 12 weeks resulting in a publication and a collection of practical work.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationCultural Spaces and Design. Prospects of Design Education Halter, Regine and Walthard, Catherine, eds. (2019) Cultural Spaces and Design. Prospects of Design Education. Basel, pp. 277-287.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.19218/3906897318en_NZ
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-906897-31-8en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/13094
dc.publisherLIBRUM Publishers & Editors LLCen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://edoc.unibas.ch/72295/en_NZ
dc.rightsThis book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. www.creativecommons.org
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.titleKo Wai Ko Au Ko Au Ko Wai – I Am Water, Water Is Meen_NZ
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