Masters Project: Weaving Tikanga and Technology

This research project explores how design, technology, and mātauranga Māori can be brought together to support resilience in environments exposed to frequent and diverse natural hazards. Aligned with Professor Anthony Hōete’s Ngāti Awa Atlas of Marae Resilience, the work builds on a platform that integrates mātauranga Māori with GIS-based hazard and …

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360º Photography

I’ve had a long time fascination with 360º photography. Around the turn of the millennium I was experimenting with 360º panoramas or QTVR’s (QuickTime Virtual Reality) both digitally rendered and by taking multiple images on a SLR and ‘stiching’ them together. In fact if you where in my CAD classes …

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Update and Tech Rant

Curing Resign 3D Print

Hello blogosphere, its been a while. I’ve got some time to myself so I figured i’d dust the cobwebs off this old blog. In fact I’m going to have a crack at posting here on a regular basis [shock horror] even tho blogs have pretty much drowned in a sea …

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101 flags that are better.

So New Zealand has decided on an alternative flag, but its a shocker. How did we end up here? Well it all started off pretty good, a panel of 12 New Zealanders from “all walks of life, age and experience” where put together by various politicians and tasked with managing the flag referendum …

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