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What Spotify and Tinder aren’t telling us

4 May 2022

Our online and real-world lives are increasingly influenced by algorithmic recommendations based on data gathered about our behavior by companies that are often reluctant to tell us how they work, but researchers at the University have tried to find out by analysing the legal documents of Spotify and Tinder.
Tim Welch: Why are we letting cyclists die preventable deaths?

2 May 2022

Opinion: Dr Tim Welch wants something done about New Zealand suffering deadly 'vehicle violence' brought about by poor infrastructure and fast-moving machines.
Called home to work with Pacific communities to create Pacific architecture

2 May 2022

Dr Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei is an architecture alumna who returned to the University of Auckland to teach in 2022, excited by Pacific inputs in the School of Architecture and Planning. She answers some questions for UniNews.
The healing and inclusive power of dance

20 April 2022

For Iatua Felagai Taito, masters student in the Dance Studies Programme, dance is a way to explore his many intersecting identities, to express himself as Christian, as an Aotearoa New Zealand-born Samoan and as a queer man.
Modernist architecture of West Auckland inspires contemporary take on jewellery

19 April 2022

An exhibition featuring 18 “pieces of adornment” designed and made by Gina Hochstein, School of Architecture and Planning, explores the relationship between jewellery and the modernist architecture of the 1950s and 1960s in Titirangi, Auckland, and the lives of women who lived in those buildings.
Joining creative hands across the oceans when borders were closed

19 April 2022

A project co-led by multi-disciplinary artist and academic, Associate Professor Alys Longley of the Dance Studies Programme, demonstrates how artists found new ways to connect and collaborate when borders were closed.
Public transportation is good for everyone – subsidies and all

17 April 2022

Public transportation isn’t meant to be profitable or even to break even and that’s okay, because public transport significantly benefits both people who use the mode and those who do not.
Elam student and emerging Māori artist leaves her mark, a 60-metre mark

4 April 2022

Emma Ormsby is in her third year at the Elam School of Fine Arts and already leaving her mark in public spaces, having recently led a project that is brightening up the centre of Takapuna with a 60-metre mural.
Olivier Holland: all about that bass

1 April 2022

School of Music lecturer and bass musician Dr Olivier Holland doesn’t fret about much. Even in tough times, his jazz students’ efforts are music to his ears.
Whoever wins this year’s music Oscar, Hans Zimmer is still Hollywood’s most influential composer

24 March 2022

Opinion: Music is as important to films as acting, writing and design, yet the annual Academy Award nominations for best original score are one of the few times film music gets a look in with the general public.
Design professor elected Fellow to Royal Society Te Apārangi

23 March 2022

Professor Andrew Barrie, School of Architecture and Planning, has been elected Fellow to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, a recognition of his innovative architectural design and research that has played a key role in advancing New Zealand architecture on the world stage.
Outstanding achievements recognised with Royal Society Fellowships

21 March 2022

Five academics recognised as world leaders in research with Royal Society fellowships.

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