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How to imagine a better world: rich resources for teachers

20 April 2022

How can teachers engage the next generation in big global issues they’ll all have to face in creative and inspiring ways?
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.
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.
Ritesh Shah: Why do we value some children's futures over others?

1 April 2022

Opinion: The scope and scale of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is unprecedented and raises questions about the West’s response, writes Dr Ritesh Shah.
The Marquesas Islands: window into a lost world

31 March 2022

Polynesian explorers discovered a trove of unique plants and animals when they arrived in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, according to new research.
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.
Renaissance beauty recipes recreated in the modern chemistry lab

15 March 2022

Popular beauty recipes from Renaissance Europe are being recreated and analysed by the Beautiful Chemistry Project, a cross-faculty team at the University of Auckland.
Arts funding central to improving youth wellbeing

4 March 2022

Youth mental health is a stated priority for this government, but funding for young people in the arts remains piecemeal and unreliable, according to recent studies.
Drawing on personal experience to design for self-isolation

1 March 2022

Dr Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei, who joined the School of Architecture and Planning as a senior lecturer this year, will be drawing on her first-hand experience of self-isolation in her new design paper, 'Living with Covid; home isolation to resilience centres'.

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