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Teaching architectural students to listen to the people who often aren’t heard

25 September 2019

Dr Karamia Müller is believed to be the first Sāmoan woman in the world to graduate with a PhD in Architecture and Planning. She was also recently shortlisted for the Education Prize for Early Career Academics by the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA).
What sustainable architecture actually looks like

17 September 2019

An exhibition featuring the winning entries from the world-renowned Aga Khan Award showcases architecture that really does make the world a better place.
Gift helps young scholar with disabilities

16 September 2019

Despite having three auto-immune diseases as well as depression, Sarai McKay has won two scholarships, including the Muriel Roberts Scholarship for a disabled student to travel overseas.
Dancing in the streets, under bridges, in a refugee camp

16 September 2019

A feature-length documentary film produced by Associate Professor Nicholas Rowe of the Dance Studies programme, "Dancing7Cities", reclaims our right to dance, wherever we want.
Homeless play wins friends and awards

12 September 2019

An interactive play featuring actors who have all at one time been homeless has won a national arts award.
Rare chance to learn from a master

11 September 2019

A recent masterclass with leading theorist Professor Walter Mignolo was an inspiring experience for postgraduate students in Art History and Fine Arts.
Law student's history-making win

10 September 2019

Kahukiwi Piripi won the National Kaupapa Māori Moot, and made history when she presented her legal submissions to the Supreme Court entirely in te reo Māori.
Behind the scenes of the Opera Scenes

6 September 2019

Opera Scenes, the annual production put on by the School of Music, will this year present scenes from two popular operatic hits with a 1960s Fellini-esque twist.
About architecture, but not rich people’s architecture

5 September 2019

Making Ways, an exhibition curated by Dr Kathy Waghorn, a senior lecturer in architecture, showcases an unusually inclusive approach to architectural practice.
The custodian, comedian, Coral and the cat

29 August 2019

Emma Newborn is a full-time custodian and cat carer at the University of Auckland's Old Government House. But she's also a comedian whose one-woman show Coral returns on 3 September.
University celebrates its community from refugee backgrounds

21 August 2019

PhD student Bilal Nasier, who fled war-torn Afghanistan when he was four-years-old, is one of 750 students with a refugee background at the University of Auckland who will be celebrated during the University's first ever Refugee Week next week.
A choral performance that asks the hard questions

21 August 2019

“This was probably the most confrontational work in my 34-year career,” says Associate Professor Karen Grylls, on conducting the recent New Zealand premier of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion.

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