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Endangered Māori construction methods pass modern seismic testing

26 April 2023

Professor Anthony Hoete (Mataatua) of the School of Architecture and Planning weaves mātauranga construction techniques into research to help a community.
Think again before you buy that tacky souvenir

26 April 2023

A new art exhibition uses souvenirs to explore ideas about place, memory and cultural representation.
Kupe Leadership Scholarship: Honours student talks complexities of urban housing policy

17 April 2023

Meet Alex King (Ngāti Kurī) one of this years’ Kupe Leadership Scholarship recipients.
What was so great about the Ministry of Works

28 March 2023

Opinion: The now defunct Ministry of Works is the kind of agency needed to fix our infrastructure disaster - not the inefficient amalgam of Civil Defence and independent sub-contracting and consulting firms we've got, writes Diane Brand.
Review site a boost for Aotearoa books and writers

24 March 2023

Aotearoa New Zealand fiction, non-fiction and poetry is getting a boost with a new site devoted to reviews, launched with seed funding from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland.
University alumni shortlisted for prestigious art award

21 March 2023

Three former students from Elam School of Fine Arts are in the running for the 2024 Walters Prize – and $50,000 in prize money.
How two Oscar-nominated films use music to evoke nostalgia

16 March 2023

Gregory Camp from the School of Music looks at how Babylon and The Fabelmans take opposing but equally successful approaches to using music in film.
Pioneer of precious taonga conservation: Dilys Johns

15 March 2023

Dilys Johns, a Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Auckland, has received a lifetime achievement award for her work conserving taonga found in wet sites throughout Aotearoa.
Art exhibit explores new horizons of Māori fibre practices

21 February 2023

A new exhibit of makawe takatāpui (Māori wigs) takes inspiration from one of Aotearoa’s most iconic love songs, Pōkarekare Ana.
Te Whare Rūnanga’s ‘universal nature’ explored in award-winning essay

21 February 2023

Sir Āpirana Ngata’s role in the construction of the meeting house influenced Māori architecture as we know it, finds graduate Sahil Tiku.
The art of rainbow pride

31 January 2023

How the rainbow flag has developed and changed over time is the focus of an exhibition opening at Old Government House at the University of Auckland on 21 February.
Hamilton: how the future of musicals respects the past

11 January 2023

The critically acclaimed musical Hamilton comes to our shores this year. Ben Kubiak shares the secrets of its success.

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