This project addresses the ways in which spatial design constructs and reflects social, political and cultural values and identities. This semester, all School of Design 358 students will be addressing tuakiri in relation to ideas of wellbeing. Students will be proposing a reimagining of a site, orientated around a ‘water place‘, in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara (Wellington), for a purpose that aligns with or critiques a particular wellbeing concern for the local communities (human and non-human). Students will design a multi-programme response to the site, its stories, its ecologies and its socio-political conditions. We will celebrate the past, present and future identity of the city, and the changing relationships between people, land and water.
