Kia Whakanuia te Whenua - Book Available Now
Available now: Kia Whakanuia te Whenua Podcast
In this podcast series we interview the book’s authors, exploring their views on the complex challenges of te ao hurihuri - a world in change. These conversations offer new ways of thinking about the whenua, land, and our relationship with her - we confront the pain of indigenous alienation, biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change, and sound a global call for action to together protect and care for our places.
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People Place Landscape
The Landscape Foundation has published its first book - KIA WHAKANUIA TE WHENUA - People place landscape. If you are thinking of ordering please do so by clicking on the order button .
Why do we believe this book is important?
It is Māori-led, and it explores the spirit of whenua and how it is embedded in place through identity and naming. It confronts the pain of alienation and whenua loss for all indigenous peoples and looks at how that can be transformed.
Forty different authors contributed articles, including perspectives from Aboriginal, American Indian and Irish landscape architects as well as Māori and Pakeha.
Past Te Papa Tū Whirinaki Chair Dr. Diane Menzies, says global issues such as biodiversity loss, water pollution and worldwide adverse effects on habitat have led to a global call for action - a change in how we perceive, relate to and care for our whenua.
Kia Whakanuia te Whenua offers solutions to understanding place, in how to weave Matauranga mauri and scientific knowledge systems together to protect the essence of our landscapes.
Light on Lake Hawea by Jacky Bowring
“It recognises that we can utilise the knowledge derived from a thousand years of indigenous observation of environmental indicators and combine them with modern science to successfully address the complex problems we face. We can learn from the past to find solutions for the future,” Dr Menzies says.
“The book offers a range of alternatives to current practice. If we can change the way we think about the land; identify the land management issues which affect our future and highlight best landscape protection and management practice, we can work together to solve the difficult environmental issues we face.”
Dr Menzies believes the book marks a seminal change in how landscape architects, as part of the wider landscape practitioners’ group, need to view the landscape and their part in shaping that change.
Hinuera Valley by Pam Gore.
She hopes it will challenge the how and why of the profession, providing new understanding and insights.
“We believe that changes in our relationship with the whenua will eventually result in a national outcome of environmental wellbeing, as well as enhancing cultural vibrancy, cultural identity, and social cohesion,” says Dr Menzies.
The book is aimed at a wide audience - everyone from those undertaking land/whenua-based research, land-use practitioners, policy and decision makers, as well as iwi authorities, tamariki, rangitahi and kaumatua and communities concerned about climate change, identity and the health of the whenua.
Kia Whakanuia te Whenua is in bookshops now.
