Te Karanga Ki Ngākengake The Call of the Shifting Forces

This design proposal extends and intensifies the powerfully present geological conditions of Te Whanganui-a-Tara–Wellington’s harbour. Originally conceived for an international design competition it contextualises the magnitude of geologic time and imagines an embodied experience of suspension, a q...

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Main Authors: Hannah Hopewell, Matthew Wakelin
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Language:English
Published: Lincoln University 2025-05-01
Series:Landscape Review
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Online Access:https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/article/view/1274
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description This design proposal extends and intensifies the powerfully present geological conditions of Te Whanganui-a-Tara–Wellington’s harbour. Originally conceived for an international design competition it contextualises the magnitude of geologic time and imagines an embodied experience of suspension, a quality of being between worlds yet in the felt immediacy of nothing but kenetic change. The design emerges from and is given meaning by Te Ātiawa pūrākau of taniwha Ngake and Whātaitai. Together these taniwha give the why and how of Pōneke Wellington’s land and seascape; they contextualise geomorphology in deep time and express the entangled alliance between mana whenua and the specificity of place, a quality defining Pōneke Wellington. With the design we touch into multiple relational intersections made possible by the forever mercurial space where the sea and the land meet, yet do so in such a way to unsettle settler colonial schemas of landscape-seascape experience.
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spelling doaj-art-00eca76f92d640db9b8dee8bee9480522025-08-20T01:52:49ZengLincoln UniversityLandscape Review2253-14402025-05-01211Te Karanga Ki Ngākengake The Call of the Shifting ForcesHannah Hopewell0Matthew Wakelin1https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6433-3129Landscape Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USALandscape Architect, SBLA Pty Ltd, Victoria, Australia This design proposal extends and intensifies the powerfully present geological conditions of Te Whanganui-a-Tara–Wellington’s harbour. Originally conceived for an international design competition it contextualises the magnitude of geologic time and imagines an embodied experience of suspension, a quality of being between worlds yet in the felt immediacy of nothing but kenetic change. The design emerges from and is given meaning by Te Ātiawa pūrākau of taniwha Ngake and Whātaitai. Together these taniwha give the why and how of Pōneke Wellington’s land and seascape; they contextualise geomorphology in deep time and express the entangled alliance between mana whenua and the specificity of place, a quality defining Pōneke Wellington. With the design we touch into multiple relational intersections made possible by the forever mercurial space where the sea and the land meet, yet do so in such a way to unsettle settler colonial schemas of landscape-seascape experience. https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/article/view/1274Te Ātiawa pūrākau; taniwha; waterfront design ; decolonisation
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title Te Karanga Ki Ngākengake The Call of the Shifting Forces
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