Kia Whakanuia te Whenua - The Landscape Foundation

Gayle Souter-Brown talks to Marcus, Sarah and Carolyn about her work in evidence-based landscape design practice, focusing on ideas of rewilding and its connections to wellbeing.

Landscape architect Simon Smale shares key learnings from his amazing work with Bush Heritage Australia in the Fitz-Stirling programme - healing places through landscape-scale restoration and reconnection to Country.

Dr Bruno Marques, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, talks to us about his students' collaborations with mana whenua that fosters good design outcomes through deep understandings of place.

Jade Kake, architect and academic of Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa and Whakatōhea iwi, shares her whaakaro / thoughts on what it takes to genuinely engage in decolonising practices in the built environments of Aotearoa.

Marcus and Carolyn talk to Professor Lee Beattie, planner and urban designer, about how urban development can happen in ways that create and enhance community. We talk about Hobsonville Point as an important case study.

We talk to landscape architect Rod Barnett about how the concept of garden can be reimagined to respect and encourage diversity, and to remember humanity's place as part of the natural world.

Marcus, Sarah and Carolyn talk to Timmah Ball about how Aboriginal people continue to reassert their voice and presence in cities that can seem overwhelmingly colonial.

Marcus, Carolyn and Sarah talk with Nicole Thompson, where we honour the memory of Megan Wraight and discuss Nicole and Megan's critique of 'mitigation' approaches to landscape architecture and positive new directions in this space.

Marcus hosts a conversation with Brendan Dunford about the inspiring work in sustaining the deep bonds between people and place in the Burren, Ireland through environmentally-responsive farming.

Marcus, Sarah and Carolyn talk with Becky Kiddle on her incisive work about what urban design means when seeing cities as Indigenous places.

Marcus hosts a kōrero with Shaun Awatere and Nikki Harcourt on their innovative mahi in creating a kaupapa Māori decision-making framework for land use assessments - empowering mana whenua to step beyond Western economics-driven norms.

Marcus hosts a kōrero with Te Kerekere Roycroft, unpacking how identities are shaped in many ways that link to place(s) in a web of relationships.

Marcus, Sarah and Carolyn talk with Lena Henry about the problematic intersections between whenua Māori and state planning, and opportunities for future change.

Marcus hosts a kōrero with Mere Whaanga on the deep importance of ahikāroa and the painful realities of whenua loss in a settler colonial legal system.

Marcus and Carolyn talk with Wayne Knox about pepeha, whenua and tikanga as the bases for identity, recognition and relationships - and Wayne shares a beautiful pātere dedicated to the memory of Te Kawerau a Maki rangatira, Hariata Ewe.

Kicking off Season 2, Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with the amazing Lynda Toki and Kim Penetito, where they share about their passion for karanga as part of healing and nurturing relationships between tāngata and te taiao.

Rangatahi and environmental planner Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with Diane Menzies, instigator of Kia Whakanuia te Whenua, and Carolyn Hill, its editor, to talk about how the book came about, who's involved and what their vision is for an Indigenous-led paradigm shift in how we care for our landscapes. The book - Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape is available from the ⁠Land...

In this episode, Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with Dr Alayna Pakinui Rā, chairperson of the Landscape Foundation and author of the chapter, 'How not to study "the spirit of the landscape"'. The book - Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape is available from the ⁠Landscape Foundation⁠ and at all good bookstores.

In this episode, Carolyn Hill and Sarah Flynn are in conversation with Rachel Shearer, sound artist and author of the chapter 'The sounds of the whenua'. Rachel shares how she works with whakapapa as a research methodology to (re)consider relationships between people, place and environment. The book - Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape is available from the Landscape Founda...

In this episode, Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with Jacky Bowring, professor of landscape architecture and author of the chapter, 'On the trail of the dark and mysterious : researching the spirit of the land'. What are the threads of commonality across different aspects of spirit and place, and how can we support these relationships in ways that enhance life and wellbeing? The book - Kia...

In this episode Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with artist Andrew Craig, author of the chapter 'Geo-vanitas: Painting New Zealand's geology'. Andrew explores the whenua itself in terms of how it informs his art and life, and how art - in not telling the full story - might inform landscape understanding and new ways of care. The book - Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape...

In this episode Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with William Hatton, landscape architect and author - with Jacqueline Paul - of the chapter 'Manaaki whenua, manaaki tangata: protecting cultural landscapes'. William gets pretty deep in terms of colonialism and capitalism's impact on the whenua, and how the mauri of the landscape flows from maunga to moana - mountains to sea. The book - K...

In this episode Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with Fleur Palmer - architect, spatial activist and associate professor - about her chapter, 'Upholding Papatūānuku's right to support future generations'. Fleur talks about the amazing power of collaboration in co-creating alternative futures for our places. The book - Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape is available from t...

In this episode Marcus Fletcher and Carolyn Hill talk with ecologist Sarah Flynn about her chapter, 'Recalling the mauri'. Sarah relates how 'non-conforming' ecosystems - messy, weedy and neglected - still hold mauri, and this foregrounding may help restoration through whole environments, not their constituent parts. The book - Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape is...

In this episode, Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with Clive Anstey, resource planning consultant and author of the chapter, 'Unforeseen effects: Integrating land/people wellbeing in landscape management'. Clive compares the creation of the Resource Management Act in 1991 with new directions in environmental planning, and questions if/how we can actually achieve 'integration' in a sy...