Our theme this week:

Kaupapa Māori and alternative design frameworks

This week Tracey Gardner will provide a guest lecture for DSDN171, presenting her research into Māori graphic design, and more specifically, kaupapa Māori visual communication design and process. Tracey’s research includes experiences from practising Māori designers and examines their work in order to highlight apparent differences in process and practice when design is undertaken from a kaupapa Māori perspective. Importantly, Tracey’s ‘by Māori, for Māori’ or kaupapa Māori cultural framework differs from the current predominant ideology of New Zealand’s design schools. Throughout Tracey’s research, a recurring underlying theme is the interaction of two world-views, that is, design and Māori ‘ways of knowing’, and focuses on the synthesis of both world-views and the space where these two intersect and meet. If you would like to read more about Tracey's research follow the link.