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Kaupapa Maori design

Tracey Gardner's lecture has been posted as a digital recording and PDF on the 'lectures' page of our blog. Be sure to review the Maori terms and concepts.
Week 10: Kaupapa Maori + design education

Week 10: optional reading and further information

You can find supplemental reading materials supporting our guest lecture this week by following this link to our issuu page. Also further information and sources for Maori design can be found below:
NGA AHO
Awatoru
Te Aranga

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.

More on Bauhaus and Design Education

To help you with this week's blog assignment, here are a few links: on Johannes Itten's teaching method and studio explorations, on Moholy-Nagy (the section 'the educational project) on and on the Bauhaus and here.

Welcome back!

This week, "Technology and Progress" -- be sure to complete this week's readings (part I-II) before the lecture on Wed.
We will discuss the test results briefly in lecture as well. See you Wednesday.

László Moholy-Nagy, photogram, ca. 1926

Make-Me: The Emergence of Butch-Craft in Contemporary Design

from Core77 -- contemporary craft exhibited at Moss in NYC

Oscar Magnus Narud's Keel collection: tables in rough wood and iron.

Make-Me is an upcoming exhibition at Moss, running from September 15th through November 14th, that brings together an set of artists and designers producing what Moss has coined 'Butch-Craft.' Maybe there is no better way to describe this than the words they use themselves: 'a cerebral yet virile narrative applied to rough work crafted in wood, iron, steel, marble, rush, paint, boiled leather, clay, baked agricultural waste, plant-life, gypsum drywall, and blood, sweat and tears.'

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