Dirty Laundry Architecture

Breathable City

The Breath(able) City project looks for ways to represent the complex and rich experience of the natural world within the city. 

Blissful re-imaginings of mundane city moments offers new possibilities of urban/nature conjunctions, strange hybrid plants/parasols and infiltrating natural surfaces re-frame the urban surface as natural ground or canopy  extended through a pivotal point of our own city circulation. 

It offers analytic mapping of figure “spire/spirit” and ground “watermark/stain “ with many views of Auckland City from a bridge or fallen tower across the ‘K’ Road and over ‘spaghetti junction.

Breathable City

The Breath(able) City project looks for ways to represent the complex and rich experience of the natural world within the city. 

Blissful re-imaginings of mundane city moments offers new possibilities of urban/nature conjunctions, strange hybrid plants/parasols and infiltrating natural surfaces re-frame the urban surface as natural ground or canopy  extended through a pivotal point of our own city circulation. 

It offers analytic mapping of figure “spire/spirit” and ground “watermark/stain “ with many views of Auckland City from a bridge or fallen tower across the ‘K’ Road and over ‘spaghetti junction.

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Kiri Reihana

Kiri Reihana

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Kiri reihana (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāi Tūhoe) is a kairangahau – Māori scientist who is a currently doing her PhD bringing Te Ao Māori and Neo-classical sciences together in the marine arena. Kiri is a Taiao ora specialist, environmental health specialist who applies her research to mobilising mātauranga (Māori knowledge) with iwi (tribes) and hapū (subtribes) throughout New Zealand. Her work on cockles’ forms part of the Sustainable seas National Science Challenge, a program that aims to protect and enhance the marine environment. 

Having trained in and practiced architecture Kiri  moved into environmental sciences, where the culmination of her experience is used to support digital platforms to create innovative Māori science solutions. 

Kiri is an advocate for mobilising mātauranga utilising digital based tools, and educational resources such as ‘Eko’ the ecology game www.eko.nz (National), ‘Karanga a Tanemahuta’ the VR experience and ‘Kaitiakitanga i te Au Warawara’ graphic novel (Te Rarawa). Kiri sits on the Tīwaiwaka trust board, a Te Ao Māori conservation movement led by Pā, or Rob McGowan, one of New Zealand’s foremost rongoā experts https://www.tiwaiwaka.nz, in championing the vision of ‘Ka ora te whenua, Ka ora te tangata’ (when the land is well, the people are well).