Dr Rochelle Mackintosh, part of Project Kāinga team, recently published a new paper from her PhD research in Te Kaharoa. It serves as a great companion paper to Rochelle and Tepora’s paper Te Pūngāwerewere Pukumahi - A research paradigm for within Te Ao Māori . Rochelle graduated with her PhD in May 2025. Link to full article below: Abstract Central to Māori culture is whakapapa. Whakapapa can be defined in several ways, such as genealogy or taxonomic framework. A fundamental

Te Pūngāwerewere Pukumahi has been developed as a unified research approach grounded in Te Ao Māori, applicable across all disciplines. Designed by Māori scholars Tepora Davies and Rochelle Mackintosh who worked at the interface of community, mātauranga and academia, it responds to a recognised gap: while many strong Māori research frameworks exist, few offer an integrated paradigm that holds the full breadth of Māori values at its core.

Paul Cardno led the development of software and hardware units (including sensor) called ‘Marae UVI’ to help marae monitor damaging UV...

Tautoro marae community share their mātauranga and what they must do in the face of the challenges within a changing climate, to protect...

Rereatukahia marae chair, Hone Winder-Murray, invites us into the world of his hapū, sharing how it is being affected by climate change...

A by-product of Te Rereatukahia Kāinga Plan has been the development of Ngāi Tamawhariua's Hapū Management Plan. It outlines strong...

Russell Death reviewed the FNDC freshwater plan change – alongside hapū, he argued that measures to improve freshwater quality were not...

As part of a series of hapū wānanga on mātauranga and Project Kāinga discussions, hapū members toured key points and sites of...

Te Rereatukahia marae was the venue for Project Kāinga's capstone Kāinga Leaders hui. The hui was primarily to share, and offer feedback...

Raaniera Te Whata was an invited panelist on the Adaptation to Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Panel at the International Symposium...

Sean Weaver of EKOS has completed the ‘Scoping the potential for Project Kainga to undertake forest carbon project and/or biodiversity...

Tautoro hapū and the Te Whata whānau hosted the final 2023 Project Kāinga leaders hui. The workshop aimed to foster meaningful...

Around the world Indigenous peoples are actively engaged in finding actionable solutions in response to climate change to ensure the...

Cawtron Institute (Anaru Luke), Motu (Rangimarie Aperahama), Takarangi Research (Tapsell, Tane) and Te Rereatukahia community leaders...

Merata, Paora and Hirini co-authored a research article outlining the ethics and collaborative design principles employed in Project Kāinga. Full article download availble here. Abstract: Indigenous research methods centralises the importance of Indigenous ways of researching, validating and interpreting knowledge. In Māori kin-community (kāinga) contexts this methodology is called whakapapa. It is an ethical approach to research. Through three kāinga case studies, our articl

Project Kāinga held a Climate Adaptation hui amongst Kāinga leaders, rangatahi and scientists from around the motu in Rotorua. The hui...

Oromahoe and Waitangi hapū along with wider community members came together at the Oromahoe marae on Saturday 27th May to develop their...

BWB small text Kāinga, written by Paul Tapsell is now in its second print run. Kāinga charts the impact of colonisation on his people....

After the devastating impact of land loss, there is an understandable reluctance among some Māori to give up the land they have left. But...

Professor Hoete, an architect and researcher, along with a team from the University of Auckland used endangered construction knowledge...