Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa

Miharo ana e te whānau 🌟 We're stoked to share our latest initiative — IDIA's Decolonised Research Framework - a groundbreaking research tool that embodies our commitment to amplifying Indigenous voices and challenging design norms. We created the Decolonised Research Framework partly in response to a number of bad experiences working with other non-indigenous design and research institutions. We thought, there has got to be an easier way to help keep these agencies, and ourselves, in better alignment with the indigenous communities that we serve. While this framework encapsulates some of our whakaaro when working with indigenous peoples, we've got to acknowledge the groundbreaking work that has already been done by so many Māori academics and researchers including Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Leonie Pihama and Dr Kathie Irwin (MNZM, MInstD) to name a few. While we know it isn't always possible to do research in design to the same standard as in academia, we hope that this tool can help bridge the gap. If you're interested in getting a bit more detail jump on over to our website where you can also download our Decolonised Research Framework https://lnkd.in/giEjuxej #indigenousdesign #decolonisedesign #māori #māoridesign #māoriinnovation

Keen to hear from some of Aotearoa's leading Māori designers on the future of design in Aotearoa? Then get some tickets and head along to the Pohewa Pāhewa Māori Design Symposium this week (5-6 September) at ObjectSpace: https://lnkd.in/guM3eYjx Our very own Dr. Johnson Witehira will be part of Thursday night's panel discussion and will also be leading a panel on the Friday during the Full-day event. While the wider event has probably the most epic line-up of Māori designers you'll find in one place including Hori Te Ariki Mataki Raymond Otene M. Leonie Kapea Hayden Kaan Hiini Bernard Bernard Makoare Chloē Reweti Kiri Nathan MNZM Desna Whaanga-Schollum Hon.FRAIC The Hori, Tyrone Ohia, Julie Paama-Pengelly, Manawa Tapu, Graham Tipene and Raukura Turei. So, what are you waiting for? #PohewaPāhewa #MāoriDesign #DesignAotearoa #designnz

IDIA and WellingtonNZ are pleased to be partnering on an important survey about the New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) Register. The NZBN registry is a way to self-identify as a Māori business - even if you’re a sole trader - and we are keen to better understand the level of awareness, trust, and confidence in this. Your unique insights as a Māori business are invaluable in shaping a system that truly serves our community. We’ve dropped a link to the survey here. There’s less than 20 questions and it should take about 10 minutes to complete. If you’d like to participate please follow the link before the survey closes on Friday 21 June 2024. https://lnkd.in/gQ8kXza5 We know that your data is a taonga - so IDIA has built a bespoke survey platform based here in Aotearoa. This means that not only is your data confidential, it is also stored and shared in ways that meet the principles of Māori data sovereignty. • No identification is required but you can opt-in to receive a copy of the survey outcomes • We will only collect your information for this specific project. • We will anonymise all of your information. Your feedback on this will be used to influence how the NZBN can better support your needs and enhance business connections. Additionally, data insights will help grow the visibility of the Māori economy and be used to inform policies and resources for our whānau. Your voice matters—let’s make it heard! Thanks to Porirua City Council and Amotai - Supplier Diversity NZ for providing us space to launch this kaupapa.

¡Hola, amigos y amigas! Exciting pānui at IDIA. Our commitment to decolonised design and research is taking a significant leap forward with the release of Marco de Investigación Descolonizada, our Decolonised Research Framework now translated into Español 🇪🇸 How cool is that! We had never thought about translating our tools into different languages. It wasn't until Milagros Fonrouge reached out to us with the idea. So we need to say a special gracias to Mila 🧡 who worked alongside a friend to do the first pass of the translation. We also want to give another special thanks to Dr Diana Albarran Gonzalez, programme director of the Ph.D. in Design at Creative Arts and Industries, the University of Auckland. Diana helped us ensure that the language was correct and, more importantly, made sense in the contexts in which it might be used. She also provided some further texts explaining the context in which our tool was created in Spanish (see below). We can't wait to see how work will be used worldwide. And now, we're thinking, what other languages should our tools be in to help our Indigenous whānaunga worldwide on their journey to decolonisation? To grab the pdf jump over here to https://lnkd.in/giEjuxej Preámbulo Esta propuesta se origina desde experiencias y conocimientos Māori de Aotearoa Nueva Zelanda, y como tál, refleja la cosmovisión y lenguas de sus pueblos. Te Reo Māori o la lengua Māori esta directamente relacionada a su contexto de uso y la palabras que acompañan al contexto. Por tal motivo, hay conceptos que no pueden ser traducidos de forma literal sino con diversas aproximaciones. De igual modo, se busca la reivindicación de las lenguas indígenas. Un ejemplo es el mantener la palabra Māori en su lengua original en vez de la traducción al español como Maorí. Se invita al lec@tor a utilizar este documento no buscando su directa implementación en los distintos contextos en dónde se hacen las investigaciones, sino como principio guía para relacionarse con comunidades indígenas locales y crear alternativas adecuadas a cada contexto. Por ejemplo, ¿cuál sería un equivalente a “whakaoho” en las lenguas indígenas locales? ¿qué establece ese concepto local? ¿existen protocolos a seguir si se usa ese concepto? #indigenousdesign #decolonisedesign #indigenousinnovation #māoridesign #māoriinnovation AIGA Eye on Design AIGA Design Designers Institute of New Zealand Design Assembly

What a whirlwind week hosting our Local Contexts whanaunga mai Aotearoa ki te tai tawhiti. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou e te rangatira me te Local Contexts rōpū Maui Hudson Jane Anderson Ashley Rojas Corrie Roe Dr Janette Hamilton-Pearce and a special mihi to James Eric Francis, Sr. of Penobscot Nation, and Stephany RunningHawk Johnson of Oglala Lakota Nation. Thanks for bringing your warmth and energy to our whare. This second Local Contexts Summit also featured the premiere of “E Kore Au E Ngaro - The Connection Remains,” a film by the Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board and Local Contexts (alongside Cinematographer Andreas Burgess). See the film here https://lnkd.in/gExnfV6U. This is a kaupapa very close to our hearts at IDIA, and one connected to our own mareikura Miriame Barbarich ✨ who helped to start this journey. Shout out to our own Renee W. for holding the rākau on this, while here and overseas 🙌 and for presenting alongside John Moore at the Local Contexts Summit. Looking forward to seeing this grow, as Local Contexts and the Traditional Knowledge and Bio Cultural Labels continue to support Māori and our Indigenous whanaunga abroad to connect with and assert tinorangatiratanga over our many taonga held in Museums and Archives around the world, and over our bio cultural taonga that continues to be collected for research. #localcontexts #decolonisedesign #indigenisedesign #indigenousinnovation #māori #māoriinnovation