Carol Brown is an internationally established performer, choreographer, and Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Auckland. Projects such as Her Topia (Athens, 2005) and Tongues of Stone (Perth Dancing City 2009-11) explore new ways of telling stories about cities and the people who inhabit them by paying attention to the hidden, the neglected and the lost. (Download MP3, 35.4 MB, 36' 54") License:

Kim Sinclair graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from The University of Auckland and after a period designing and building a couple of very interesting houses, worked in New Zealand’s re-emergent film industry of the 1980s. He is now a designer working with Stephen Spielberg, Peter Jackson and James Cameron on films like Tintin and Avatar. (Download MP3, 204 MB, 1 hour 08';) License:

Chris Barton is a feature writer for the New Zealand Herald and also trained as an architect at the University of Auckland School of Architecture. His talk outlined an investigation into the new Auckland Art Gallery revealing a deceptive structure, a bitter court battle, funding shortfalls and heritage concerns. (Download MP3, 39.2 MB, 40'47") License:

Since 2003 architect Susanne Hofmann has led the Baupiloten, a joint venture between her architectural firm and the Technical University of Berlin. The Baupiloten operates as a studio in which projects from her office are worked on collaboratively by architects, engineers and students. (Download MP4, 135 MB, 49' 47";) License:

Philip Clarke is the director of Objectspace, a small Auckland public gallery dedicated to the fields of craft and design, that opened in 2004. Objectspace is dedicated to provoking new assessments about works and practices in these fields though its exhibition and publication programmes. Philip has worked in the cultural sector for 30 years, and prior to Objectspace, worked at Creative New Zealand, ARTWORK and the Crafts Council of New Zealand. (Download MP3, 32 MB, 33'18") License:

Biddy Livesey has a Masters of Science in Urban Management and Development and works as a policy analyst at Auckland Council. But she is better known as one half of performance art duo Raised By Wolves, with Amy Howden-Chapman. She uses texts, images and movement to explore social and economic patterns in urban space. Livesey’s interests include land ownership and development, markets and speculation, and urban dynamics. Her research on urban growth strategies and housing development on communally-owned Māori land has been published by the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities. (Download MP3, 43.2 MB, 45'0") License:

Tommy Honey is a director, designer, educational manager, architectural critic, cultural commentator and reluctant architect. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Auckland in 1986. He is currently Dean of Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design and the resident urbanist on Radio New Zealand’s Nine-to-Noon programme. Honey spoke about how the nation’s obsession with number 8 wire as the symbol of our ‘ingenuity’ is a lowest common denominator approach to design, making us the cultural cellar dweller of the Western world. (Download MP3, 32 MB, 33'22") License:

Dr Dorita Hannah is Professor of Spatial Design at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts. This talk considers the violent nature of architectural performativity by focusing on the 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege in which terror literally took the stage. By examining both the event, and the place within which it was enacted, Dorita discusses how the Dubrovka auditorium, which proved an ideal site for barricade hostage-taking, became a carceral space for all its occupants. (Download MP3, 32.6 MB, 35'34") License:

For over fifteen years Black Grace has delighted global audiences with its spirit, passion, and unique point of view. A fusion of traditional Pacific cultures and contemporary dance, Black Grace is an extension of the personal history of Neil Ieremia, its founder and choreographer. Ieremia is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished and respected artists. Recipient of the 2005 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award for outstanding creative achievement, he has established his company as the world’s leading exponent of contemporary Pacific dance. (Download MP3, 31.0 MB, 33' 54") License:

Filipe Tohi was born in Tonga and immigrated to New Zealand in 1978 with the goal of becoming an artist. In the early 1980s he taught in the Taranaki, leaving to become a full time artist in 1990. His practice follows two streams. One is based in the traditional Tongan practice of lalava or sennit lashing. These lashings were both functional and decorative, and before the arrival of metal were used in a variety of settings, including houses, tools, and canoes. Filipe‘s lalava were included at the Fale Pasifika at The University of Auckland. The second aspect of his practice is more contemporary and includes work in a wide variety of media: painting on canvas, carving in wood and stone, and designing abstract sculptural patterns in metal and other media. These patterns are based on lalava, and their application in other media moves traditional forms to a contemporary setting. (Download MP3, 43.7 MB, 47' 40") License:

Patrick Reynold’s photography does not simply record architecture; it extends it. His work is a parallel and independent production that fuels and critiques contemporary architecture. His images appear in local and international journals and in a number of recent books on New Zealand architecture. (Download MP3, 62.0 MB, 1 hour 7'46") License:

Go Hasegawa, a young architect based in Tokyo, is establishing himself as an exciting new member of one of the great ‘schools’ in Japanese architecture. He completed a Masters degree at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) under the tutelage of Atelier Bow-Wow partner, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. He now lectures at TIT, where he forms part of the lineage of some of Japan’s most important designers, educators and thinkers about residential architecture; a lineage that can be traced from Hasegawa through Tsukamoto to the influential 1980s architect Kazunari Sakamoto and 1970s radical Kazuo Shinohara and back to modernist innovator Kiyoshi Seike. In this lecture, he discusses the possibility of the extension of body sense through architectural language demonstrated with various built projects.

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Jeffrey Inaba is the founder of INABA, a consultancy firm based in Los Angeles. INABA specialises in transforming cultural research into urban design and architecture. The firm’s design approach stems from an extensive background in analysis and planning. Jeffrey Inaba is also the Director of C-Lab, a think tank at Columbia University‘s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, which studies urbanism and architecture and makes policy recommendations.

A commitment to insight, creative thinking and careful execution underscores the firm’s approach to architecture projects. Recent work includes urban design and housing projects in Europe, Asia, and the US, and commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, Walker Art Center, Storefront for Art and Architecture, X-Initiative, and Enel Contemporanea. (Download MP3, 72.6 MB, 1 hour 19'18") License:

In March 2009, the Royal Commission Report recommended that Maori should be represented on the Auckland Council in the form of three seats, shared between manawhenua and Maori. The incoming National and ACT led government rejected these recommendations and continue to ignore the call for guaranteed Maori seats. Lena Henry and Rau Hoskins discuss the ways communities of Auckland have responded by participating in one of Auckland’s biggest hikoi (protest march). (Download MP3, 31.4 MB, 34'15")

Lena Henry and Rau Hoskins: Māori and the Future of Local Government by Lena Henry and Rau Hoskins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.

Howard Davis is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon. This lecture describes how a contemporary notion of craftsmanship may lead to a twenty-first century, post-industrial vernacular. Such a vernacular, that may involve both advanced technology and local control, is consistent with contemporary social movements that are seeking autonomy and identity. (Download MP3, 41.9MB, 45'44")

Post-Industrial Craftsmanship by Howard Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License.

Highly intercultural environments in Brisbane have lead to new forms of cultural expression, relationships to place and the creation of new centres of meaning for Indigenous people. Yet their indigeneity is retained and a richer version of the suburbs is created than is widely acknowledged. This presentation will reveal the major findings of Kelly Greenop’s research to date and discuss the critical questions raised: How can indigenous cultures survive, and thrive, in a city? How can a city respond? What changes for Indigenous people living away from their homelands and in city environments? What traditions are preserved and what new forms of cultural expression are found? (Download MP3, 44.1MB, 48'07")

Kelly Greenop: Urban Indigenous people in Brisbane, new forms of place, tradition and Indigeneity by Kelly Greenop is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.

Robert Constable is currently Professor and Head of the School of Music at The University of Auckland. In this talk he outlines the various steps in the creative process of composition, from commission to completed work, and will discuss the principles of proportion and musical design that he uses, illustrating his talk with one of his recent works, Jewel for violin and piano. (Download MP3, 40.3MB, 42'01")

Robert Constable: Proportion and Musical Design by Robert Constable is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.

Urban place is a well conceptualised notion that denotes a physical space in which people gather to exchange goods, ideas and information, and this function of place has remained relatively stable over time. In this talk Namita Kambli discusses the growing incorporation of digital communication media, and how this will change the role and the nature of urban places. (Download MP3, 25MB, 27'20")

Namita Kambli: New Media and the Changing Nature of Urban Place by Namita Kambli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.

Lada Hršak is a Croatian-Dutch architect based in Amsterdam. Since graduating from the postgraduate Berlage Institute in 1997 she has worked both as a practicing architect and an academic. Her work deals with issues of contemporary identity, place, scale and materiality. Starting with a conceptual approach she develops projects towards a specific typology and material. (Download MP3, 32.5MB, 35' 30")

Lada Hršak: Local Stories by Lada Hršak is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.

Mark Dytham (and Astrid Klein) are the directors of Klein Dytham architecture (KDa), one of Japan’s most exciting young design firms. They studied together at the Royal College of Art in London and in 1989 travelled to Tokyo where they found work with Toyo Ito. Staying on in Japan, the pair established KDa and quickly gained recognition with a series of audacious and award-winning projects. (Download MP3, 54.6 MB, 59' 39")

Mark Dytham: My Design Life by Mark Dytham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.