http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts Podcasts of seminars, talks and lectures from The National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland Wed, 02 May 2012 11:15:00 GMT en-us http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/architecture-and-planning-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/Communique2012-Tommy-Honey(128kbps).mp3 Wed, 02 May 2012 11:15:00 GMT 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 and 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. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/architecture-and-planning-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/Communique2012-biddy-livesey(128kbps).mp3 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:10:00 GMT 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. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/architecture-and-planning-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/Communique2012-Philip-Clarke(128kbps).mp3 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/architecture-and-planning-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/Communique2012-Chris-Barton(128kbps).mp3 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:15:00 GMT 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. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/elam-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/robin-white-nicai-distinguished-alumna(128kbs).mp3 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:45:00 GMT Elam alumna Dame Robin White was the recipient of the 2012 University of Auckland Distinguished Alumni Award. She studied at Elam in the late 1960s where she was mentored by Colin McCahon and completed a Diploma in Fine Arts in 1967. She became one of the most prominent New Zealand painters of the 1970s and is recognised as a key figure in the development of the New Zealand 'regionalist' style. Linda Tyler spoke with Robin White at Elam on March 9th, 2012. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/dance-studies-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/01-communique2012-carol-brown(128kbps).mp3 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/interdisciplinary-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/Linda-Williams-TRI2011(128kbps).mp3 Dec, 07 Dec 2011 10:45:00 GMT Linda Williams is Associate Professor of Art, Environment and Cultural Studies in the School of Art at RMIT University where she leads a research group on the arts and environmental sustainability. Along with her work as a widely published art critic, she has published in the field of the history of culture and science, philosophy and critical theory, and is an active member of the Globalization and Culture project in the Global Cities Research Institute at RMIT. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/interdisciplinary-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/robert-liberty-TRI2011(128kbps).mp3 Dec, 07 Dec 2011 10:35:00 GMT Robert Liberty is the executive director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative at the University of Oregon which seeks solutions to sustainable city challenges by drawing on the University’s expertise in architecture, land use and transportation planning, industrial ecology, law, public administration, economics, geography and new product design. http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-podcasts/interdisciplinary-podcasts http://media.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/podcasts/TRI-2011-Tony-Wong(128kbps).mp3 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:00:00 GMT Professor Tony Wong is Chief Executive and director of Monash University’s Centre for Water Sensitive Cities. He is internationally recognised for his research and practice in sustainable urban water management, particularly in Water Sensitive Urban Design. He gave this talk at the University of Auckland's Transforming Auckland: Towards Sustainable Futures research symposium in November 2011.