TARANAKI LIVING LAB
A Massey University initiative, The Living Lab concept encourages researchers from multiple academic disciplines to collaborate with a community to create a deeper understanding and appreciation of a natural entity (the Wiawhakaiho River) from many perspectives. Artists, writers and filmmakers collaborated with social scientists, scientific and environmental researchers to tell the various stories of the Wiawhakiaho River and its communities.
LINKS
http://www.intercreate.org/category/sharing-the-waiwhakaiho/
This documentary by Anand Rose of Green Cow, is one of the creative projects that integrates cultural viewpoints, local individuals and communities with several disciplines of academia – an important aim of the Sharing the Waiwhakaiho project.
Tīahoaho by Stuart Foster and Kura Puke: photograph by Shaun Waugh.