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Decolonising our Western approach to design
18 May 2022
We need to be alert to cultural appropriation, and that includes designers and design educators, says Dr Diana Albarrán González, who recently took up her role as deputy director of and lecturer in the Design Programme at the University.
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Ten great works for New Zealand Music Month
18 May 2022
In celebration of New Zealand Music Month, Dr Leonie Holmes, distinguished composer and senior lecturer at the School of Music, shares ten great works by Aotearoa New Zealand composers, and what she loves about them.
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Linda Tyler unpacks a Serene Timoteo artwork
16 May 2022
The University Art Collection has more than 1,700 items across five campuses. Linda Tyler showcases another of her favourite pieces from it.
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Making both folly and virtue out of old wood
16 May 2022
Three masters students from the School of Architecture and Planning have won this year’s Brick Bay Folly prize, for an architectural structure made entirely out of the timber of a former Folly winner.
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Craccum's first female editor Louise Chunn: what generation gap?
16 May 2022
Opinion: Louise Chunn writes that if older people stopped to consider their own youthful enthusiasms and took time to listen to young people's perspectives, they may learn a little.
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Maureen Lander: 'The University still plays a role in my life'
13 May 2022
Weaver and teacher Maureen Lander is one of our distinguished alumni in 2022 and, in her 80th year, is still working with students on campus.
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And the band played on … 3D-printed instruments
12 May 2022
Exhibition showcases 3D-printed musical instruments made in the Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab and hosts NZ’s first 3D-print performance by musicians.
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Making art in, and out, of lockdown
5 May 2022
Lockdown presented many challenges for Master of Fine Arts graduate Sara Moana Edwards, so she began to draw her way out of a “lockdown burnout” which turned out to be both cathartic and productive.
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What Spotify and Tinder aren’t telling us
4 May 2022
Our online and real-world lives are increasingly influenced by algorithmic recommendations based on data gathered about our behavior by companies that are often reluctant to tell us how they work, but researchers at the University have tried to find out by analysing the legal documents of Spotify and Tinder.
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Billie Lythberg: the business of being curious
2 May 2022
Dr Billie Lythberg is an art historian and anthropological researcher, but she’s right at home in the University of Auckland Business School. She says across all her disciplines, she works with ground-breaking thinkers.
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How to imagine a better world: rich resources for teachers
20 April 2022
How can teachers engage the next generation in big global issues they’ll all have to face in creative and inspiring ways?
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The healing and inclusive power of dance
20 April 2022
For Iatua Felagai Taito, masters student in the Dance Studies Programme, dance is a way to explore his many intersecting identities, to express himself as Christian, as an Aotearoa New Zealand-born Samoan and as a queer man.
