Landcare Research / Manaaki Whenua

Landcare Research has a long track record of working with Māori, and currently have several programmes with and for various iwi. They are custodians of the national harakeke (New Zealand flax) and tī kōuka (cabbage tree) collections at Lincoln.

 This section of their website contains a number of resources of interest to Māori including those groups wishing to establish Pa harakeke collection, or Māori Tourism ventures.

This report reflects on collaboration between the authors (two social researchers), two artists and two scientists who worked together on the Mountains to the Sea project. This project was one of three such initiatives funded by the Smash Palace Innovation Fund aimed at promoting creative partnerships between artists and scientists during the years 2003 to 2004. Mountains to the Sea resulted in three substantive outputs, a book documenting an online dialogue between the collaborators, an exhibition uniting community and science interpretations of the Motueka River Catchment, and this report, which explores the learning around challenging interdisciplinary collaboration.

Landcare Research has the capability to assess the sustainability of the built environment. It can provide preliminary assessments of building projects using using a variety of tools and can advise on potential improvements.

Landcare Research has a long track record of working with Māori, and currently have several programmes with and for various iwi. They are custodians of the national harakeke (New Zealand flax) and tī kōuka (cabbage tree) collections at Lincoln.

 This section of their website contains a number of resources of interest to Māori including those groups wishing to establish Pa harakeke collection, or Māori Tourism ventures.

Landcare research works closely with Māori in a number of areas.

Good Practice Guidelines for working with Tangata Whenua.

This report reflects on collaboration between the authors (two social researchers), two artists and two scientists who worked together on the Mountains to the Sea project. This project was one of three such initiatives funded by the Smash Palace Innovation Fund aimed at promoting creative partnerships between artists and scientists during the years 2003 to 2004. Mountains to the Sea resulted in three substantive outputs, a book documenting an online dialogue between the collaborators, an exhibition uniting community and science interpretations of the Motueka River Catchment, and this report, which explores the learning around challenging interdisciplinary collaboration.

Find out more about Landcare Research here.