Kia Whakanuia te Whenua podcast

 Kia Whakanuia te Whenua is available on Spotify, including episodes with landscape architect William Hatton and ecologist Dr Sarah Flynn.

The Landscape Foundation published its first book - Kia Whakanuia te Whenua – in 2020, and the book went on to win a 2022 NZILA award for Research & Publication. Sarah Collins is a trustee of the Landscape Foundation and had a lead role in bringing Kia Whakanuia te Whenua to fruition; and landscape architects, landscape planners and ecologists from Boffa Miskell contributed to the book.

 Kia Whakanuia te Whenua is now available as a podcast on Spotify.

“The podcast series interviews the book's authors, exploring their views on the complex challenges of te ao hurihuri - a world in change. These conversations offer new ways of thinking about the whenua, land, and our relationship with her - we confront the pain of Indigenous alienation, biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change, and sound a global call for action to together protect and care for our places.”

Episode Six features landscape architect William Hatton, co-author with Jacqueline Paul of the chapter 'Manaaki whenua, manaaki tangata: protecting cultural landscapes'.

The episode notes say, “William gets pretty deep in terms of colonialism and capitalism's impact on the whenua, and how the mauri of the landscape flows from maunga to moana - mountains to sea.”

Ecologist Sarah Flynn is interviewed in Episode Eight. Sarah authored the chapter 'Recalling the mauri’ and relates how 'non-conforming' ecosystems - messy, weedy and neglected - still hold mauri, and this foregrounding may help restoration through whole environments, not their constituent parts.

Ten episodes have been released and another 10 authors are being interviewed for the next release before Matariki.

You can download or listen to the podcast here.