Kia Whakanuia te Whenua

The Landscape Foundation has published its first book - KIA WHAKANUIA TE WHENUA - People place landscape.

Māori-led, the book explores the spirit of whenua and how it is embedded in place through identity and naming. It confronts the pain of alienation and whenua loss for all indigenous peoples and looks at how that can be transformed.  

Forty different authors contributed articles, including perspectives from Aboriginal, American Indian and Irish landscape architects as well as Māori and Pakeha.

Concern for the protection and management of the whenua/land was the inspiration for The Landscape Foundation’s publication Kia Whakanuia te Whenua. Global and local impacts such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water pollution and structural issues such as government policy and neoliberal economics are affecting global and local habitats as well as how we perceive, relate to and care for them. This is at the heart of issues for landscape practitioners, Māori, ecologists, and many others.

Includes a chapter entitled ‘Indigenous Urbanism: Seeking Genuine Decolonisation in the Cities of Aotearoa’ by Jade Kake.