Museum of water: How can a water museum articulate New Zealand's tangible and intangible connection to water?

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Museum of water: How can a water museum articulate New Zealand's tangible and intangible connection to water?

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This project explores the design of Aotearoa's first water museum located along Te Awa Tupua (The Whanganui River), the first river in the world to be granted personhood status. The museum will help preserve and showcase the tangible and intangible aspects of Te Awa Tupua – while symbolically remembering its history of colonial transgressions. A whakatauki among the people of Whanganui, ‘Ko au te awa. Ko te awa ko au – I am the river. The river is me’ reverberates the level of empathy and con...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2021

Creator

Shiblaq, Khamis

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10652/5544

Related subjects

Te Awa Tupua / Whanganui RIver (N.Z.) / Aotearoa / New Zealand / water museums / museum design / museum architecture / Māori knowledge systems / freshwater / Māori fishing practice / Zumthor, Peter (1943-) / Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 / fishing / Architectural design / Heritage, archive and museum studies not elsewhere classified / Whare taonga / Awa / Hī ika / Wai Māori

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