Elisapeta Heta
RĀ TUARUA | 8.45AM
MANAWA TOUTOU | TE MAHI HOAHOA WHARE
Overturning the concrete: reclamation of our voices in the built environment.
Elisapeta Heta.
Through a multi-disciplinary practice, predominantly centred around architecture, this kōrero will explore ways in which Elisapeta Heta has personally, collectively, professionally and strategically sought to create outcomes that aimed to re-acculturate our built environments. Environments that have otherwise been physically, and spiritually, concreted over.
A kōrero about hope, opportunity, testing the boundaries, making mistakes and constantly working to improve outcomes for Māori. About projects gone by, on the go, and what the future might look like if we keep overturning the ‘norms’ not created for us, by us, with our whenua at its heart.
Ko Mātatua te waka
Ko Huruiki me Monoa ngā maunga
Ko Mokau me Ngaiotonga ngā marae
Ko Ngāu Paiaka me Te Uri o Hikihiki ngā hapū
Ko Ngātiwai te Iwi
Nō Whangaruru ahau
Ko Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta taku ingoa
Elisapeta Heta is an artist, writer and Associate Principal and Kaihautū Waihanga at architecture firm Jasmax, living in Tāmaki Makaurau.
In 2016 Heta, along with three others, founded the roopū Waka Māia within Jasmax, to respond to the growing demand and opportunities to support and enhance kaupapa Māori thinking and outcomes in projects, with clients and Iwi across Aotearoa and internationally.
She was the first Director on the Te Kahui Whaihanga NZIA board to represent Te Kawenata o Rata, and Ngā Aho. Elisapeta collaborated with John Miller (Ngāpuhi), taking exhibition Pouwātū: Active Presence to the Sydney Biennale NIRIN 2020, and brought it home to Objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau (2021).
