Maps

The Te Puhinui Regeneration Strategy identifies three important considerations which are connected (look at other strategies for different places and get more ideas)

1. Taiao/Nature — Regenerative Environmental Systems

Manukau's car-dependent design systematically degraded local ecosystems, prioritising high-carbon infrastructure over environmental health.

Your mapping might address:

  • How to actively reduce emissions and support carbon sequestration

  • What specific interventions will revitalise native habitats and biodiversity

  •  How will your approach acknowledge and address historical environmental harm

  • How will your design might adapt to climate change while protecting vulnerable communities

2. Tangata/People — Empowered and Honoured Communities

The Settlement Act 1863 enabled violent displacement—villages burned, whakapapa connections severed, traditional livelihoods destroyed through swamp drainage and forest clearing for farmland.

Your mapping might address:

  • Consideration of ancestral histories and ways to strengthen whakapapa connections to place

  • Mechanisms you might  adopt to ensure mana whenua values shape ongoing development decisions

  • Ideas to address contemporary inequalities rooted in historical displacement

  • How  your library will reflect and celebrate indigenous knowledge systems and practices

3. Whenua/Place — Integrated and Resilient Systems

 A library can be transformative in place-making to heal historical wounds while building sustainable futures.

Your mapping might address:

  • How do you think  environmental, social, and cultural interventions will work synergistically?

  • How will your design evolve intergenerationally with changing community needs and environmental conditions such as increased housing?

  • How will your approach respond to the specific ecological and cultural characteristics of Te Puhinui and its revitalisation?

  •  What frameworks will you set up to ensure ongoing community ownership and environmental care?

As you develop your mapping and analysis, it is important to constantly interrogate:

  • Who makes decisions about this place, and how can design shift power toward affected communities?

  • How does your approach acknowledge past harm while building regenerative futures?

  • How will an intervention you make contribute to broader transformative change to address past harm?

  • How will you evaluate success in cultural, environmental, and social terms?

Ideally your maps should demonstrate  analysis that:

  •  Identifies hidden histories that aren't always obvious and ongoing impacts of colonial displacement

  • Identifies ways to support ecological and cultural restoration

  • Considers concrete ways to generate beneficial impacts that operate across multiple scales and timeframes

  • Identifies connections between environmental health, community empowerment, and cultural revitalisation

  • Demonstrates ways to support sustainable design approaches rooted in indigenous knowledge

Remember: For this mapping  exercise—you are developing real strategies for healing and transformation that could impact actual communities and environments.

tool for synthesis
You should actively distill key infromation and identify the relevance of this course

Others

  • People of the area

  • Land use

  • Water catchments (hydrology)

  • ecology (species, green spaces, fragmented areas, potential ecological corridors)

  • How the area is occupied (transport hubs, education, residential, public, industrial)y

  • Accessibility for car, bike, train, walk (noise and foot paths)

  • Key Architecture in area

  • Population density

  • How food is distributed and if there is any community gardens/agricultural services

  • What is the cultural connection to the landscape/area (past and present)

  • Looking at opportunities and challenges of the site

  • Existing climate conditions (wind, rain, sun)

  • Collage of past events and highlighting where these happened around the site

  • Current walkways, desired ways, obstructions

  • The different communities around the area (radius 20 mins away) and what are their values

  • What energy looked like in the past

  • Economy in the past compared to now

  • Urban zones what is the layout of the area and any key findings

  • Carbon emissions

  • section of land showing above and below