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ENCIRCLING; generator term model.

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Water symbolism in Maori beliefs

Cultural significance of water

"Every body of water also has a life force/mauri and should not be mixed with water from another source."

Maori identified different characteristics of water; calm and refreshing, boisterous and masculine or extremely dangerous.

In creation stories, water was believed to lie between earth and sky. Maori tribal identities also linked themselves to certain rivers or bodies of water.

Rivers and the seas were also places of connection where people gather food and pass down traditions.

https://www.learnz.org.nz/water172/bg-standard-f/people-and-water

https://teara.govt.nz/en/tangaroa-the-sea/page-3

Design development; concept of water could link to idea of protection in a Maori pa, also connects to "encircling" generator term.

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Exploration of spatial generator terms. 

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Week 8 Diagrams

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Week 7 Readings

Being In The Place World: Toward A Maori "Geographical Self" ―  Brian Murton (2012)

Indigenous (Maori) and western understandings of place, and how they can work with each other.

The Dwelling Perspective ― "based on the premise that before all else, every thinking person is first a being-in-the-world." How individuals and groups create and interpret meaningful attachments to the specific areas where they live out their lives. (pg89)

Phenomenological; relating to the science of phenomena as distinct from that of the nature of being.

Key ideas relating self-identity and place from indigenous understandings of the world. "Casey (2001, p.684) argued further  that the relationship between self and place is not just one of reciprocal influence, but also that each is essential to the being of the other. Again, there is no place without self, and no self without place."

Three dimensions of Maori knowledge; genealogy as a way of knowing things, understandings of time, and the importance of though and the spoken word. For Maori, to understand anything on earth, physical or non-physical, is to understand its genealogy.

Spoken word and sound; "Thought and spoken words exist together, with sound being the original foundation for thought's conceptualization and expression in word."

"For Maori, language, especially sound and speech, replaces visuality as the foundational mode for understanding the world. Maori represent the world, indeed create it, in speech and through the act of naming. Naming places is part of a social process that in the past involved genealogy as the primary way of ordering and knowing the phenomenal world."

Place Pedagogy Change

"pedagogy" , the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.

"What we do to the planet we do to ourselves. Care for oneself and for the other, the other including one's place of being, cannot any longer be understood as separate responsibilities or separate processes."

Reference to indigenous knowledge, teachings and understandings of humans and their relationship to space beyond the physical.

"Country is a space that gives and receives life. Not just imagined or represented, it is lived in and lived with… Country is not a generalised or undifferentiated type of place… country is a living entity with a yesterday, today and tomorrow with a consciousness, and a will toward life." (Nourishing Terrains, Rose, 2004)