Kia Whakanuia te Whenua - The Landscape Foundation

Landscape architect Simon Smale shares key learnings from his amazing work with Bush Heritage Australia in the Fitz-Stirling programme - healing places through landscape-scale restoration and reconnection to Country.

Dr Bruno Marques, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, talks to us about his students' collaborations with mana whenua that fosters good design outcomes through deep understandings of place.

Jade Kake, architect and academic of Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa and Whakatōhea iwi, shares her whaakaro / thoughts on what it takes to genuinely engage in decolonising practices in the built environments of Aotearoa.

Marcus and Carolyn talk to Professor Lee Beattie, planner and urban designer, about how urban development can happen in ways that create and enhance community. We talk about Hobsonville Point as an important case study.

We talk to landscape architect Rod Barnett about how the concept of garden can be reimagined to respect and encourage diversity, and to remember humanity's place as part of the natural world.

Marcus, Sarah and Carolyn talk to Timmah Ball about how Aboriginal people continue to reassert their voice and presence in cities that can seem overwhelmingly colonial.

Marcus, Carolyn and Sarah talk with Nicole Thompson, where we honour the memory of Megan Wraight and discuss Nicole and Megan's critique of 'mitigation' approaches to landscape architecture and positive new directions in this space.

Marcus hosts a conversation with Brendan Dunford about the inspiring work in sustaining the deep bonds between people and place in the Burren, Ireland through environmentally-responsive farming.

Marcus, Sarah and Carolyn talk with Becky Kiddle on her incisive work about what urban design means when seeing cities as Indigenous places.

Marcus hosts a kōrero with Shaun Awatere and Nikki Harcourt on their innovative mahi in creating a kaupapa Māori decision-making framework for land use assessments - empowering mana whenua to step beyond Western economics-driven norms.

Marcus hosts a kōrero with Te Kerekere Roycroft, unpacking how identities are shaped in many ways that link to place(s) in a web of relationships.

Marcus, Sarah and Carolyn talk with Lena Henry about the problematic intersections between whenua Māori and state planning, and opportunities for future change.

Marcus hosts a kōrero with Mere Whaanga on the deep importance of ahikāroa and the painful realities of whenua loss in a settler colonial legal system.

Marcus and Carolyn talk with Wayne Knox about pepeha, whenua and tikanga as the bases for identity, recognition and relationships - and Wayne shares a beautiful pātere dedicated to the memory of Te Kawerau a Maki rangatira, Hariata Ewe.

Kicking off Season 2, Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with the amazing Lynda Toki and Kim Penetito, where they share about their passion for karanga as part of healing and nurturing relationships between tāngata and te taiao.

In this episode, Marcus Fletcher hosts a kōrero with Dr Alayna Pakinui Rā, chairperson of the Landscape Foundation and author of the chapter, 'How not to study "the spirit of the landscape"'.

The book - Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape is available from the ⁠Landscape Foundation⁠ and at all good bookstores.