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    • Tansy Liang
      • Tansy is a design student and a beginner local maker in Auckland. She explores materials through playful, hands-on processes. She enjoys testing different possibilities, noticing small details, and learning through making. Her physics background helps her see how materials respond and transform. She values sustainability and hopes to use both design and physics to help […]

    • Inara Dutta
      • Inara photo Inara is a third year LLB/BDes student at the University of Auckland. Interested in the emergence of AI, Inara inspects the crossover of technology and people, and how artists’ right to their work can be protected. Her designs feature bold, vivid colours and a narrative approach to connect people and foster meaningful connections. […]

    • Inara Ray
      • Inara photo Inara is a third year LLB/BDes student at the University of Auckland. Interested in the emergence of AI, Inara inspects the crossover of technology and people, and how artists’ right to their work can be protected. Her designs feature bold, vivid colours and a narrative approach to connect people and foster meaningful connections. […]

    • Residency Photo Journal
      • A collection of moments, visits, and small happenings from the project as it unfolds. Wednesday 15th OctoberHannah and Chris made an impromptu visit, with Chris offering delicious traditional Manaki: sweet hot chocolate (served in uncollected student work from Jack Tilson’s Wood-Fired Pottery School), baked kūmara, and freshly foraged weeds! Wednesday 12th November Kristan larsen plays […]

    • Distributed Resource Centre (DRC)
      • An ever-growing resource centre of freely available resources for art and pleasure (commercial and household waste, fruit/vegetables and other food, skills, time, places/infrastructure) “around here”. [Supported, in part, by Hibiscus and Bays Local Board] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DistributedResourceCentre/ The photos in this document came out of a series of projects at and around Mairangi Arts Centre (MAC) […]

    • E-Waste Arcade
      • We run a weekly 3pm – 5:30pm Thursday drop-in tinker sessions at Zeal West, Henderson — a youth space where young people meet, hang out, and learn new skills. These sessions led to a two-day E-Waste Hackathon, exploring the design challenge: “How can we take the Zeal kaupapa to the streets?” We came up with […]

    • Post 01
      • Prompts: What do you like to make?How did you learn to make things? – Intentions / interests – Scrapbook / Process – Summary

    • Hannah-Lee Jade
      • Hannah-Lee Jade is a textile artist and designer from Auckland, New Zealand, known for her work at the intersection of art, ecology, and material innovation. Her work focuses on sustainability and circular design, exploring how to transform waste into new materials, particularly through research into biomaterials like mycelium. Hannah has experience in fashion design and […]

    • Kristian Larsen
      • New Zealand based artist Kristian Larsen is a choreographer and multidisciplinary performance maker. A graduate of three of New Zealand’s key dance institutions (UNITEC-PAS, The New Zealand School of Dance, and the University of Auckland), Larsen holds a Masters Degree in Creative and Performing Arts. Larsen has worked extensively as a performer and collaborator with […]

    • Chris Berthelsen
      • Originally from Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Chris is now based in Matsuyama in Japan where as an Associate professor at Ehime University, doing artistic research as part of the Japanese Government’s weather control project, Moonshot Goal 8. Chris explores environments for creative activity, resident-led modification of the lived environment, and alternative education(s). He runs public projects […]

    • Cara-Sophia Andres
      • Crafting with Waste: From Trash to Treasure Product: The Bottle Bass Drawing attention to plastic pollution across our global oceans through rethinking the value and potential of discarded materials. Ongoing Process Documentation & Musical Score Project Brief Undertake an iterative design process crafting a functional music instrument out of discarded materials. In the process, research the sonic, […]

    • Jun Hao Shen
      • I decided to create a waist drum after being inspired by my classmates’ projects at school, which taught me a lot. I planned to use cardboard for the drum. First, I divided the waist drum into eight sides, measuring the length of each side to be approximately 8.16 cm. I then marked these measurements with […]

    • Nancy Wu
      • I started this project by gathering a range of waste objects that interested me and I thought had good potential for a musical instrument. I was intrigued by both string and percussion elements of existing instruments therefore I wanted to explore both in my instrument. For my first draft instrument I placed a tin can […]

    • Tyler Simpson
      • This blog post will aim to document the process I undertook to create a successful prototype in Design 100, Assignment 2/4: Initial Ideas: When initiating this project, I commenced my ideation process in order to identify a effective final solution to proceed with. This process allow me to understand what would be realistically possible in […]

    • iolet V
      • Start plan: Make a chinese rattle and a sand hammer. Plan presentation drawing: CHINESE RATTLE making material: Two drink cans, two drink bottle cans, one chopstick, mask lanyard, some red beans. SAND HAMMER making material: one drink can, onw chopstick, transparent plastic bag, tape, some red beans. Material preparation: Develop and refind the musical instrument: […]

    • School Holiday E-Waste Hackathon
      • When: Friday 26 & Monday 29 September, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Where: Zeal West, 20 Alderman Drive, Henderson, Auckland 0610 Cost: Free! Food: Lunch provided on both days

    • Resourceful Avondale workshop series
      • August - October 2023 Avondale Library & ALL GOODS, 99 Rosebank Rd, Avondale A series of free workshops on creative uses of local resources. Thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Fund.

    • Resourceful Avondale workshop series
      • August - October 2023 Avondale Library & ALL GOODS, 99 Rosebank Rd, Avondale A series of free workshops on creative uses of local resources. Thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Fund.

    • Felt Makers – Upcycled, Zero Waste Felt Making and Design
      • Saturday 24 June 2023 10:30am - 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join visual artist, Xin Cheng, for a meditative workshop repurposing local organic material offcuts into versatile woollen felt. Felt from wool is the oldest known textile, originates in central Asia, and has many traditional practical uses such as shelter, clothing and footwear.

    • Felt Makers – Upcycled, Zero Waste Felt Making and Design
      • Saturday 24 June 2023 10:30am - 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join visual artist, Xin Cheng, for a meditative workshop repurposing local organic material offcuts into versatile woollen felt. Felt from wool is the oldest known textile, originates in central Asia, and has many traditional practical uses such as shelter, clothing and footwear.

    • Washing Machine to DIY Worm Farm and Grass Tumbler
      • Saturday 29 July 2023 10:30am - 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join Compost Collective facilitator/artist Adam Ben-Dror and artist Xin Cheng this Plastic Free July, and ask the question 'WHAT COULD A BROKEN WASHING MACHINE BECOME?'. This will be a fun and interactive workshop where broken washing machines are transformed and upcycled into a 'Rodent-Resistant Wormfarm' and 'Carbon Creator' Grass Clipping Drier.

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