The Masters by Project programme is a lab for landscape and architectural graduates to ask searching question about their own practice and the ways that practice can connect to the world.

The programme encompasses a range of graduates who bring their own unique perspectives to research work. Their research often crosses disciplinary lines. The result is a constellation of ideas that resolve around concerns rather than specific disciplinary problems. This work is developed in presentation and discussion at four workshops held through out the year. Important practitioners and academics in their field and associated professionals, developers, iwi, and local government, not only critique the work but help to engender a larger conversation about the impact of the research for the bigger community.

What is the shape of the wananga of the future and how will this affect the form of the marae? How can the social problematic of suburbia be addressed? What is the social ecology of the industrial park? These are just a few of the critical questions that the graduates are engaged with.

New research work in the programme is becoming more focused on specific problems to do with Auckland’s predicted growth; where can development occur in a way that will not affect Auckland’s unique landscape and lifestyle? This work is being carried out in collaboration with practice and industry.

mbradbury@unitec.ac.nz

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Success



2013 MLA graduate Jennifer Parlane, was recently employed at Boffa Miskell’s Auckland office as a Planner/Landscape Architect. Jennifer has a Bachelor in Planning from the University of Auckland but in 2012 decided to move into the discipline of landscape architecture to fulfil her design ambitions.

Through the masters degree Jennifer was able to explore contemporary issues that are of concern to the landscape architecture practice, particularly around the design of the public realm.  Through the development of her design project about the provision of public space in industrial areas in Auckland, Jennifer developed a range of landscape architecture skills through the research-by-design process, from carrying out extensive research and site analysis, developing an appropriate landscape-based methodology and using specific representational skills to interrogate her research matter and test alternative designs.   Jennifer did so with such skill to earn a post graduate degree with distinction last November.

We wish Jennifer all the best in her new position.
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