Students from first year through to PhD showcase their creativity and mahi from 2022 in the annual End of Year Exhibition

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Our students are constantly exploring their auahatanga — creativity, to develop and produce works engaging with concepts of Architecture and Design Innovation. The End of Year Exhibition is a showcase of the mahi, skill and talent that goes into creating these works.

Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa—Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation's annual End of Year Exhibition celebrates students and their accomplishments, and shines a light on the future Designers, Architects and creatives of Aotearoa. Work from all our Design Innovation and Architectural studies courses are on display. This is showcase of first year work, right up to PhD, brings the Te Aro Atrium to life with engaging visual, multi media and physical works enabling an experience that connects with all year levels and majors.

November 4–21 2022, Te Aro Campus Atrium

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Welcome to Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation student work showcase. This site showcases our student's best architecture and design work in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation student work showcase

Dr Leon Gurevitch showcases astrophotography in the Wellington City Council Cobblestone Lightboxes, with images taken in dark sky reserves across Aotearoa.

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Aotearoa is home to some of the best dark sky reserves in the world. This exhibition showcases portrait astrophotographs from iconic landmarks and areas around Te-Whanganui-A-Tara and Te Waiponamu.

Te Whānau Mārama, literally translates to Family of Light, and refers to celestial bodies – the sun, moon, stars and constellations, as well as phosphorescent light. Successful astrophotography must find balance between capturing the multifaceted lights of our galaxy and trying to minimise the impacts of pervasive artificial phosphorescent light. Careful consideration is given to the locations of Dark Sky reserves, so that sky gazers can see the light of the galaxy unimpeded by industrial scale illumination and pollution.

As well as showcasing large photographic prints, this exhibition uses site maps, galaxy orientations and photographic technical context to show audiences just how close sites of astrophotographic experience are to Wellington. One of these sites is Wairarapa, which has recently become a designated dark sky reserve. Dr Gurevitch aims to create public awareness of these incredible locations while providing an inspiring visual experience.

These Lightbox arrangements use backlight to bring low-light images to life and are best viewed at night. The Lightbox works are displayed in conjunction with the large-scale landscape images exhibited in Te Aro Window Gallery on Dunlop Terrace in May 2023. This photographic collection overlaps with Astrodata: a data visualisation project in collaboration with Yale University Lens Media Lab.

Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa—Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation is proud to partner with the Wellington City Council to activate the Cobblestone Lightboxes with visual creative research and art practices from academic staff and postgraduate students at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

A similar large-scale astrophoto by Dr Gurevitch is also exhibited on glass at Te Herenga Waka's Rutherford House.

View these works in the Cobblestone Park lightboxes on Vivian Street, Te Aro.

April–October 2023

**Contact**
Violette Squire, Faculty Activities Coordinator, violette.squire@vuw.ac.nz

Dr. Leon Gurevitch, leon.gurevitch@vuw.ac.nz

Te Whānau Mārama | Family of Light brings together a collection of astrophotography created by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Dr Leon Gurevitch, showcased in the Wellington City Council's Cobblestone Lightboxes located in the front of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation's Te Aro Campus.  

Sixteen Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation—Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa students have received awards from respected industry bodies. Ten of the award-winning designs are exhibited at the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Te Aro campus until Thursday 18 May in a multi media exhibition.

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This May we celebrate sixteen Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation—Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa students who are recognised as winners, finalists and highly commended by respected industry bodies. Ten of these award-winning future designers, architects and interior architects are showcasing their projects in an on-campus multi-media exhibition. 

**Thank you and congratulations to this years award winner exhibitors:**

Charlotte Teneza, Ulan — Kohler Future Designer 2022 Award

Chris Foster, Sanctuary— Team Architects Scholarship Supreme Award

Lucia Graham & Hunter Reeve, Ō Tokaanu — Design Best Award

Lucia Graha, Restore Value — Artichoke Magazine Prize

Logan Cooper, [enter the void]: SUBCONSCIOUS DREAM STRUCTURES — PFM Burrows Scholarship

Adam Clark, Te Whare Atapō | The House Before Dawn — Warren and Mahoney Māori and Pasifika Scholarship

Kisa Bowker, Remember: Kitchen Fitout — Abyme Scholarship—Knight Associates

Hannah Brodie, A Regenerative Gesture — John Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship

**Design Best Awards**

The National Graphic Design Awards were established in the mid seventies to celebrate New Zealand’s best graphic design. These awards, brought to you by The Designers Institute of New Zealand, are now known as the Design Best Awards, and are an annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product, digital and motion design along with three special awards - Value of Design, Public Good and Toitanga.

**Artichoke Magazine Prize**

Artichoke Magazine covers interior architecture, design, objects, people and products, presenting inspiring examples of design excellence. Their annual award is given to interior design/interior architecture students who show excellence in the areas of interior design practices through written and visual communication.

**PFM Burrows Memorial Scholarship**

This Scholarship was established through the Victoria University of Wellington Foundation from a bequest by Mrs Carol Rowan, in memory of her grandfather, Pierre Finch Martineau Burrows, who was a former Colonial Architect of New Zealand. The Scholarship is awarded on academic merit with consideration for the candidate's willingness to help others.

**Kohler Award**

Kohler Co. has been leading the way in style and innovation since the company was founded in 1873. Taking great strides in product development over the years, Kohler has continually proven that great products equal beautiful design, ground-breaking innovation and reliable functionality. Their annual award is given to young design, product, spatial and architect students from AUT, Unitec, Massey, Te Herenga Waka or Otago.

**Team Architects Scholarship Awards**

TEAM Architects Scholarships assist and encourage capable students with completion of the final year of their degree, and are awarded based on consideration of the design work in the first semester of the Masters course.

**Warren and Mahoney Masters Scholarship for Māori and Pasifika Students**

The Scholarship was established in 2021 and is funded by Warren and Mahoney, a New Zealand multidisciplinary architectural design practice. The intention of the Scholarship is to encourage and support Māori and Pasifika students to undertake a Master of Architecture (Professional) at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland.

**John Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship**

This scholarship is a memorial to the late John Fitzgerald, a graduate (1997) of the Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture. Projects are awarded based on their forward-looking qualities, while aiming to further architectural knowledge, techniques or developments at the level of individual study or collective interest.

**Contact**

Violette Squire, Faculty Activities Coordinator, violette.squire@vuw.ac.nz

Sixteen Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation—Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa students have received awards from respected industry bodies. Ten of the award-winning designs are exhibited at the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Te Aro campus until Thursday 18 May in a multi media exhibition. 

Experience - Te Aro Window Gallery exhibition 

bright Yellow and orange specks resembling lava and fire are spread across a dark background

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#### 30 under 30 Exhibition Series

2022's second 30/30 exhibitor is former Architecture graduate Liam Sheehan. The Wellington School of Architecture Alumni’s work uses the tools of Virtual Reality to create symbiotic environments that engage the human thermosensory (ability to feel temperature changes), and visual and auditory systems to understand the relationship between our bodies and the spaces we inhabit.

Experience’ began for Liam with a love for the weightless sensory experience of swimming. His research took that affinity and started to question how multi-sensory experiences affect the human perception of space and how we can experience the medium of space parallel to the way we experience the medium of movement, propulsion and immersion in water.

Experience breaks down the human sensory system to better understand our bodies' connection with space itself. Through the application of coding, architectural design methods and the constantly expanded wealth of knowledge about the sensory system, Liam began to develop the final design which aimed to create a unique meditative sensory experience; in which the qualities of the virtual space itself began to reveal themselves.

Liam's work will be in the Te Aro window gallery from April 1st - 20th.

2022's second 30/30 exhibitor is former Architecture graduate Liam Sheehan. The Wellington School of Architecture Alumni’s work uses the tools of Virtual Reality to create symbiotic environments that engage the human thermosensory (ability to feel temperature changes), and visual and auditory systems to understand the relationship between our bodies and the spaces we inhabit.


End of Year Exhibition 2022

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End of Year Exhibition 2022

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Te Whānau Mārama| Family of Light

Student Awards Exhibition 2023

Experience | 30/30