Celebrating Māori & Pacific success
in Design and Creative Technologies

Kōkiritia te tai-anamata, whakanuia te tai-onamata, whakatitinatia te tai-auaha
Hasten towards the tide of the future, celebrate the tide of the past, foster the tide of innovation
(Dean Mahuta, 2020)

Kia ora, Kia orana, Talofa lava, Ni sa bula, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Fakafeiloaki, Malo e lelei, Falatalofa atu, Bislama, Gude, Aloha.

Welcome to the Mana tangata, Mana whenua, Mana moana website, celebrating Māori and Pacific success in Te Ara Auaha, the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT. It showcases both academic and professional staff in the faculty, and our connection to the communities we come from and serve. It also shows cultural collaboration and respect for diversity and inclusion.

In the words of the great Pacific scholar Professor Epeli Hau’ofa (1939-2009):

We should not be defined by the smallness of our islands but in the greatness of our oceans. We are the sea; we are the ocean. Oceania is us.