About me
Interconnected approach
My core interest is how heritage intersects with broader planning futures – urban intensification, cultural rights and recognition, and radical action in the face of climate change. How do we move to bridge the gap between professionals and people, architecture and landscape in a changing world? How do we understand our attachments to place beyond built form? I seek to explore places as overlays of form and relationships, dynamic processes rather than static products, constructions in time as much as space. It is in contestation, contradiction and collaboration that cultural meaning is sustained and renewed - our ever-evolving, and unchanged, lifescapes.
Expertise and highlights
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Tertiary teaching across urban and environmental planning, architecture and built heritage conservation
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Expert witness at Council hearings and the Environment Court
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Qualitative research using a range of methods: literature reviews and documents analyses, different interview techniques, focus groups, and place investigations
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Speaker at professional and academic conferences, including Heritage Futures panel discussion at the 2023 international ICOMOS General Assembly
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Editor of the Landscape Foundation's award-winning book, Kia Whakanuia te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape
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Project architect for major restoration and repair projects in Melbourne Australia (e.g. State Library of Victoria) and Cambridge UK (e.g. Jesus College)
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Coordinating and working with technical consultants and design teams for successful project deliveries
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Practical and considered approaches to area-wide place protections, taking an interconnected planning perspective in sensitive political/community contexts
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Contribution to critical heritage theory through published work – see Research.
Memberships
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Trustee of Te Papa Tū Whirinaki | The Landscape Foundation.
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Registered Architect, NZRAB 4892
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Associate Planner, NZPI 11495
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Member of the Urban Design Advisory Panel for Hamilton Aotearoa
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Full member of ICOMOS (NZL581) and the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL).
Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental Planning (University of Waikato, 2024)
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Master of Architecture (University of Auckland, 2017)
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PG Dip in Development Studies (Massey University, 2007)
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Bachelor of Architecture (Victoria University, 2002).