Owheo Rising was a collaboration with visiting research Nina Czegledy (CA), Ron Bull (Kai Tahu Māori cultural advisor) and staff and students from the Schools of Art and Design – a collaborative teaching project– that extended the collaboration to include our local river.
A symposium began this student project bringing multiple perspectives of the river that runs through the Otago Polytechnic campus. Students from both schools first learned about the social, environmental and cultural histories of the river, and engaged in experiences with the stream as a living being. The images below depict The Paper Boat project. A student team developed hand-made paper embedded with seeds required to grow the native grasses in the stream that endangered native fish need to lay eggs. It was designed with local kindergarten children and teachers as stakeholders, along with the fish and stream itself.
