Join us to celebrate the launch of our next Ockham Lectures Pocket Edition by Jade Kake.

Exploring the relationship between Māori and Sámi contemporary architecture developed through Objectspace’s project Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators in 2024, Kake offers an insight into the lingering thoughts from her interactions with Nango and others during their time in Aotearoa.

“Collaborations and interactions between Sámi and Māori architects and creative practitioners began to emerge through the exhibition and a series of curated and organic conversations. This essay was written out of dialogues I had with Joar Nango. It responds to Joar’s perspectives and ideas and the themes of the exhibitions, through a Māori lens, and mediates on similarities and differences, related ideas and strategies for resistance, and considering our unique shared positionality as Indigenous (Sámi and Māori) architects.”

This is seventh in the series of Pocket Editions – published lectures exploring critical conversations in design, craft and architecture and supported by Objectspace’s Lead Partner Ockham Residential.

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Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Whakāue) is an architectural designer and writer. She is the founder of Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, a Kaupapa Māori architecture studio. Jade is a Senior Lecturer at Huri te Ao School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau. She is the author of Rebuilding the Kāinga: Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri (Bridget Williams Books, 2019) and has contributed articles and chapters to magazines and books on housing, architecture and urbanism. She is a also a two-time winner of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing.