Ockham Lectures Pocket Edition: Arkitektur i Sápmi, Hoahoanga i Aotearoa

Established in 2020, the Ockham Lecture Series commissions a rich breadth of voices to write about ideas that matter for craft, design and architecture. It and the Pocket Series are supported by Objectspace's extraordinary lead partner, Ockham Residential.

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Issue 07: Published in response to Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators, 30 Nov 2024–16 Mar 2025 at Objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Supported by Nordisk Kulturfond's Globus initiative and The Warren Trust.

“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.”

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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.