This paper responds to aspects of mihimihi. It examines the ideas of journey and arrival, of coming together, and of sharing in and contributing to building a rich and divergent collective identity. The mihi grounds us to a relational interconnection, not as individual agents but part of a whole that can encompass diversity.
Mihimihi includes the announcing of yourself, which locates you in relation to the past and present through whenua and whakapapa (geographically and genealogically). How do you announce yourself? Who are you; who are your people; where do you come from; what have you studied; what have you made; what are your stories; what do you bring to this place and the people around you? How is this explored through art and design, and through the words you say and write? How does being in this whenua, and acting in/on the world bring you together with those around you, to stand collectively as a creative cohort?
You are to design a room that introduces yourself to the city.
By drawing on your mihimihi, locating and linking significant people and places, and exploring the definition of ‘drawing’ and ‘room’ via a process of mapping one of the Oriental Parade boat sheds that will inform your proposed room.
You will work with a boat shed on Oriental Parade to spatially represent your mihimihi.
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