CoHoHui 2021
With positive anticipation and goodwill, 230 of us gathered at CoHoHui 2021 on the 22nd of June at Wellington University School of Architecture. We had great timing because the first tentacles of the Covid19 outbreak hit Wellington the following day, preventing many face to face, large events since then. We dodged that bullet, but Auckland has not been so lucky with freedom of movement, a memory and a dream at the moment.
THIS aspired to make the CoHoHui presentations available to attendees and those who couldn’t make it online, which proved to be harder than we imagined. Technical glitches on the day disrupted the beautiful introduction by Ngāti Awa and the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Marc Aurel Schnabel, and we also had no recordings to post of the presentation by our keynote speakers Cany Ash of Ash Sakula Architects and Sam Brown of the University of Sheffield in the UK. Over the time since Mark Southcombe, with support from Cany Ash and Sam Brown, have recreated a new film version of the presentation that covers the same keynote material, slides, and videos, with commentary, captions and discussion, and that is now available on this link. The Collective Custombuild and associated discussion of the UK Collective Housing sector are very relevant to the Aotearoa New Zealand context and need. They are an invaluable resource and reference in the years ahead.
Following the keynote presentation, the Collective Perspectives Morning Session featured Jen Deben from Te Matapihi, Greer O’Donnell from The Housing Innovation Society, on Ngāti Toa aspirations and Papakāinga by Helmet Modlik, Cambridge CoHousing by Rosie Cahalane & John Pitcairn, Peterborough Co-operative Housing by Trystan Swain, Brookside Featherston by Ian McComb, Urban Habitat Collective by Bronwen Newton, Collet’s Corner Lyttelton by Camia Young and 26 Aroha, Auckland by Blair & Julie McKinnon. That presentation is now available on this link.
The Collective Housing sector and project presentations also offer significant insight into Aotearoa New Zealand Collective Housing activities, some of the barriers that the projects face, and some of the bright moments that demonstrate solutions that shift away from speculation and promote equitable, self-help, sustainable, long term models of housing.
