We are Aotearoa New Zealand’s prominent Urban Design researchers and educators striving to shape our urban landscape with visionary and creative design solutions.
We work across a range of different spatial scales, to research and create urban forms that are resilient, equitable, diverse, green, healthy, inclusive, and responsive.
Our Latest Work
Co-creative spatial design:
Co-creative spatial design: Co-creative spatial design: Collaborative research on emerging spatialities in our progressively mediatised, translocalised and transcultural society that engage with speculative approaches and augmented reality spatialisations.Project...
Urban relational informatics
Urban relational informaticsUrban relational informatics: Transdisciplinary studies of fundamental social infrastructure, public space and urban commons of the multiscalar and recombinant “planetary urbanisation” age.Project Team: Dr Manfredo Manfredini
Re-assess meaningful urban spaces
Re-assess meaningful urban spaces: Sensing Auckland social 'hotspots' with mobile location data under the COVID-19 impactThis research utilize the mobile location data within Auckland city, New Zealand, to explore the social impacts on urban 'hotspots' concerning the...