In March 2018 Mad Ave collaborated with a number of amazing teams to coordinate and ignite Home Fires.
This hui/gathering has been initiated to bring healing to some the impacts around property developments in Glen Innes. Mad Ave animateur Tamati Patuwai facilitated the hui as a response to some of the missing aspects around government, council and community engagements.
State housing residents for many reasons are often left to the side in terms of future designs and decision making, which in turn has, in Glen Innes, caused some of the most traumatic experiences around social change in Aotearoa.
In true Mad Ave styles Home Fires brought ancient cultural wisdoms, creative art powers, and whanau engagement into a powerful, unifying corroboration that seeks to heal and to redesign how developments can be done in partnership with whanau.
Deep thanx to Auckland Arts Festival, The National Science Challenge, Building better homes for Maori team, Pae Herenga o Tamaki, our arty mates, the many visitors, the students and teachers of Tamaki College and Te Kura Kaupapa o Puau, and especially to our home intelligence crew.
Mauri Ora xxx