One big question in the UK lately is how to engage stakeholders in the design process? How can the public participate? Or does design by democracy result in an over-mediated diluted soup of opinion? WHAT_architecture launched ‘paint by numbers’ as a response to the UCL’s Department of Archeology’s research into the surface of an historic building. Paint by numbers is the history of colour on a particular building. Given that this building is a maori meeting house, a wharenui, a whare manaaki, a whare wanaanga, colour also throws up issues of race, culture and empire…
Thanks to all the kids from kohanga reo for a successful colour archeology rendition of Hinemihi circa 1886…