072hin_100708_Paint By Numbers public workshop


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…

SAY WHAT_!?

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