Archive for 2021

Events

• EWRB Competency Refresher Course on 17th November (November 2 2021)

   

  Every licensed electrical worker must complete a competence programme to refresh their knowledge and assess their competence every 2 years.

  If you're a registered electrical worker looking to renew your practising licence, join us on 17th November for our EWRB Competency Refresher Course.

  How this works:

  • Refresh your skills and assess your competency through this refresher course on 17th November.
  • Once you pass the competency programme, we'll share your details within the EWRB portal.
  • Apply to renew your practising licence - EWRB will already have confirmation that you have met your competency obligations and are eligible to renew.

   

  Apply here for the upcoming course.

  Get in quick as we have a limited number of spots available for this date.
• Tertiary Open Days 2021 (May 10 2021)

  Dunedin Tertiary Open Days are on Sunday 23 May and Monday 24 May 2021

  Come along to Tertiary Open Day and see first-hand the fantastic range of study options available at Otago Polytechnic. There's plenty to see and do, and there's food, too!

  Grab a bacon buttie and pedal yourself a delicious smoothie while you find out everything you need to know to make a decision about study.

  We'll have people available to show you around, answer your questions and give you a taste of life at OP. It's a a full day of seminars and activities - and a key event for Otago Polytechnic.

  We can't wait to welcome you and your whānau to our campus to experience what we have to offer.

   

  Find out more 

• National ITP research symposium: Resilience (November 18 2021)

  The programme is now out for the annual research symposium for the ITP sector on 25-26 November 2021. 

  The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Whitireia and WelTec are jointly hosting the 2021 ITP Symposium which will now be an online event.  The symposium theme is Resilience | Aumangea

  The aim of the symposium is to bring together staff from across the many ITPs, postgraduate students and our key industry stakeholders who are interested in research. The symposium organising committee are particularly interested in fostering research collaborations amongst attendees as we move towards becoming one entity under Te Pūkenga. The symposium welcomes contributions from academic staff and tutors, as well as postgraduate students from across the ITP sector who would like to present on their research work.

  We have great keynote speakers lined up for this event.

  • Jehan Casinader (Journalist, public speaker and mental health advocate; 2020 Broadcast reporter of the year)
  • Dr Mereana Selby (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Huia, Ngāti Porou Tumuaki, Chief Executive, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Dr Selby has a passion for language revitalisation and intergenerational language transmission)

   

  • Read the programme here.
  • Register online to receive links to e-attend the presentations.
• Working towards our sustainable and equitable future (September 30 2021)

  The South East Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence is hosting a webinar, Working towards our sustainable and equitable future in the Asia-Pacific, with our fellow CAPEs North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence and Latin America Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence. We want to introduce you to the academic who will be representing South East Asia CAPE.
  
  Dr Negin Imani is a lecturer in Architectural and Building Science at Otago Polytechnic with a PhD in Architecture from Victoria University of Wellington. For the last six years she has been working as a researcher in the Centre for Building Performance Research at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research is focused on sustainable architecture and biomimetic energy efficient building design.
  
  Rising emissions in the buildings and construction sector (the sector accounts for 40% of all energy-related carbon emissions) emphasise the need for strategies to aggressively reduce energy demand in the built environment, decarbonize the power sector, and implement materials strategies that reduce lifecycle carbon emissions. Dr Imani will be talking about building pollution and carbon emissions, exploring examples of solutions and strategies from Singapore that aim to address these problems. She will also touch on her research on bio-inspired design and thermo-bio-architectural framework, the importance of multidisciplinary research collaborations to address and embrace sustainability and climate resilience in the building sector.
  
  Registrations for the webinar are open now at www.cape.org.nz
  When: Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 4:00 - 5.30pm

   

• Fashion Futures – Emerging to Emerged (September 29 2021)

  Join us on this special free Fashion Friday sponsored by Otago Polytechnic as we are joined by distinguished Otago Polytechnic alumni, in conversation with fashion lecturer Simon Swale.

  Find out about the new generation of fashion professionals who are helping shape the future of the fashion industry. Hear their fashion journeys from student projects through to the exciting careers they now have. Discover the variety of roles our graduates enter into upon graduating and hear what motivates them, their challenges, their aspirations and hopes for the future of fashion.

  Featuring-

  • Anna Ross. Founder of ethical cosmetics brand Kester Black and winner of  the Telstra Australian Young Business Woman of the Year award 2016.
  • Alice Baird: Menswear designer at Auravale Industries, Christchurch, developing brands Cutler & Co. and R. F. Scott from conception through to sample ranges.
  • Rosette Hailes-Paku: Founder of fashion label Karaoke Superstars, Rosette has shown at New Zealand Fashion Week and won Apparel magazine’s Most Commercial Award at the iD International Emerging Designer Awards 2019.

  Brought to you by Fashion at the School of Design, Otago Polytechnic.

  5.30pm, Friday 1 October (1 hour)
  Beautiful Science Gallery
  FREE (Koha welcomed) bookings required

  Otago Museum is committed to maintaining the safety of our community. This event will take place at Alert Level 2.

• Federico Freschi professorial lecture (September 22 2021)

  We warmly invite you to join us at our upcoming professorial event when Professor Federico Freschi will be speaking on the topic Privilege & Prejudice: Reflections on the Politics of Art, Architecture & Design.

  Date: Tuesday 19 October 2021
  Time: 5.00pm
  RSVP: online registration by Friday 15 October 2021
  Venue: H Block, Otago Polytechnic, 115 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin
  

  "This lecture is a reflection on the role of art, architecture and design in constructing notions of nationalism, identity and belonging. I consider examples from the South African context that show how designed forms, structures and artefacts were implicated in embedding white privilege and entangled in the politics of claiming and deploying power. Against a global context of resurgent nationalisms and urgent calls for decolonisation, these examples hold lessons that have broad resonance across other former settler-colonial societies. I will draw from my research over the past two decades that focuses on the intersections of identity, politics, and imaginaries of belonging in art, design and architecture. 

  "The lecture coincides with the launch of the edited volume The Politics of Design: Privilege & Prejudice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa (eds. Federico Freschi, Jane Venis & Farieda Nazier, Otago Polytechnic Press, 2021)."

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  Federico Freschi was appointed Professor and Head of College of Te Maru Pūmanawa | Creative Practice & Enterprise at the Otago Polytechnic in October 2019. Before that, he was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. A widely published art historian, he has curated exhibitions of national and international significance, notably as the South African curator of Henri Matisse: Rhythm and Meaning, the first exhibition of Matisse’s work to be held on the African continent. He is a former Vice-President on the board of Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), formerly held the position of President of SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians) and is on the advisory committee of Forum Kunst und Markt (Technische Universität Berlin).

   

  Image credit: Jeanne Kotze-Louw, mosaic frieze in the baggage claim hall of Jan Smuts Airport (now O R Tambo International Airport), Johannesburg, 1971. Image courtesy of Transnet Heritage Library Photo Collection.

• EXHIBITION Neil Grant: Master Potter (June 28 2021)

  8 - 28 OCTOBER, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN

  Neil Grant: Master Potter
  Exhibition and Book launch

  This exhibition and book shine a light on the development of Neil’s skill and artistry with clay and fire. 

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  “Twenty years to learn, twenty years to forget, and then the real work begins to find your voice”

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  Neil Grant is an artist and a ceramicist. In his twenties he learned to work with clay, to throw, to mould, to coil, to slab build, to glaze, to fire a kiln, to decorate simple and complex surfaces. He has been a leader in ceramics education for over 40 years. His sixty-year career as a ceramic artist spans the years from the flowering of domestic rustic pots to large sculptural ceramics and major architectural commissions. He is well known for his distinctive reworking of traditional Shino-Japanese pottery into a fusion of Anglo-Oriental forms but recreating them in new and exciting ways.

   

  This exhibition and associated events are held in conjunction with the Festival of Ceramics which will take place in Dunedin over Labour weekend 2021, when Ceramics NZ holds its 60th National Diamond Jubilee Exhibition.
  
  

  See here for full details of Exhibition, Workshops and Public Programme | 8 - 28 October

   

   

   

   

     Neil Grant is a master potter of New Zealand.
     This lavishly illustrated book, is a celebration
     of Grant's life and work and spans his 
     sixty-year career as a ceramic artist.

   

   

   

   

   

  City of Literature Book event
  
  Neil Grant: Master Potter | An evening with the Author and Artist
  
  

  WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER
  6PM -  Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Library
  
  

  
  Pre-order your copy now, please contact Pam McKinlay

  Order form and payment details at pam.mckinlay@op.ac.nz

  A limited number of copies of Neil Grant: Master Potter, by Peter Stupples will be available on the night.

  
  Copies will be batch printed
  Cost per book $90.00 incl GST (pick up Dunedin)
  
  

  PLUS: Indicative price for
  Track and trace P&P $17.70 NZ
  Extra for rural delivery $4.00 NZ 

  
  
  
  

   

• Ako espresso café on Harbour Terrace is opening! (June 3 2021)

  Our Level 5 New Zealand Diploma in Hospitality Management students are poised to present their pop-up experience at our Ako espresso café on Harbour Terrace (next to Manaaki Restaurant)

  
  One 2-week block - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday starting 8 June until 17 June.
  Then again after the holidays for a 3-week block, this time Wednesday, Thursday, Friday starting 28 July until 13 August.

  
  For your convenience we are open from 8.00am to 2.00pm daily.

  Home-baked sweet and savoury products are prepared fresh each day.  Treat yourself further with our hot coffees priced at only $3.00.
  
  Our loyalty card is a further incentive; buy 4 cups of coffee and get your 5^th one free.

  
  Our students are really looking forward to being able to serve our guests at Ako espresso café again. They have worked hard to develop a varied menu, beverage list with dine-in and pick-up options.
  
  Find us on Google maps

   

   

  

   

• Professorial lecture (May 31 2021)

  For the first of this year's professorial lectures, Associate Professor Lesley Gill will speak on the topic "Exploring practical perspectives of emotional intelligence: Harnessing the power within".

  WHEN: 5.30pm, Tuesday 22 June 2021
  WHERE: The Hub
  WHAT: Professorial lecture and book launch
  RSVP: Register your attendance here

  High levels of empathy are difficult to maintain, particularly for those of us working in caring or service-focussed professions. If we do not pay attention to our own needs for rest and refuelling, we are likely to experience compassion fatigue, so we need to ensure we are refilling our reserves of mental, emotional, and physical energy.

  Compassion fatigue describes the emotional exhaustion of someone who is relied on to constantly show empathy without the opportunity or resources to refuel their own emotional reserves. Employees who work in high stress situations or are dealing with difficult people, or people with high needs, are at greater risk of compassion fatigue, also referred to as empathy burnout.

  The suffering of others leaves its mark on those who care for them, such as firefighters, ambulance workers, police, nurses, teachers, victim support workers and others, who regularly deal with trauma and tragedy. It is understandable that people might become desensitised to it, which in turn impacts on those they care for, another reason why we need to refuel.

  We can conclude that too much focus on our own needs reduces our ability to empathise for others, even when our circumstances demand it of us. Additionally, the sheer amount of demand on our empathic reserves due to the high needs of others can cause empathy burnout, especially when sustained over lengthy periods. While compassion fatigue might be considered the “cost of caring”, it should not be assumed that it is an acceptable part of the job”.

  Dr Lesley Gill is an Associate Professor in the School of Business at Otago Polytechnic.

• Online research seminar (April 28 2021)

  All are welcome to join this free online research seminar organised by the School of Midwifery.

  Where: On Teams Click here to join the meeting

  When: Monday 3 May at 1pm

  Presenter one: Helen Jeffery (OT) Title: The Five Finger Framework – facilitating considered decision making.       Short description: This research explored essential elements in enhancing evidence-based practice in students and therapists. Data was gathered via focus groups and interviews with students, lecturers and supervising clinicians to inform the development of the Five Finger Framework. Bio Helen Jeffery is an occupational therapist and currently a senior lecturer at the school of occupational therapy, Otago Polytechnic. Her practice specialty is mental health, and her two main research interests are in professional reasoning and in the use of adventure therapy in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

  Presenter two: Emme Le Lievre (Mid)  Title: Study Protocol for a retrospective cohort study to assess the link between interpregnancy weight change and the onset of gestational diabetes (GDM) in the second pregnancy in people with a normal booking BMI in the index pregnancy.  Short description:  International research suggests that increased interpregnancy weight change (IPWC) could be a risk factor for GDM in the second and subsequent pregnancies.  Research undertaken in NZ would provide insight to how IPWC is linked to GDM in a local population.     Bio Emma Le Lievre graduated from the OP Institute of Sport and Adventure in 2014 and the School of Midwifery in 2015. She has worked as a registered midwife in secondary care units in NZ, completed contract work in Australia and as a Lead Maternity Carer in New Zealand.  Most recently she was the Maternity Quality Coordinator at MidCentral DHB.  Emma joined OP in 2021 as a Kaiako based in Palmerston North.

• Public Seminar: Mark Baskett - on ‛research’ when evaluating and discussing visual art (March 29 2021)

  THURS 1 APRIL, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Mark Baskett

  On the echinate question of what might be meant by the term ‛research’ when evaluating and discussing visual art.

  From the making of art that favours imaginative exposition and the exploration of certain internal states of mind— to long hours spent in archives, or wandering work-specific sites, or simply trawling for facts and fragments online: ideas around the place and potential role of research in my artistic practice have changed significantly over the last twenty years. And even today, when hearing the word ‛research’ attached to examples of creative visual art, I am often left wondering about what, more precisely, might be meant by the use of this term. Does it point to a clearly outlined framework and methodology with distinct and communicable results? Is doctoral research in the area of visual arts now a new gold standard by which we might measure the value and seriousness of work made today? Though I cannot provide definitive answers to such questions, I am fascinated by what might be meant or indeed not meant when the term research is applied to visual art. In this seminar I will thematise these concerns by putting forward a selection of my own artistic work and reflecting on the presence and the changing use of the term research both in and around the context of the work.

  Mark Baskett is a practicing visual artist, born in Dunedin, New Zealand. His tertiary education began with a BFA at what was then titled “The Quay School of Arts”, in Whanganui, New Zealand. From 2005-2007 he completed

  an MFA after studying at the Bauhaus Universität, in Weimar and the Üniversität der Kunst (UdK) in Berlin. From 2007-2015 he lived in Zürich, where he exhibited regularly and participated in a variety of artist residencies; both

  in Switzerland and in Germany. His work has also been shown in Belgium, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Currently he is employed part time as a teacher in the Arts and Media Department at the Nelson Polytechnic (NMIT).

• Online seminar - distance education (March 26 2021)

  You're invited to hear Suzanne Miller talk on the topic of "Sustaining distance education for Master of Midwifery candidates".

  When: Monday 29 March at 1pm

  Where: On Teams Click here to join the meeting

  Presentation: Otago Polytechnic has offered a Master of Midwifery qualification since 1999 and this has been offered at distance since 2013. Having graduated several Masterful Midwives via this study model - including midwives based in Europe, North and South America - and having avoided 76 flights in 2019 alone by not conducting on-campus Thesis Schools, we believe we are successfully meeting our educational and sustainability goals. But what of the learner experience? The aim of our research is to explore the learning experience of midwives who have successfully completed their Master of Midwifery qualification by distance supervision.

  Bio: A midwifery educator since 2010, Suzanne Miller is committed to using innovative solutions to enable more midwives to engage in postgraduate midwifery education. Her previous research in this topic area confirmed that online education assists midwives to integrate new knowledge into practice and that the flexibility and accessibility of online study enabled midwives to engage in study they would not have undertaken if offered on-campus in Dunedin. Suzanne is the Postgraduate Programmes Leader at Otago Polytechnic’s School of Midwifery and maintains a small caseload alongside to keep her honest. 

• IFFTI: Critical Conversations (March 9 2021)

  Critical Conversations: Research, Teaching and Working in Fashion and Textiles Education Beyond COVID-19

  This online IFFTI event is this Wednesday 10 March 2021.

  Chair: Professor Robyn Healy - Dean, RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles, and Chair of IFFTI

  Fashion education, complicit in global systemic issues, needs to shift to better represent more mindful, ethical, diverse and inclusive modes of practice, that became more obvious in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Join us in three conversations:

  1. Perspectives from our region, navigating life beyond COVID-19 as an active practice across fashion research, education and industry. This has stemmed from observations around the way the pandemic has shifted fashion curriculum and pedagogies via the use of many methods and strategies from research that have been prevalent for some time.
     
     Convenors: Associate Dean (Design) Dr Ricarda Bigolin and Dr Scott Mayson - Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) with invited guests.
     
     
  2. Ethical and sustainability practices, material innovation and the digital transformation is changing the fashion and textiles industry requires us to work in more collaborative ways and within planetary boundaries. This conversation brings course leaders together, of two courses co- delivered to all first-year fashion and textiles students. We discuss how interdisciplinary learnings enable students to develop shared language sets around sustainability and materials, and to recognise and establish relationships between disciplinary sectors.
     
     Convenor: Associate Dean (Technology) Dr Jenny Underwood with Dr Tarryn Handcock (Place and Story), Dr Georgia McCorkill (Fashion Design Reuse) and Dr Saniyat Islam (Sustainable Materials).
     
     
  3. One shared world - bringing local perspectives to a global program. This conversation brings the program leaders in Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City to discuss the philosophical, pedagogical, and practical aspects of developing and delivering one program in two quite different locations.
     
     Convenors: Associate Dean (Enterprise) Dr Stephen Wigley with Dr Tarun Panwar and Dr Nina Yiu (RMIT Vietnam), and invited guests.

  Wednesday 10th March 2021 from 17:00 - 19:00 NZDT
  
  Register via Eventbrite here.

  Image Caption: Kirsten Olsen, 'Studio Scenes', RMIT Bachelor of Fashion (Design)(Honours) 2020 Graduate

• Public Seminar: Kathryn McCully - DIY Museums (February 23 2021)

  THURS 25 FEB, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Kathryn McCully

  We Create Our Own Museums 

  DIY Museums is an art & design research project that emerged in response to gaps in the provision for community participation in local museums in Murihiku (Southland). A DIY approach became increasingly pertinent in the course of the research following the closure of City Gallery in 2017, and Southland Museum and Art Gallery in 2018, both of which followed the closure of Anderson Park Art Gallery in 2014.

  The DIY Museums’ research ethos is to perform a responsive museum model that connects with the aspirations of community members to develop and present their own museum experiences. I describe my role as a socially-engaged artist and curator who advocates for, and facilitates, a diversity of co-created, community-driven museum experiences. The research explores DIY practices already evident in the region’s over forty ‘micro’ and ‘small’ museums with no permanent full-time staff, advocating for public arts and cultural institutions to create museum experiences in partnership with their communities.

  The DIY Museums’ project serves as a field-test that sets the stage for the facilitation of a new conception of museum professionalism consistent with socially-engaged art practice and institutional critique. Research methods include local museum-making, responsive animations, poster and billboard campaigns, and a website.

  
  Kathryn McCully is Programme Manager for Visual Art, Film and Animation in the School of Visual and Screen Arts at the Southern Institute of Technology in Invercargill. She has a Master of Fine Arts from the Dunedin School of Art and is currently studying towards her PhD at the Auckland University of Technology. Kathryn is passionate about the democratization of the public museum experience, by moving the focus away from buildings and employees towards the process and place of ‘museum making’ in the construction of meaning for local communities.

• Drawing Workshop (September 30 2020)

  Sign up for a 3 day drawing workshop with Anita De Soto on 3 – 5 February 2021.

  The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has an excellent collegial relationship with the Otago Polytechnic Dunedin School of Art. In early 2021, in conjunction with the exhibition Style & Substance: A Journey Through the Collection, we are thrilled to offer a wonderful opportunity to learn the skills of life drawing, still life and mark making from Dunedin School of Art lecturer and artist Anita DeSoto. DeSoto has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been a lecturer in drawing and painting since 2004. 
   
  In this workshop you will learn to bring your drawings to life with dynamic and engaging mark making. This is an exciting workshop promising something for everyone, from beginners wanting to learn fundamental drawing processes, to those wanting to build on existing skills (16+ years). Cost $140 for three days, all materials provided. This workshop will be taught between the Dunedin School of Art and Dunedin Public Art Gallery premises.

  Places are limited, please direct all enquiries to Vanessa on (03) 474 3260.
   
  Noho ora mai, Lynda Cullen
  Visitor Programmes Officer, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

• Staff Development Week Programme 2020 (September 17 2020)

  Nau mai, Haere mai, Tahuti mai! Welcome to all staff! 

  During this week we will explore our Connections - how we nurture, strengthen and sustain ourselves and our people - our tauira, colleagues, and the communities we are connected to. In the upheaval of lockdown, we supported each other for the good of all. As an organisation, our connections enabled us to continue our mahi. Take some time during this week to refocus on yourself. Connect with others and new learning opportunities through the sharing of kōrero, practices and lessons learned. 

  Enjoy your week as as OP learner. If you are in Dunedin come and enjoy the Spring Breakfast with ELT on Thursday morning.

  Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa - Let us keep close together, not wide apart

   

  Programme Information

  Join the face-to-face workshops, online streamed webinars, or dive into the self-paced online resources anytime during the day. There are several sessions still to be confirmed, these will be added to the programme in the next few days.

  Make sure to register your booking through the + calendar link. If you are unable to make the session or change your mind, it is important to unregister, using the - calendar link, allowing someone else to use your place. Places are limited for some sessions, as denoted by an * on the programme.

  Any questions, please email pctdevelopment@op.ac.nz.

   

  Monday 28 September Welcome Message from Megan Gibbons, CEO Morning Karakia | Our Values
  Morning Sessions
  9.00 - 9.50am	10.00 - 10.50am	11.00 - 11.50am
  Expressive Writing * Kathryn Van Beek D101	Creative Commons Poker * Simonne Wood & Emma Allen D101	Teaming up to create a flexible & adaptable learning environment Kevin O'Neill Online
  Tinana Whakaoriori (Māori Tai Chi) Desiree Williams Quad + Online (Hub near G block + Online if wet)	Intro to Tikanga Maori for the Organisation Ron Bull Online	Visual Literacy….Joining the Dots * Ana Terry D101
  Positive uncertainty - developing your portfolio career * Mark Jory, Ashleigh Crosbie D102		Women's Self Defence * Imogen Coxhead 11 am till 1pm H603
  Lunchtime
  Recycling in the Hub - Interactive Stand near Eden
  Afternoon Sessions
  1.00 - 1.50pm	2.00 - 2.50pm	3.00 - 3.50pm
  Facilitating Learning Success - Day 1 of 2 Sessions Wendy Dore 1:00pm - 4:30pm Online
  Mau Rākau for beginners Jade Morgan D102	Mindful Sound Bath * David McQuillan G309
  Engaging students in learning Dr Don Samarasinghe, AIC F209 + Online	28 Days Later Ganeshan Kathiravelu & Yury Zhukov, AIC F209 + Online
  Visit the Exhibition - The Complete Entanglement of Everything Dunedin School of Art
  Online Options Available Any Time, Any Day
  Leadership Support Toolbox -  see the latest resources for Resilience as a leader	Maori Strategic Framework Module	Time Management Module
  Communication Skills Modules	LinkedIn Learning: Sleep is your Superpower (34mins)	YouTube: Yoga at your Desk (6mins)
  Suite of Education Technology Courses	Academic Staff Induction	Online Privacy Courses

   

   

  Tuesday 29 September Morning Karakia | Our Values
  Morning Sessions
  Boxing Session with Brendon Timmins 7.00 - 7.30am Online (recording available here)
  9.00 - 9.50am	10.00 - 10.50am	11.00 - 11.50am
  Timetabling (Working Session) 8.00am - 12noon, anytime drop-in sessions Marie Soffe & Rob Broadley D202, D Block, Computer Suite
  Designing Effective Assessment - Day 1 of 2 sessions Trish Chaplin-Cheyne, Maggie Wells 9:00am - 12:30pm Online
  Designing for Learning Success - Day 1 of 2 sessions Hugh Harlow 9:00am - 12.30pm Online
  Better understanding the needs of international students Marc Doesburg F215 + Online		Get professional recognition through the Higher Education Academy Kath Danaher F209
  Refilling our tank: Resilience for a long road trip Lesley Gill D102		Expressive Writing * Kathryn Van Beek Online
  		Get financially sorted: Design your new normal * Unicia Veer, CFFC facilitator Online
  	Lunchtime
  Recycling in the Hub - Interactive Stand near Eden Whakamanahia i te Korowai - add your feather to the cloak in the Hub Free Doggy Hugs in the Hub, near G block access way
  Afternoon Sessions
  1.00 - 1.50pm	2.00 - 2.50pm	3.00 - 3.50pm
  Facilitating Learning Success - Day 2 of 2 Sessions Wendy Dore 1:00pm - 4:30pm Online
  The trouble with feedback Sean Bell Online	Enjoy Writing for Research Leoni Schmidt 2.00pm - 3.50pm Online
  Revisiting the Age of Discovery (the third third of your life) Peter Brook H608
  Join the Green Team Finn Boyle Hub (near G block access way)	Positive uncertainty - developing your portfolio career * Mark Jory, Ashleigh Crosbie D102
  Māori learner survey – findings for success! Te Punake Ōwheo Online		Recorded Boxing Session Brendon Timmins 30 mins
  Visit the Exhibition - The Complete Entanglement of Everything Dunedin School of Art
  Online Options Available Any Time, Any Day
  Leadership Support Toolbox -  see the latest resources for Change Leadership	Rainbow Tick Training	LinkedIn Learning: Building Resilience (34mins)
  Career Planning Module	YouTube: Office Break Yoga (14mins)	LinkedIn Learning: Leadership Mindsets (35mins)

   

   

  Wednesday 30 September Morning Karakia | Our Values
  Morning Sessions
  9.00 - 9.50am	10.00 - 10.50am	11.00 - 11.50am
  Timetabling (Working Session) 8.00am - 12noon, anytime drop-in sessions Marie Soffe & Rob Broadley D202, D Block, Computer Suite
  Designing Effective Assessment - Day 2 of 2 sessions Trish Chaplin-Cheyne, Maggie Wells 9:00am - 12:30pm Online
  Designing for Learning Success - Day 2 of 2 sessions Hugh Harlow 9:00am - 12.30pm Online
  GoodYarn Workshop  Narinder Verma, Brendon Timmons 9.00 am - 12.00 pm G201
  Tips & Tools for Maintaining Teams that Hum * Jan Hudson & Vicie Hodge F209 + Online		Hands-on Activities to Highlight Capabilities Amber Paterson, Ana Terry F209
  Tinana Whakaoriori (Māori Tai Chi) Desiree Williams Quad + Online (Hub near G block + Online if wet)	Whakamanataka - connect with nature Kim Thomas Polygrow Nursery, L Block
  Lunchtime
  Recycling in the Hub - Interactive Stand near Eden Whakamanahia i te Korowai - add your feather to the cloak in the Hub Korero Cafe in the Hub
  Afternoon Sessions
  1.00 - 1.50pm	2.00 - 2.50pm	3.00 - 3.50pm
  Te Whakatutukitanga (Completion) - Finish your Te Reo Maori EduBit Shaun Tahau Online	Breaking bread, breaking down barriers and building connections * Tony Heptinstall M Block Kitchen
  Demystifying EAP (Employee Assistance Program)  Julie Cressey & Glenys Forsyth F215 + Online	Nourish soils & self - Waste to Resource, a composting workshop Finn Boyle Popopo (outside the Foundation Studies pre-fab block near Student Village)	Zumba with Codi Codi Ramsey Z115 (Sargood Centre) + Online
  Peer Observation for Professional Development - interactive workshop Sean Bell & James Staples G201		Recorded Boxing Session Brendon Timmins 30 mins
  Visit the Exhibition - The Complete Entanglement of Everything Dunedin School of Art
  Online Options Available Any Time, Any Day
  Leadership Support Toolbox -  see the latest resources for Decision Making	TEDx: Three Secrets of Resilient People - Lucy Hone (16mins)	Stress Prevention and Management Module
  Performance Reviews for Individuals Module	YouTube: My Money: What Now? - Sorted NZ (29mins)	Safety & Wellbeing Warrant of Fitness 2020

   

   

  Thursday 1 October Morning Karakia | Our Values  Spring Breakfast 7.30am - 9.00am
  Morning Sessions
  9.00 - 9.50am	10.00 - 10.50am	11.00 - 11.50am
  Timetabling (Working Session) 8.00am - 12noon, anytime drop-in sessions Marie Soffe & Rob Broadley D202, D Block, Computer Suite
  Adapting to change: making transitions easier Penelope Kinney Online	Demystifying EAP (Employee Assistance Program)  Julie Cressey & Glenys Forsyth F209 + Online	Te Whakatutukitanga (Completion) - Finish your Te Reo Maori EduBit Shaun Tahau D101
  Peer observation for Professional Development - Round Table Discussion Sean Bell & James Staples Online	Online annotation for learning * Simonne Wood Online	Professional Boundaries as an Academic Chris Williamson F209 + Online
  Applying global thinking in a local context: "glocal" Marc Doesburg F209 + Online	Line Dancing with Lorna 10.30am - 12noon Hub, near G block access way
  Connect with Moodle – Drop into the Hub or drop in online! Amy Benians, Rachel Cash Hub + Online	Visit the Exhibition - The Complete Entanglement of Everything Dunedin School of Art
  Lunchtime
  Recycling in the Hub - Interactive Stand near Eden Whakamanahia i te Korowai - add your feather to the cloak in the Hub Stories of the Hub & beyond with Ron Bull - meet at Customer Services Desk at 12noon
  Afternoon Sessions
  1.00 - 1.50pm	2.00 - 2.50pm	3.00 - 3.50pm
  Connecting research with its users, using videos Lesley Brook & Hugh Harlow D101		Connect with Moodle – Drop into the hub or drop in online! Amy Benians, Rachel Cash Hub + Online
  	Breaking bread, breaking down barriers and building connections * Tony Heptinstall M Block Kitchen
  Do it for the Worms | Design Studio Workshop Finn Boyle & co-facilitator D102		Recorded Boxing Session Brendon Timmins 30 mins
  	Engaging learners through narratives Josie Crawley (Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awardee 2020) F209
  Online Options Available Any Time, Any Day
  Leadership Support Toolbox -  see the latest resources for Building High Performing Teams	DiversityWorksNZ - webinar recordings	LinkedIn Learning: How to be adaptable during change and uncertainty (35mins)

   

• Collections 19 Fashion Show (October 30 2019)

  COLLECTIONS 2019 showcases fashion students from Otago Polytechnic School of Design.

  Join us as our graduating students send their latest fashion collections down the catwalk in an exciting display of talent and creativity.

   

  Friday 22 November

  The Hub, Forth Street

  7:00pm (doors open), seated by 7:45pm for an 8pm start

  (Doors open at 7.00pm for ticket holders to explore our School of Design Student Showcase.)

   

   

  BUY YOUR TICKETS

   

  

   

   

• Coffee and Kōrero with Learning and Teaching Development @ The Hub – Hōngongoi 2019 (June 25 2019)

  Monday – Friday, 10am - 11am

  1st July - 12th July 2019

  The Hub, Dunedin Campus

   

  Nau mai, haere mai, ki te korero ki te rōpū Learning and Teaching Development

   

  Getting ready for Semester Two delivery? Join us in The Hub for a one-on-one ‘drop in’ session. No booking required.

  Bring a warm drink, take a break and have a chat with the Learning and Teaching Development team.

   

  Off-campus staff: If you're off-campus and would like support anytime, contact your Academic Capability Partner to arrange a Skype call with a member of our team. Alternatively, you can create a case in Service and someone will respond as soon as possible to arrange a Skype call.

   

  Losing your noodle over Moodle? Let’s get it sorted!

  • Blended course template
  • Reusing your course
  • Adding and removing staff and students
  • Turnitin
  • Gradebook

  Get savvy with these ed tech resources and communication tools:

  • ePortfolios
  • Web conferencing
  • Media
  • eTV

  Build academic capability:

  • Assessment design
  • Learning design
  • Learning and teaching support
  • Rubrics
  • Lesson plans
  • Experiential/blended/work-based learning

  And more:

  • Copyright and OERs
  • Integrating student support services
  • Higher Advance international accreditation and recognition for teachers
  • Research ethics
  • Teacher observations

   

  Photo by Caleb Miller on Unsplash

• Exclusive film screening for OP staff and students (May 7 2019)

  We are pleased to invite staff and students to an exclusive screening of Dunedin’s newest short film, Milk.

  Milk is set in 1945 Dunedin. On a lonely coastal farm, a young widow confronts two crewmen from a German submarine who have come ashore on a secret mission – to get fresh milk.

  Dunedin actor Peter Hayden (Under the Mountain, Power Rangers, The Light Between Oceans) has a prominent role in the film, and the lead is played by Arrowtown-born Jodie Hillock (Daffodils, Nothing Trivial, The Inland Road, The Bad Seed).

  Come along to our exclusive screening to watch this sensational short film and have the opportunity to meet writer and director Pennie Hunt and producer Stefan Roesch. Get all your questions about film-making, CGI and German U-boats answered in the Q&A that follows the film.

  Date and time: 5 – 6pm, Tuesday 14 May
  Venue: Manaaki Restaurant, 51 Harbour Terrace
  Admission: Free

  Light refreshments will be provided. You are welcome to bring a partner or friend.

  Find the Facebook event here.

  
  About the film

  Staff members Stefan Roesch, Liz Stewart, Sam Hendry and Kathryn van Beek were all involved in the making of the film, and the Production Assistant was Otago Polytechnic graduate Annie Theewis.

  Milk was supported by Short Film Otago, Enterprise Dunedin, the Queenstown Camera Company and Otago Polytechnic.

  www.facebook.com/milkshort
  www.punakaikiproductions.com

News

• immersed - Becky Cameron (Post-graduate Season Exhibition) (March 3 2022)

  Note: the DSA Gallery is not open to the Public under the current Covid-Protection Framework.
  Documentation of exhibitions will be shown in our online flickr gallery the week following exhibitions.

   

  immersed

  Becky Cameron

  Post-graduate Season Exhibition

   

  EXHIBITION DATES: 8 - 11 March 2022

  DSA GALLERY: Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

   

   

• 2022 Information for New and Returning Tauira (January 28 2022)

  2022 Information for New and Returning Tauira:
  Bachelor of Visual Arts + Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts (Level 7)

  Warm greetings to all learners!

  To those returning, thank you for continuing to share your mahi and creativity with us. To those who are new to the Dunedin School of Art, we look forward to meeting you and welcoming you into our community. Please find below important information about the 2022 academic year.

  DAY ONE OF SEMESTER 1 - ALL LEARNERS
  The first day for all learners, new and returning in the Bachelor of Visual Arts and Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts (Level 7) Programmes is: Monday 21st February, 2022

  Programme Timetables & Room locations will be available from the School of Art entrance (P Block), online in your OP Student Hub or from your course Lecturer.

  If you are a part-time learner please check with your studio lecturer or Summer Young (summer.young@op.ac.nz) as your timetable may vary from the standard path.

  BVA 1

  9:00-9:30: Please enter the Dunedin School of Art at the main P Block entrance (main entrance off Riego Street). Please expect to show your vaccine pass. We have allowed some time for everyone to arrive and get settled re: Vaccine Passes etc.

  9:30-10:30| BVA 1: P152: ground floor of the Dunedin School of Art, P Block. Introduction to the Dunedin School of Art

  - Get a preview of your first year at the Dunedin School of Art

  - Find out about the School

  
  10:45-12:00: P103, P105a (Computer Labs): ground floor, Dunedin School of Art
  A guided walkthrough of required OP systems that you’ll need for a successful start to your year. 

  - Tip: Have your OP user name and password with you

  
  12:00-1:00 | Lunch break – BYO Lunch (O Block Hub Café Open)

  1:00pm | BVA 1: O119: VA501002: Studio Methodologies 1 course begins with Michele Beevors and Kiri Mitchell (Room O119 is on the ground floor O Block  - the new building next to P Block)

   

  BVA 2

  9:30-10:00: Please enter the Dunedin School of Art at the main P Block entrance. Please bring ID so that we may verify your Vaccine Pass. We have allowed some time for everyone to arrive and get this done re: Vaccine Pass Verifications.

  10:00 | BVA 2 P201 VA601002: Studio Methodologies 3 course begins with Scott Eady & Michael Morley

  12:00-1:00 | Lunch break – BYO Lunch (O Block Hub Café Open)

  1:00 pm| BVA 2 P201 VA601002: Studio Methodologies 3 cont.

   

  BVA 3 |Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts (Level 7)

  (Morning free)

  12:30-1:00: Please enter the Dunedin School of Art at the main P Block entrance (main entrance off Riego Street). bring ID so that we may verify your Vaccine Pass. We have allowed some time for everyone to arrive and get this done re: Vaccine Pass Verifications.

  1:00pm| BVA 3 / Grad Dip. STUDIOS VA/VG701002: Studio Practice 5 courses begin in Studios (Please refer to studio specific information from your studio lecturer)

   
  ACCESS: All Students will need an OP Student ID to access buildings under the ‘red’ traffic light setting (as doors remain closed/locked under ‘Red’) so please arrange to get your OP Student ID card from OPSA, before Monday 21 February if possible (or during the first week for term). Staff will be at the main P Block doorway on Monday to provide entry access on day one. Call into OPSA - OP Hub, Forth Street, for your OP Student ID cards (OPSA: https://opsa.org.nz/ )

  Returning Learners, your 2021 OP Student ID will work for the first few weeks of Term 1, so you can use these until you get your 2022 ID card from OPSA, to access buildings.

  A reminder; From 1 February 2022, Otago Polytechnic requires all tauira (learners), kaimahi (staff), contractors and visitors to have a valid My Vaccine Pass to enter any Otago Polytechnic site.   

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  Many changes have and are, occurring due to the shifting nature of COVID-19 and our preparedness for teaching and learning in this changing context. Please see OP - COVID-19 Updates here: https://www.op.ac.nz/hub/student/coronavirus-information/ and via your Student Hub.

  Due to COVID-19, some plans have changed regarding the start of the Bachelor of Visual Arts & Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts (Level 7) programmes but we are pleased to confirm that we will be teaching on site (with a heightened capacity to pivot to online delivery when required), under the government’s COVID-19 Protection Framework – traffic light settings. We will be beginning our programmes under the ‘red’ setting. We value studio learning and have been working to provide safe, on site teaching for you in 2022. Please expect more changes, along the way but trust that our decision making is centered around providing the best possible art education for you.

   

   

  
  IMPORTANT CONTACTS

  Head of Programme: Bachelor of Visual Arts: Victoria Bell: Victoria.bell@op.ac.nz
  Dunedin School of Art: Academic Administrator: Summer Young: Summer.young@op.ac.nz
  OP Registry, Student Administrator: Art (for questions around enrolment): ebsart@op.ac.nz
  OP Student Support Services: https://studentservices.op.ac.nz/

   

• Apply now: 2022 Dunedin School of Art Foundation Scholarships (November 11 2021)

  Due date: 3 December 2021 2022 Dunedin School of Art Foundation Scholarships

  Please contact artadmin@op.ac.nz. Download application form here.
  
  

  The following conditions apply:

  •  Three scholarships are offered for applicants applying for an on-site Dunedin School of Art program in 2022. In recognition of Otago Polytechnic’s commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi one scholarship will be awarded to a learner of Māori descent while the additional two will be available to all applicants.
  •  Each scholarship will be to the maximum value of $NZ5,000.00
    
    
  •  Criteria for the scholarships are that the applicant:
    
    
  •  Is applying for either the Bachelor of Visual Arts or a post-graduate programme of at least 120 credits.
  •  Has consistently achieved grades of Merit or above, or the equivalent.
  •  Has supplied documentation of 12 art works to be submitted with your application (no original works, as these will not be returned to the applicant). Documentation is either digital or no larger than A4 size.
  •  Demonstrates in their application that Dunedin School of Art’s combination of workshop-based, material practices skills and theory is appropriate for their study pathway.
  •  Has submitted their application by email to artadmin@op.ac.nz , or in person to Otago Polytechnic Customer Services, The Hub, Forth Street, Dunedin by 5pm Friday, December 3 2021.

  The successful awardees will be chosen by a panel led by the Head of the Te Maru Pūmanawa, College of Creative Practice and Enterprise. Successful applicants will be notified in writing by Otago Polytechnic’s Scholarship Coordinator.
  
  

  Otago Polytechnic Limited have the power to terminate the scholarship if the recipient ceases to follow the regulations of the programme of study and/or brings the reputation of Otago Polytechnic Limited into disrepute.
  
  

  Also note: Alumni and Friends Benefits - Fee discount of 15% for Registered alumni enrolling for fee-for-service courses or assessments.
• Ceramics Studio Talks - Labour weekend Sunday O Block (October 22 2021)

  SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER, 1.30-3.30PM, CERAMICS DEPARTMENT, O BLOCK, ART SCHOOL,  Entrance off ANZAC AVENUE

  Post-Graduate Ceramics students talk about their studio practice.

  ALL WELCOME - See map here https://www.op.ac.nz/students/campuses/dunedin/map/

   

  Bronwyn Mohring  1.00 – 1.30 PM

  Naked Clay & Captured Glass

  
  Sculptural Explorations into Sagar Firings and Cast Glass

   

  Liz Rowe 1.45 – 2.15 PM

  ‘The Exchange’

  
  Production of bowls for exchange

   

  Lissie Brown 2.30 – 3.00 PM

  Our earliest influences and perceptions of the world are born in the relationships we have with those who raise us. We unwittingly carry forward ripples from previous generations, whilst also being informed by events and opinions specific to their own time. How we traverse these gaps is dependent upon a number of factors both personal and societal. My study addresses the complex bonds that connect one generation of women to the next with recent practice centred around the female form, working with a range of disciplines including ceramics, sculpture and drawing.

   

  Please RSVP for the afternoon Session : https://artsymposium.op.ac.nz/rsvp/

• Neil Grant Survey Exhibition at Dunedin School of Art (October 21 2021)

  Neil Grant is an artist and a ceramicist. In his twenties he learned to work with clay, to throw, to mould, to coil, to slab build, to glaze, to fire a kiln, to decorate simple and complex surfaces. He has been a leader in ceramics education for over 40 years. His sixty-year career as a ceramic artist spans the years from the flowering of domestic rustic pots to large sculptural ceramics and major architectural commissions. He is well known for his distinctive reworking of traditional Shino-Japanese pottery into a fusion of Anglo-Oriental forms but recreating them in new and exciting ways.

  This exhibition and associated events are held in conjunction with the Festival of Ceramics which will take place in Dunedin over Labour weekend 2021, when Ceramics NZ holds its 60th National Diamond Jubilee Exhibition.
  
  READ MORE IN THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES ARTICLE > here
  
  

  See here for full details of Exhibition dates and opening hours, Workshops and Public Programme | 8 - 28 October

• City of Literature book launch - Neil Grant: Master Potter (October 8 2021)

  WED 20 OCT, 6PM, O BLOCK HUB, DUNEDIN SCHOOLS OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, ANZAC AVENUE ENTRANCE

  PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO O BLOCK HUB AT THE DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE ON ANZAC AVENUE

   

  See map here > https://www.op.ac.nz/students/campuses/dunedin/map/
  
     
  Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, Dunedin School of Art and Dunedin Public Libraries are delighted to host a celebration of the life and work of master potter Neil Grant, with the publication of Peter Stupples’ lavishly-illustrated book.
  Timed to coincide with the survey exhibition of Neil Grant’s works at the Dunedin School of Art Gallery, this exciting talk will offer a rare opportunity to hear both artist and author together, as they discuss the very different lifestyle and economic impact of ceramic artists working in the heady days of 60s and 70s when potters were the pin ups of the art scene in New Zealand.
    
  The audience can also enjoy a small display of Grant’s pottery, and books will be available for sale ($90).
  Light refreshments served.

  RSVP: click here button to book
  https://tinyurl.com/Neil-Grant-Potter

  
• Call for presentations: Open Badges: towards a new culture of recognition? (October 1 2021)

  We are calling for contributions from Aotearoa New Zealand to join the conversation at ePIC 2021, the 19th International Conference on Open Education and Open Recognition Technologies and Practices. ePIC 2021 will be held online 4-6 November 2021. It welcome participants and speakers from all continents and backgrounds to explore all dimensions of the emerging culture of recognition that gave rise to open badges. 

  The title is “Open Badges : towards a new culture of recognition?” and it has themes of Open badging and Building a culture of recognition. Contributions from Aotearoa New Zealand were very well received last year, so please register if you wish to continue these conversations.

  Deadline for the submission of presentation/papers abstracts: 20 October 2021

  Notification of acceptance: 29 October 2021

  Conference: 4-6 November 2021

  For more information and to submit or register: https://epic.openrecognition.org/

  NZ contact: Amy Benians

   

• EXHIBITION AND BOOK | NEIL GRANT: MASTER POTTER (September 29 2021)

  8 - 28 OCTOBER, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN

  Neil Grant: Master Potter
  Exhibition and Book launch

  This exhibition and book shine a light on the development of Neil’s skill and artistry with clay and fire. 

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  “Twenty years to learn, twenty years to forget, and then the real work begins to find your voice”

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  Neil Grant is an artist and a ceramicist. In his twenties he learned to work with clay, to throw, to mould, to coil, to slab build, to glaze, to fire a kiln, to decorate simple and complex surfaces. He has been a leader in ceramics education for over 40 years. His sixty-year career as a ceramic artist spans the years from the flowering of domestic rustic pots to large sculptural ceramics and major architectural commissions. He is well known for his distinctive reworking of traditional Shino-Japanese pottery into a fusion of Anglo-Oriental forms but recreating them in new and exciting ways.

  This exhibition and associated events are held in conjunction with the Festival of Ceramics which will take place in Dunedin over Labour weekend 2021, when Ceramics NZ holds its 60th National Diamond Jubilee Exhibition.
  
  

  See here for full details of Exhibition dates and opening hours, Workshops and Public Programme | 8 - 28 October
  

  Please note: RSVPs are now closed to attend the Opening event. 

  We have reached the maximum number of people allowed under Level 2 at Otago Polytechnic.

  Please see exhibition page for dates and gallery hours, and workshops and demonstrations at Labour weekend.

  https://artsymposium.op.ac.nz/
  
  

  Exhibition and Public Programme | 8 - 28 October

   

  Friday 8 October	Neil Grant Exhibition Opening  Dunedin School of Art Gallery 5.00PM RSVPs are now closed to attend the Opening event.
  Monday 11 October to  Friday 15 October	Neil Grant Exhibition Dunedin School of Art Gallery Hours 10AM to 4PM daily (closed weekend 9-10 October)
  Monday 18 October to Thursday 28 October	Neil Grant Exhibition Dunedin School of Art Gallery Hours 10AM to 4PM daily (closed weekend 16-17 October)
  Thursday 14 October	DSA Foundation evening event (by invite)
  Wednesday 20 October	City of Literature book event An evening with the Author and Artist (Levels update: At Level 2 the venue is at the Dunedin School of Art and Architecture, O Block Hub, Anzac Avenue) FREE - Please RSVP for tickets  at https://tinyurl.com/Neil-Grant-Potter
  Saturday 23 October - Monday 25 October	Ceramic Student Exhibition - O Block Hub (next to Ceramics Department -  Hours 10AM to 4PM daily)
  Sunday 24 October	Studio Demonstration - 3D printer.  Please RSVP for morning or afternoon sessions for Sunday a workshop events https://artsymposium.op.ac.nz/rsvp/
  Sunday 24 October	Postgraduate Students - studio floor discussions Please RSVP for morning or afternoon sessions for Sunday a workshop events https://artsymposium.op.ac.nz/rsvp/
  Sunday 24 October	Neil Grant - Meet the potter (gallery hours) Please RSVP for morning or afternoon sessions for Sunday a workshop events https://artsymposium.op.ac.nz/rsvp/
  Monday 25 October	Ceramic Workshops with Michael Tannock (full day) Enrolment details (link)

   

   

   

   

     Neil Grant is a master potter of New Zealand.
     This lavishly illustrated book, is a celebration
     of Grant's life and work and spans his 
     sixty-year career as a ceramic artist.

   

   

   

   

   

  City of Literature Book event
  
  Neil Grant: Master Potter | An evening with the Author and Artist
  
  

  WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER
  6PM -  Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Library
  (Levels update: This event will go ahead as planned at the Dunedin Public Library at Level 1, at Level 2 the alternative venue is at the School of Art and Architecture, O Block Hub, Anzac Avenue)
  
  

  
  Pre-order your copy now, please contact Pam McKinlay

  Order form and payment details at pam.mckinlay@op.ac.nz

  A limited number of copies of Neil Grant: Master Potter, by Peter Stupples will be available on the night.

  
  Copies will be batch printed
  Cost per book $90.00 incl GST (pick up Dunedin)
  
  

  PLUS: Indicative price for
  Track and trace P&P $17.70 NZ
  Extra for rural delivery $4.00 NZ 

  

  
  
  
  

   

• Advanced Throwing Demonstration and Workshop with Michael Tannock (September 20 2021)

  MONDAY 25 OCTOBER, 2021, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, CERAMICS STUDIO, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, 115 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin.

   

  ENROLMENTS ESSENTIAL 

  ENROL NOW AT eventbrite

  https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/advanced-throwing-demonstration-and-workshop-with-michael-tannock-tickets-168503270819

• Exhibition: Isolated Jewellers - BVA 1 Jewellers' exhibition (September 20 2021)

  17-24 SEP, V-SPACE, BILL ROBERTSON LIBRARY, UNION STREET, DUNEDIN

   

• Exhibition: A Little More Magenta (September 15 2021)

  20 SEP - 1 OCT, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN

   

  A Little More Magenta

  Photography Alumni Exhibition

   

  Exhibiting Artists: Alysha Bailey  |   Robyn Bardas  |  Emily Crooks  |  Lucy Fulford  |  Emily Hlaváč Green

  Thomas Lord  |  Alex Lovell-Smith  |  Kevin Miles  |  Kristin O’Sullivan Peren  |  Dallas Robertson

  Jessie-Lee Robertson  |  Kate van der Drift  |  Hayley Walmsley

   

  Curated by Mark Bolland & Rachel H Allan
   

  EXHIBITION DATES: 20 September - 1 October 2021

  EXHIBITION VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm
  
  

• Tapaue gym reopens Mon 13 Sept 2021 in a limited way (September 9 2021)

  From Monday 13 September 2021 Tapuae gym is available in a limited and managed way for ISEH students and members to train in specially designated training windows of time that must be pre-booked.  Members can email Sport for the booking link.

  Priority is being given to students who need to undertake practical sessions with their clients as a requirement of their studies.

  Please read below for the detailed guidelines for how to train safely at Tapaue gym during Alert Level 2.

  Outside of the designated training windows Tapuae is closed to members (including staff) for individual training and only open to students attending classes scheduled in Z117 (Tapuae gym).  Currently this exclusion is between 9 am and 4 pm daily, Monday to Friday, except for Monday to Friday. 12-1pm (lunchtime fitness classes only) which can be booked.

  Key points to remember:

  • arrive in a timely fashion as access is tightly controlled at the start of each training window of time
  • have everything you need with you for training
  • the toilets in the changing room area behind the gym are only available to people in Z117/Tapuae
  • Read and understand the guidelines

  BOOK --> ARRIVE ON TIME AT FRONT ENTRANCE -->TRAIN --> LEAVE VIA THE BACK DOOR 

  TAPUAE’S Covid-19 Full Operational Health and Safety AL2 guidelines UNTIL change to AL1 occurs 

  • Training windows available for use are as follows:
    • Mon-Fri 6-9am, 12-1pm (lunchtime fitness classes only), 4-8pm
    • Sat 9am-12pm
  • Limited numbers in each training window - Only 10 pairs (PT and client) or members (10 people in total if PT pairs not booked can this go up or will it be capped at 10 regardless?) or a combination of both up to a total of 20 people will be allowed inside the Tapuae space within any one 50 mins training window and additional Gym Instructor. This MUST be booked in prior. No walk-ups allowed even for PT and This link will be sent out to all current and new Tapuae members.
  • No booking = no training for PT/Clients/members.
  • Both student PT and Client or member must be ready to train at the start of their ‘booked’ session on the hour with an orderly process of accessing Tapuae as per the 2m distancing rule.
  • Masks are to be worn while waiting outside and members/clients are to continue wearing them until they begin their session. Masks are to be put back on as soon as possible post workout.  You are welcome to wear your mask throughout your workout if you wish.
    PT’s are to wear their mask at ALL times!
  • ALL users must scan the QR Code before entering Tapuae. Self-sign in by PT and Client or member (hand sanitizer pre and post) MUST occur prior to training (AS SOON AS ENTERING TAPUAE).
  • Tapuae’s entrance door permanently open during commencement of training times therefore no touching of handle required.
  • Equipment is spaced appropriately around in Tapuae for your safety.
  • Stretch mats and foam rollers not available for use.
  • Tapuae boxing gloves not available for use.
  • Maintain the 2m distance rule at all times regardless of bubble situations to avoid any confusion or issues.
  • No touching/spotting/passing of equipment between two people.
  • Client/member to clean ALL equipment pre and post
  • Client/member to bring two towels (1 x bath towel for separating body from benches and floor, 1 x smaller towel for cleaning of equipment).
  • Filtered water no longer accessible. All person(s) must bring their own water to the seesion.
  • Changing Rooms only to be used for toileting – no changing of clothing allowed. MUST hand sanitize pre and post toilet use so door handles kept clean. Toilet seat also sanitized pre and post use.
  • Locker spaces not available for use.
  • Clients/members will not be allowed to lift weights that would require any spotting to take place. Stay submaximal and safe.
  • Exiting will occur out the back door onto Logan Park #2 field. Please sanitize your hands prior to leaving as this door has to remain shut for the safety of all inside.
  • Deep clean of Tapuae and changing are as to occur at the end of every day (Mon-Sat) by OP Cleaning Contractor for your safety.
• Art project in public spaces (August 17 2021)

  Dunedin School of Art student Maggie Covell’s Masters in Fine Art research project, “Hidden in Plain Sight”, was installed in various public spaces throughout the city last week.

  Maggie's work centres on mental health, and body autonomy issues connected to; individuals who identify as female within New Zealand society, and the social histories relating to this.

  However, last week, some of the billboards installed outside the Otago Museum Reserve were thrown into a pile and stomped on.

  Maggie said the vandalism was annoying, but did not believe the attack was malicious. The works have since been reinstalled

  The visual artist’s project examines the relationships between the individual, the private and the public space through a series of installations within targeted social spaces.

  The billboard installations feature wallpaper designs consisting of mass-produced items associated with mental health, and body autonomy arranged in familiar patterns. The installations also feature a grouping of smaller signs which reinterprets language taken from info-signs found in public spaces as a protest action.

  The works aim to function as creative interventions, facilitating discussion and other interpersonal actions. A QR code redirects individuals to an information page, where they are able to track the progression of the project.

  Six locations around Dunedin have been selected to showcase the installations: Union Lawn [Otago University], Museum Reserve [Otago Museum], Logan Park, Bayfield Park, the Oval, and Mornington Park.

  The first phase of works were installed on 8 August , and the second phase commences on 22 August.

  The installations are in association with Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin School of Art, Otago University and Dunedin City Council.

  You can follow the project on:

  maggiecovell.com https://maggiecovell.com/pages/up-coming

  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/maggie.covell.art/

  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nzartmaggiecovell

   

• Public Seminar: Lucy Hammonds talks about the DPAG Joanna Paul Exhibition (August 13 2021)

  THURS 19 AUGUST, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Lucy Hammonds

  Joanna Paul – The all-purpose room

  This seminar expands on an essay in the forthcoming publication Joanna Paul – Imagined in the context of a room (published August 2021), reflecting on the impact that male-centric perspectives have had on the shape of art history in Aotearoa. Using the career and context of Joanna Paul as a focus, this discussion will consider what our art history might look like if we work to re-centre artists who have previously inhabited the margins.

  Lucy Hammonds is a curator and writer based in ¯Otepoti Dunedin. Presently working as a curator at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, her research interests span contemporary and historic art, craft and design. Recent projects include Joanna Paul – Imagined in the context of a Room (August 2021), Ralph Hotere: ¯Atete (To Resist) (2020-21) and New Networks: Contemporary Chinese Art (2018-19).

• Public Exhibition: CELEBRATE - Otago Secondary Schools Art Awards Exhibition 2021 (August 11 2021)

  TUES 17 AUG - THURS 26 AUG, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN

   

  CELEBRATE
  Otago Secondary Schools Art Awards Exhibition 2021

   

  EXHIBITION DATES 

  Tuesday 17 August to Thursday 26 August 2021

   

  AWARDS NIGHT

  Thursday 26 August at 6pm

  
  VENUE

  DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block Riego Street (off Albany St) Dunedin

  
  GALLERY HOURS

  Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm

   

  Regular visitors and small groups are very welcome to the exhibition.

• Fashion project examines merchandising (August 11 2021)

  An intriguing array of fashion-related window displays have popped up in Otago Polytechnic's Hub this week.

  The installations have been created by our New Zealand Certificate in Fashion (Level 4) learners as part of a Fashion Merchandising Project that has involved them investigating and analysing fashion merchandising techniques in store, and on online; as well as reflected on their own fashion purchasing.

  The installations explore several themes, including how skateboarding has gone from a subculture to an accepted Olympic sport, to an exploration of trends of the 2000s, to genderless fashion, to the mayhem of a night out in the 1920s, to documenting a well-travelled and well-heeled aunt and uncle.

  After presenting their reflections on purchasing behaviours, likes and dislikes in fashion merchandising, the learners came together as groups or individuals with shared interests.

  They then created a story or theme that they needed to communicate through a fashion merchandising display, and visited the Vogel St Hospice Shop to search for fashion items, accessories and props that could be useful in designing their fashion merchandising windows.

  “We hope visitors to the Hub enjoy these diverse fashion installations,” says Prof Margo Barton, Head of Fashion.

  “Perhaps they’ll prompt a deeper consideration of fashion consumption and wearing behaviours, and what and how fashion is used to communicate ideas and identities.”

   

• Public Seminar: Amanda Watson - Painting with places and people (August 6 2021)

  THURS 12 AUGUST, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Amanda Watson

  Painting with places and people: Exploring the idea of working collaboratively to see places in unexpected ways

  Paintings and other symbolised image systems contribute to the way we see and understand the world, however accurate or flawed they may be. I am interested in how to make paintings that allow environments to be creative protagonists rather than passive objects of representation. My painting practice involves engaging with geographical places by wrapping surfaces of the land found there, and as a result the canvas records my encounters with it over time and reveals exchanges between myself as an artist and the outside and studio environments in the context of “new-materialist” theory. The paintings yield a dense and complex view of place and make manifest the relationships between process, gesture, environments, and myself, and in this way reveal experience of place in unexpected ways. In this presentation I will share my current thoughts about how this idea can be extended to a collaborative approach in the making process of paintings by including bystanders, locals, and friends, and how that might affect the recording of encounters of place and our understandings of it.

  Amanda Watson is a visual artist, researcher and educator who is curious about the world we live in and how we communicate about places and geographies. She was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, where she majored in painting, a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies from Massey University, and a Master of Arts with Distinction in Painting from Waikato Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited and shared through exhibitions, awards, editorials and published reviews in New Zealand and overseas and accessioned into public and private collections.

• OP grad now head of Maldives Olympic Committee (August 5 2021)

  Otago Polytechnic graduate Thamooh Saeed, now head of the Maldives Olympic Committee, has some advice for current learners: get stuck in.

  Thamooh graduated with a Diploma in Sports Management and Coaching from Otago Polytechnic in the mid-2000s before embarking on a challenging, yet rewarding, career path that has taken him from Dunedin to the Tokyo Olympics.

  “The road from Otago Polytechnic to my current position has been a long and hard journey. It has included many struggles but also opened many doors,” Thamooh reflects from Tokyo.

  Interested in sport from an early age, Thamooh went on to represent the Maldives as part of its national table tennis squad. But it was while working as a Sports Development Officer for the Maldives Ministry of Youth and Sports that he learned of Otago Polytechnic’s Sport and Exercise-related programmes.

  “After graduating from Otago Polytechnic, I returned to the Maldives Ministry of Youth and Sports and later joined the Maldives Olympic Committee, which paved the way to get even more training in coaching through the Olympic Solidarity International Table Tennis Federation.

  Thamooh, who also completed a Postgraduate Degree at the University of Greenwich, says his role as Secretary General of the Maldives Olympic Committee entails overseeing the operations of the organisation.

  “A lot of my work also revolves around lobbying on behalf of the organization to seek assistance in funding and sporting development, as well as represent the MOC at various international events and conferences.

  “As much as I love sport, I love imparting the knowledge and experience I have gained to others, especially the younger generation.

  “I’d encourage current students to get involved in community, sporting and other opportunities as much as they can,” Thamooh says.

  “While I was at Otago Polytechnic, I coached a few primary school teams, did volunteer work as a coder for the Otago Rugby Football Union, worked as a volunteer at the Uni Games, and did as much community work as I could. These experiences are invaluable as you go out into the ‘real world’.”

   

• Reflections and Facets: DSA Student Jewellery Exhibition in Christchurch (August 4 2021)

  10 -21 AUGUST, THE DEN, 181 High St, CHCH

  Contemporary jewellery from Dunedin School of Art students.

  Venue: The Den - Artist Project Space
  Address: 181 High Street in Christchurch
  

  The Den is open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-4pm

  OPENING 10 AUGUST 

  Participating students: Maddy Barker, Nona Shackleton, Michaela Woolf, Jan Dobbie and Rose Pickernell. 

• Great coverage for OP (August 4 2021)

  Otago Polytechnic is the cover story of the latest edition of Business South.

  A masthead of independent publisher, Waterford Press, Business South dedicated several pages to OP, the coverage including an interview with Megan Gibbons, as well as focusing on our new Trades Training Centre, our support for Māori and Pasifika learners, our rise in enrolments and ongoing innovations.

  Read more here

• OP grad helps tune Olympic cyclists (August 4 2021)

  A big congrats to Otago Polytechnic graduate Anna Higgins, who is at the Tokyo Olympics, helping tune our national cyclists to reach their peak.

  Anna, who is pictured at the Tokyo velodrome, works as a Performance Analyst with NZ Cycling.  

  The first Otago Polytechnic graduate to attend the Olympics in a team official role rather than as an athlete, Anna completed a Bachelor of Applied Science at our Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health in 2016.  

  She then went on to postgraduate study, graduating in 2017 with a Diploma of Applied Science (Performance Analysis) before completing her Masters in Applied Science in 2019.

  “We are so proud of Anna,” says Mat Blair, Principal Lecturer and Academic Leader (Conditioning) at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health.

  “Anna has built on the skills and knowledge she gained from studying with us and is now ‘walking the walk’ on the world’s ultimate sporting stage.”

   

• OPEN DAY 2021 at the Dunedin School of Art (August 3 2021)

  14 AUGUST,10.00AM - 3.00PM, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, (just off Albany Street), DUNEDIN

   

  OPEN DAY and FREE demonstrations in the Dunedin School of Art Studios and Workshops. 

  The Open Day will be from 10am - 3pm at the Dunedin School of Art. Studios will be open so visitors can see students working with our workshop facilities.

  
  There will also be two exhibitions of student work from Year 1 and Year 2 Bachelor of Visual Art students, and other work will be exhibited throughout the school.

  
  This is an opportunity to see whether you are interested in studying with us in: our Levels 5 and 6, Photography and Digital Media diplomas, our Level 5 and 6 Ceramic programmes, our Bachelor of Visual Arts, our Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts (for those who already have a degree in another subject) and our postgraduate programmes.

   

  Thinking of applying for Art School?
  Staff will be available for one-on-one conversations with those who wish to apply for art school or who would like a tour of the school. If you are interested please bring images of your work on your cell phone or in any other easy form and we will assist you to make an application.

  
  
  Dunedin School of Art, Riego Street (off Albany Street)
  Saturday, 14 August, 10.00am – 3.00pm

  
  For more information: 0800 762 786
  artadmin@op.ac.nz

   

   

   

• SAVE THE DATE (August 3 2021)
• Creative Interventions in Public Spaces: Maggie Covell (August 2 2021)

  8 AUGUST - 12 SEPTEMBER, Union Lawn [Otago University], Museum Reserve [Otago Museum], Logan Park, Bayfield Park, The Oval, and Mornington Park.
  
  Maggie Covell
  Hidden in Plain Sight: [Post] Feminist intervention in Decorative Art
  MFA project

  Hidden in Plain Sight is a current MFA [Masters in Fine Art] research project by Dunedin based visual artist Maggie Covell. The project centers on mental health, and body autonomy issues connected to; individuals who identify as female within New Zealand society, and the social histories relating to this. The project will examine the relationships between the individual, the private and the public space through a series of installations within targeted social spaces.

  These works will function as creative interventions that aim to facilitate discussion and other interpersonal actions. The project will be carried out in three phases which focus on participation.

  Billboard installations feature wallpaper designs consisting of mass produced items associated with mental health, and body autonomy arranged in familiar patterns. The installation also features a grouping of smaller signs which reinterprets language taken from info-signs found in public spaces as a protest action. A QR code will redirect individuals to an information page, where they are able to track the progression of the project.

  Six geographical locations around Dunedin have been selected to showcase the installations, these are;

  Union Lawn [Otago University], Museum Reserve [Otago Museum], Logan Park, Bayfield Park, The Oval, and Mornington Park.

  The locations will be managed in two drops [two groups] with the first installed 8th August on display for two weeks and then second installed on 22nd August on display for three weeks.

  Billboard installations are in association with Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin School of Art, Otago University and Dunedin City Council [DCC].

  Thanks to Speedprint for sponsoring phase one of the project, Peter Marshall for the Billboards construction, and to the project’s installation team.

  You can follow the project on; 

  maggiecovell.com  https://maggiecovell.com/pages/up-coming
  Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/maggie.covell.art/
  Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/nzartmaggiecovell

   

  Image: Maggie Covell. Trauma Chevron, digital wallpaper treatment, 2021.

• Public Seminar: Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux (August 1 2021)

  THURS 5 AUGUST, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux

  Artists Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux will share about their practice and their two recent exhibitions, A Wardian Case at RM Gallery in T¯amaki Makaurau and radiata at Blue Oyster Art Project Space in ¯Otepoti.

  Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux are partners and artistic collaborators who extend the stories of wild plants through site-specific research and experimentation. Working through ideas of reciprocity, animacy, and the personhood of non-humans is central to their practice. By listening to plants and responding through interdisciplinary projects, they queer the constructs that separate human beings from non-human beings and make space for the critical revision of human histories.

  Bellamy holds a BFA from the Dunedin School of Art and Fauteux holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal. Since their collaborative practice began in 2019, they have attended artist residencies in New York and Vermont, USA, and have exhibited their work in Aotearoa, Canada, and the USA. In June 2020 they were digital artists-in-residence with Artspace Aotearoa. They live in ¯Otepoti.

  www.mirandabellamy.com, @_miranda_was_here www.amandafauteux.com, @amanda.fauteux

• David Green in association with Dunedin Dream Brokerage - George Street Projections (July 27 2021)

  THURS 29 JULY - 8 AUG, nightly from 5.30PM at 343 GEORGE STREET, CENTRAL DUNEDIN

   

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  Local video installation artist David Green and Dunedin Dream Brokerage are teaming up for a third collaboration: Bruno’s Thin Skin, a site-specific video installation opening on the 29th of July at 343 George Street.

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  The UN Agenda for Sustainable Development includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the dictum “leaving no one behind”. Whereas SDG #6 (“Ensure access to water and sanitation for all”) explicitly addresses this issue, underpinning all 17 goals lies the global demand for a radical change in our individual and collective relationship with water. In the same way, the four cornerstones of Te Whare Tapa Whā rest on our inalienable requirement for clean fresh water. There can be no physical, spiritual, family, or mental health without robust systems and agreements in place that guard and uphold this fundament. Water is the life force: orthodox or atheist, we can all agree that water is sacred; no life can stir without water in its liquid form.

  
  At this moment, across the planet, people are fraught with anxiety over water issues; every day we find ourselves confronted — in real- time — with our absolute reliance upon enough and our utter vulnerability to too much. Water quality, something until now we in Aotearoa/New Zealand have had the luxury of taking for granted, is slipping through our fingers. Once lost, the remediation of waterways becomes intensely problematical.
  Perhaps the time has finally come to pause, have a good think about our relationship with water, and take a few hard decisions.

  
  Seeing the Earthrise in 1968 made us feel that although we may be alone in the Universe, the Earth is still colossal. Since 1991 Bruno Latour has been quietly working to reset the way we conceptualise our planet. From the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean, life’s playground is as slight as the skin of an apple relative to our planet. Environmental scientists now refer to the fragile soap bubble that surrounds our sun orbiting rock, the “critical zone”:

  
  “At the scale of the usual planetary view, the thin surface of the critical zone is barely visible, it being only a few kilometres up and a few kilometres down at most. It is no more than a varnish, a thin mat, a film, a bio film. And yet, pending the discovery and contact with other worlds, it is the only site that living beings have ever experienced. It is the totality of our limited world. We have to imagine it as a skin, the skin of the Earth, sensitive, complex, ticklish, reactive.” - Bruno Latour on Critical Zones

  
  Bruno's Thin Skin is a site-specific video art installation, intended to speak to our lively biofilm, our water bubble: our precarious niche on this fine planetary skin that has made life as we know it possible. The design primarily features organic motion dynamics such as tree leaves in the wind, zooplankton, bull kelp flowing in the tide, cataracts, and other small fragments of digital video captured around Te Waipounamu. The digital projections will spill out of the shopfront windows and onto the street, image fragments interacting with interior and exterior architectures, cars, trucks, buses, and pedestrians.

  
  Dunedin Dream Brokerage has delivered 53 unique events since it’s launch (as Urban Dream Brokerage: Dunedin) in 2015, and aims to activate the city’s under-utilised buildings through a lively and diverse programme. Dunedin Dream Brokerage is funded by Ara Toi Åtepoti, the Dunedin City Council’s Arts and Culture Strategy, with support from the Otago Chamber of Commerce and Otago Polytechnic.

  
  The installation will run for 10 days. 
• Public Seminar: Alistair Fox - The Influence of Renaissance Painters on the Film Aesthetic of Pier Paolo Pasolini (July 25 2021)

  THURS 29 JULY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Alistair Fox
  A "Sacral Vision": The Influence of Renaissance Painters on the Film Aesthetic of Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Since the earliest days of cinema, a symbiotic relationship has existed between painting and fiction films, given that both depend upon similar expressive procedures: the creation of a visual image within a frame, selection and composition of objects included, and the generation of a perspective for the viewer. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that a reciprocal exchange between the two media has always existed, usually taking one or both of two forms: citation and stylistic imitation.

  This seminar will explore how these two types of pictural imitation are exploited in the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most admired masters of twentieth-century cinema – a filmmaker, poet, and intellectual who was also a student of art history as well as a painter in his own right. The presentation will demonstrate how Pasolini, who had a particular predilection for the artists of the Italian Renaissance, deployed citation for satirical purposes in the service of a radical socio-political agenda, and how he used stylistic imitation to convey a sense of the sacredness of a primitive human reality that he opposed to the vulgarity and complacency of the contemporary bourgeoisie.

  Using illustrations and film clips, the discussion will examine Accattone, Mamma Roma, La Ricotta, The Gospel According to Matthew, and The Decameron, showing the influence of painters that include Caravaggio, Jacopo da Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Masaccio, Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, and Goya, with the aim of demonstrating the commonality of the aesthetic principles that inform both media, and also the ongoing usefulness of paintings as a source of inspiration for the mise-en-scène of filmmakers.

• Public Seminar: The Lively World of Galleries and Salesrooms (July 23 2021)

  All are welcome to attend an open lecture by Prof Federico Freschi, Head of our College Te Maru Pumanawa, as part of the University of Otago Languages and Cultures 2021 Research Seminar Series.

  WHEN: 12 noon, Tuesday, July 27, 2021

  WHERE: Room 5C13, Arts Building, University of Otago campus, Dunedin

  WHAT: ‘The Lively World of Galleries and Salesrooms’: Commercial Galleries and the Market for Contemporary Art in Johannesburg, 1950s-1970s

  In this lecture Professor Freschi considers the role of commercial galleries like Gallery 101, Gallery 21, the Egon Guenther Gallery and the Goodman Gallery, amongst others, in the development of a market for contemporary art in Johannesburg from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He explores the broader political, academic and critical frameworks for the understanding, appreciation and promotion of contemporary South African art
  which they were instrumental in creating and shows how these continue to resonate in the international art market.

  Federico Freschi was appointed Professor and Head of College at the Otago Polytechnic in 2019. He was
  formerly the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His numerous publications focus on questions of nationalism and identity as expressed in architecture and modern art. He has curated exhibitions of national and international significance, notably as the South African curator of Henri Matisse: Rhythm and Meaning, the first exhibition of Matisse’s work to be held on the African continent. He is a former Vice-President on the board of Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA); formerly held the position of President of SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians and is on the advisory committee of Forum Kunst und Markt (Technische Universität Berlin). His most recent publication (with Brenda Schmahmann and Lize van Robbroeck) is the edited volume Troubling Images: Visual Culture & the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism (Wits University Press, 2020). He is a co-editor (with Farieda Nazier and Jane Venis) of The Politics of Design: Privilege and Prejudice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa (forthcoming, Otago Polytechnic Press).

  Image: Gallerist Linda Goodman with Sydney Kumalo’s Head Matriarch (1962), Johannesburg, 1965. Photo: Egon Guenther, used with permission from the Egon Guenther Estate.

• Public Seminar Programme: Semester 2, 2021 (July 20 2021)

  Dunedin School of Art Lunchtime Research Seminar Programme Semester 2, 2021

  Please check for updates if we are in COVID-19 Levels above Level 1.

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  THURS 22 JULY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

   Lesley Brook
  How artworks emotionally engage: 19 influential factors

  In 2020 the Dunedin School of Art held the exhibition The Complete Entanglement of Everything. Lesley Brook interviewed 25 participants about their emotional responses to the artworks in this exhibition. In this presentation Lesley will report some of the findings from this research, which she has undertaken for her Master of Professional Practice degree. In describing their strongest emotional responses to the artworks, participants also articulated why they had these emotional responses. Analysis of transcriptions of these interviews reveals the factors that influenced them in forming those emotions. The 19 factors identified relate to the individual viewer, or to the artwork being viewed, or are independent of both viewer and artwork.

  Lesley Brook is the Research Projects Coordinator in the Directorate of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Otago Polytechnic. Her research interests are in the impact of research beyond the academic community.

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  THURS 29 JULY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Alistair Fox
  A "Sacral Vision": The Influence of Renaissance Painters on the Film Aesthetic of Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Since the earliest days of cinema, a symbiotic relationship has existed between painting and fiction films, given that both depend upon similar expressive procedures: the creation of a visual image within a frame, selection and composition of objects included, and the generation of a perspective for the viewer. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that a reciprocal exchange between the two media has always existed, usually taking one or both of two forms: citation and stylistic imitation.

  This seminar will explore how these two types of pictural imitation are exploited in the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most admired masters of twentieth-century cinema – a filmmaker, poet, and intellectual who was also a student of art history as well as a painter in his own right. The presentation will demonstrate how Pasolini, who had a particular predilection for the artists of the Italian Renaissance, deployed citation for satirical purposes in the service of a radical socio-political agenda, and how he used stylistic imitation to convey a sense of the sacredness of a primitive human reality that he opposed to the vulgarity and complacency of the contemporary bourgeoisie.

  Using illustrations and film clips, the discussion will examine Accattone, Mamma Roma, La Ricotta, The Gospel According to Matthew, and The Decameron, showing the influence of painters that include Caravaggio, Jacopo da Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Masaccio, Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, and Goya, with the aim of demonstrating the commonality of the aesthetic principles that inform both media, and also the ongoing usefulness of paintings as a source of inspiration for the mise-en-scène of filmmakers.

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  THURS 5 AUGUST, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux

  Artists Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux will share about their practice and their two recent exhibitions, A Wardian Case at RM Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau and radiata at Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Ōtepoti.

  Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux are partners and artistic collaborators who extend the stories of wild plants through site-specific research and experimentation. Working through ideas of reciprocity, animacy, and the personhood of non-humans is central to their practice. By listening to plants and responding through interdisciplinary projects, they queer the constructs that separate human beings from non-human beings and make space for the critical revision of human histories.

  Bellamy holds a BFA from the Dunedin School of Art and Fauteux holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal. Since their collaborative practice began in 2019, they have attended artist residencies in New York and Vermont, USA, and have exhibited their work in Aotearoa, Canada, and the USA. In June 2020 they were digital artists-in-residence with Artspace Aotearoa. They live in Ōtepoti.

  www.mirandabellamy.com, @_miranda_was_here www.amandafauteux.com, @amanda.fauteux

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  THURS 12 AUGUST, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Amanda Watson

  Painting with places and people: Exploring the idea of working collaboratively to see places in unexpected ways

  Paintings and other symbolised image systems contribute to the way we see and understand the world, however accurate or flawed they may be. I am interested in how to make paintings that allow environments to be creative protagonists rather than passive objects of representation. My painting practice involves engaging with geographical places by wrapping surfaces of the land found there, and as a result the canvas records my encounters with it over time and reveals exchanges between myself as an artist and the outside and studio environments in the context of “new-materialist” theory. The paintings yield a dense and complex view of place and make manifest the relationships between process, gesture, environments, and myself, and in this way reveal experience of place in unexpected ways. In this presentation I will share my current thoughts about how this idea can be extended to a collaborative approach in the making process of paintings by including bystanders, locals, and friends, and how that might affect the recording of encounters of place and our understandings of it.

  Amanda Watson is a visual artist, researcher and educator who is curious about the world we live in and how we communicate about places and geographies. She was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, where she majored in painting, a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies from Massey University, and a Master of Arts with Distinction in Painting from Waikato Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited and shared through exhibitions, awards, editorials and published reviews in New Zealand and overseas and accessioned into public and private collections.

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  CANCELLED - DUE TO LEVEL 4

  THURS 19 AUGUST, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Lucy Hammonds

  Joanna Paul – The all-purpose room

  This seminar expands on an essay in the forthcoming publication Joanna Paul – Imagined in the context of a room (published August 2021), reflecting on the impact that male-centric perspectives have had on the shape of art history in Aotearoa. Using the career and context of Joanna Paul as a focus, this discussion will consider what our art history might look like if we work to re-centre artists who have previously inhabited the margins.

  Lucy Hammonds is a curator and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Presently working as a curator at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, her research interests span contemporary and historic art, craft and design. Recent projects include Joanna Paul – Imagined in the context of a Room (August 2021), Ralph Hotere: Ātete (To Resist) (2020-21) and New Networks: Contemporary Chinese Art (2018-19).

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  CANCELLED - DUE TO LEVEL 4

  THURS 26 AUGUST, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Jenna Packer

  Utopiaroa

  I am looking at the active relationship between ideas and practice in my most recent body of work, “Utopiaroa”. My painting over the last few years has been concerned with tracing aspects of social and political thought; the Enlightenment, redemption myths, neo-liberalism and populism have been central. I’m interested in using metaphors to examine political and cultural hegemony and to try to understand some of the constructs we are living with and under. In my recent work I’ve started examining the arrival in Aotearoa of modernist, capitalist land use ideas and their legacy in relation to current ecological and psychological crises. During my residency at the DSA I’ve been revisiting this work and paying attention to the provisional states that are normally lost during my painting process. Trying out transparency copying, printing, photo-etching, experimenting with mirror-image and a reduced palette, I have also been trying to resolve some of the questions arising from using colonial art-historical sources; referencing work that we are so familiar with, but creating a critical distance from it.
  I’m interested in how layers of historical source material can be peeled apart and examined for traces of the author's Intentions, selections or exclusions. When I’m working, the relationship between critical thinking and making is also layered; slowing down and pulling apart the process and the images and then trying to re-configure them is where I’m at currently.

  Jenna Packer is a practicing visual artist and lives at Waitati. She graduated from Ilam School of Art in 1988 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts in History with First-Class Honours at the University of Canterbury the following year. Through the 1990s Jenna spent time at the Glasgow Print Workshop, The Slade School of Art (London) and La Rouelle Studio (France), and has been exhibiting work since 1990 both within New Zealand and abroad.

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  CANCELLED - DUE TO LEVEL 4

  THURS 2 SEPTEMBER, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Cecilia Novero

  To Look at Art with a Dog's Nose or Learning to Smell in the company of Ghosts...

  Through three distinct art installations that include olfaction as one of their aesthetic tools, I take to task some of the most common analyses of the recurrence of smell in contemporary art. Namely, I argue that if art's focus on smell may be meant to enhance and revive a sense of place, as Ursula Heise put it, this deliberate revamping is problematic. First I maintain that narratives of emplacement risk informing nostalgic curatorial projects, or fetishising one sense versus another. More conceptually, such revivals invoke notions of "immediacy" and "presence," as part and parcel of "emplacement" (e.g., expressed through words such as "belonging”). Against such pitfalls, the art projects this paper considers emphasize the "material spectrality" and uncanny (unhomely) inhabitation of historical time. Rather than confirming one's presence in the present, or conjuring the past in the present as presence, the installations under scrutiny here exacerbate the always already mediated materiality of smells' passing or invisibility. While still engaging individual memories, Teresa Margolles's Vaporization, Korpys/Löffler and Schmal’s Geist and Jenny Gillam’s Frank emphasize the encounter with the past as a temporal and spatial instance of disorientation, occurring in a present that, as a consequence, is found never to be present to itself, to be homogenous. An effect of this art may be, then, that smells jolt one's sense of self-presentness and, indeed, identity, precipitating the perception that self and world are bound together in multidimensional, plural processes of co- becoming that include non-human-animals.

  Cecilia Novero has a PhD in German Studies from the University of Chicago (USA). After positions held at the University of Michigan, Vassar College and Penn State University (UP), she joined the University of Otago (NZ) in Cecilia's research and teaching interests are the interdisciplinary fields of Food Studies, Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities. She pursues these interests by focusing on Visual Culture, mostly 20th and 21st- century European cinema and the art and texts produced by the historical Avant-garde and the Neo-Avant-garde movements. In her scholarship Cecilia has also explored the material role that nature and non-human animals play in literary and philosophical texts, in particular post-humanism. She examines all texts, whether art, film or literature, comparatively and cross-culturally. Cecilia has an abiding interest in the literature and art from the former German Democratic Republic, travel literature, adaptation theory, gender and queer theory, as well as critical theory – especially but not limited to the works of Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Theodor W. Adorno.

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  THURS 9 SEPTEMBER, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Mark Stocker

  Virgin in a Condom: Te Papa’s baptism by fire

  The assemblage by British artist Tania Kovats, Virgin in a Condom, created probably New Zealand’s greatest ever art controversy in 1998. This came about through its exhibition in the British Council sponsored Pictura Britannica, which opened at Te Papa just 15 days after the museum itself. For many people who had welcomed Te Papa as “our place”, the sense of betrayal was considerable. Prominent art world figures, however, rallied behind the chief executive, Cheryll Sotheran, and her decision not to withdraw the exhibit. This paper relates to Mark Stocker’s publication of an exhaustive 25,000 word article on the theme in Tuhinga, Te Papa’s refereed journal, and draws on the hundreds of letters written by members of the public to the museum, lodged in its corporate records. Other primary material, together with interviews with two key Te Papa players at the time, Ian Wedde and the late Sue Superville, also shape Mark’s account.

  Dr Mark Stocker is a semi-retired art historian, who taught at the universities of Canterbury and Otago before moving to Te Papa where he spent five years as curator of Historical International Art. He has been sole editor of the last four issues of Tuhinga, and his recent books include the edited New Zealand Art at Te Papa (2018) and the imminent When Britain Went Decimal: The Coinage of 1971. He lives in Christchurch.

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  THURS 16 SEPTEMBER, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Ed Ritchie and Megan Brady

  Gown Seminar

  Ed Ritchie and Megan Brady both studied under the broad umbrella of the DSA sculpture department and will talk through their practices since leaving Dunedin School of Art in 2017. They have exhibited both individually and collaboratively across Aotearoa. Their practices intersect and cross over themes of collaboration, friendship, architectural nuances, public space and security.

  Megan Brady is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin. Graduating in 2017, she holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) from the Dunedin School of Art, and shortly after exhibited her first solo show “A quiet corner where we can talk” (2018) at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Recent shows include “Dead Reckoning” (The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2019), “we painted the walls with cracks” (Play_station, Wellington, 2020), “The florist sent the flowers was pleased” (Favour, Dunedin, 2020) and “Lay in measures” (Enjoy, Wellington, 2021). Within the creative community of Ōtepoti she is a board member of the Blue Oyster Arts Trust and facilitates creative practices at Studio2/Margaret Freeman Gallery, a small, all-inclusive art studio for local artists with disabilities.

  Based in Ōtepoti, Ed Ritchie has a predominantly object-focused practice, working with a range of found materials, often responding to architectural attributes of given space or echoing familiar mechanisms in their assemblage. Ed completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) in 2017 through the Dunedin School of Art and has since become a founder and co-facilitator of ARI Favour. Recent exhibitions include: “Central heating” (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti, 2021); “Lay in Measures” (Enjoy, Wellington, 2021), “Hush Swarms, Hot lunch”

  (Ōtautahi Christchurch, 2020), “Console Whispers” (Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Ōtepoti, 2019).

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  THURS 23 SEPTEMBER, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Scott Eady and Graham Fletcher

  A Tale of Two Residencies

  In this seminar, Dunedin School of Art lecturers Scott Eady and Graham Fletcher will report on residencies undertaken in Ōtepoti Dunedin and Whanganui respectively.

  Scott will share some of the processes behind three projects undertaken as Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s 2020 Ōtepoti Dunedin artist in residence. He says: “Routine and the mundane may provide comfort and structure but can also reveal opportunities for new knowledge. Making things as an artist, as a person, and as a citizen in a place where the history is, is crucial.” In his work to date, Graham, as a New Zealand born Samoan, has explored complex cultural issues within a post-colonial context. He was the recipient of the Tylee Cottage residency (Feb–June 2021) and will discuss research and work undertaken throughout the residency, which will be exhibited at the Sarjeant Gallery in August 2022.

  Scott Eady is a senior lecturer at the Dunedin School of Art. In his art practice, he seeks to push past “what is” to prompt a consideration of “what could be”. His 2019 exhibition “Images of Love” highlighted his interest in reimagining everyday objects and things – an action echoed in the benches of his Dunedin Public Art Gallery project Cinelli 250. A graduate of University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Art (MFA, 1999), Eady’s work is held in major collections such as Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Hocken Collection Uare Taoka o Hākena and The Chartwell Trust. He has exhibited artwork extensively both nationally and internationally, including at the Gwangju Biennale (2012) and Venice Biennale (2013).

  Graham Fletcher has been a practicing artist since 1997, and has exhibited in numerous shows including: Biennale d’art contemporain de Nouméa, Tjibaou, Cultural Centre, New Caledonia (2000); “IKI and Thanks for All the IKA”, Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania (2003); 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, American Samoa (2008); “ATA: An Exhibition of Contemporary Samoan Art”, Harris Gallery – University of La Verne, California (2012); “Home AKL”, Auckland Art Gallery (2012); The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery – Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2012); “Future Primitive”, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia (2013); and “Time of Others”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2015), travelling to The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2015), Singapore Art Museum (2015–2016) and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2016). More recently, a retrospective of Fletcher's work entitled “The Third Space: Ambiguity in the Art of Graham Fletcher” (2018) was exhibited at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland and curated by Linda Tyler and Hannah Burgoyne.

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  THURS 30 SEPTEMBER, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Vicki Lenihan

  Local stories, local artists: Cultural cringe or celebrating who we are, where we are

  With borders closed, in an increasingly competitive domestic tourism market, Ōtepoti Dunedin’s ability to draw visitors is being tested. While we can proudly claim to have the populist soundtrack to our lives sorted, we are surrounded by images created by internationals who often stay only long enough to install. This is the time for us to champion the importance of upholding and developing our own histories and visual identity, to grow our visible expressions of pride in what’s special about us, and reap the wellbeing and possibly financial benefits of carving out our own contemporary story.

  Vicki Lenihan (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu) is a multimedia artist whose practice centres on sustainability, celebrating identity interwoven with our unique and irreplaceable environment, and highlighting issues connected to self-determination and hauora. She is also a writer; an educator; a museum professional; a regular broadcaster; an arts producer; secretary of the Paemanu Ngāi Tahu Contemporary Visual Arts Charitable Trust, and Community Events Advisor – Cultural at the Dunedin City Council.

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• Call for abstracts: Professional Practice Symposium (July 13 2021)

  We warmly welcome you to join us to present at our 4th annual Professional Practice Symposium to celebrate and share our diversity and exploring professional practice in an inclusive, friendly environment.

  
  When: Wednesday 27 October 2021. 9.00am - 3.00pm. No charge.
  Where: Online.
  Who: All welcome. Open to all Staff, colleagues within Te Pūkenga, Learners, Alumni, and professionals interested in deepening their practice.

  The theme this year is “Professional Practice for a positive future”.

  Presentations: 

  • Full presentation:
    20 minute talk with 10 minute discussion. Suitable for sharing ideas, research, practice. Please submit a 200-300 word abstract by 19th September 2021. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and published in conference proceedings. PowerPoint presentations can be used if desired.

   

  • Snapshot talks:
    Snapshot. 10 minute talk, followed by 20 minute discussion. Suitable for: canvassing ideas, work-in-progress, helping with problems, posing questions, looking for collaborations etc. Please submit a title and 1-2 sentences on the planned talk. These will not be peer reviewed.

  
  Please submit your abstract or title to glenys.forsyth@op.ac.nz by 19th September 2021.

  Organising committee: Glenys Forsyth, Henk Roodt, Carleen Mitchell, Jo Kirkwood – Capable NZ, College of Work-Based Learning, Otago Polytechnic. 

  For more information, please contact jo.kirkwood@op.ac.nz.

  Proceedings of our 3rd annual Professional Practice Symposium can be found here if you would like to explore them.
  
  

  

• Public Seminar:  How artworks emotionally engage - Lesley Brook (July 12 2021)

  THURS 22 JULY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

   

  Lesley Brook

  How artworks emotionally engage: 19 influential factors 

    

  In 2020 the Dunedin School of Art held the exhibition The Complete Entanglement of Everything. Lesley Brook interviewed 25 participants about their emotional responses to the artworks in this exhibition. In this presentation Lesley will report some of the findings from this research, which she has undertaken for her Master of Professional Practice degree. In describing their strongest emotional responses to the artworks, participants also articulated why they had these emotional responses. Analysis of transcriptions of these interviews reveals the factors that influenced them in forming those emotions. The 19 factors identified relate to the individual viewer, or to the artwork being viewed, or are independent of both viewer and artwork.  

    

  Lesley Brook is the Research Projects Coordinator in the Directorate of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Otago Polytechnic. Her research interests are in the impact of research beyond the academic community.  

• Matariki celebrated with hangi (July 7 2021)

  Learners, staff, whānau and community came together to celebrate Matariki with a succulent and satisfying lunchtime hangi at our Dunedin campus today.

  Held at Poho, the feast marked the predawn rising of Matariki in the mid-winter sky, which signals the beginning of the Māori New Year.

  “Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea (The Eyes of the God Tāwhirimātea)" refers to a large cluster of stars, also known as the Pleiades. Some iwi recognise this time of year by the appearance of Puanga, also known as Rigel. There are also regions where the setting of Rehua, also known as Antares, is used to identify the change of seasons.

   

   

• Otago Polytechnic trio help hone Tongan team for All Blacks clash (July 1 2021)

  Experts from Otago Polytechnic’s Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health (ISEH) are busily preparing the Tongan national rugby team for their test against the All Blacks in Auckland on Saturday, 3 July.

  Matthew Blair, Principal Lecturer and Academic Leader of ISEH’s post-grad programmes in Strength and Conditioning, has been working closely with the Tongan team, fine-tuning their physicality in the build-up to the international sporting event at Mt Smart Stadium.

  Matthew has been joined by Jessica Souchon, who is completing her Master of Applied Science (Performance Analysis), and Bennett Jones, who holds a Master of Applied Science (Physical Conditioning).

  "The Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health is committed to supporting current students and graduates as they engage in real-world professional opportunities such as this,” Matthew says.

  For the past several days, he and Bennett have been involved in, firstly, analysing the Tongan players’ fitness, including measuring their strength and cardio-vascular fitness; then developing specific programmes to ensure the players are at their peak for the forthcoming test match.

  “We are confident things are tracking well,” Bennett says.

  “Our boys are doing their best to prepare against the All Blacks, who are the best rugby team in the world.”

  Jessica, meanwhile, has been busy analysing footage of the opposition, feeding key data back to Tonga’s coaches to help them determine the best game plan, then videoing Tonga’s training sessions to ensure “clarity” for the players.

  “We code certain aspects of the footage, identifying aspects of the team’s performance as well as that of individual players,” Jessica explains.

  “There are a range of phases we go through. For example, we will be analysing the game as it unfolds, making notes, all of which is presented back to the coaches and team to review.

  “That way, we learn from every game and can continue to develop.”

  Read more about our Sports, Exercise and Health programmes

• Artistic OP family take part in fundraiser (July 1 2021)

  Ali Howlett has been a potter for 30 years, studying ceramics for a year at the Dunedin Art School back in the 1990s and now teaches nightclasses in ceramics at Otago Polytechnic. 

  The West Harbour Arts Charitable Trust are holding an auction to raise funds to continue its artist in residence programme. 

  Read more about this talented family here. 

• Former OP Board member heads Deloitte New Zealand (June 29 2021)

  Former Otago Polytechnic Board member, Mike Horne has taken over the role of Deloitte New Zealand chief executive from Thomas Pippos.

  Mr Horne described himself as a "proud born and bred" Dunedin man.

  "I’m a hugely loyal Dunedin and Otago man.

  "I grew up here, went to school here at Otago Boys’ High School, I just love the place."

   

  Find out more about Mike Horne and his new role in the Otago Daily Times article here. 

   

• Data hub launched (June 28 2021)

  A new virtual data hub, a joint project involving Otago Polytechnic, the University of Otago and industry partners, has been launched in Dunedin.

  The hub is designed to act as focal point for public and private organisations to share data and help develop data-driven innovations.

  Read the Otago Daily Times article

• Dunedin Secondary Schools Portfolio Art Exhibition (June 25 2021)

  WEDNESDAY 7- FRIDAY 9 JULY, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET 

   

  Dunedin Secondary Schools Portfolio Art Exhibition

   

  Come support our young Dunedin artists as they showcase a range of work from their NCEA portfolios.

  Bring along your phone and show us your instagram photos of your work as well.

   

   Venue: Dunedin School of  Art Gallery

  19 Riego Street, (Off Albany Street), Dunedin

  Dates: Wednesday 7 - Friday 9 July, 2021

  Gallery Hours: 10AM - 4 PM Daily

  Closing: Friday 9 July 6PM - 7.30PM

   

   

   

• Tapuae Gym Semester break hours 5 to 24 July (June 25 2021)

  During the semester break and first week of semester 2

  Monday 5 July to Saturday 24 July 2021

  Tapuae gym will be operating on slightly reduced hours as follows:

  Monday: 6am – 7pm

  Tuesday: 8am – 4:30pm

  Wednesday: 6am – 7pm

  Thursday: 8am – 4:30pm

  Friday: 6am – 4:30pm

  Saturday: 9am – 12pm

• Uni reveals Health Precinct vision (June 16 2021)

  The University of Otago has revealed a more than $1 billion vision for a health precinct that would stretch from the new Dunedin Hospital to the School of Dentistry.

  Unveiled this week, the far-reaching plan includes:

  • A purpose-built medical research facility that the university wants to co-locate on the new Dunedin Hospital site
  • Several new health sciences buildings
  • Upgrades to the university’s historic medical buildings

  Read more here

• Public Seminar: Sonya Lacey - Artist Talk (June 11 2021)

  THURS 17 JUNE, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  
  Sonya Lacey

  Artist Talk
  
  

  Working across video, installation and performance, my practice is often concerned with systems of communication and the social scenarios they give rise to. A body of work will often begin with fact but end as fiction, for example, an interest in a particular situation (eg, a designer, a typeface or a site) may spark the initial idea, but the idiosyncratic process of making and remaking the work sees the real become inseparable from the imagined. 

  My talk for the DSA students will give an overview of some recent projects as well as taking a look back at some of the work I made during art school and my involvement with Newcall Gallery – an artist run space, studio collective and occasional publishing imprint that ran 2008–2010.

   

  Sonya Lacey is the current Dunedin Public Art Gallery artist in residence. Her exhibition Weekend is nominated for the Walters Prize and is currently showing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T¯amaki. She has exhibited throughout New Zealand at galleries including Artspace, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts. Her video By Sea has been extensively screened internationally including at the London International Film Festival and her work was recently included in the Singapore Festival of Moving Image: State of Motion 2020. She currently sits on the board for Circuit Artist Film and Video Aotearoa.

   

• Public Seminar: David Green - Mise en Abyme: Mirrors in Art, Mirrors in Theory (June 8 2021)

  THURS 10 JUNE, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  David Green

  Mise en Abyme: Mirrors in Art, Mirrors in Theory

   

  From the time of the pharaohs up to the present, graphically, materially, or metaphorically, mirrors contribute to countless works of art. Their invention 8000 years ago (of polished obsidian) captured the reflectivity of a still pond and turned it into a transferrable spectacle. The mirror was humanity’s first virtual reality tool. Over the millennia, though initially only for the very wealthy, these flexible forms of optical reflectivity have imbricated themselves into our daily human experience.

  On the one hand the mirror seems to offer a straightforward proposition: WYSIWYG. But while the mirror may never lie, it invariably deflects. A mirror is the one object that, without debate, we all experience differently; when two or more people look at this object at the same time, they can never see exactly the same thing in it. In this way the mirror offers us a spontaneous view of our phenomenological predicament. Certainly, it is the deceptive potentials in the reflection of light and space that make mirrors so valuable to magicians and tricksters. Arguably for visual artists, it is through their very ability to distort that mirrors reveal most valuably. This seminar will explore the mirror as a material and as a conceptual apparatus in historical and contemporary art, while considering its theoretical implications through the lenses of philosophy and critical theory.  

   

  David Green is a video installation artist with a background in film production and visual effects. His artworks often appropriate and re-contextualise moving images produced by both professionals and amateurs in order to reveal embedded social and cultural themes (iconological meanings). He is currently teaching part-time at the Dunedin School of Art while working on a PhD with a creative component in the department of Media, Film, and Communication at Otago University. His written thesis conducts an interdisciplinary dialogue between ideas of film spectatorship, video art, and embodied cognition. This research provides a framework for his practice: experimental gallery-based and site-specific art installations that deploy moving-images. 

• Haere mai Frank Edwards (June 3 2021)

  “Kia ora e hoa, 

  “E ki ana te kōrero, iti rearea, kahikatea ka taea. 

  “Nei ra te mihi mahana ki a koutou. Nō Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngai Tuhoe me Kai Tahu ōku iwi.  Ko Frank Edwards tōku ingoa.”  

  Frank Edwards can’t wait to begin his mahi as Tūmuaki Whakaruruhau (Director of Māori Learner Success, Te Pūnaka Ōwheo) at Otago Polytechnic. 

  Frank, who begins his new role on 8 June, will be welcomed at a mihi whakatau in the Hub tomorrow (Friday) 4 June at 9.30am. 

  Frank, who comes to us from the University of Otago, says he is looking forward to continuing “weaving people and communities together”, through a kaupapa that is enduring, intentional and transformative.  

  “I believe Otago Polytechnic does this extremely well.” 

  Frank’s extensive experience and varied career has ranged from working as a Case Manager for Work and Income, to Team Coordinator/Kaitakawaenga for StudyLink’s Outreach programme, Kaitohutohu/Career Consultant for Career Services, then – most recently – as Kaitakawaenga Māori at Te Huka Mātauraka, University of Otago. 

  That latter role, which he held for more than a decade, involved Frank recruiting Māori secondary students to undertake study, provide course, career and scholarship advice to students, and actively promote Te Huka Mātauraka as a focal point for Māori students’ learning and support assistance. 

  “It was timely for me to apply for the position of Tūmuaki Whakaruruhau,” Frank says. 

  “If there is something that I learned from the Covid-19 lockdown, it was to be grateful and grab any opportunities that are presented to you.  

  “For me, it is an extension of the work I have been doing. I look forward to the new challenges ahead.” 

   

• Public Seminar: Anna-Marie White - Brett Graham’s Tai Moana Tai Tangata exhibition / contemporary Taoonga (May 28 2021)

  THURS 3 JUNE, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  Anna-Marie White

  Brett Graham’s Tai Moana Tai Tangata exhibition at Govett-Brewster and contemporary Taoonga

   

  M¯aori curator, art historian and researcher, Anna-Marie White (Te ¯Atiawa) outlines the development and presentation of the exhibition ‘Tai Moana Tai Tangata’ by Brett Graham (Tainui, Ng¯ati Koroki Kahukura) at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery as both an outcome of kaupapa M¯aori research practice and exercise in Maori curatorship.

   

  ‘Tai Moana Tai Tangata’ evolved from White’s doctoral research, which investigated Brett Graham’s work within the context of debates about the definition of contemporary M¯aori art. Reviving the arguments of Hirini Moko Mead (1984) and in reference to Paul Tapsell’s 1998 definition of taonga, White’s 2020 doctoral thesis, ‘Contemporary Taonga: The Art Works of Brett Graham’, emphasised the essential role played by M¯aori in the reception and performance of contemporary M¯aori art as taonga.

   

  Leading from these findings, and as an extension of kaupapa M¯aori research practice, White invited Graham to develop an exhibition at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery based on the historic relationship between their respective iwi. The resulting exhibition created an opportunity for Taranaki and Tainui M¯aori to engage and restate the principles of their political pact, Te Kiwai o te Kete, forged during the New Zealand Land Wars, in the present. This meeting activated the art works as taonga with the exhibition going on to directly serve the needs of Taranaki M¯aori while resonating with a broad spectrum of audiences in spite of the myriad challenges issued by the exhibition.

  An introduction to this installation and key art works outlines these challenges concluding with a personal reflection on this transformative experience from the perspective of the curator. 

   

  Dr Anna-Marie White (Te ¯Atiawa) has held a number of curatorial positions across museums and art galleries in Aotearoa. Key exhibition projects include P¯akeh¯a Now! (2007), The Maui Dynasty (2008) and Kaihono Ahua: Vision Mixer (2013) with recently published essays on Jonathan Mane-Wheoki and George Hubbard reflecting on key movements of contemporary M¯aori art history of the 1990s.

• A world of learning options (May 24 2021)

  Hundreds of would-be learners have flocked to Otago Polytechnic over the past two days to enjoy informative yet informal sessions with academic experts as part of Dunedin Tertiary Open Days.

  Learners and their families took the chance to explore Otago Polytechnic and discover what student life is like in Dunedin as well as get first-hand career and academic advice from staff and current students.

  “It was fantastic to host so many learners and their whānau to our campus,” Dr Megan Gibbons, Otago Polytechnic Chief Executive, says.

  You can find more information about Dunedin Tertiary Open Days here

• Public Seminar: Kim Lowe - East meets West down South (May 23 2021)

  THURS 27 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Kim Lowe

  East meets West down South
   

  Kim will be discussing her work in terms of her mixed-race whakapapa (NZ Chinese/Cuban/P¯akeh¯a from Southland). Working primarily in printmaking and painting she explores aspects of her ancestry through early Chinese design forms and motifs, faux narrative and appropriation. Also, for the 10th anniversary of the ¯Otautahi earthquakes, she will be sharing some post-quake creative community building initiatives from New Brighton and the eastern suburbs.

   

  Kim Lowe is an artist, printmaker and educator based in ¯Otautahi Christchurch and originally from Waihopai Southland. She completed a BFA (Printmaking) from Dunedin School of Art in 1996; an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Canterbury in 2009; and was the Olivia Spencer Bower Award recipient 2019. She has been involved in many post-quake projects over the past 10 years including Shared Lines: Sendai-Christchurch Art Exchange; TEZA New Brighton; Toi Te Karoro and Te Kura Tawhito. She currently lectures in Art and Design at Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd.

• Free eye treatments and spray tans (May 10 2021)

  Want a free facial? Keen to help our learners?

  Our New Zealand Certificate in Beauty Therapy (Level 4) students are completing two “evidence of treatments” on Thursday, 20 May, and have the following openings for staff:

  Morning

  • Eye trio (lash and brow tint, brow shape - tweezers) and spray tan: 9.30am-10.30am or 10.45am-12.00pm [Clients must be able to meet the student prior to the treatment to undergo a tint patch test for allergy safety. You will also need to bring dark-coloured, loose-fitting clothing to wear after the spray tan].
  • Lash lift and eye trio (lash and brow tint, brow shape - tweezers): 9.30am-10.30am or 10.45am-12.00pm [Clients must be able to meet the student prior to the treatment to undergo a tint, and lash lift solution patch test for allergy safety].

  Afternoon

  • Eye trio (lash and brow tint, brow shape - tweezers) and spray tan: 12.30pm-1.30pm or 1.45pm-30pm [Clients must be able to meet the student prior to the treatment to undergo a tint patch test for allergy safety). They will also need to bring dark coloured, loose fitting clothing to wear after the spray tan].
  • Lash lift and eye trio (lash and brow tint, brow shape - tweezers): 12.30pm-1.30pm or 1.45pm-3pm [Clients must be able to meet the student prior to the treatment to undergo a tint, and lash lift solution patch test for allergy safety].

  There is no charge for these treatments as it is part of their portfolio assessment, which is different from the Beauty Clinic, where charges do apply.

  Note: There are limited spaces available. Interested? Email beautytherapy@op.ac.nz stating which treatment and timeslot(s) you’d prefer.

   

• Snow expected in Dunedin (May 10 2021)

  Metservice expects snow to fall to low levels in the south of the South Island overnight and into tomorrow. This includes snow showers to 300 metres around Dunedin.

  As per our Snow and Ice Response Policy, Otago Polytechnic staff are expected to:

  • make a reasonable effort to get to work on a snow or ice day – ensuring the safety of themselves and others as a priority – regardless of whether Otago Polytechnic has a delayed opening or is closed for teaching
  • advise of their particular situation (expected time of arrival or inability to make it to work) by 9am at the latest
  • ensure that they communicate as early as possible to their students the changes to any class schedule and confirm their availability online or by phone
  • remain “contactable” during the day via phone or email for staff or students
  • continue with work that is possible to do while not in the office (checking and actioning emails should you have internet access)
  • should you choose not to be contactable on a snow day, it becomes annual leave

   

  Given the forecast, it is advisable to take a laptop home, if applicable.

  For more information, please read our Snow and Ice Response policy

   

• TOP ART - NCEA Level 3 portfolios 2020 (May 15 2021)

  24 MAY - 3 JUNE, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN

  TOP ART

  Annual touring exhibition featuring a selection of the NCEA Level 3 portfolios that achieved Excellence in Visual Art in the previous year

  EXHIBITION DATES
  24 May – 3 June 2021 - (open 1 - 4pm Monday 24 May)

  DSA GALLERY
  Ground Floor, P Block
  Riego Street (off Albany St)
  Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS
  Monday to Friday
  10am – 4pm

• Te Pūkenga leaders to visit in June (May 12 2021)

  As part of an ongoing commitment to engage with the sector, learners and employers, Te Pūkenga is excited to be heading across Aotearoa for a mid-year in-person kōrero in June.

  Starting immediately after Queen’s Birthday weekend, the “roadshow” includes a visit to Otago Polytechnic on Wednesday 23 June.

  These updates will provide an opportunity for many of you to connect directly with Te Pūkenga leadership and to hear about the work to date, what’s next and provide your feedback.

  The Te Pūkenga Executive Leadership Team will all be involved during the sessions.

  Stephen Town, Chief Executive Te Pūkenga: “The team is pleased to provide an update on mahi which has been ongoing across the organisation, and in partnership with the network, during the last six months.

  “We know that many people are keen to understand what happens next. We will be able to provide details on what we expect the next 8-10 months looks like and our key milestones and deliverables.”

  “A key focus will be to provide an update on the development of the operating model, our work on the future of academic regulations, relationships with employers, understanding we’ve gained around learner perspectives and much more. There will be opportunities for staff and learners to contribute their views as we connect in person.”

  In addition to the main updates, the Te Pūkenga team will host specific sessions on a range of topics, such as Academic Regulations and updates for local employers.
  
  For those unable to attend in-person, two online sessions will be held. A recording from an early session will also be made available on the Te Pūkenga website.

  Te Pūkenga leadership will also engage with stakeholders and communities later in the year, most likely in September.

• Artist Talk - Robert Jahnke (May 10 2021)

  *CANCELLED * FRIDAY 21 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  Robert Jahnke

  Artist Talk 

  Professor Robert Jahnke (Ngai Taharora, Te Whanau a Iritekura, Te Whanau a Rakairo o Ngati Porou) is an artist, writer and curator working principally as a sculptor, although trained as a designer and animator. His work focuses on the dynamics of inter-cultural exchange and the politics of identity. Jahnke primarily teaches into the MVA and PhD (FA) programmes out of Palmerston North.

• Public Seminar: Taarati Taiaroa - Tell them I said … (May 10 2021)

  THURS 20 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
   

  Taarati Taiaroa

  Tell them I said …

  
  Taarati Taiaroa (Ng¯ati T¯uwharetoa, Ng¯ati Apa, Te ¯Ati Awa, Ng¯ati Kotimana) is an independent cultural worker whose work over the past 10 years has focused on the ethics of curatorial, artist-initiated, community based and collaborative practice. 

  As a participant in the Emerging Curators Programme (2015-16) she articulated a manifesto for her “conversational research” approach to working with others that is process driven and resists pre-determined outcomes. In this seminar she will discuss “conversational research” as enacted in artistic collaborations and curatorial projects. In doing so, she will reflect on the process that led her to understand and articulate her own ethics and the impact of this on decision making within her practice, and ultimately what she has been working on as the Blue Oyster Summer Resident. 

  The title of this seminar references the 2016 collection of essays by Martin Herbert, Tell Them I Said No, in which he considers various artists’ withdrawal from the art world or their open antagonisms to its machinations.

   

  A graduate of the University of Auckland, Taarati Taiaroa holds Masters degrees in both Fine Arts and Museums and Cultural Heritage. As a co-director of RM, an artist-run-space in central Auckland, she contributed to the facilitation, production and coordination of over 50 exhibitions and events. In 2019 she co-convened the ST PAUL St Curatorial Symposium, It's as if we were made for each other; was a guest faculty member on the ICI for the Curatorial Intensive Auckland at Artspace and was Artist-in-residence at the Centre of Action Research and Evaluation at Massey University, Palmerston North.

  In 2020 she was Assistant Curator, M¯aori Art on the exhibition Toi T¯u Toi Ora: Contemporary M¯aori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T¯amaki. In this role, Taarati was able to put to use her MA thesis which sought to write a history of Maori art exhibitions (1958-2013). It focused on the group exhibition as a formative form in the reception, kaupapa and strengthening of a contemporary M¯aori art voice. She was supported to complete this thesis by the Marsden Funded Toi te Mana project, lead by Dr. Deidre Brown, Dr, Ngarino Ellis and the late Prof. Jonathan Mane Wheoki. Since 2013 she has been sharing her research through symposium papers, exhibitions, public programmes, and publications. Recent written contributions can be found in Crafting Aotearoa (2019) and the latest edition of Toi o T¯amaki’s magazine Art Toi (Dec 2020).

• Ever thought about having a mentor? (May 7 2021)

  We are calling for expressions of interest for staff who wish to be mentored at OP and be part of our mentoring programme.

  What is Workplace Mentoring? It is a one-to one learning partnership where a staff member who is experienced and skilled in a particular aspect(s) of work is paired with another staff member seeking to develop their competency in that area. The overall goal of a mentoring relationship is to help people to realise their full potential.  This is a fully confidential partnership.

  Who is the programme for? Any staff member wanting to be mentored.

  What are the benefits of participating as a Mentee?

  • Being encouraged and empowered in personal development.
  • Being helped to identify and achieve career goals.
  • Being helped to identify and correct gaps in generic skills and knowledge.
  • Increasing your confidence.
  • Developing and maintaining a broader perspective on career options and opportunities.
  • Having access to a senior role model.

  What is expected of you?

  • Mentoring sessions will be no more than 1 hour long and with the frequency of the meetings being negotiated with the mentor over six-months. Should further time be warranted for the partnership, then an extension may be granted.
  • The programme is designed so that mentoring sessions can either be face to face or online depending on the location of mentor and mentee.
  • Mentors and mentees will be matched by the DCE People, Culture, and Safety, and the People & Culture team so that the context of the discussions can be broadened and deepened, offering greater insight for managing leadership challenges, and also challenging your growth mindset.
  • To complete the Mentoring Partnership Agreement which will outline the details of the relationship at your first meeting. At the end the mentoring relationship an evaluation will be undertaken to assess the value of this programme.

  Next steps:

  If you feel this is something you would like to participate in and some help in realising your full potential, please email your expression of interest to vicie.hodge@op.ac.nz by 15 May 2021.  Included in this email will be:

  • Your name
  • Your position
  • What you would like mentoring in leadership capabilities, general leadership mentoring, topic specific mentoring e.g., promotion applications, career mentoring, mentoring for women around balancing workload and family, or any topic you feel you need some mentoring in. Please specify in your email what specifically you are looking for a mentor for.

  If you have any questions, please contact Vicie by email vicie.hodge@op.ac.nz or her cell: 021 735 160.

• Graham Fletcher - Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, Whanganui Residency (May 7 2021)

  THURS 6 MAY 7.30PM, Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, Whanganui

  Artist in Residence Talk

  Painter Graham Fletcher is the current artist-in-residence at Tylee Cottage. He will be in residence until June and comes to Whanganui from Dunedin where he is Principal Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Art. He has been a practicing artist since 1997 and his work to date as a New Zealand-born Samoan has explored complex cultural issues within a post-colonial context. Fletcher will discuss past and present work.

  Read more about Graham's residency in an interview here >

• Scott Eady - Cinelli 250: Ata mārie Ōtepoti at DPAG (May 7 2021)

  17 APRIL  - 7 NOV 2021, DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, OCTOGON, DUNEDIN

   

  SCOTT EADY

  
  Cinelli 250: Ata mārie Ōtepoti
  
  Bathgate Series
  
  Cinelli 250: Ata mārie Ōtepoti has been an ongoing project for Scott Eady, since he purchased a Cinelli road bike in 2018 and began cycling to work along the edge of the Otago Harbour. As part of each journey, he stopped to greet the day with the words ‘ata mārie Ōtepoti’ from a public bench, documenting the rising sun in a black and white photograph. In his installation at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Eady creates a site of contemplation and discovery for gallery visitors and performers alike.  Alongside this Eady presents Bathgate, a series of photographs that traces another of the artist’s regular journeys. He has worked alongside students at Bathgate Park School, introducing the magic of Box Brownie photography to a new generation.

   

  Scott Eady (b.1972) is a senior lecturer at the Dunedin School of Art. Eady’s art practice often pushes past ‘what is’ to prompt a consideration of ‘what could be.’ His 2019 exhibition Images of Love highlighted his interest in reimaging everyday objects and things – an action echoed here in the benches of Cinelli 250.  A graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, at The University of Auckland (MFA, 1999), Eady’s work is held in major collections such as Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Hocken Collection Uare Taoka o Hākena and The Chartwell Trust. He has exhibited artwork extensively both nationally and internationally, including at the Venice Biennial in 2013.

   

  A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artist Project supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa along with project partner, Dunedin School of Art.

• "Initials" makes a mark (May 6 2021)

  From graphic design, photography and animation, to world building, web design and typography, an exhibition by year-1 and year-2 Bachelor of Design (Communication) learners offers a range of vibrant responses to design briefs.

  “Initials” runs until Tuesday 11 May at Otago Polytechnic’s O Block.

  “Staff and students feel proud of the design outcomes,” says Otago Polytechnic Communication Design lecturer Denise Narciso explains. 

  “Seeing the work displayed ends the first term of teaching on a very positive note.

  “Family, friends and staff were there at the opening on 4 May and there were lots of good conversation about the work.”

  Read more about our Design programmes

   

   

• Celebrating midwives' mahi (May 1 2021)

  On May 5 kaiako and tauira from the School of Midwifery celebrated International Day of the Midwife, acknowledging the crucial role of midwives in supporting women and whānau during their childbirth experience.

  “The theme of this year’s International Day of the Midwife was ‘Follow the data: Invest in Midwives’. This implores governments worldwide to invest in quality midwifery care” says Head of School, Dr Christine Griffiths.

  The data shows that health outcomes are much better across the globe when childbirth is supported by qualified midwives – and that is worth celebrating.

  “We had cake, a speech, and sparkling grape juice in akonga” reported Kaiako Kelleigh Sheffield-Cranstoun, from Porirua.

  Similar good times and much eating of cake were had across School of Midwifery satellites in Whanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, Dunedin, Central Otago and Southland.

  Kaiako also celebrated with colleagues in practice and will engage in the Virtual International Day of the Midwife conference – a free 24-hour online conference held annually to celebrate midwifery research and practice.

  Congratulations midwives!

• Finalists in the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award (May 5 2021)

  Congratulations to current and recent graduate students;  Ngahina Belton-Bosworth and Hemi Hoskings-Kereopa, who are are finalists in the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award.

  
  See all the finalists works at this website.

  The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages emerging Māori artists to create portraits of their tūpuna (ancestors) in any medium. The Award was launched in August 2020 and is hosted and administered by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia.

  The Kingii Tuheitia Portraiture Award provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna (ancestors) and their stories.

  The Award culminates with an exhibition of finalist artworks at The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata in Wellington over a three month period, timed to coincide with Matariki 2021. Judging of the shortlisted works is undertaken by a distinguished panel at the opening of the exhibition.
  
  > Read more in the Otago Daily Times
  
  

  

  (Ngahina Beltno-Bodsworth | Te Moana. Tō Māua Haerenga)

  (Hemi Hosking-Kereopa | Tawhiao Matutaera Potatu Te Wherowhero)
  
  

  
  Ko Te Tohu Kiriaro o Kiingi Tuheitia he whakataetae e whakatenatena ana i ngā kaitoi Māori whanake ki te whakarite kiriaro o ōna tūpuna ki ngā toi huhua. I rewa te Tohu nei i te Ākuwhata o te tau 2020. E whakahaerehia ana tēnei tohu e Te Pūkenga Whakaata hei whakahōnore i a Kiingi Tuheitia.

  
  E tukuna ana e Te Tohu Kiriaro o Kiingi Tuheitia kia āhei ngā kaitoi Māori whanake ki te whakaata i ngā pukenga ki te motu whānui, ā, e whakakaupapa ana i te mau pupuru me te whakanui i ngā tūpuna tae noa ki ā rātou kōrero.

  
  Ka oti te Tohu nei ki te whakaata i ngā toi tauwhiti ki Te Pūkenga Whakaata i Te Whanganui-a-Tara mō te toru marama te roa, hei te wā o Matariki 2021 ka tū. He Pae Whakahirahira kua tohua hei whakawā i ngā toi tauwhiti i te tīmatanga o te whakaaturanga.

  
  Ko te Tohu tuatahi nei ka tū hei te 2021, ā, ka huri i te motu.

• Changes to qualifications proposed (May 4 2021)

  As part of the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE), the Ministry of Education is proposing changes to qualifications and other credentials.

  “Simplifying Qualifications and Other Credentials” is a key project within RoVE, which is the biggest transformation of our sector in 35 years.

  Qualifications and other credentials, along with the way education and training is delivered, play a crucial role in ensuring that learners’ skills are recognised by industry, iwi and the community. 

  Feedback is being sought on how simplifying qualifications and credentials could better meet learners’ needs, ensuring that they can easily transfer their learning as they move between work-based and provider-based learning and also between providers.

  Consultation on proposals to simplify qualifications and other credentials is now open.

  Go to VQconsult.nzqa.govt.nz - Tuku kōrero to provide your feedback.

  If you have any questions about this consultation, contact VQconsult@nzqa.govt.nz

   

• New art installation turning heads (May 4 2021)

  A playful yet serious examination of masculine stereotypes, Otago Polytechnic’s latest campus artwork, Four Daves, has been turning a few heads since being installed this week.

  The installation continues Otago Polytechnic's Four Plinths Project, which aims to showcase student artwork in the quad on Harbour Tce, providing an opportunity for graduates from the Dunedin School of Art to have their work shown in a public setting.  

  Crafted from concrete, wood, metal and fibreglass, the latest sculptures have been created by Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate Richard Budd, who hopes Four Daves will encourage people to think about cultural norms around masculinity.

  “Dave draws from ’80s and ’90s television ideals of masculinity to recreate and break down the lofty concepts of the ‘perfect’ man and associated stereotypes, where boys are branded as already formed men."

  “Dave is shaped to emulate men while standing at the height of a child, which is the age where boys are indoctrinated into masculine culture."

  “The work examines these ill-fitting stereotypes and their inability to be entirely blank.”

  Richard said he took inspiration from Otago Polytechnic’s roots when choosing the weatherproof materials that comprise each sculpture.

  “From as far back as 1895, skills such as cookery, chemistry, typewriting and dressmaking [were taught]. However, these skills, while important and useful, do not lend well to materials that are suited to long periods of outdoor exposure."

  “So instead I have focused primarily on the trade aspects of what Otago Polytechnic has to offer and used common trade materials.”

  Four Daves replaces Jenny Hjertquist's Four Quarters of the World (2019, concrete and mixed media), which was the inaugural commission for Otago Polytechnic’s Four Plinths Project. 

  Every 18 months to two years, Otago Polytechnic changes the exhibition and offers the existing works for sale by silent auction. The proceeds of the sale are used to support materials for the next selected student commission.

• Public Seminar: Metiria Turei - Historical and contemporary use of M¯aori visual art in the transmission of M¯aori legal knowledge (May 4 2021)

  THURS 13 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN
    

  Metiria Turei 

  Historical and contemporary use of M¯aori visual art in the transmission of M¯aori legal knowledge

  The description of Indigenous Peoples as having an ‘oral culture’ is simplistic, often used as shorthand to suggest that oral cultures are non-literate and therefore more primitive. That implication undervalues Indigenous peoples’ visual culture of documenting, recording, and creating social, legal, and political information through mark making and encoded objects. Where a culture uses its artistic system to create objects whose primary purpose is to communicate information across time and place, those objects can be said to be “encoded objects”. The form, shape, materiality, surface design and construction of the object can all contribute to the meaning it holds, as can the nature and status of its maker and the time and place of its making.

  When thinking about the documentation of indigenous law and how indigenous law is communicated and taught, it seems obvious that objects and visual markings would be used for that purpose just as objects (such as law books) and visual markings (such as writing) is used to communicate state law. My thesis explores the legal literacy of M¯aori visual art and asks whether M¯aori law is documented in visual art works such as pou, ta moko and raranga.
  
  

  image credit:  Pou Tangaroa, Kati Hui Rapa,  Alex Whitaker, Warrington Domain

   

  Metiria Turei - ¯Ati Haunui a P¯ap¯arangi, Ng¯ati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Rangitane.

  Metiria Stanton Turei lives in Dunedin, Aotearoa. Metiria built a career as a social activist, lawyer and member of the New Zealand Parliament over 20 years before moving to develop her art practice. Her art work focuses on Indigenous Futurism, M¯aori self determination in the present and the future and is primarily in performative textiles, activated on the body and presented in film and photographs. She has a law degree from the University of Auckland and a BVA Honours from the Dunedin School of Art. She works for the University of Otago in the Faculty of Law. 

• Design learners' 'Lockdown Zines' applauded (May 4 2021)

  A group of Otago Polytechnic Design learners have had their Covid-related work acknowledged in Kātoitoi, the Aotearoa Design Archive.

  A highly regarded curator of work from throughout New Zealand, Kātoitoi collects from different disciplines of Design that reflect contemporary practices, emerging trends and social/cultural impact.

  Kātoitoi has recently highlighted the work of a 2020 cohort of Otago Polytechnic first-year Bachelor of Design (Communication) learners, who collaborated on a fascinating project, “Lockdown Zines”.

  The “Lockdown Zines” were an adapted response to a first-year publication design brief and the remote learning situation in which they found themselves during Covid-19 lockdown last year.

  “This project was conceived entirely remotely,” Otago Polytechnic Communication Design lecturer Denise Narciso explains.

  “Given that this was only the second design project students had undertaken, we revised the brief to provide students with an innovative outlet for a range of responses to what were uncertain and challenging times in lockdown.”

  Otago Polytechnic Communication Design lecturer Lucy Richardson, who co-taught the paper with Denise, says the project enabled students to draw directly on their own experiences.

  “These included how to stay connected, combat boredom, live with your parents, stay sane, be creative, slow down, etc.”

  The zines ranged from highly personal accounts of grief and isolation, to more humorous perspectives on redefined human behaviour, the media, conspiracy theories and characters on the world stage. It gave students a discussion point, particularly around mental health and the anxiety they were feeling.

  Notably, Otago Polytechnic Student Success support team requested the zines be made visible around campus to promote student wellbeing.

  Kātoitoi describes the project as, “A really clever brief in response to the global situation at the time and having to adapt to online teaching with first years. It's clear that students responded really well and had fun.

  “A great adaption of the standard brief as a result of the Covid lockdown. Definitely a moment in time captured by young designers at the start of their individual design journey. Worthy of a place in the archive.”

  Kātoitoi reviewer Nick Kapica, a principal at Isthmus, an integrated design studio based in Auckland, reflects that he could “almost hear the sort of stress that the lecturers were under, trying to think how they were going to deliver a programme through Zoom, or whatever they were using.

  “And all these first-year students have suddenly been thrown into a brief, and they’re trying to work stuff out, and they’re all trying to deal with their own kind of concerns about being in lockdown.”

   

   

• Public Seminar Programme TERM 2, 2021 (May 4 2021)

  Dunedin School of Art Lunchtime Research Seminars Term 1, 2021

   

  THURS 6 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  Simon Swale

  Peripatetic

  Peripatetic: in which the artist scrambles, scrapes and scratches, drifts, lurches, and rambles, in an attempt to make sense of both his practice and the world in which we exist, and how one feeds the other.

  In this seminar Simon will discuss his developing practice since completing his MFA in 2020. Focusing on work developed as part of his ongoing participation in the Handshake Project, this may be seen as fragmentary, discursive, and somewhat discontinuous. Yet for all this meandering and drifting, it is hoped a certain cohesion may come to light and may in fact define the model for an ongoing practice.

   

  Simon Swale is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Design, Otago Polytechnic. Teaching on the Fashion program, Simon has published widely on fashion design and the fashion system. Simon completed a Master of Fine Art at the Dunedin School of Art in 2020 with a focus on contemporary jewellery. He won the Jewellery category at the 2020 NZ Student Craft Design Awards and was an International Graduate Show prize winner at Galerie Marzee in the Netherlands. Simon is currently a participant of the Handshake Project mentorship program for emerging NZ jewellers and is mentored by Berlin based German artist Gabi Schillig.

   

   

  THURS 13 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN
    

  Metiria Turei 

  Historical and contemporary use of Māori visual art in the transmission of Māori legal knowledge

  The description of Indigenous Peoples as having an ‘oral culture’ is simplistic, often used as shorthand to suggest that oral cultures are non-literate and therefore more primitive. That implication undervalues Indigenous peoples’ visual culture of documenting, recording, and creating social, legal, and political information through mark making and encoded objects. Where a culture uses its artistic system to create objects whose primary purpose is to communicate information across time and place, those objects can be said to be “encoded objects”. The form, shape, materiality, surface design and construction of the object can all contribute to the meaning it holds, as can the nature and status of its maker and the time and place of its making.

  When thinking about the documentation of indigenous law and how indigenous law is communicated and taught, it seems obvious that objects and visual markings would be used for that purpose just as objects (such as law books) and visual markings (such as writing) is used to communicate state law. My thesis explores the legal literacy of Māori visual art and asks whether Māori law is documented in visual art works such as pou, ta moko and raranga.

   

  Metiria Turei - Āti Haunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Rangitane.

  Metiria Stanton Turei lives in Dunedin, Aotearoa. Metiria built a career as a social activist, lawyer and member of the New Zealand Parliament over 20 years before moving to develop her art practice. Her art work focuses on Indigenous Futurism, Māori self determination in the present and the future and is primarily in performative textiles, activated on the body and presented in film and photographs. She has a law degree from the University of Auckland and a BVA Honours from the Dunedin School of Art. She works for the University of Otago in the Faculty of Law. 

   

   

  THURS 20 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
   

  Taarati Taiaroa

  Tell them I said …

  
  Taarati Taiaroa (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Apa, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Kotimana) is an independent cultural worker whose work over the past 10 years has focused on the ethics of curatorial, artist-initiated, community based and collaborative practice. 

  As a participant in the Emerging Curators Programme (2015-16) she articulated a manifesto for her “conversational research” approach to working with others that is process driven and resists pre-determined outcomes. In this seminar she will discuss “conversational research” as enacted in artistic collaborations and curatorial projects. In doing so, she will reflect on the process that led her to understand and articulate her own ethics and the impact of this on decision making within her practice, and ultimately what she has been working on as the Blue Oyster Summer Resident. 

  The title of this seminar references the 2016 collection of essays by Martin Herbert, Tell Them I Said No, in which he considers various artists’ withdrawal from the art world or their open antagonisms to its machinations.

   

  A graduate of the University of Auckland, Taarati Taiaroa holds Masters degrees in both Fine Arts and Museums and Cultural Heritage. As a co-director of RM, an artist-run-space in central Auckland, she contributed to the facilitation, production and coordination of over 50 exhibitions and events. In 2019 she co-convened the ST PAUL St Curatorial Symposium, It's as if we were made for each other; was a guest faculty member on the ICI for the Curatorial Intensive Auckland at Artspace and was Artist-in-residence at the Centre of Action Research and Evaluation at Massey University, Palmerston North.

  In 2020 she was Assistant Curator, Māori Art on the exhibition Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. In this role, Taarati was able to put to use her MA thesis which sought to write a history of Maori art exhibitions (1958-2013). It focused on the group exhibition as a formative form in the reception, kaupapa and strengthening of a contemporary Māori art voice. She was supported to complete this thesis by the Marsden Funded Toi te Mana project, lead by Dr. Deidre Brown, Dr, Ngarino Ellis and the late Prof. Jonathan Mane Wheoki. Since 2013 she has been sharing her research through symposium papers, exhibitions, public programmes, and publications. Recent written contributions can be found in Crafting Aotearoa (2019) and the latest edition of Toi o Tāmaki’s magazine Art Toi (Dec 2020).

   

   

  FRIDAY 21 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  Robert Jahnke

  Artist Talk 

  Professor Robert Jahnke (Ngai Taharora, Te Whanau a Iritekura, Te Whanau a Rakairo o Ngati Porou) is an artist, writer and curator working principally as a sculptor, although trained as a designer and animator. His work focuses on the dynamics of inter-cultural exchange and the politics of identity. Jahnke primarily teaches into the MVA and PhD (FA) programmes out of Palmerston North.

   

   

  THURS 27 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  Kim Lowe

  East meets West down South
   

  Kim will be discussing her work in terms of her mixed-race whakapapa (NZ Chinese/Cuban/Pākehā from Southland). Working primarily in printmaking and painting she explores aspects of her ancestry through early Chinese design forms and motifs, faux narrative and appropriation. Also, for the 10th anniversary of the Ōtautahi earthquakes, she will be sharing some post-quake creative community building initiatives from New Brighton and the eastern suburbs.

   

  Kim Lowe is an artist, printmaker and educator based in Ōtautahi Christchurch and originally from Waihopai Southland. She completed a BFA (Printmaking) from Dunedin School of Art in 1996; an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Canterbury in 2009; and was the Olivia Spencer Bower Award recipient 2019. She has been involved in many post-quake projects over the past 10 years including Shared Lines: Sendai-Christchurch Art Exchange; TEZA New Brighton; Toi Te Karoro and Te Kura Tawhito. She currently lectures in Art and Design at Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd.

   

   

  THURS 3 JUNE, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  Anna-Marie White

  Brett Graham’s Tai Moana Tai Tangata exhibition at Govett-Brewster and contemporary Taoonga.

   

  Māori curator, art historian and researcher, Anna-Marie White (Te Ātiawa) outlines the development and presentation of the exhibition ‘Tai Moana Tai Tangata’ by Brett Graham (Tainui, Ngāti Koroki Kahukura) at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery as both an outcome of kaupapa Māori research practice and exercise in Maori curatorship.

   

  ‘Tai Moana Tai Tangata’ evolved from White’s doctoral research, which investigated Brett Graham’s work within the context of debates about the definition of contemporary Māori art. Reviving the arguments of Hirini Moko Mead (1984) and in reference to Paul Tapsell’s 1998 definition of taonga, White’s 2020 doctoral thesis, ‘Contemporary Taonga: The Art Works of Brett Graham’, emphasised the essential role played by Māori in the reception and performance of contemporary Māori art as taonga.

   

  Leading from these findings, and as an extension of kaupapa Māori research practice, White invited Graham to develop an exhibition at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery based on the historic relationship between their respective iwi. The resulting exhibition created an opportunity for Taranaki and Tainui Māori to engage and restate the principles of their political pact, Te Kiwai o te Kete, forged during the New Zealand Land Wars, in the present. This meeting activated the art works as taonga with the exhibition going on to directly serve the needs of Taranaki Māori while resonating with a broad spectrum of audiences in spite of the myriad challenges issued by the exhibition.

  An introduction to this installation and key art works outlines these challenges concluding with a personal reflection on this transformative experience from the perspective of the curator. 

   

  Dr Anna-Marie White (Te Ātiawa) has held a number of curatorial positions across museums and art galleries in Aotearoa. Key exhibition projects include Pākehā Now! (2007), The Maui Dynasty (2008) and Kaihono Ahua: Vision Mixer (2013) with recently published essays on Jonathan Mane-Wheoki and George Hubbard reflecting on key movements of contemporary Māori art history of the 1990s.

   

   

  THURS 10 JUNE, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  David Green

  Mise en Abyme: Mirrors in Art, Mirrors in Theory

   

  From the time of the pharaohs up to the present, graphically, materially, or metaphorically, mirrors contribute to countless works of art. Their invention 8000 years ago (of polished obsidian) captured the reflectivity of a still pond and turned it into a transferrable spectacle. The mirror was humanity’s first virtual reality tool. Over the millennia, though initially only for the very wealthy, these flexible forms of optical reflectivity have imbricated themselves into our daily human experience.

  On the one hand the mirror seems to offer a straightforward proposition: WYSIWYG. But while the mirror may never lie, it invariably deflects. A mirror is the one object that, without debate, we all experience differently; when two or more people look at this object at the same time, they can never see exactly the same thing in it. In this way the mirror offers us a spontaneous view of our phenomenological predicament. Certainly, it is the deceptive potentials in the reflection of light and space that make mirrors so valuable to magicians and tricksters. Arguably for visual artists, it is through their very ability to distort that mirrors reveal most valuably. This seminar will explore the mirror as a material and as a conceptual apparatus in historical and contemporary art, while considering its theoretical implications through the lenses of philosophy and critical theory.  

   

  David Green is a video installation artist with a background in film production and visual effects. His artworks often appropriate and re-contextualise moving images produced by both professionals and amateurs in order to reveal embedded social and cultural themes (iconological meanings). He is currently teaching part-time at the Dunedin School of Art while working on a PhD with a creative component in the department of Media, Film, and Communication at Otago University. His written thesis conducts an interdisciplinary dialogue between ideas of film spectatorship, video art, and embodied cognition. This research provides a framework for his practice: experimental gallery-based and site-specific art installations that deploy moving-images. 

   

  THURS 17 JUNE, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  
  Sonya Lacey

  Artist Talk
  
  

  Working across video, installation and performance, my practice is often concerned with systems of communication and the social scenarios they give rise to. A body of work will often begin with fact but end as fiction, for example, an interest in a particular situation (eg, a designer, a typeface or a site) may spark the initial idea, but the idiosyncratic process of making and remaking the work sees the real become inseparable from the imagined. 

  My talk for the DSA students will give an overview of some recent projects as well as taking a look back at some of the work I made during art school and my involvement with Newcall Gallery – an artist run space, studio collective and occasional publishing imprint that ran 2008–2010.

   

  Sonya Lacey is the current Dunedin Public Art Gallery artist in residence. Her exhibition Weekend is nominated for the Walters Prize and is currently showing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She has exhibited throughout New Zealand at galleries including Artspace, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts. Her video By Sea has been extensively screened internationally including at the London International Film Festival and her work was recently included in the Singapore Festival of Moving Image: State of Motion 2020. She currently sits on the board for Circuit Artist Film and Video Aotearoa.

   

• Range of job opportunities (May 3 2021)

  The year is racing on, as are plans at Te Pūkenga, which has a range of secondments and permanent positions available within its Operations Team.

  The roles are:

  Senior Legal and Risk Lead (permanent)

  Director Strategy and Information (permanent)

  Health, Safety and Well-being Lead (permanent)

  People and Culture Advisor (fixed term to 16 December 2022)

  Strategic Māori Communications Lead (fixed term to 16 December 2022)

  These positions do not have a prescribed office location. We are a geographically dispersed team, and we value you maintaining your community and whānau connections. There will be travel throughout the motu including to the office of Te Pūkenga in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, but you will be able to work from home or your home subsidiary when not travelling.

  For more information on the specific job descriptions, visit

• Tapuae gym closed Monday 26 April holiday (April 21 2021)

  Tapuae gym will be closed Monday 26 April to observe the Anzac Day holiday.

   

• Whaiao appoints co-chairs to lead Otago sustainability education (April 20 2021)

   

  Whaiao - Education for Sustainability Otago is excited to announce the appointment of two co-chairpersons, Rachel Wesley and Dr Ian Hall, for the next two years.

  “Ian and Rachel have very strong backgrounds in governance and leadership, as well as in education and bi-cultural practice, respectively,” Dr Barry Law, Director of Whaiao, says.

  “Whaiao is driven by local people working together for a sustainable future.

  “Therefore, the quality of the appointees can only enhance our efforts to promote sustainability education, training, and public awareness across a range of key areas, including biculturalism, primary industry, water and tourism.”

  Like the landscape of the Otago region, the network of organisations involved in Whaiao is diverse and includes mana whenua, educators, students, researchers, non-profit agencies, local government leaders, businesses and community members.

  These partners have been working under a United Nations University mandate since January 2020 when, following an initiative led by Otago Polytechnic, the Otago region was named a United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) for Sustainability.

  Dr Ian Hall: “I’m excited to be involved in Whaiao. I see my appointment as an opportunity to combine my passion for education with engagement in a broad range of community activities.”

  Rachel Wesley: “I understand Whaiao has established a bicultural framework – a first for any RCE in the world. I have a strong interest in hapū development, and environmental kaupapa, so the partnership model Whaiao has with mana whenua is of great interest, too.”

  Rachel Wesley: background

  Rachel’s passion ranges from cultural resource and heritage management, to hapū development and Resource Management Act and environmental kaupapa. Along with raising her whānau and her employment as Chief Executive at Aukaha, Rachel is undertaking a PhD through the University of Otago, weaving together different strands of ecological “knowledge” in order to reframe the archaeological understanding of resource use by early southern Māori.  

  Dr Ian Hall: background

  Ian is an experienced educational leader, having held leadership roles at a range of institutions, both in New Zealand and internationally. He also has extensive governance experience of a number of companies and not-for-profit organisations, and is currently chair of the Establishment Board of Trustees for Te Kura O Tākaka Kara (a new State primary school in Wanaka), and Chair of the Board of Mount Aspiring College.

  Whaiao - Education for Sustainability Otago will hold its next full meeting on 7 May in Dunedin.

  For more information about Whaiao, visit

   

• Rally cars roll into Otago Polytechnic facility (April 19 2021)

  Getcha motor running . . . Our staff and students had a part to play in last weekend's Otago Rally. Read the Otago Daily Times article

   

• Growing our pool of mentors (April 12 2021)

  Kia ora koutou

  People & Culture are keen to develop and grow a pool of mentors at OP. 

  What is Workplace Mentoring?

  It is a one-to one learning partnership where a staff member who is experienced and skilled in a particular aspect(s) of work is paired with another staff member seeking to develop their competency in that area. The overall goal of a mentoring relationship is to help people to realise their full potential. 

  What are the benefits of participating as a Mentor? 

  There are benefits in participating in this relationship including personal growth and satisfaction and greater engagement with work and career. Assists with learning new things about yourself, challenges your thinking, assists with developing leadership skills, provides career satisfaction, seeing leadership with fresh eyes, recharges your batteries, and builds confidence. 

  Who is the programme for?

  Staff currently in directors, head of programmes, head of colleges, team leader, academic leader roles, and for people who want to develop into leadership roles. 

  What is expected of you?  

  • Mentors will have the opportunity to mentor pertaining to our leadership capabilities, general leadership mentoring, topic specific mentoring e.g., promotion applications, career mentoring, mentoring for women around balancing workload and family, or any topic the mentee feel they are needing some mentoring in. 
  • Mentoring sessions will be no more than 1 hour long and with the frequency of the meetings being negotiated with your mentee over six-months.  Should further time be warranted for the partnership, then an extension may be granted. 
  • The programme is designed so that mentoring sessions can either be face to face or online depending on the location of mentor and mentee. 
  • Mentors and mentees will be matched by the DCE People, Culture, and Safety, and the People & Culture team so that the context of the discussions can be broadened and deepened, offering greater insight for managing leadership challenges, and also challenging your growth mindset.  
  • Each mentor and mentee will complete a mentoring agreement which will outline the details of the relationship. At the end the mentoring relationship an evaluation will be undertaken to assess the value of this programme. 

  Next steps: 

  If you feel this is something you would like to participate in and help a mentee realise their full potential, please email your expression of interest to vicie.hodge@op.ac.nz by 10 May 2021.  Include: 

  • Your name 
  • Your position 
  • Key strengths: What abilities, skills and knowledge do you believe (either via feedback you have received or through your own discovery) you excel at that would be beneficial to the mentoring relationship. 

  If you have any questions, please contact Vicie by email vicie.hodge@op.ac.nz or her cell: 021 735 160. 

• Dunedin Schools Game Jam - Tech Week 2021 (April 16 2021)

  What's it all about?

  To coincide with the recently established Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) in Dunedin, Otago Polytechnic is proud to host the Dunedin Schools Game Jam.

  The event is open to Dunedin high school students studying the digital curriculum at years 12 and 13, and will run over the weekend of May 28 – May 30.

   

  When

  FRIDAY 28 MAY
  6:00PM - 10:00PM

  SATURDAY 29 MAY
  9:00AM - 10:00PM

  SUNDAY 30 MAY
  9:00AM - 6:00PM

   

  Location

  Otago Polytechnic, D Block, Level 3,
  Forth St, North Dunedin, Dunedin

   

  Students will form teams and be assigned a theme on the inaugural night, and then spend the next 48 hours designing and coding a fully-fledged game!

  Throughout the weekend, mentors from the local game industry, as well as staff and senior students in the Bachelor of Information Technology programme will be on hand to guide participants and offer advice and feedback on the games as they progress.

  These events are awesome for fostering friendships, increasing confidence and creating opportunities within the game dev communities. Students get to challenge themselves and their creativity, explore new roles, and develop and refine skills.

  The Game Jam will culminate in a mini showcase of the games on the Sunday evening, where members of the public are welcome to be in attendance. There will be food provided and spot prizes awarded throughout the event. 

   

  More info coming soon!

  Register now to keep updated and stay tuned for further info. 

   

  Register now

   

  Before attending, you must be aware our Code of Conduct and Safe Space Policy. The Otago Polytechnic and Dunedin Schools Game Jam have zero tolerance for harassment or bullying of participants in any form.
  

   

  This community event listing is made possible with the support of NZTech

• Public Exhibition: Charlotte McLachlan - Animal Inside (April 16 2021)

  4-6 MAY, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN

  
  Charlotte McLachlan
  

  Animal Inside

  EXHIBITION DATES: 4-6 May, 2021 

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm

  CLOSING: Friday 7 May, 5 – 7pm
• Public Exhibition: Caitlin Donnelly - Māmā (April 16 2021)

  11 - 13 MAY, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN
  
  Caitlin Donnelly

  Māmā

  EXHIBITION DATES: 11 - 13 May, 2021 

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm

  CLOSING: Friday 14 May, 5 – 7pm
• EARTH: caught in stone | art+science exhibition (April 12 2021)

  15 - 22 MAY, DUNEDIN COMMUNITY GALLERY, 20 PRINCES STREET, DUNEDIN (next to the Octagon)

   

  EARTH: caught in Stone  | art+science exhibition

  Dunedin Community Gallery

  15-22 MAY

   

  EARTH: caught in Stone will bring to a conclusion the eighth Art+Science Project which took “earth science” as its focus. Following in the footsteps of Art+Science Projects over the previous seven years, artists engaged with research scientists from GNS, University of Otago (Geology, Geography, Zoology and Marine Science) and the Otago Regional Council, individually or in small groups, to develop artworks which respond to the theme of “earth science”.

   

  EARTH: caught in Stone  will explore the formation of rocks, as they are layered across geologic time, under restless pressures, ruptures and constant change. Engage with the macro and the micro, with chaos and order. Find out how our planet has made us. How have the connections between earth systems affected evolution throughout deep time, and changed the course of histories and cultures? What will our horizons look like in the new geological era of the Anthropocene? Visitors will learn about kumimanu giant penguins who once visited the shores of Zealandia?!

  > Read more in the Otago Daily Times Arts Feature

   

  FREE Activities and Talks

  The exhibition includes a public programme over two weekends which includes Gallery Talks by the scientists, free art making, games and other activities suitable for families and children. The programme includes “What’s that Rock” with Dr Rock who will be on hand to identify rocky treasures and found curiosities of a geological kind.

  A community artwork facilitated by artist Debbie Fleming using decorated rocks with words and pictures which will be added to a 6m installation of a river of thoughts running through the gallery.

   

  The Otago Rock and Mineral Club will be on hand with a pop up display of things you can discover in your back yard or local swamps. Other activities include giant penguin jigsaws, with guest artist Manu Berry, and table top games which can be played with pebbles.

   

  Last but not least we will be concluding with the “Great Rockcake Bakeoff”, a competition for cake bakers and decorators!

  Taking the lead from the Great Geobake-off Challenge, categories include but are not limited to:

  Sedimentary layer cakes,

  Unconformity and Subduction cakes,

  Sinkhole cupcakes,

  Geological tourist attractions such as Pancake Rocks,

  Earth Globe Mantle cake,

  your favourite geological era Fossil cake

  and Geode cupcakes.

  All parts of the cake must be edible and crafted from food stuff  – no plastic please.

   

  A panel of revered geology cake connoisseurs will judge these incredible pieces and Dr Rock will award the best of the best on the final day of the exhibition.

  Entry to the competition is by photograph online the Facebook event page, (Discussion tab).

  https://www.facebook.com/events/273755371079299

   

  If you are in Dunedin an in-gallery finale will be held Saturday 22 MAY, 10AM -12PM judging at 12PM (if covid levels allow).

   

  For ideas and inspiration google "geology cakes" !

   

   

• Apprentice builders put to test (April 12 2021)

  Seven budding builders tested their skills in the Dunedin round of the New Zealand Certified Building apprentice challenge at Otago Polytechnic on Saturday.

  Otago Certified Builders president Sacha Gray was impressed with the calibre of this year’s apprentices, most of whom are in the second year or above of apprenticeship with a certified builder.

  Read the Otago Daily Times article

• Public Seminar: Simon Swale - Peripatetic (May 12 2021)

   

  THURS 6 MAY, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  
  
  

  Simon Swale

  Peripatetic

  Peripatetic: in which the artist scrambles, scrapes and scratches, drifts, lurches, and rambles, in an attempt to make sense of both his practice and the world in which we exist, and how one feeds the other.

  In this seminar Simon will discuss his developing practice since completing his MFA in 2020. Focusing on work developed as part of his ongoing participation in the Handshake Project, this may be seen as fragmentary, discursive, and somewhat discontinuous. Yet for all this meandering and drifting, it is hoped a certain cohesion may come to light and may in fact define the model for an ongoing practice.

   

  Simon Swale is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Design, Otago Polytechnic. Teaching on the Fashion program, Simon has published widely on fashion design and the fashion system. Simon completed a Master of Fine Art at the Dunedin School of Art in 2020 with a focus on contemporary jewellery. He won the Jewellery category at the 2020 NZ Student Craft Design Awards and was an International Graduate Show prize winner at Galerie Marzee in the Netherlands. Simon is currently a participant of the Handshake Project mentorship program for emerging NZ jewellers and is mentored by Berlin based German artist Gabi Schillig.

   

• Public Exhibition: Charlie Rzepecky, BEAST (April 12 2021)

  12 - 15  APRIL, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN
  
  Charlie Rzepecky

  BEAST

  EXHIBITION DATES: 12 - 15 April, 2021 

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm

  OPENING: Monday 12 April, 5 – 7pm
• Otago Polytechnic to host Building Apprentice Challenge (April 7 2021)

  Eight apprentices will have their skills put to the test in the Dunedin round of the New Zealand Certified Building (NZCB) Apprentice Challenge at Otago Polytechnic on 10 April.

  Competitors will be judged on the finish, presentation and accuracy of their build as well as how well they have prepared, based on plans they received earlier this week.

  The competition runs from 8am-6pm on Saturday 10 April at Otago Polytechnic’s L Block, Anzac Ave, Dunedin.

  Read more about Otago Polytechnic’s construction programmes

• Public Seminar: Bridie Lonie - The Anthropocene (April 6 2021)

  THURS 8 APRIL, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Bridie Lonie

  The Anthropocene

  The Anthropocene is a term currently used to characterize the ways that our current world, and our view of it , is changing, for the human, the more-than human, the sentient and the non-sentient alike. The term uses a Greek word for human, and this has led to many challenges and the framing of alternatives terms that include causes (The Capitalocene, The Plantationocene, signifying slavery), and consequences: the Necrocene, for example, signifying the extinctions that are currently occurring. There are many other terms .The seminar considers the issue of naming as a political strategy and the implications for such down-stream results as audiences and funding. The role art plays as a container, a vehicle for meaning, feeling and sensation in this new. complex period is central to the seminar.

  Bridie Lonie, BFA, PhD (Closer relations: art, climate change, interdisciplinarity and the Anthropocene, Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, 2018). Bridie Lonie has worked in art education since the 1980s.

  She was a founding member of the Women’s Gallery in Wellington (1980-84), an editor with Marian Evans and Tilly Lloyd of A Women’s Picture Book, 25 Women Artists of Aotearoa/New Zealand) Spiral/the Government Printer, Wellington 1988 and co-published with Marilynn Webb “Marilynn Webb, Prints and Pastels”, Otago University Press , 2003. She has written for Art New Zealand and the Listener. 

• Otago Polytechnic welcomes Government support for Māori and Pasifika midwifery students/tauira (April 1 2021)

  Otago Polytechnic welcomes the announcement of a new Government initiative to support the success of Māori and Pasifika midwifery students/tauira and increase the number of midwives in our Māori and Pacific communities.

  Te Ara ō Hine - Tapu Ora has been developed by Māori and Pasifika midwifery educators, tauira, new graduates and stakeholders from the Schools of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Ara Institute of Canterbury (Ara) and Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec).

  AUT holds the contract with the Ministry of Health and will have a Memorandum of Understanding with each of the four other education providers.

  The Ministry has announced $6 million in funding over the next four years for the recruitment and appointments of Māori and Pasifika liaison staff at each institution to recruit Māori and Pasifika tauira into undergraduate midwifery programmes and to support tauira once in midwifery programmes providing tauira with wrap-around care including pastoral academic and financial support. Te Ara ō Hine -Tapu Ora also includes financial support for tauira midwifery to attend nationwide hui and fono.

  Christine Griffiths, Head of Otago Polytechnic’s School of Midwifery: Te Kura Atawhai kā Kaiakopono te Hākuitaka, says Te Ara ō Hine - Tapu Ora will help address the serious workforce shortage of Māori and Pasifika midwives, as well as midwifery educators, academics and researchers in Aotearoa. Importantly it will also enhance the maternity care Māori and Pasifika whanau receive.

  Less than 10% of midwives identify Māori as their first, second, or third ethnicity and less than 3% as Pasifika. Yet the population of women giving birth is 20% Māori and 10% Pasifika (rising to 27% in South Auckland).

  “This shortage creates subsequent challenges in terms of appropriate and equitable service provision for Māori and Pasifika whanau, who are at the highest risk of serious adverse maternity outcomes,” Christine says.

  “Recruitment of Māori and Pasifika tauira midwifery is considered one of the most important strategies in addressing these inequities.”

  “To meet the needs of women and whānau and have a workforce that is reflective of the needs of the population, we need to increase the number of Māori graduates by 203% and Pasifika graduates 330% nationally annually over the next five years.”

  Otago Polytechnic has a flexible delivery model, which allows students to fit study around other demands such as whanau. Students/tauira are grouped into “satellites” based on where they live.

  “Currently, we have satellites in Wellington (covering tauira in Kapiti, Porirua, Wellington City, Hutt City and the Wairarapa), Whanganui, Palmerston North, Dunedin, Southland and Central Otago,” Christine explains.

  “Our programme is a combination of face-to-face weekly akonga with local kaiako, working with midwives in practice in hospitals and the community, online tutorials, Intensive course blocks and working through some course content online. This enables tauira to remain in their own communities across the lower North Island and lower South Island for the majority of their programme while they study.

  “Students stay in their community, helping build their communities during study, and often remain in their community to work as midwives.” 

  Read more about Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic

• Brew School bubbling along (March 24 2021)

  Since opening its doors to learners in 2019, Otago Polytechnic’s Otago Brew School is now bubbling over with students.

  With 18 learners enrolled this year – the school’s biggest class yet – the cohort has been divided into three groups to better fit them all into the brewery.

  Otago Brew School graduate Grenville Caughey recently spent two days working alongside New Zealand’s top beer judges, brewers and writers at the New World Beer & Cider Awards judging in Christchurch.

  As Otago Brew School’s top student in 2020 and the recipient of the Otago Brew School Scholarship, Grenville was named as one of seven associate “in-training” judges.

  He moved from a career in sawmilling to studying brewing (he had been a keen homebrewer) at the Cromwell-based Otago Brew School in 2020.

  And now, Grenville has moved from student to teacher of sorts, securing a job at Otago Brew School’s commercial brewery, supervising students.

  "I know my way around a brewery pretty well now,” Grenville told the Otago Daily Times in this article.

• Engineering Technology students, graduates win national award (March 23 2021)

  A group of Otago Polytechnic Engineering Technology students/graduates have won a national award for a project that combined innovation, collaboration and a community-minded outcome.

  Their project, “3D Printed Gears: Modular, Versatile, Opensource”, won the Student Project Award at the New Zealand Diploma in Engineering/Bachelor of Engineering Technology forum held in Auckland recently.

  Competing against entries from other institutions around New Zealand, Thomas Bullock, Joseph Hollebon, Arron Sangster and Christopher Baxter developed a range of solutions for gearing systems.

  The project was funded and developed by German-born scientist Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott, of United Scientists CORE Ltd, which is based in Dunedin.

  The award reflects the depth of thinking as well as the dedication of the students,” Prof Hohmann-Marriott says.

  “The project satisfied a range of objectives.

  “The first goal was to design modular gearing systems that could be 3D-printed and work reliably.

  “It was also important to make the designs available for education, to build an open construction kit on which future technologies can be based. In this way, the project also gives back to the wider community.”

  Prof Hohmann-Marriott says working with students provided him with plenty of fresh perspectives.

  “Working with students is fun. I learned with them and from them.”

  Otago Polytechnic Engineering Technology lecturer Adam Liberatore says the students benefited greatly from the project.

  “Working with a client gives students a different viewpoint. They get to work in the ‘real world’.

  “And, in doing so, they have a chance to show their skills and work ethic and perhaps turn such opportunities into employment.”

  Read more about Otago Polytechnic’s Engineering programmes

   

   

   

   

   

  
   

• New chapter in nursing journey (March 23 2021)

  A group of internationally qualified nurses have unpacked their bags and started an exciting new chapter on their journey towards nursing registration in New Zealand.

  Five nurses from India are enrolled in the Certificate in Professional Practice for Registered Nurses (CAP), a competence assessment programme at Otago Polytechnic’s School of Nursing.

  Entitled to enter New Zealand as critical health workers, they are completing an eight-week programme at Otago Polytechnic to complete the qualification, before being put forward to the Nursing Council of New Zealand for registration.

  In addition, the group also includes a New Zealand-registered nurse who is returning to practice after an extended time away from nursing, raising a family.

  “We have done this programme for more than 15 years and we produce excellent graduates,” Mr Ian Crabtree, Head of College - Health, says.

  “We had our first cohort back in October last year post-lockdown. They are allowed into the country, because nursing is still on the essential skills list.

  “We have had great support for this programme from the Southern District Health Board and other external agencies, especially our aged residential care partners, for whom many of these students end up working when they have finished the programme.”

  Mr Crabtree says the international nurses have been attracted to Dunedin for a range of reasons.

  “Otago Polytechnic is well recognized for the depth and strength of its nursing academics. But Otago Polytechnic – and the wider community – benefits from these nurses, too.

  “Their experience of already being a registered nurse adds values to New Zealand, including in some areas that can be hard to recruit.

  “At last count, the Nursing Council relies on approximately 25%-27% of international nurses coming to get registered in New Zealand.”

  All of the cohort have completed (and paid for) managed isolation and quarantine. They have been  Covid-tested at days 0, 3 and 12 (under MIQ) and Otago Polytechnic requires them to undergo an additional test .

  “We re-test on day 18-20 of them being here,” Mr Crabtree emphasizes.

  “They can only come to New Zealand if they have a place on a CAP programme and received approval from the Nursing Council of NZ.”

  Geoffrey Harvey, who leads the Otago Polytechnic’s School of Nursing Competence Assessment Programme for Registered Nurses, says the cohort should be acknowledged for the many sacrifices they have made.

  “These people have gone through so much to get here. There is a significant financial commitment. They have also made a conscious decision to leave families, friends and the familiar in order to enhance their own futures, both personally and professionally.

  “And New Zealand benefits from experienced, highly qualified nurses who are respected, compassionate and highly competent in clinical settings.

  “They provide an excellent standard of nursing care, both in the aged residential care sector and the hospitals.”

  Read the Otago Daily Times article

   

• Alumni feature in Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition (March 18 2021)

  20 March 2021 - 18 July 2021, DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, THE OCTAGON, DUNEDIN

  suite 20/21: part 2

  Alexandra Kennedy, Ed Ritchie, Justin Spiers, Octavia Cook

  In 2014, Dunedin Public Art Gallery began a biennial exhibition series focusing attention on changing aspects of contemporary art in Ōtepoti Dunedin. The unique circumstances of the past year have meant that this programme has developed into a two-part exhibition series Suite 20/21: Part One and Two. We are excited to open Suite 20/21: Part Two from March 20, presenting new exhibitions from four artists working in Ōtepoti - Alexandra Kennedy, Ed Ritchie, Justin Spiers (Alumni from the Dunedin School of Art) and Octavia Cook. Each of these artists are significant to the creative landscape of Ōtepoti, and far beyond, and together give a glimpse of this city’s rich and varied contemporary art community.

  Read more in the Otago Daily Times arts feature >

  A DPAG Biennial Contemporary Dunedin Programme

• Research Seminar in Visual Arts: Tom McLean - Imagining Gorse in New Zealand Art and Literature (March 10 2021)

  WED 17 MARCH, 5.30PM DUNEDIN, F209 PUNA KAWA, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, F BLOCK, FORTH STREET, DUNEDIN

  Tom McLean

  Imagining Gorse in New Zealand Art and Literature

   

  The thorny evergreen shrub known as whin, furze, or gorse is closely connected to the British Empire, both geographically and imaginatively. Gorse is common in Britain, where it was long burned in fires and used as a farmland hedge. Under its various names, it appears in Victorian literature as a symbol of uncultivated, hardscrabble life. In Wuthering Heights, Catherine describes Heathcliff as “an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.” Introduced to New Zealand in the early nineteenth century (Charles Darwin noted seeing it in 1835), gorse became an unmanageable pest to farmers, but it also infiltrated New Zealand art and literature. In this presentation, I provide a brief history of gorse in the Victorian imagination before focusing on Janet Frame’s short story “Gorse is not People” and on a body of works by the sculptor Peter Nicholls. If Frame finds an untamed, Romantic wildness in the spiky shrub, Nicholls suggests a way forward, informed by New Zealand’s complex history and new insights on gorse’s environmental possibilities.

  Thomas McLean is Associate Professor in English at the University of Otago. He is the author of The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire (2012), editor of Further Letters of Joanna Baillie (2010), and coeditor of a new edition of Jane Porter’s 1803 novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (2019). He writes regularly on art, literature, and migration, most recently for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

   

  (image credit: Tony Wills, Gorse covering hillside previously cleared of native forest for farming, Wellington, NZ CC BY-SA 3.0)   

   

• Public Exhibition: Topography of Cloth by Tracy Kennedy (March 8 2021)

  16 - 18 MARCH, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN

  Tracy Kennedy

  Topography of Cloth
  
  

  EXHIBITION DATES: 16 March - 18 March, 2021

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Thursday, 10am - 4pm

  CLOSING CELEBRATION: 19 March, 5-7PM

  Please note: Closed on Public Holidays

• Public Seminar: Ed Hanfling - The “ethical turn” in contemporary art as research (March 1 2021)

  THURS 25 MARCH, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Ed Hanfling

  The “ethical turn” in contemporary art as research

  Over the last few decades, artists working and studying within academic institutions have gradually gained acknowledgement that making art counts as research. Convincing the wider academic community of the merits of practice-based research has meant demonstrating the application of rigorous research methods and systems. But artist-academics still tend to baulk at the process of submitting their research projects to the scrutiny of institutional ethics committees, a routine process in other research disciplines. There are reasons for this reluctance – including the belief that the artist’s role is to challenge social mores and take risks rather than to be conformist and careful – but also a sense in which it is in tension with a conspicuous tendency in the wider field of contemporary art, the very “industry” from which the standards upheld by art schools are derived. Call it the “ethical turn”, away from the “shock tactics” of twentieth century avant-gardes, to an ethos of care; away from individualism and irresponsibility, to a more community-minded engagement with diverse social and cultural values. What relationships or overlaps can be drawn between the ethics of the academy and the ethics of the art world? How might artist-academics respond to the ethical guidelines and structures of their research-based institutions?

  Ed Hanfling is a lecturer in art history and theory at the Dunedin School of Art. He is a regular contributor to the quarterly journal Art New Zealand, has published books on New Zealand artists such as Roy Good, Milan Mrkusich, Ian Scott and Mervyn Williams, and is co-author of the book 250 Years of New Zealand Painting (to be published by Bateman later this year). Ed heroically serves as the DSA’s representative on the Otago Polytechnic Research Ethics Committee (OPREC).

• Public Seminar Programme TERM 1, 2021 (March 1 2021)

  Dunedin School of Art Lunchtime Research Seminars Term 1, 2021

   

  THURS 4 MARCH, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Matt Ellwood

  The research versus the encounter

  Utilising his own work spanning more than 20 years, Matt Ellwood will discuss how encounters and research can serve very different purposes when building an art practice across academic, public and commercial contexts.

  Matt Ellwood was born in Wellington (1973) and currently lives in Auckland where he is Head of the Fine Arts School at Whitecliffe. He is represented by Melanie Roger Gallery. Ellwood’s work utilises appropriation-based strategies predominantly manifested through representational charcoal drawing and highly crafted, handmade sculptures. His practice deliberately conflates together contexts that formally resonate but also create nonsensical readings that challenge and disrupt the visual and textual systems of advertising meta-systems.

  He graduated with a first class honours MFA from Elam in 2003 where he received the Vice Chancellor’s scholarship and was included in the Govett Brewster’s review of contemporary New Zealand art in the same year. Ellwood has received other prestigious awards for his works including the Wallace Arts Trust Development prize in 2004 and the Kaipara Foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award in 2011. These included artist residencies at the ISCP in New York and the ASCC in Solothurn, Switzerland respectively. He has been a regular exhibitor in curated exhibitions, selected art events and awards such as the Headlands Sculpture on the Gulf, Te Tuhi drawing wall and billboard projects, the annual Wallace Art awards, Parkin Drawing Prize and National Contemporary Art Awards. Recent solo exhibitions include: Autumn Collection (Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland), Smoking Tom Ford (GSCA, Sydney), Taste the Good Times (Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland), and Frieze Saint Laurent (Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland).

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  THURS 11 MARCH, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Tim Croucher

  Somewhere Around Here

  In this seminar I will talk about a recent body of work part of which was shown at RAMP Gallery in Hamilton in 2019 under the title Somewhere Around Here. Emil McAvoy wrote about the exhibition: “…Tim Croucher's portrayals of the Waikato delicately balance affection and irony, depicting pastoral scenes and provincial situations which mingle recollections, historical events, tender encounters and furtive activities. Somewhere Around Here features Croucher's recent landscape paintings based on scenes observed from the water during trips along the Waikato River between Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) and Taupiri, alongside motorbike trips in the Waikato region and from drives to Auckland and across to Thames. This local scenery is both amplified and distorted through gestural paint application and an often non-naturalistic colour palette. Disquieting occurrences are sometimes inserted to upset these images' potential for idyllic representation.”

  Tim Croucher has been living in Hamilton for almost 30 years and making and exhibiting paintings from there. He has been involved in a committee that instigates, curates and funds large public sculpture projects, in the development of an annual Street Art Festival, he’s looked at zillions of NCEA level 3 and Scholarship Painting folios, had some exhibitions in NZ and China in collaboration with artists from there, and taught Painting, Drawing and Installation at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since late last century at Waikato Institute of Technology.

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  THURS 18 MARCH, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN

  Sandra Heffernan

  A Sense of Place

  Heffernan’s work captures spaces that become symbolised in ecological colour and materials; whether dye applied to fabric, or natural pigments from bacteria, or in materials solving waste problems.  In this lecture the introduction reveals the influences informing the works. Two distinct strands exist: textile design led research in exploration with industry and science, and inquiry related to material culture. 

  Two key projects provide overviews of textile design works and collaborative projects: Sunplumwineberry, a light emitting carpet; and Through the Globe, an original design created during an Artist in Residency in Portugal, then exhibited during Contextile.  Published papers, for example, Sunplumwineberry, Novel Natural Colorants; Here and There Now, evidence the material culture aspects of the works.

  The second strand of research is Material culture, and includes a commissioned book chapter Lost in the History of Modernism, that reveals modernist embroidery design contributions responding to intense political activity, and attempts to address the gender gap in history. In conclusion new works including Violet-bleu, colour created from bacteria will be discussed.

  Dr Sandra Heffernan is an international textile designer exhibiting sustainable colour and material works, bio- textiles, and author of numerous papers. This design research contributes to global and national forums, including Commonwealth Secretariat Natural Fibre Forum, International Wool Textile Organisation, and Textile Exchange. Sandra adopts novel approaches in collaborations, blurring the boundaries between design, science and technology. Additionally, systematic theoretical investigation informs practice-led responses to industry challenges. Her design works were exhibited at the Biennale d'Art Contemporain Sacré, Menton, France (2019); Contextile, Guimarães, Portugal (2016); Borders International Art Show, Venice (2016); and in 2020 she received an Originality Award from the Museo Pérez Enciso Textile Ethnographic Museum Museo, Spain.

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  THURS 25 MARCH, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Ed Hanfling

  The “ethical turn” in contemporary art as research.

  Over the last few decades, artists working and studying within academic institutions have gradually gained acknowledgement that making art counts as research. Convincing the wider academic community of the merits of practice-based research has meant demonstrating the application of rigorous research methods and systems. But artist-academics still tend to baulk at the process of submitting their research projects to the scrutiny of institutional ethics committees, a routine process in other research disciplines. There are reasons for this reluctance – including the belief that the artist’s role is to challenge social mores and take risks rather than to be conformist and careful – but also a sense in which it is in tension with a conspicuous tendency in the wider field of contemporary art, the very “industry” from which the standards upheld by art schools are derived. Call it the “ethical turn”, away from the “shock tactics” of twentieth century avant-gardes, to an ethos of care; away from individualism and irresponsibility, to a more community-minded engagement with diverse social and cultural values. What relationships or overlaps can be drawn between the ethics of the academy and the ethics of the art world? How might artist-academics respond to the ethical guidelines and structures of their research-based institutions?

  Ed Hanfling is a lecturer in art history and theory at the Dunedin School of Art. He is a regular contributor to the quarterly journal Art New Zealand, has published books on New Zealand artists such as Roy Good, Milan Mrkusich, Ian Scott and Mervyn Williams, and is co-author of the book 250 Years of New Zealand Painting (to be published by Bateman later this year). Ed heroically serves as the DSA’s representative on the Otago Polytechnic Research Ethics Committee (OPREC).

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  THURS 1 APRIL, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Mark Baskett

  On the echinate question of what might be meant by the term ‛research’ when evaluating and discussing visual art.

  From the making of art that favours imaginative exposition and the exploration of certain internal states of mind— to long hours spent in archives, or wandering work-specific sites, or simply trawling for facts and fragments online: ideas around the place and potential role of research in my artistic practice have changed significantly over the last twenty years. And even today, when hearing the word ‛research’ attached to examples of creative visual art, I am often left wondering about what, more precisely, might be meant by the use of this term. Does it point to a clearly outlined framework and methodology with distinct and communicable results? Is doctoral research in the area of visual arts now a new gold standard by which we might measure the value and seriousness of work made today? Though I cannot provide definitive answers to such questions, I am fascinated by what might be meant or indeed not meant when the term research is applied to visual art. In this seminar I will thematise these concerns by putting forward a selection of my own artistic work and reflecting on the presence and the changing use of the term research both in around the context of the work.

  Mark Baskett is a practicing visual artist, born in Dunedin, New Zealand. His tertiary education began with a BFA at what was then titled “The Quay School of Arts”, in Whanganui, New Zealand. From 2005-2007 he completed

  an MFA after studying at the Bauhaus Universität, in Weimar and the Üniversität der Kunst (UdK) in Berlin. From 2007-2015 he lived in Zürich, where he exhibited regularly and participated in a variety of artist residencies; both

  in Switzerland and in Germany. His work has also been shown in Belgium, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Currently he is employed part time as a teacher in the Arts and Media Department at the Nelson Polytechnic (NMIT).

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  THURS 8 APRIL, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN  

  Bridie Lonie

  The Anthropocene

  The Anthropocene is a term currently used to characterize the ways that our current world, and our view of it , is changing, for the human, the more-than human, the sentient and the non-sentient alike. The term uses a Greek word for human, and this has led to many challenges and the framing of alternatives terms that include causes (The Capitalocene, The Plantationocene, signifying slavery), and consequences: the Necrocene, for example, signifying the extinctions that are currently occurring. There are many other terms .The seminar considers the issue of naming as a political strategy and the implications for such down-stream results as audiences and funding. The role art plays as a container, a vehicle for meaning, feeling and sensation in this new. complex period is central to the seminar.

  Bridie Lonie, BFA, PhD (Closer relations: art, climate change, interdisciplinarity and the Anthropocene, Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, 2018). Bridie Lonie has worked in art education since the 1980s.

  She was a founding member of the Women’s Gallery in Wellington (1980-84), an editor with Marian Evans and Tilly Lloyd of A Women’s Picture Book, 25 Women Artists of Aotearoa/New Zealand) Spiral/the Government Printer, Wellington 1988 and co-published with Marilynn Webb “Marilynn Webb, Prints and Pastels”, Otago University Press , 2003. She has written for Art New Zealand and the Listener. 

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  THURS 15 APRIL, 12.00 – 1.00 PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN   

  Dr. Caro McCaw Art

  Design and education through social practice 

  In this seminar Caro will walk through her practice as it has evolved over the last 30 years, starting at the Dunedin School of Art. From print publications, to empty shops and species ambassadors her practice focuses more on enabling relationships than leaving physical marks or objects. Current projects include the Dunedin Dream Brokerage and co-ordinating Otago Polytechnic’s DESIS lab.

  Caro McCaw investigates how we come to understand our landscapes, local knowledge, and regional cultures and contexts through collaborative creative practice. She asks how we may work around colonial ways of seeing to visualize and understand our shared histories and sites more socially. Caro is an Associate Professor and Academic Leader in Communication Design at Otago Polytechnic. She is involved in a wide range of local community and regional development projects often working with collaborative student-staff teams, and local community groups, including museums. Caro is a member of the AKO Academy of Tertiary Teaching Excellence and in 2016-17 was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at SUNY Canton, in Upstate New York. She is the co-ordinator of DESIS Otago.

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                                                                                      MID SEMESTER BREAK

• Tapuae is open at AL2 from 6 am Mon 1 March 2021 (February 28 2021)

  Tapuae will still open at AL2. 

  Mon – Friday 6 am to 8 pm

  Sat 9am-12pm

  with the student GI in attendance 6-9am and 5-8pm Mondays to Fridays and on Saturdays. 

   

  The key aspects for safe use of the space are as follows:

  On arrival to Tapuae

  • Both trainer and participants to register visit using NZ Covid App (scan tracer code on Tapuae door)
  • Both Trainer and participants to sign in on Tapuae Member Management system
  • Sanitise hands on arrival

  During sessions

  • Trainer to wear face mask
  • Trainer to maintain 1m social distancing during sessions. This will mean no spotting clients.
  • All equipment and surfaces to be cleaned (spray and wipe) before and after use.
  • Sweat towel between participant and surfaces.

  End of session

  • Sanitise hands on exit
• Call for papers: Scope (Health & Wellbeing) (February 26 2021)

  Contributions are sought for Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Health & Wellbeing) 6, “Islands” (November 2021).

  The sixth issue will provide the opportunity for authors to consider, discuss and debate how islands are understood in relation to health and wellbeing. The theme islands can be considered as: a land carrying capacity; surrounded by water; positioned within a certain time and space; connected/disconnected; isolated; having similarities/differences/challenges; a place to relax; to travel to/from and a community. The sixth edition will publish in conjunction with Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Midwifery and Sport Exercise and Health, which attempt to (re)build and (re)foster dialogue.

  Submissions for Scope (Health & Wellbeing) 6, “Islands” are invited from researchers, educators, industry, writers, theorists and historians. Submissions should be sent in electronic format by 31 July 2021 for review and potential inclusion in the annual issue to Associate Professor Jean Ross (Editor-in-chief) at Otago Polytechnic | Te Kura Matatini Ki Otago, Private Bag 1910, Dunedin, New Zealand at jean.ross@op.ac.nz.  

  Please consult the information for contributors or online issues for examples. Peer review forms will be sent to all submitters in due course, with details concerning the possible reworking of documents where relevant. All submitters will be allowed up to two subsequent resubmissions of documents for peer approval. All final decisions concerning publication of submissions will reside with the Editor and Editorial Team. Opinions published are those of the authors and not necessarily subscribed to by the Editors or Otago Polytechnic. 

  For further questions about submissions please contact the Editor-in-chief at jean.ross@op.ac.nz.

• "Boosting" a fashion catalogue (February 26 2021)

  Fashion FWD >> Disruption through Design is an upcoming exhibition and a celebration of fabulous frocks, beautiful couture and the work and voices of fashion disruptors. Alongside this exhibition of the brazen and the chic, is a lush 220-page catalogue featuring beautiful photography of fashion that defies convention as well as words from emerging design finalists, Dunedin’s Godmothers of fashion, curators, textile and fashion experts. We want your help to get it printed.

  This book will be something that will be treasured by those who love fashion and design. Please help us to make it a reality.

  THE EXHIBITION
  Fashion FWD >> is a collaboration between Otago Museum, iD Fashion Awards, and Otago Polytechnic, gathering the work of iD Emerging Designer finalists from its inception and garments from around the world, with selected items from Otago Museum’s collection. The exhibition is designed by the Otago Museum creative team who have won prestigious international design awards.

  THE CATALOGUE
  - 220 pages
  - 24 iD Emerging Designer Award finalists from over 16 years
  - 42 items from the Otago Museum costume and textile collection
  - Interviews with the 'Godmothers' of Dunedin Fashion - Margarita Robertson (NOM*d), Tanya Carlson (Carlson), Sara Munro (Company of Strangers, Donna Tulloch (Mild Red), Charmaine Reveley
  - Essay by Ben Barry, Chair and Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Ben has recently been appoined Dean of Fashion at The New School’s Parsons School of Design in New York
  - Essays by curators Moira White, Dr Jane Malthus and Dr Margo Barton
  - Designed by the Otago Museum design team
  - The publication will be printed locally in Dunedin.

  The publication will be available to the public from Saturday 27 March.

  WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP
  The exhibition was due to open in May 2020. Covid not only pushed back this opening date, but the absence of international visitors left our institution, which is not fully funded, in a less than stable financial position.

  While Fashion FWD >> will open 27 March 2021, the ‘nice to haves’ like our beautiful catalogue are no longer possible. This book will be something that will be treasured by those who love fashion and design. Help us to make it a reality.

  THANKS AND UNBOUNDED GRATITUDE TO
  McMillan&Co Lawyers who are match funders. This means that the amount that you donate will double. This generosity is gratefully received.

  DONATE NOW

• Call for Papers: Scope (Work-Based Learning) (February 24 2021)

  He aha te kai ō te rangatira? He Kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero!
  (What is the food of the leader? It is knowing, it is sharing, it is communicating!)

  Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Work-based Learning) is a peer-reviewed journal within the open access Scope suite (www.thescopes.org). CapableNZ and Otago Polytechnic/Te Kura Matatini ki Otago are pleased to call for papers for the second issue of Scope (Work-based Learning) on the theme ‘Communicating Voices from Professional Practice’. To write in this theme is to enter the space of the kōrero, the space of voices: narrating, telling, relating, discussing, debating, communicating, sharing research.

  The collection of voices in work-based learning is choral in range, including the learner voice, the voices of educators, the words of leaders and workers, employers and employees, mentors and mentees. We may also bring to the front the voices of those in the margins: the neglected, the disenfranchised and the silenced. We invite studies interpreting, representing and unravelling the notion of ‘voice’ as it pertains to practice research in the domains of work-based learning and professional practice. We are particularly interested in pieces involving critical and reflective applications of voice to the work we undertake together.

  We invite submissions from learners, educators, practitioners, colleagues, peers and all stakeholders active in work-based learning locally, nationally and internationally. We particularly aim to hear the collaborative voices of peers working together or of learners singing in unison with mentors. Side by side we kōrero. Articles with multiple voices, as in a choir, are also strongly encouraged.

  We invite a flexible range of works contributing fresh insights and understandings to the broad domain of professional practice. We call for such formats as articles and essays, and encourage such voices as those of poetry and song within these pieces. We expect high standards of writing, proofreading and adherence to consistency through the APA (7th Edition) referencing style.

  Guidelines for Submission

  • Create a Word document (.docx format) of no more than 4000 words and send it to the editors (henk.roodt@op.ac.nz; martin.andrew@op.ac.nz) by Tuesday 1^st of June, 2021.
  • Name your article with the lead author’s name and a key word from your title.
  • On a separate page include the name(s) of author(s) and a short biography of each (no more than 50 words). Also include the lead author’s contact email, the word count, and the number of figures or images in the text.
  • Include the images in .TIF, or .JPG format as separate files in the e-mail. Images should be prepared at a resolution of 300dpi. 
  • You will receive acknowledgement of receipt and an indication of when to expect a response from reviewers. You will be allowed up to two subsequent resubmissions of documents. Please note that all final decisions concerning publication of submissions will reside with the Editors.

  For more information see the instructions for contributors  

  General Information

  Otago Polytechnic Ltd recognises the Royal Society of New Zealand's Code of Professional Standards and Ethics in Science, Technology, and the Humanities.  

  Ethical Considerations in publishing

  Authorship of the paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. See Determining Authorship i.  

  Originality and plagiarism: Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and that the work and/or words of others have been appropriately cited, quoted, and referenced. 

  Permissions: As a rule, permission should be sought from the rights holder to reproduce any substantial part of a copyrighted work. This includes any text, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, or other material from previously published sources. A permissions form provided by the editor should be completed to re-use content published by Otago Polytechnic Ltd.  Exceptions to this are specified in endnote. ii (If in doubt authors should discuss this with their editor).  

  Prior publication: Work published in Scope is deemed to be original work that has not previously been published by another publisher or is under consideration by another publisher. We do however accept work that is an artwork that has previously been exhibited in a gallery context, or that has been: 

  • re-interpreted from a previously published abstract,
  • published as an academic thesis, or  
  • published as an electronic preprint.  

  Acknowledgement of sources: Appropriate acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given using full journal citations. 

  Disclosure and conflicts of interest: All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. 

  Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. Any correction or retraction will be made on the online version on our website.  

  Compliance:  Statements of compliance are required if the reported research involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use.  Research involving animal or human subjects needs to indicate which body reviewed and approved ethical approval.  

  Open Access & Data Mining: Scopes and Junctures are open access journals this means anyone can download open access content to mine via our DOI retrieval function and by aggregators. 

  Archiving: Electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event a journal is no longer published shall be maintained by Otago Polytechnic Ltd. 

  Editor’s responsibilities 

  Each journal has their own chief editor and sometimes a co-editor/s as well as an editorial board.  As the publisher the overall responsibility for these publications is provided by the Series Editor who represents the publisher.  The roles of the chief and co-editors are contained in Manual for Editors.  

  Author responsibilities 

  Authors are required to: 

  • cite the ethics approval number for their work if it involves research with human or animal participants/subjects. 
  • ensure that the manuscript they are submitting to Scope has not already been previously published by or under consideration by another publisher 
  • include a list of references that have been cited in the work 
  • identify all authors who have significantly contributed to the research, see endnote Determining Authorship 
  • inform editors if they need to make retractions or corrections of mistakes after publication. 
  • acknowledge any financial support received for the research. 

  The editors
  Martin Andrew and Henk Roodt

   

   

• Art graduate’s exhibition a response to surroundings (February 22 2021)

  Anna-Marie Mirfin may have completed a Bachelor of Visual Art, but her connections to Otago Polytechnic continue in the form of an exhibition in the Hub.

  Anna-Marie’s “SUPPORT: Rūma Hui/Meeting Room H105”, has its official opening on Thursday, February 25, and runs until March 5.

  Subtle, thoughtful and beautifully constructed, the work will test the viewer’s ability to see for themselves – and to look intelligently.

  Utilising ceramics, strings, museum putty, engraved glass, video and other found items, the evolving installation is both a continuation of an earlier exhibition by Anne-Marie, titled “Urban Ecologies” (2020, and an ongoing response to Otago Polytechnic’s Hub, gardens and, specifically, room H105.

  Displayed as part of the Dunedin School of Art’s 2020 end-of-year student exhibition, “Urban Ecologies” formed a network of possible connections between different entities and moments experienced in local urban environments. The project manifested as a multimedia web composed of fibers with found/made items and video works embedded throughout.

  “Rūma Hui/Meeting Room H105” brings together elements from “Urban Ecologies” that are relevant to this particular site: ceramic pieces made in response to the song of birds often seen around the Polytechnic campus; a video responding to the song of a Tui and connective strings that find new attachment points/supports in concrete, glass, and carpet.

  The installation also integrates assemblages made with items found in the nearby area (including spray-painted debris linked to a new on-site building development).

  “Within the installation there are various responses to birdsong in drawing, video and ceramics, alongside assemblages of found materials linked to the Otago Polytechnic gardens,” Anna-Marie explains.

  “Thinking about the installation in its new context, the words on the exterior of the room – 'Support' and 'Rūma Hui/Meeting Room' – all communicate with the work.

  “This 'support' could refer to structural reinforcement, as well as care and balance in mutualistic relationships, while 'Rūma Hui/Meeting Room' could consider the gathering or coming together of many different elements in the space.”

  “People are invited to use the space (respectfully). They are free to use any drawing materials provided to respond to the Hub, gardens, or other ecological networks.”

  Details:

  “SUPPORT: Rūma Hui/Meeting Room H105”, by Anna-Marie Mirfin.

  Ceramics, strings, museum putty, engraved glass, video and other found items.

• Call for Papers: Scope (Kaupapa Kai Tahu) (February 22 2021)

  We are requesting submissions for the sixth issue of the journal Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Kaupapa Kāi Tahu).

  Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Kaupapa Kāi Tahu) is a peer reviewed publication edited by the Office of the Kaitohutohu at Otago Polytechnic. The aims of this publication are to:

  • Provide writing and publishing opportunities for faculty and postgraduate candidates here and at other tertiary institutions, while also inviting dialogue with other scholars and artists
  • Assist new and emerging researchers through critical feedback and editorial support, while also considering submissions from more senior academics
  • Reflect and disseminate research undertaken by Māori, while making connections with related work within our community of practice
  • Foster critical Māori research in and through Te Pūkenga and our motu.

  The 2021 edition of Scope (Kaupapa Kāi Tahu) focuses on the concept of kaitiakitaka, which was also the theme for the 2020 Māori Research Symposium held at Otago Polytechnic in December. Kaitiakitaka has been described as guardianship, stewardship or custodianship. The various meanings of ‘tiaki’ centre around the notion of guarding, protecting and conserving, therefore a ‘kaitiaki’ is someone who guards, protects or conserves. The addition of the suffix –‘taka’ (the Kāi Tahu dialectal equivalent of ‘-tanga’) changes the verb into an abstract noun, and so ‘kaitiakitaka’ is the concept of guardianship, protection and conservation that is threaded through Māori social, cultural, economic and spiritual systems that were established through iwi and hapū association with their environments. In contemporary times, kaitiakitaka can relate to the notion of sustainability, protecting that which we regard as ‘taoka’ (that which we treasure and hold dear to us).

  Contributions that explore the concept of kaitiakitaka across a range of different disciplines are welcomed, as is work which is co-constructed, a product of interdisciplinary research and community collaborations. Scope (Kaupapa Kāi Tahu) aims to reflect the range of research activities being undertaken in and through Te Pūkenga and our motu. Formats may include:

  • Articles (in some instances, clustered around a topic)
  • Visual essays and narratives
  • Poetry
  • Book reviews

  Scope (Kaupapa Kāi Tahu) will be published in hardcopy and online, with the latter version including moving images, where appropriate. Downloading from the website will be free.

  Please take note of the following points before submission:

  • Anonymised submissions are sent to reviewers
  • All reviews are kept confidential by the editors at all times
  • In certain cases, moving images may be included in the online version of Scope (Kaupapa Kāi Tahu).
  • In cases where authors have worked together, the double submission will be published together and laid out in ways which signal that they were meant to be alongside each other
  • The use of first person in writing is acceptable for this journal.
  • Contributors are expected to make a strong attempt at proofreading all submissions.
  • Please refer to specifications (attached)
  • The due date for your contribution is 5.00pm on Friday 9 April, 2021 via email to kaitohutohu@op.ac.nz (please refer to attached specifications)

  Nāia te mihi uruhau ki a koe i raro i tēnei kaupapa.

  Nā Scott Klenner
  Tumuaki: Rakahau Māori

• Exhibition: Punk is Dead by Joe Smith (February 18 2021)

  8 - 11 MARCH, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN

  Joe Smith

  Punk is Dead
  
  

  EXHIBITION DATES: 8 March - 11 March, 2021

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Thursday, 10am - 4pm

  Please note: Closed on Public Holidays

   

• Exhibition: Mark Baskett - The Neighbourhood | Selected Works 2017 - 2021 (March 26 2021)

  26 MARCH - 9 APRIL, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN

  Mark Baskett

  The Neighbourhood
  Selected Works 2017 - 2021
  
  

  EXHIBITION DATES: 26 March - 9 April, 2021

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Thursday, 10am - 4pm

  Please note: Closed on Public Holidays

• Tapuae Gym is open from midday Mon 15 Feb 21 (February 14 2021)

  Tapuae gym is open at AL2 from midday Monday 15 Feb 2021. 

  Tapuae Gym is closed tomorrow morning the 15th February to allow for social distancing and hygiene practices to be put in place.  

  Thank you for your understanding 

  Tapuae gym will still open at AL2 - Monday 15 Feb (from midday) to Wed 17 Feb 2021

  Current holiday hours

  Mon – 6 am to 8 pm

  Tues - 8 am to 4.30 pm

  Wed - 6 am to 8 pm

  Thurs - 8 am to 4.30 pm

  Fri - 6 am to 8 pm

  Sat 9 am-12 pm

  with the student GI in attendance 6-9am Monday and Wednesday and 5-8pm Monday and Wednesday and on Saturday. 

   The key aspects for safe use of the space are as follows:

  On arrival to Tapuae

  • Both trainer and participants to register visit using NZ Covid App (scan tracer code on Tapuae door)
  • Both Trainer and participants to sign in on Tapuae Member Management system
  • Sanitise hands on arrival

  During sessions

  • Trainer to wear face mask
  • Trainer to maintain 1m social distancing during sessions. This will mean no spotting clients.
  • All equipment and surfaces to be cleaned (spray and wipe) before and after use.
  • Sweat towel between participant and surfaces.

  End of session

  • Sanitise hands on exit

  Information will be updated if public health advice changes.  Please check back to this notice

• Exhibition: Charlie Rzepecky - Beast (February 9 2021)

  12-15 APRIL, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN

  Charlie Rzepecky

  Beast

  EXHIBITION DATES: 12 - 15 April, 2021

  EXHIBITION OPENING: Monday 12 April, 5 - 7pm

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Thursday, 10am - 4pm

• Exhibition: Matthew Trbuhović - Arrested Movement (February 9 2021)

  1-4 MARCH, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, DUNEDIN

  Matthew Trbuhović 

  Arrested Movement

  EXHIBITION DATES: 1 - 4 March, 2021

  EXHIBITION CLOSING: Friday 5 March, 5 - 7pm

  VENUE: DSA GALLERY, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Thursday, 10am - 4pm

• Call for Papers and Proposals: Scope (Art & Design) Fashion issue (February 4 2021)

  We are pleased to announce our call for papers and proposals for the next special Fashion issue of Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art & Design) to be published in November 2021.

  Reflecting the diversity of contexts in which fashion operates, is studied and practiced, the theme of this issue is ‘Fashion Forward >> Disruption’. Authors are encouraged to consider this theme broadly and we welcome submissions from all fields and disciplines that contribute to critical debates and new understandings of fashion and the fashion system.

  We are open to a range of formats for inclusion, including: articles, perspectives, essays, designer pages, exhibition reviews, project reports, photo essays. Proposals for work that can be published online/inprint/other formats will also be considered.

  Your submission should include a 300 word abstract with clear title and up to 5 key words. Please also include a short biography, including your institutional position and affiliation (where relevant); and contact information (postal, email). Please ensure this is provided as a separate sheet from the abstract for review purposes.

  For publication, all photographs require written copyright permission. Consent forms are available on request. Please include low resolution images for the submission. Please note that final images for publication need to be high resolution (300dpi), CMYK images.

  Acceptance for inclusion will reflect an expectation for high standards of writing, proofreading and adherence to the Chicago referencing style. For more information, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style and consult prior issues for examples. Previous  Art and Design: Fashion  special issues of Scope can be accessed here:

  • Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art & Design) 15 
  • Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art & Design) 17 

  All submissions will undergo double blind peer review with our international review panel. 

  Submissions should be sent to ScopeFashion@op.ac.nz
  Submissions close 30^th March 2021

  Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art & Design) is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in November by Otago Polytechnic/Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. The series Scope (Art & Design) aims to engage discussion on contemporary research in the visual arts and design.

  EBSCO Database: Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art & Design) is catalogued on the EBSCO Database in recognition of academic quality and alignment with international peer review processes. An online version of the journal is available free at www.thescopes.org; ISSN (for hardcopy version): 1177- 5653; ISSN (for online version): 1177-5661. © 2017 the authors; © illustrations, the artists or other copyright owners, unless otherwise indicated as reproduced per GPL or Creative Commons (CC) licenses.

  Image credit: work by Guoxiang Yuan

• VOCATIONAL PROGRAMMES PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA - Level 6 courses enrol now (February 2 2021)

  VOCATIONAL PROGRAMMES IN PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA

  Level 6 courses - enrol now

  Never has there been a more exciting time to enter the rapidly changing industry of digital content creation!

  Hone your creativity while developing professional and technical skills in photography and video production through real world experiences.

  Across a range of practical courses you will work with industry professionals and experienced lecturers to develop a compelling portfolio of best practise, experience, and digital content. 

  Hit the ground running for a career in this exciting and expanding field and apply today! 
• VOCATIONAL PROGRAMMES PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA - Level 5 programmes enrolling now (February 2 2021)

  VOCATIONAL PROGRAMMES IN PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA

  Level 5 courses - enrol now

  Working with industry professionals and experienced lecturers you will develop a compelling portfolio of best practise, real world experiences, and digital content in photography and video production.

  Find out more about our Level 5 programmes and apply today! 
• Exhibition: Alice Jones - Fairy Tales (The Dark Side) (February 1 2021)

  22 - 25 FEB, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY,  P BLOCK, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET (off Albany Street)
  
  Alice Jones

  Fairy Tales: The Dark Side

  Post Graduate Examination Season

   

  EXHIBITION DATES:  22 - 25 February, 2021
  CLOSING:  Friday 26 February, 5 – 7PM
  VENUE:   DSA GALLERY Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin
  GALLERY HOURS:  Monday to Friday, 

• Call for Papers: Scope (Learning & Teaching) 10 (January 27 2021)

  Scope Contemporary Research Topics (Learning and Teaching) www.thescopes.org – hereafter Scope (Learning and Teaching) – is an open access, peer reviewed journal published annually by Otago Polytechnic/Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

  Scope (Learning and Teaching) is concerned with views, critical debate and reflections on learning and teaching theory and practice. It seeks to address current topical matters in the field of tertiary education. Its focus is on building a sense of community amongst researchers from an array of New Zealand institutions with the goal of linking a wider international community.

  The 2021 issue has an open theme; we are particularly interested in pieces which deal to the challenges, concepts and critical thinking around programmes, people and pedagogy that inform contemporary understandings of Learning and Teaching.

  Submissions for Scope (Learning and Teaching) are invited from peers and colleagues involved in any aspect of learning and teaching around the globe. Submissions should be sent in electronic format for review and potential inclusion to the Chief Editor: Oonagh McGirr c/o Su Bolland, Editorial Assistant by 30 June 2021.

  Submissions should contribute to critical debate and reflect new understandings within the context of learning and teaching. High standards of writing, proofreading and adherence to consistency through the APA (7th Edition) referencing style are expected.

  Submission guidelines

  • Send a digital Word document to bolland@op.ac.nz by 30 June 2021
  • Please clearly name files with the title of the submitted piece and the lead author’s name
  • Please supply contact information on a separate cover page to include: Name of author(s); contact email; contact telephone number; postal address; word count; number of images included in text.
  • Author biography: Include a short biography of no more than 50 words of each author with your submission, briefly outlining their professional background and experience.
  • Peer review: Peer review forms will be sent to all submitters in due course, with details concerning the possible reworking of documents where relevant. All submitters will be allowed up to two subsequent resubmissions of documents for peer approval. All final decisions concerning publication of submissions will reside with the Editors

  Formats include: editorials; articles; essays; logs and travel reports; book and educational software reviews; residencies; publications; interviews and roundtables; and reflective pieces. Other suggested formats will also be considered; and special topics comprising submissions by various contributors may be tendered to the editors.

  Word limit:

  • Feature articles and essays: 2500-4000 words
  • Logs and travel reports; residencies; publications; interviews and roundtables; and reflective pieces: 1500-2000 words
  • Book and educational software reviews: 200-700 words

  Text

  • Single line spacing.
  • Please do not apply indentations, tabulations or any such formatting to text.
  • Referencing should be in the form APA (7th Edition) referencing style.
  • All abbreviations must be spelled out upon first mention in both the summary and main text, followed by the abbreviated form in parentheses. Thereafter, you may use the abbreviated form.
  • All funding sources should be credited in an Acknowledgments section. In addition, people who contributed to the work but who do not fit the criteria for authors should be listed along with their contributions.

  Images

  • Low resolution images with full captions should be inserted into the text to indicate where they would be preferred with full captions underneath them. High resolution images should be sent separately.
  • Captions for images should be numbered, should be complete, and should adhere to a sequence of information. See examples at thescopes.org
  • Specifications for high resolution images:
    • Format: Images must be supplied as jpeg (minimum size 2MB)
    • Colour: Greyscale or CMYK
    • Quality: 300dpi - maximum image print area is 140mm wide x 190 deep.
    • Orientation: Ensure your image is oriented correctly.
    • Labelling: Label all image files with your name and number the images in the order they appear in your text and caption document, e.g. “smith.1.tif”, “smith.2.tif”.
• Textile Artist wins Surface Design Association Award of Excellence (January 25 2021)

  The Surface Design Association is pleased to announce that Stella Lange of Dunedin, New Zealand has been granted the Award of Excellence for her works Talking while Masked - a seven piece collection of face masks, at a group show of textile works - "Dreaming Of The Future", with New Zealand members of the Surface Design Association. Stella Lange is a maker and educator, working as a Principle Lecturer in the School of Design, Otago Polytechnic.

  The selected works by New Zealand members of The Surface Design Association is showing at Out of the Blue Studio Gallery, until February 15th 2021 in Opunake in Taranaki. 

  Surface Design Association is based in the United State of America but has a growing international membership. Members have a cross-disciplinary approach that includes anthropology, museum and curatorial studies, and community engagement. SDA aims to generate new ideas and provide a pathway towards multiple perspectives on particular issues including the politics of research and representation from within both an academic and artistic institutional setting, through the medium of textiles.
  

  The "Dreaming Of The Future" exhibition, explored responses to the past year 2020. In these times of huge upheaval socially, financially and politically we are all facing a future of a different shape from the past we are walking from. While there is much reason for fear and tension there is also an indomitable human spirit for survival and we have also witnessed the powerful restorative force of Mother Nature. Both these ‘influencers’ can be ‘vaccines’ for strengthening our humanity as we move forward into this uncharted territory.

  Two other Dunedin artists were selected for the Textiles exhibition; Christine Keller and Pam McKinlay, both from the Dunedin Loom Room. Pam McKinlay is a weaver and textile artist with a background in applied science and history of art who works at the Dunedin School of Art.

  A series of artist talks and studio visits will be created in a virtual format so this exhibition is easily available to all members of the Association worldwide. The exhibition will also be available on The Surface Design Association web page as a virtual exhibition. https://www.surfacedesign.org/ All links will be posted on this website for the gallery.

  The opportunity for the exhibition arose after a visit to Aotearoa New Zealand by curator and editor Elizabeth Kozlowski, Editor, Surface Design Journal (US), with funding support from Creative New Zealand (CNZ) and the Costume & Textile Association of New Zealand (CTANZ).Funding for the Dunedin visit was contributed by Otago Polytechnic. Elizabeth is currently Editor of the Surface Design Journal (US) and an independent curator, arts consultant and collections manager based in America.
• Our 2020 highlights (January 21 2021)

  2020 has been a unique year. One that has challenged us all and helped us grow. The determination that all our learners have shown during the 'year of covid' has blown us away. It's amazing what you can achieve when you set your mind to something. 

  In a year defined by change and challenge, we want to congratulate all of our learners and whanau on their many achievements in 2020.  

  Here are just a handful of highlights from 2020 which we're very proud of. 

• Exhibition: Sarah McKay - Possession (January 20 2021)

  1-4 FEB, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN

  Sarah McKay
  Possession
  Masters Examination Exhibition
  
  

  EXHIBITION DATES: 1 - 4 February, 2021

  CLOSING: Friday 5 February, 5 – 7pm

  VENUE: DSA Gallery, Ground Floor, P Block, Riego Street (off Albany St), Dunedin

  GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm

• The biological state of instruments by Johanna Zellmer (January 19 2021)

  14 DEC 2020 - 1 MARCH 2021, BIOCHEM, UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO

   

  Johanna Zellmer

  "The biological state of instruments"

   

  Weekdays 8.30am - 5.30pm (closed 24 Dec '20 - 4 Jan '21)

   

  2nd Floor laboratory window

  Department of Biochemistry

  710 Cumberland Street

  Otago University, Dunedin

   

   

• Contemporary jewellery from the collection of the Dunedin School of Art at Nelson Jewellery Week 2021 (January 18 2021)

  SAT 26 MARCH, NELSON PROVINCIAL MUSEUM

  "By degree" - Contemporary jewellery from the collection of the Dunedin School of Art

  NELSON JEWELLERY WEEK (NJW)

  Starts 26th March 2021
  Venue: Nelson Provincial Museum
   

   

  Celebrating the School’s 150th anniversary, this exhibition provides a small slice of the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Art Collection, as works of significance, represented through the decades. The extensive collection comprises over 1600 catalogued works dating to the early 1970s following amalgamation with the Otago Polytechnic.

  Works from the Jewellery studio find their way into the collection with new accessions acquired every year through donations or purchases either from staff, artists’ in residence or students. The end of year SITE exhibitions offer a prime opportunity to support our emerging artists.

  As a valued asset, the art collection adorns the student, staff and public environments of the Polytechnic and supports learning as a teaching tool.

  As of this year the Dunedin school of Art is the only New Zealand institution able to offer dedicated studies in contemporary jewellery through to a Master of Fine Arts level.

  An online catalogue of the work on display is accessible via QR code, alongside some printed hardcopies available inside the museum.

  Nelson Jewellery Week, an inaugural contemporary jewellery event, will coincide with another jewellery exhibition HANDSHAKE PROJECT: Chain Reaction, a curated jewellery exhibition at Refinery ArtSpace. 

  Nelson Jewellery Week and HANDSHAKE will be held in conjunction with and is supported by, Arts Council Nelson, Refinery ArtSpace, Creative New Zealand, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Uniquely Nelson, and the Nelson Regional Development Agency. Nelson Jewellery Week will be held at various locations throughout Nelson including NMIT, Refinery ArtSpace and local galleries and jewellery workshops and retail spaces.

  (Image: student Lisa Walker at the Dunedin School of Art, photograph by Lloyd Godman)

• 2020 December SDR deadlines (December 16 2020)

  The December 2020 SDR is upon us. The data extract date is on 31 December 2020, so we need to ensure all course enrolment changes are processed by the final extract.

  As with every year, after the 2020 December SDR has been extracted, there can be no transfers, full withdrawals or enrolments for any course that started in 2020.

  The deadline for these changes is 5pm Friday 8 January 2021.

  Any questions about this please contact the SMS Team.

• 2021 start dates (December 14 2020)

  2021 start dates: 
  

  You can apply and enrol in our Art programmes until 22 Feb 2021.

  Start date: Monday 22 February, 2021. 

• Two Dunedin School of Art artists win ECC NZ Student Craft/Design Awards 2020 (December 10 2020)

  Congratulations to Simon Swale and Eva Ding, two Dunedin School of Art artists who have won awards in the ECC NZ Student Craft/Design Awards 2020 for their work in jewellery and ceramics.

  The ECC NZ Student Craft / Design Awards are open to all students who are currently enrolled to study in 2020 or who have completed their studies in 2019.

  Rebecca Fox talks to Simon Swale and Eva Ding about their winning pieces.

  > Read more in the Otago Daily Times...

   

  (Image credit: Simon Swale - Fair Trade)

• 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS - CLOSING SOON (December 2 2020)

  Scope (Art & Design) is seeking papers for its 2021 issue.

  Scope (Art & Design) aims to engage discussion on contemporary research in the visual arts. It is concerned with views and critical debates surrounding issues of practice, theory, history and their relationships as manifested through the visual and related arts and activities, such as sound, performance, curation, tactile and immersive environments, digital scapes and methodological considerations. With New Zealand and its Pacific neighbours as a backdrop, but not its only stage, Scope (Art & Design) seeks to address the matters which concern contemporary artists and arts enquirers in their environments of practice. The word limit for a feature article is 4000 words (less for other formats). Formats include: articles; essays; artist’s pages, logs and travel reports; reviews of exhibitions, residencies and publications; moving and interactive works (to be negotiated with the editors for the online version, with contextualising paragraphs and stills to appear in the hardcopy version). Other suggested formats will also be considered.

  Please send submissions to the editor Jane Venis or scope.editorial@op.ac.nz. For further information or any questions about possible submissions please contact Jane Venis or Pam McKinlay at the above email addresses. Submissions are open now. Deadline for submissions is 30 April 2021.

  kind regards

  Jane Venis

  Editor, Scope: Art and Design 

• Call for papers: Fashioning Resurgence (December 1 2020)

  IFFTI has extended the deadline for papers for its 2021 conference, "Fashioning Resurgence - Our Time is Now" at Pearl Academy in India and online.

  Otago Polytechnic is proud to be a member of the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI), and Professor Margo Barton is an IFFTI board member and chair of the IFFTI membership committee. Details of this call for papers are below and attached.

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  1. Theme 

  The theme of 23^rd Annual International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI) is “Fashioning Resurgence: Our Time is Now”. This is a congregation of speculative, iterative, and transformative ideas along with action in the field of Design, Education and Fashion Industry.  

  In the past few decades, the fashion industry has evolved as a vanguard for societal change. The entire fashion value chain has clearly established that the relationship of the body and apparel has been far from being tenable. In the current global situation, we are faced by three kinds of temporalities: The Emergent; The Urgent; and The Incumbent. Each of them has an immediacy associated with them. They all call our attention and demand action.   

  This is a platform where academicians, policymakers, designers, artists, artisans, students, industry representatives and other leaders converge for insightful conversations and discussions and make actionable plans for the future of the global fashion industry and affiliated fields.  

  The Sub-Themes are described in the subsequent Paras. 

  2. Sub Theme 1 - The Emergent 

  The scope of this theme delves into the counter voice and viewpoints of the fashion system and beyond. The transformative actions with collaborations, disruptions and speculation are changing the way fashion system function. The aftermath of the recent global pandemic has forced us to review and reform our fashion needs & consumption. It has compelled us to reestablish and recalibrate our future endeavors in material diversity, resource exchange, emergent philosophies and beyond.  

  Among many other conceivable avenues of inquiry, we invite contributions engaged with such questions as: 

  • How can we extrapolate the trends we see in the fashion industry, design space along with education which can envisage scenarios that we might face in the future? 
  • Can we imagine new, innovative and speculative solutions to the conditions produced by the pandemic?  
  • How has evolutionary transformation in terms of tradition, material or resource occurred in recent times? 
  • What are the changes which marks resurgence in design, education and fashion industry? 

   Suggested Keywords but not limited to: New-age material, Tech-interventions, Speculative design, reformed governance, public accountability, nationalism, beyond homogenization back to the roots, New age leadership.   

  Sub Theme 2 - The Urgent  

  Human existence is a subset of natural ecosystem however we may have undervalued its impact on our existence. This agenda explores the relation of fashion and nature, the habit and habitat and its impact that surfaces with assembled perspectives and actions. The desire to heal, change and transform what is hurting for so long and as we heal our relation with the nature, we heal the world. 

  Among many other conceivable avenues of inquiry, we invite contributions engaged with such questions as: 

  • How is change caused by interaction, fusion or imbalance in the field of design, education and industrial practices? 
  • How process and progress – natural or inspired are triggered in fashion ecosystem? 
  • What have been the prominent moments both global and regional in the past few decades that have been marked as significant actions taken towards achieving climate change and sustainability goals? How has the fashion and textile industry been affected by these moments in our history?  
  • How can we make collaborative frameworks for policy formulation that can help address the challenges of climate change and sustainability?  

  Suggested Keywords but not limited to: slow fashion, , biomimicry, climate change, ethically made, policy & governance, Sustainable Development Goals, post production waste management, Post consumer textile waste, circularity, consumer, mindful consumption.   

   

  4. Sub Theme 3 - The Incumbent 

  For centuries, the textile and clothing industry has been relying on skills of various makers, creators and artisans involved in the supply chain. Despite the technologically driven world, the industry relies heavy on manpower and labour-intensive processes for material development and construction. This establishes the strong inclusive relationship between workmanship and quality – Hand that makes. The recent progressive experiments have reimagined the makers space, connected the consumer to the artisans, while celebrating craftsmanship and appreciating their skills.   

  Among many other conceivable avenues of inquiry, we invite contributions engaged with such questions as: 

  • Can we illustrate progressive experiments that foster equity, diversity and ethicality in the industry?  
  • How can we conceive of curriculum at design and fashion institutes in such a way that it can have a meaningful impact on important and pressing social issues?  
  • What experiments can take place in the industry to address issues of traceability, accountability and responsibility?  
  • How consumption can influence change? 

  Suggested Keywords but not limited to: equality & inclusion, migration, craftsmanship, makers movement, local & light, artisan communities, heirlooms & emotionally durable design, open-source design, participatory design, equal acknowledgment to the maker, responsible academics.  

   

  5. Call for Abstracts and Full Papers  

  Abstracts are invited from faculty and students of both member institute and non-member institute on the theme of the conference. The abstract be submitted by February 15th, 2021 using iffti2021@pearlacademy.com 

  (a)          Call for Abstracts  

  • Subthemes, questions and Keywords described above indicate possible lines of enquiry. You are not required to answer one of these specific questions, but may use them as inspiration to explore the general theme. Additionally, the committee may consider an abstract introducing an experimental thread outside the main theme, which tests new research directions.
  • Authors are requested to indicate on the right side of the page header which subtheme the abstract addresses. It is also requested to include a title on top of the text.   
  • 3-5 keywords are to be indicated under title and abstracts should be max. 500 words long (For full details see General Requirements for Abstracts below).  
  • Only selected abstracts will be invited to send full papers.  

  (b)          General Requirements for Abstracts  

  • Only Microsoft Word files will be accepted  
  • No name or author’s affiliation in the text  
  • Subtheme(s) and 3-5 keywords must be indicated  
  • 300 to 500 word count in English, not including subtheme(s) and keywords  
  • 12 point, Times New Roman, 1 inch margins all around    

  (c)          General Requirements for Full Papers  

  • Only Microsoft Word files will be accepted. PDF submissions will not be accepted.  
  • 12 point, Times New Roman font, and 1 inch (25.4 mm) margins, A4 size.  
  • Papers should be 3,000-5,000 words in length in English. They should be written as continuous expository narrative in a chapter or article style - not as lists of points or a PowerPoint presentation. APA Guidelines should be used for citations, graphs, figures, etc.  
  • Please remember that the papers are to be published in a fully refereed Conference Proceedings. This means that the style and structure of your text should be relatively formal. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of citations, quotations, diagrams, tables and maps.  
  • Harvard referencing should be used in the text (author, date: page number).  
  • Papers should be thoroughly checked and proof-read before submission. Following submission you will be unable to make any changes to it during the refereeing process.   

   

  6. Proposal for Non-Paper Submission - Mapping Change: The Emergent, The Urgent and The Incumbent 

  This is a call for the conceptual & the documentary work which is a representation the theme of IFFTI 2021. The sub-themes and tracks above are intended as starting points or provocations. Authors are asked to indicate what sub-theme addressed through their submissions.   

  (a)          Abstract for non-paper submissions can be submitted into one of the following categories:   

  • Static Installation  
  • Dynamic Installation 
  • Short film   
  • Poster   
  • Infographics  
  • Workshops 
  • Photo Essay  

  (b)          Since the conference is mostly online, preference will be given to proposals that are dynamic, time-based, process-driven, involve live feeds or pre-recorded ones that unveil periodically for the entire duration of the conference.  

  (c)          Guidelines for Non-Paper Submissions:  

  • Proposals for all non-paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of upto 300 words illustrating the project.   
  • The abstract should be accompanied with Visual boards, Story boards, photos, links to films, drawings and other such supporting material that might be necessary.   
  • All non-paper submissions should include: Title, Sub-theme and 5 keywords relating to the sub-theme.   
  • After selection of abstracts, detailed documentation of the proposed work will be needed for the review of the conference committee.   
  • After selection of abstracts, extended proposals (max. 3000 words) with images and other supporting documentation would need to be submitted for double-blind peer review.  
  • Please include details of installation, IT requirements, dimensions, or any other requirements that the committee will need to be aware of before the conference.   
  • Full extended proposal papers with images will be copy edited and considered for publishing in the IFFTI 2021 Conference Book publication titled – Fashioning Resurgence: Our Time is Now along with images of the project.   

   

  7. Review Process  

  (a)          Abstracts and papers will be assessed against the themes and subthemes of the conference according to the IFFTI double blind review criteria on:  

  • Concept (strength and originality of the main idea)  
  • Research (research quality and consistency)  
  • Exposition (critical analysis and communication quality)  
  • Demonstrates relevance to theme  
  • Is organized in a logical and coherent way  
  • Writing style succinct and appropriate to the work, grammatical and clear English  

  (b)          The research committee will appoint reviewers for the process. 

  (c)          The selection of abstracts is the first stage of a two-part selection process. 

  (d)        Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers, and reviewed by appointees of the research committee.   

   

  Authors who wish to be considered for an IFFTI Initiatives award should indicate the same in their submission.  

   

  8. Paper Submission Deadline  

   

  Activity	Date	Duration
  Date for conference call	30-Nov-21
  Submission of Abstracts	28-Jan-21	10 weeks
  Reviews returned	28-Feb-21	4 weeks
  All authors notified: Accepted paper authors invited to submit	15-Mar-21	2 weeks
  Full papers returned	30-Jun-21	10 weeks
  Full paper reviews completed	15-Aug-20	6 weeks
  Authors notified with acceptances and  revisions	25-Aug-21	1 week
  Final papers submitted to organizers	5-Oct-21	6 weeks
  Conference	25-Oct-21

  9. Non- Paper Submission Deadlines

   

  Call for Conference	30-Nov-20
  Submission of Abstracts	28-Jan-21	10 weeks
  Panel to review the entries	28-Feb-21	4 weeks
  All authors notified: Accepted abstract.	15-Mar-21	2 weeks
  Practitioners submit details about their work and explain their plans to deliver the work along with 3000 words extended proposal	14-Jun-21	12 weeks
  Review of extended proposal and details of the non-paper proposals.	05-July-21	3 weeks
  Acceptance of Final proposal	12-July-21	3 weeks
  Final work received by organisers / display venue	On or before 30-Sep-21	15 weeks

   

  *Kindly note if the non-paper is a dynamic installation which requires an extended timeline for display. Then the author should specify the duration and other requirements at the stage of abstract submission via an email to organizing committee at IFFTI2021@pearlacademy.com 

   

  10. IFFTI Initiatives Awards 

  In order to encourage participation in the Annual Conference by Junior Faculty, PG/Research Students and Senior Faculty of Member Institutions, three Junior Faculty, two PG/Research Students and two Senior Faculty of IFFTI Member Institutions, who are selected to present papers at the Conference, will be awarded scholarships of USD 2000.00 each. The evaluation process for these awards will be undertaken by IFFTI. 

  (a)  Senior Faculty Initiative  

  Two Senior Faculty of IFFTI Member Institutions whose papers are selected for presentation at the 2021 Conference will be selected on merit and awarded a scholarship of USD 2000 and their registration fee will be paid by IFFTI. 

  (b)  Junior Faculty Initiative 
  
  Three Junior Faculty of IFFTI Institutions whose papers are selected for presentation at the 2021 Conference will be selected on merit and awarded a scholarship of USD 2000 and their registration fee will be paid by IFFTI. To be eligible for this award the author should be at the beginning of their teaching careers, or those who are beginning to develop their teaching and research interest and profile. 

  
  (c)  Post Graduate/Research Students Initiative  
  
  Two Post Graduate/Research Students, whose papers are selected for presentation at the 2021 Conference will be selected on merit and awarded a scholarship of USD 2000 and their registration fee will be paid by IFFTI. To be eligible for this award, the student should be pursuing full time Post Graduate/Research Program at the institution. 

  11. Special Instructions 

   

  1. At time of submission of the full paper, the author of the paper will confirm that the paper has not been presented or published elsewhere. 
      
  2. The Head of Institution/Department/Other Appropriate Authority will provide a supporting statement, in the case of Junior Faculty that the applicant meets the criteria mentioned above and is eligible to be considered as Junior Faculty for the purpose of this initiative; in the case of a Post Graduate/Research Student, there should be confirmation that the applicant is undergoing a full time Post Graduate/Research Program at the institution. In both cases, the institution will confirm that it will support a successful applicant’s costs to present the paper at the 2021 IFFTI Annual Conference.  

  Regards,

  Organizing Committee

  Pearl Academy, India

   

• Call for Papers: Food issue of Junctures (December 1 2020)

  Nau mai e ka hua e hora nei.
  Here are the fruits laid out before us.

  This is an opening line of a karakia, an incantation that acknowledges food, the places it comes from and the role it plays in communities.

  With hunger on the rise in Africa, Western Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, food insecurity continues to raise uncertainty about food supply and is forcing people to compromise on the quality of the food they consume. It is estimated over 2 billion people do not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. In addition, overweight and obesity continue to increase in all regions, particularly among school-age children and adults (WHO). The World Health Organisation 2030 zero hunger target will not be achieved unless the recent trend is reversed.

  Global warming and related environmental change are contributing to food insecurity. Large-scale, intensive agriculture continues to compromise the integrity and long-term productivity of soils. Industrial food production can have economic, social, and cultural impact on a geographic area.

  Indigenous food culture is derived from Indigenous knowledge systems that reflect unique worldviews and therefore has a role to play in the construction of identities and practices. It is incorporated into rituals, has various symbolic roles, and is often regarded as “medicine”. Traditional foods, and the production and transformation systems around them, strengthen a person’s sense of place, identity and connection.

  It is suggested that Indigenous food cultures, founded on sustainability and connectivity to land and nature, can contribute to methods of food production that better allow natural resources to be preserved and that protect communities as well as the environment.

  Fast food, notoriously poor in nutrition, has been countered by the slow flood movement. Originating in the 1980s, it speaks out against overproduction and food waste, believing that small and local farmers and food producers should be protected from but also included in the global food system.

  Networks of food organisations stemming from the slow food movement work to achieve access to good, clean, and fair food for everyone. They call for the preservation of plant varieties and animal breeds and strengthen local culinary cultures by bringing together food producers, consumers, and educators to improve the food system.

  Junctures invites submissions from authors on the theme of food, whether from the hard sciences, humanities, visual, social sciences, law, education or medicine. Junctures encourages discussion across boundaries, whether these are disciplinary, geographic, cultural, social or economic. This allows us to highlight the resonances and disturbances of dialogue. With New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region as a backdrop, but not its only stage, Junctures seeks to address the matters which concern us all as we negotiate the contemporary environment. We accept commentaries and interventions that sit outside academia.

  Call for Papers: Junctures: The Journal of Thematic Dialogue. Expressions of interest open now.

  Final deadline for papers: 30 April, 2021 Word limit: 4000 words feature articles, please also enquire about our other formats.

  Editor: Ron Bull, Tumuaki Whakaako; junctures@op.ac.nz

• Mapping the Anthropocene Archive (October 23 2020)

  Mapping the Anthropocene Archive

  Mapping the Anthropocene documentation of the exhibition is now online at our flickr gallery, with Photography by Jodie Gibson.

  https://www.flickr.com/.../duned.../albums/72157716560772858

  "The Complete Entanglement of Everything"

  28 SEP- 2 OCT, 2020, Dunedin School of Art

  Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand

  For more information about all works please see the full catalogue including exhibition essay by Bridie Lonie online at issu.com:

  https://issuu.com/dunedinschoolofart/docs/the_complete_entanglement_of_everything_exhibition
  
  Archive page of publications and supporting material for:
  Symposium event: Mapping the Anthropocene in ¯Otepoti/Dunedin - Climate change, community & research in the creative arts,
  Exhibition "The Complete Entanglement of Everything"

  and associated event are available at

  https://www.op.ac.nz/study/creative/art/research/symposia/tile?id=4412

  For more information please contact organising committee Bridie Lonie (Head of School, Dunedin School of Art)
  and Pam McKinlay (Symposium Liaison) at artsymposium (at) op.ac.nz.
• International Conference - Open education and open recognition (August 20 2020)

  Otago Polytechnic is organising Aotearoa New Zealand's contribution to ePIC 2020, the 18th International Conference on Open Education and Open Recognition technologies and practices. The conference will be fully online (via Zoom) and will run across three days - 26th - 28th October. Contributions from New Zealand will start on 27th October.

  Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit contributions in the form of research papers, case studies, work in progress, position papers, workshops, presentations or posters. You are warmly encouraged to submit abstracts and/or attend the conference (which is free). Please also publicise it across networks that you are involved in. The date for formal submission of abstracts has been extended to 30th September.

  As the concept of 'open recognition' may be unfamiliar to some, here is an extract from the call for contributions:

  "... most of what we learn is learned informally, i.e. outside of institutions of formal education in the open. Consequently, most of the recognitions for learning in the open are also informal. Informal recognition may take many different shapes: praise, pay rise, hiring, promotion, awards and, since a few years, Open Badges, an instrument initially designed to make informal learning visible and is now being used to making informal recognition visible.

  How can we recognise the “[k]nowledge inextricably situated in the physical and social context of its acquisition and use”? How can we recognise the people and communities that have produced and/or acquired that knowledge? These questions lead to even more questions:

  • What is the relationship between learning and recognition, open learning and open recognition? 
  • How far can learning be opened within the current formal recognition system? 
  • How could informal recognition contribute to opening learning? 
  • How to articulate informal and formal recognition and learning?
  • What role digital technologies like Open Badges have played and could play in opening learning and recognition?
  • How could policies contribute to the opening of learning and recognition?

  Contributions can be submitted in one or more of the following tracks:

  • Education
    • Blank diplomas, (no) grades, (alternative) assessment, key competencies, 21st century skills, lifelong…
  • Employment
    • Entrepreneurship and self-employment, job and talent hunting, open hiring, work-based learning, reputation, mobility, learning organisation…
  • Citizenship
    • Civic and humanitarian engagement, individual and community empowerment, activism and hacktivism…
  • Policies
    • Recognition of prior learning, credit transfer, qualification frameworks, national and local curricula, quality control…
  • Social Inclusion
    • learning regions and cities, school drop outs and NEETs, youth at risk, unemployment, people with disabilities, refugees and migrants… 
  • Technologies
    • Open Badges, ePortfolios, social networks, Web of Trust, Verifiable Claims, blockchains…"

  One theme which is not explicitly mentioned in the call for contributions but which the international organisers are keen to include is 'culture as recognition' - "we would like to include all forms of artistic/cultural practices in relation to recognition, so to move beyond current practices limiting the recognition of others in relation to our norms (what we expect in relation to skills, knowledge  etc.) but in relation to themselves, as humans with a vibrant culture to be recognised, an invitation to recognise our own cultures."

  Please contact Simonne Wood if you have any questions. 

   

   

• Closing in 2 weeks: Kaitiakitaka Symposium: Call for Abstracts (July 16 2020)

  KIA HIWA RĀ! KIA HIWA RĀ!

  The Māori Research Symposium: Kaitiakitaka will be held at Otago Polytechnic on 4 December 2020 and will showcase Māori research. This is the third Māori symposium hosted by the Polytechnic, following on from the inaugural Tā Moko Symposium held in 2014 and Mauri Ora Symposium held in 2018. The objectives of this Symposium are to:

  • Nurture research conducted by Māori staff and students – that is, research undertaken by Māori, for Māori, or with Māori
  • Provide opportunities to share Māori research fields and expertise
  • Showcase and celebrate the depth and breadth of Māori research

  The Kaitiakitaka Symposium will showcase research focused on a wide range of issues concerned with human and environmental wellbeing. We seek to showcase research that is either Māori led and/or partnered with Māori, with the goal of connecting with our wider community, Iwi and Rūnaka. Otago Polytechnic encourages presenters at the Kaitiakitaka Symposium to consider publishing their work in our SCOPE: Kaupapa Kāi Tahu 2021 publication, which will also focus on the same theme. The Kaitiakitaka themes may include:

  • Te Tai Ao - Environment
  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi – Treaty of Waitangi
  • Te Hurihuri o Te Ao – Our Changing world

  Abstracts are invited from staff and students involved in Māori led and/or partnered research.  Please send abstracts in electronic format for peer review to the Tumuaki: Rakahau Māori | Director: Māori Research, Kelli Te Maihāroa, by 31 July 2020 via email. The abstract should include the title, the presenter(s) name, 200-300 words, written in the third person perspective, no bibliography or footnotes, references if required to be used within text, up to five key words, Word document, identify presentation style.  There are three presentation options:

  1. Poster / visual / media presentation
  2. 20/20 slideshow
  3. 20 minute presentation
• MP talks climate change (February 26 2020)

  Students had the opportunity to learn about the Zero Carbon Act and its impact on New Zealand Businesses from Green Party MP Chloe Swarbrick yesterday.

  The Graduate Diploma in Applied Management students have been exploring issues relating to the Act as part of their Contemporary Issues in Organisations course.

  The Zero Carbon Act provides a framework for developing and implementing climate change policies.

  Chloe took the group through how the Zero Carbon Bill, spearheaded by Green Party co-leader James Shaw, became law.

  She discussed the vast response to the bill, include the reaction of the agricultural sector and green business leaders.

  The talk ended with a question and answer session where she encouraged students to get involved with something bigger, because participation amplifies your actions and gives you a sense of purpose. She urged students to find organisations that resonated with them.

• Developing skills for 2020 and beyond (February 21 2020)

  Upskill, develop resilience, and be yourself, were among tips given to students at our BizTech event last night.

  The theme of the event was Skills for 2020 and Beyond. Three industry guests delivered short presentations giving their insights on the topic.

  Moumita Das Roy, who works in Marketing and Product Management at Compass Communications, talked about the importance of transferrable skills, upskilling, networking, and personal branding.

  She also recommended volunteering as a way to get local experience.

  “My first referee in this country was from the place I was volunteering.”

  Absolute IT Candidate Manager Mark Beltran said it took him 315 job applications, 52 phone calls and 15 interviews to find his dream job.

  The most beneficial skill students could develop was resilience, he said.  

  To build that resilience he suggested they set targets, surround themselves with positivity, keep a happy journal, pay it forward, and be kind to themselves.

  Bank of New Zealand Senior Manager Simplification & Conduct Ben Lorimer advised students to be curious and never stop asking questions.

  He said boldness was admirable and they shouldn’t be afraid to contribute their suggestions and answers.

  His final piece of advice was “be yourself” and bring everything to work including your culture and background.

  “Bring your whole self to work because that’s what makes workplaces successful – is when you’ve got that diversity of thought and that diversity of skill and experience.”

  After the presentations, attendees had the chance to ask questions and network.

  The aim of the event was to allow our students to deepen their understanding of the skills and learner capabilities required to succeed in the current and future workforce in New Zealand and globally. 

  We invited them to share what they had learned on our Facebook page.

  Check out the photos here.

• Learning about sustainability in business (February 21 2020)

  Our students had the opportunity to learn about sustainability in business from an industry expert yesterday.

  Ben Mayer, Climate Change and Sustainability Advisor at engineering and consulting firm Beca, spoke to students across our management, construction, and IT courses about working towards a net zero carbon future.

  He presented practical examples of the challenges and opportunities in transitioning to a net zero emission and equitable future.

  Ben is passionate about aligning business motivations and incentives with outcomes that are positive and lasting for organisations, communities and New Zealanders as global citizens.

  He also encouraged our staff and students to learn more and act on climate change by engaging with Now Crowd, a community of young professionals driving sustainability in our workplaces.

  They run education events that are fantastic for networking. They also provide great toolkits for tackling many of the key issues with organisations.

  Ben highly recommends giving them a follow on social media and getting along to their events. You can learn more about them here: https://www.nowcrowd.org.nz/

  Our students came away from the talk with much more knowledge about and enthusiasm for sustainability.

• Dunedin campus welcomes overseas visitors (February 19 2020)

  Our Dunedin campus welcomed staff and students from our partner institution South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) in the United States in early February.

  The college has articulation agreements into our business and visual arts degrees. A number of students will be transferring credits they gained at SPSCC into Otago Polytechnic programmes.

  Last week, we hosted Dave Taylor, senior Vice-President International of Niagara College, Canada, to our Central and Dunedin campuses.

  He was particularly interested in learning about our Māori Strategic Framework - Canada is undergoing a Truth and Reconciliation process with its indigenous cultures, and a number of partner institutions are interested in our strategies for success of our Māori students.

  Recently, we welcomed 72 international students who are beginning their studies with us. Thirty of these students are here for a semester on exchange agreements with partner institutions, principally from Europe.

  We are looking forward to hosting Adam Thomas from our partner institute Humber College, Canada. He will be collaborating on research with our information technology programme.

• OP students getting international experience (February 19 2020)

  Otago Polytechnic students are preparing for the global workplace along with students from other polytechnics through study tours.

  Students have been taking part in six-week study tours funded by the Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Asia (PMSA). They are developing their capabilities to succeed in the global workplace through experiences that will teach them cultural competence, problem solving and other skills.

  Ten OP students have been in Coimbatore, India, studying Business and Supply Chains, and six OP students plus one Southern Institute of Technology and three Eastern Institute of Technology students have been studying tourism and hospitality management in Da Nang, Vietnam. 

  The OP students are from across our programmes, including: Engineering, Design, Business and Culinary Arts

  The aims of the India study tour were:

  • To understand the critical but complex business, logistics and supply chain issues in the rapidly growing Indian economy.
  • To explore opportunities, understand issues and develop relationships for future engagement.

  While on the study tour, the students learned about: 

  • Textile and Garment Supply Chains.
  • Health Care and Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.
  • Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Supply Chains.

   The aims of the Vietnam study tour were

  • To understand the growth and strength of the tourism and hospitality industry in Vietnam.
  • To experience operational aspects of the international tourism and hospitality Industry.
  • To extend knowledge of key business and management principles.

  Other students will soon participate in PMSA-funded semester long exchange study at our partner institutions. They include an IT student who is going to study in business courses in Japan at Kansai University, Osaka.

  A second-year business student is currently settling into a nine-week Winter School programme in Finland at Lappeenranta University of Technology.

  In February/March we look forward to welcoming back two engineering students after the completion of their study abroad semesters. One has been studying “Creating Resilient Cities” in the Netherlands, at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. The other has been studying courses in Renewable Energies in Germany, at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences.

  A Bachelor of Applied Science student is returning from a semester of study at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. She studied in the Sports Performance programme at Fontys. The course completes her degree study.

• Central campus hosts Mexican delegation (February 19 2020)

  Our Central Campus hosted a delegation from the Mexican government in February.

  This was a ministerial group from Jalisco province, which made time to divert from their tour specifically to visit the campus, and view the activities that are representative of the region.

  This visit follows meetings in mid-2019 with the Central Campus staff in Mexico. Alex Huffadine (Market Manager for Latin America) and Carolyn Patchett visited Mexico to begin building relationships with a view to adding Mexican students to the growing number of Latin students at the campus.

  The Central Campus has been steadily growing the number of programmes to cater for Latin American student. Specially land based programmes with English are popular. The Chilean government in particular has been strong in supporting these programmes in order to build capability and capacity in their younger population. The Mexican delegation has visited to look to also engage in these programmes.

  The programmes are unique, as they enable learners to come with low level English and build skills in technical studies related to New Zealand’s rural sector. They also build English capability. Students have pre-planned paid work experience provided. Mixed together this is a powerful set of learning in a New Zealand rural setting.

  The Jalisco province, where the officials are from, is the strongest agricultural and horticultural producing region in Mexico. The group has been touring New Zealand to view our rural sector and the productivity we demonstrate. It is hoped Otago Polytechnic will see students from Mexico join our rural suite of programmes over the next year.

  The ministerial delegation was exposed to a range of learning at the campus, as well as experiencing a connection with our industry in the wine and cherry sectors with visits to Amisfield winery, 45 South Cherry exports and a range of other Central Otago export properties.

• Increasing self-compassion in young people through virtual reality (February 17 2020)

  Two OPAIC Graduate Diploma in Information Technology students, Konstantin Emanov and Andrej Hlasnik, are working on a Virtual Reality for Mental Health project.

  Nilufar Baghaei from the IT team and Management Head of Department Lehan Stemmet are supervising the project.

  The team have published the initial idea in prestigious IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality conference (ISMAR 2019, http://www.ismar19.org/) and the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020, https://chi2020.acm.org/), both ranked A*. 

  The project is in collaboration with the University of Auckland, MidCentral DHB, Unitec Institute of Technology and Media Design School.

  The ultimate goal is to develop a VR app that can be used by mental health professionals across the country to increase self-compassion in young people with depression.

• Sharing AI research with tech community (February 17 2020)

  Head of IT and Principal Lecturer Farhad was invited as a speaker to the AI Global Bootcamp held at AUT recently.

  Several speakers from the Microsoft MVP community and experts from academia and industry presented their work on trending areas of AI.

  Farhad's talk was about using state-of-the-art high-performance computing platforms to enhance the performance of computing-intensive AI algorithms.

  The presentation included a demo on the implementation of an image classification algorithm using deep learning on an off-the-shelf AI computing board.

  It was followed by a Q&A session with interesting discussions around the topic. This work is a part of the joint project with academics at OPAIC and MIT. They received a best paper award for their publication in CITRNZ 2019, and recently secured a research funding for 2020.

• IT lecturer takes research to Japan (February 17 2020)

  Head of IT and Principal Lecturer Dr Farhad Mehdipour has participated in the 4th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech) which was held in Fukuoka, Japan and presented two peer-reviewed papers at the conference.

  The conference is aimed at providing a common platform for scientists, researchers, and engineers to share their latest ideas and advances in the broad scope of cyber-related science, technology, and application topics.

  The first paper is titled “Commercial Security Scanning: Point-on-Sale (POS) Vulnerability and Mitigation Techniques”. The focus of paper is about the evaluation of the security of POS terminals and proposing some techniques to mitigate the security of point-on-sale payment systems.

  The second paper titled “AgentPi: An IoT Enabled Motion CCTV Surveillance System” introduces the development of a cost-efficient and customisable motion CCTV surveillance system.

  Farhad says the event was a good opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas with the academics and industry experts from around the world.

• OPAIC construction research on show (February 17 2020)

  Four OPAIC construction students have had research papers selected for publication and will present at a symposium this week.

  Construction Senior Lecturer Dr Don Samarasinghe worked with students on the papers, which were outcomes of student undergraduate research projects.

  They are co-authored by Don, Larisa Sinyakova, Hao Chen, Chuting Huang, Weiran Hou and Huiting Li.

  Students will present along with Don at the 6th New Zealand Built Environment Research Symposium (NZBERS) organised by Massey University this week.

  The papers cover thermal efficiency in residential buildings, prefabrication technology, affordable housing and improving design buildability.

• Cross department research project recognised (February 17 2020)

  A research collaboration between OPAIC's Construction, Information Technology and Management departments has been recognised at a prestigious international conference.

  The paper, on Persuasive VR in Construction, received a 'strong accept' for the 15th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, to be held in Denmark this year.

  The title of the submission is Persuasive Virtual Reality: Promoting Earth Buildings in New Zealand. The project was led by Senior Lecturer in Construction, Dr Don Samarasinghe and co-authored by Information Technology HoD Dr Nilufar Baghaei and Management HoD Dr Lehan Stemmet.

  The submission was accepted for oral presentation and full paper publication.

  Reviewers said it was a well written paper that targets an area of great interest. They said bringing VR into the area of Persuasive Technology would help the research community grow.

  “The manuscript is well balanced in terms of stating the problem, relevant literature and methodology. The conclusions make great sense and lay out future work.”

• Call for Papers Scope Advances in Culinary Arts (February 7 2020)

  Call for papers - Scope Contemporary Research Topics: Learning and Teaching #10 (Advances in Culinary Arts Learning and Teaching)

  
  Scope (Learning and Teaching) is concerned with views, critical debate and reflections on learning and teaching theory and practice. It seeks to address current topical matters in the field of tertiary education. Its focus is on building a sense of community amongst researchers from an array of New Zealand institutions (and, for this special issue, across the globe) with the goal of linking with a wider international community.

  This special issue of Scope (Teaching and Learning) focuses on recent Advances in Culinary Arts Learning and Teaching practices that respond to the following trends:

  
  • A broadening of the scope and nature of culinary arts qualifications globally, including more liberal arts or science-based approaches at degree and postgraduate level;
  • A broad cross-section of society is currently very interested in culinary arts, yet this does not necessarily translate into demand for traditional culinary arts education;
  • Widespread disagreement on what is (or should be) taught at the cutting-edge of culinary arts education;
  • A continuing (and sometimes growing) divide between industry expectations, graduate expectations and the skills and understandings taught (or that need to be taught) that prepare students for a rapidly changing world;
  • A small, but growing, body of research into culinary arts and hospitality education has begun to emerge over the last decade that has called for change, but which mostly stops short of providing new ways forward;
  • A ‘changing of the guard’ has begun as long-term culinary arts educators move into retirement and this is leading to a desire for change amongst younger educators but there are limited tools to enable that change;
  • Research is needed into how to best meet learners’ needs outside of the formal classroom as they can now get content from anywhere, anytime and can and do teach themselves technical skills;
  • Culinary arts education beyond the purely technical is not valued by many in the industry;
  • Vocational education and training (VET) is being restructured around the world and there is a need for culinary arts programmes to find their place in this changing educational landscape.

  In this issue, we consider culinary arts to include a broad range of products (including food, meals, menus beverages, artisanal food and value-added food products of any kind), services (including retail, hospitality and other food experiences) and systems (including systems of production, sales, marketing and distribution). We also consider learning and teaching to include formal education (in primary, secondary and tertiary environments and in vocational and higher education), in-work learning (both formal and informal) and informal learning experiences (learning and teaching that occurs on or in social media, YouTube, cooking classes, tourism experiences and the like).

  About Scope
  Scope (Teaching and Learning) is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open access journal available online here. Information for contributors is here.
  Formats for this special issue include:
  • Articles (up to 4,000 words) presenting research into new culinary arts learning and teaching;
  • Working papers (up to 2,500 words) presenting emerging research or frameworks for research;
  • Culinary arts learning and teaching practice case studies (up to 2,500 words);
  • Opinion pieces and provocations (up to 1,500 words) from educators or food industry stakeholders (this may include dialogues between educators and other stakeholders of up to 2,500 words);
  • Autobiographical / autoethnographic pieces (up to 5,000 words) from educators, students and/or graduates exploring the experience of learning and teaching in culinary arts;
  • Creative works that explore current issues in culinary arts education (including, but not limited to, photo-essays, poetry, short-stories, paintings, comic strips, etc).

  Submissions are due no later than Monday 6 April 2020. Earlier submissions are encouraged, and we will endeavour to provide reviewer feedback within a relatively short timeframe.

  Submissions and questions should be sent to the editor, Professor Richard Mitchell, via email: richard.mitchell@op.ac.nz.

• Success Story: Jingyue (Ellen) Chen (February 5 2020)

  English language student Jingyue Chen is loving her time at OPAIC and hopes to pursue further study here.

  Jingyue’s mum and dad wanted her to continue her education after she finished a digital media diploma in her home province of Sichuan.

  After seeing an advertisement for Otago Polytechnic, she spoke to staff at her university and learned she could study English here as a pathway to other qualifications.

  She has her sights set on a Bachelor of Information Technology at OPAIC and perhaps eventually a master’s degree.

  Jingyue loves the OPAIC campus, especially the dedicated learning space on Level 8, where she can study, attend workshops and get help from staff.

  Classes here are taught differently than at home but the teacher is helping students adapt to the New Zealand style, she says.

  “I like the teacher.  He’s so funny. He’s so interesting.”

  “I’m so lucky to have this teacher’s class because I just think he’s so good.”

  Jingyue didn’t know much about New Zealand before she arrived but says she’s enjoying life here.

  She loves visiting Takapuna Beach, Mission Bay, One Tree Hill, and other parks. She also likes taking photos around Auckland, particularly of the colourful sunsets.

  She’s befriended another student from her province on campus. It turns out they share a mutual friend at her old university.

  Jingyue lives at a homestay and recommends that option to others coming to New Zealand for the first time to study English.

  “Because this is a very good chance for you to practice your English - especially the speaking and listening.”

  Her homestay family helps with her pronunciation, teaches her Kiwi terms, and shows her around the city.

  It’s important to practice her English to give her a better chance at finding a job, she says. She hopes to find part-time work once she’s finished her English course. In the future she hopes to find a full-time position in IT.

  Learn more about the New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Academic) (Level 4).

• Lunar New Year at OPAIC (January 24 2020)

  We celebrated the Lunar New Year on campus at lunchtime today. 

  Staff and students worked together to organise the event, which included traditional outfits, calligraphy lessons, fortune cookies, quiz questions, and singing. 

  The Lunar New Year, also called Spring Festival, is celebrated in China and other Asian countries and begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar.

  Check out the photos here. 

• AIC Way out now (January 22 2020)

  The latest issue of OPAIC staff newsletter, AIC Way, is out now. Check your inbox for your copy or read it online here.

• Visiting teachers get familiar with our Central Campus  (January 21 2020)

  The Central Campus has recently hosted four ‘Train the Trainer’ learners from Chile.

  The learners were teachers from Agriculture Schools in Chile. They were here to learn about Otago Polytechnic’s teaching practices, the New Zealand Qualifications Framework, understanding how we integrate Latin American students into the Central Campus and how we manage them in the workplace with paid internships.

  The group were leaders from their respective schools, and came from schools near to Santiago in the middle of Chile, to Orsono in the South.

  The teachers began their programme at the same time as 32 summer school Latin American students, starting on 25 November. During the four week programme, the teachers were involved in a range of activities to experience what life is like for an international student beginning with the Central Campus, this included:

  - English with the Latin students
  - Field trips to high tech rural properties from organic vineyards to high country merino wool farming
  - Experiencing robotic milking
  - Attending a Mihi
  - Going to the local primary school for an English class for the Latin students with the year three students (they were buddied up and had to speak - English with the children)
  - Participating in a Tech and sustainability programme
  - Visiting the interns in the workplace
  - Experiencing what it is like to be an international student at Otago Polytechnic
  - Participating in English in the catering kitchens
  - Learning about New Zealand’s education system and in particular the New Zealand Qualifications Framework.

  Overall the teachers were overwhelmed with their experience in Otago. It was a very emotional time for them when they left! A highlight was living in a homestay with our staff. The feedback from the teachers was outstanding, and certainly shows us that there is large potential for growth in the train the trainer area.

• Success Story: Sergey Ananyev (January 24 2020)

  Graduate Sergey Ananyev loved the way he could forge his own path at Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus.

  Sergey was born and raised in Moscow. He has a bachelor's degree in intellectual property and has worked as a manager on projects related to the production and distribution of video and audio content – such as songs, audiobooks, cartoons, and television.

  Most recently he worked at Animaccord Studio - a big animation studio in Russia with international productions. Their television series Masha and the Bear can even be found on TVNZ.

  Sergey decided it was time to compliment his management experience with a qualification.

  He was interested in studying in an English-speaking country because he had been involved in international projects and had to communicate with partners in Europe and the United States.

  “I wanted to improve this part of my professional knowledge,” he says.

  Sergey had visited New Zealand as a tourist several years ago so knew what the country was like.

  “Despite the fact that New Zealand is relatively young, it already has its own unique traditions, and people here are open and always ready to help.”

  He decided the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management at OPAIC would be perfect for him.

  Studying in New Zealand was a new experience.

  “Students are given independence, but they are also responsible for the results,” he says.

  “I worked independently, but at the same time, if I needed any advice, any support, I found it immediately.”

  While OPAIC expected a lot from students, it also offered freedom of choice with regards to topics for study, and research tools and techniques.

   “The best thing was that I was free to choose the topics of my assignments, my work.”

  He undertook work related to his previous professional experience and successfully completed his professional project in the digital content area.

  Sergey has just been awarded his qualification with merit. Now he’s continuing to improve his English and looking for a job in management and perhaps the production and distribution of content.

  “The plan is to find projects where it will be possible to put into practice the knowledge I gained at Otago.”

  Read more about the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management.

• Introducing our new Student Representative (January 13 2020)

  We’d like to introduce our new Student Representative - Pulkit Jain. 

  Pulkit is from Delhi, India. He is studying the Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management at OPAIC.

  He has been an active volunteer at various events around campus and wanted to be Student Representative so he could continue his service to the polytechnic.

  He says it also gives him a great opportunity to socialise, which he loves. He is looking forward to interacting with students, helping them with their difficulties, and organising events.

  As Student Representative, Pulkit is the student voice at student council and student forums.

  Students can contact him at JAINP4@student.op.ac.nz.

• Success Story: Jing Cao (January 17 2020)

  Business graduate Jing Cao is thrilled to have landed a job at New Zealand telecommunications company 2degrees.

  Jing comes from China and has been in New Zealand for almost four years. She completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management at OPAIC last August.

  Jing says she decided to enrol at OPAIC because lots of international students had told her it was the best choice.

  She says its central city location is convenient, the quality of education is high, and it has all the resources students need.

  Staff are friendly and offer lots of good support in terms of studying at OPAIC and living in New Zealand.

  She also made many good friends during her time here.

  Jin says she didn’t have much work experience prior to coming to OPAIC, but since completing her qualification has managed to land a good job in sales at 2degrees.

  She says she appreciates the opportunity she had to gain so much useful knowledge here.

  “I have learned many useful things at OPAIC and made many friends.”

  She highly recommends the polytechnic to those from overseas considering tertiary study in New Zealand.

  Read more about the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management here.

• Success Story: Andrej Hlasnik (January 13 2020)

  Information Technology student Andrej Hlasnik is learning new things each day at OPAIC and using his impressive work background to help other students succeed.

  Andrej has worked at major IT companies throughout Europe but has yet to gain a qualification. He put his study on hold when he landed his first job at multinational tech company IBM in 2007.

  Since then he’s been a software engineer at Accenture in Prague and worked at a smaller Prague-based IT company called Con4PAS.

  He and his wife decided to move to New Zealand after coming here on holiday in 2018.

  “We loved the country. We loved the people here.”

  Andrej wanted to finally complete his education and saw that the Graduate Diploma in Information Technology at OPAIC offered courses in important areas such as data science, the internet of things, and mobile applications.

  “They are courses that are very needed currently.”

  He says he arrived to a lovely Orientation week.

  “I got all the information from the beginning. It was great.”

  The learning style at OPAIC was different to what he was used to. There were two very intensive subjects per study block, rather than several a semester, allowing students to delve more deeply into each.

  “I really like it because you can focus on one paper, or one subject. It makes more sense I think.”

  He says there were only 12 or 13 people in each class.

  “That’s great because you can talk with the lecturer about things which you would like to know.”

  Andrej had a few subjects which he already knew about, but some subjects were completely new to him.

  “It was a great decision to study here.”

  He especially likes the employability services on offer at OPAIC, which are preparing him for work.

  “You learn a lot of things that are really special to the work environment here.”

  Andrej also works as a peer tutor here at OPAIC. He has experience teaching developers in Saudi Arabia, so knew how difficult it could be to explain concepts to people with different levels of knowledge and even different languages.

  “I’ve seen the same thing here. We have different students from around the world with different backgrounds, different knowledge levels, and sometimes you have to change the way you explain things.”

  He likes seeing the progress other students make, particularly when they start to understand and apply concepts.

  “That’s a great feeling that you can help someone to understand something and you can see that it has a meaning.”

  Find out more about the Graduate Diploma in Information Technology here.

• Orientation at OPAIC (January 8 2020)

  We’re welcoming the decade’s first batch of new students to the campus this week.

  The students have come from as far afield as Russia, China, India, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, and Papua New Guinea.

  Head of Management, Lehan Stemmet, addressed students on behalf of OPAIC’s leadership team today.

  He told them they’d made an outstanding decision to come to New Zealand and Otago Polytechnic’s Auckland International Campus.

  They might feel overwhelmed at first, but staff were here to help them. Most staff were from overseas and many had been international students and would understand their journeys and have empathy.

  All of the students had been selected to study here because they met the necessary criteria, Lehan said.

  “All of you are 100 percent capable of getting though the qualification. Put in the work. Ask the questions. You have the support of this outstanding team of people.”

  This morning’s other talks covered tips for being successful at OPAIC, advice about living in Auckland, how to get involved in campus life, health and wellbeing, and services we provide to support students.

  Later students toured the campus, took part in an orientation fair and quiz, and enjoyed a Maori cultural performance by Te Wehi Haka, the Haka Experience.

  Orientation runs from Tuesday until Thursday and also includes an introduction to academic programmes, an IT induction, and an Employability afternoon.

  Check out our Orientation photos here.

• Tapuae gym - Summer 2019/2020 hours (November 26 2019)

  Tapuae gym - Summer Hours

  Reduced hours - Mon 25 Nov 2019 to Sat 23 Feb 2020

  Closed - 12:00 p.m. Sat 21 Dec 2019

  Reopen -  6:00 a.m. Mon 13 Jan 2020

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  Tapuae will remain open through most of the summer break.

  Tapuae will remain open through most of the summer break for current members and students returning in 2020 to continue working toward achieving their health and fitness goals.

   Tapuae Summer Hours*

  Our summer hours will run from Monday 25 November 2019 to Saturday 23 February 2020.

  	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
  Open	*6:00 am	8:00 am	*6:00 am	8:00 am	*6:00 am	*9:00 am	Closed
  Close	*8:00 pm	4:30 pm	*8:00 pm	4:30 pm	4:30 pm	*12:00 pm

  *A Gym Instructor will be present for a 3 hour shift beginning or ending at this time slot.

   

  Tapuae is Closed over Christmas/New Year break

  Tapuae will be closed from 12:00 p.m. Saturday 21 December 2019 and will reopen 6:00 a.m. Monday 13 January 2020.

   

  For students not returning in 2020

  If you have finished your qualification OR you have decided not to return in 2020 your access to Tapuae will finish on Saturday the 8^th February 2020.

   

• Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (September 5 2019)

  This week (9 – 15 Mahuru) is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week – and our Kaitohutohu Office has put together a suite of events and activities to help you lift your Reo game.

  The theme of the week is toi te kupu, toi te mana, toi te whenua – the permanence of the language, prestige and land – and what better way to celebrate this theme than with the release of our Māori Language Strategy?

   

  Māori Language Strategy

  We are pleased to announce that our Māori Language Strategy has been approved by Komiti Kāwanataka and by the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). The full strategy is 12 pages long, so we have a made a handy one-pager for quick reference.

  View the one-pager here.

  View the full strategy here.

  Keep your eyes peeled for our Māori Language Strategy quiz on Tūhono next week – everyone who completes the quiz will go in the draw to win a prize.

   

  Pronunciation sessions

  Trying to learn Te Reo and worried about your pronunciation? Come along to a fun and non-judgemental session led by Shaun Tahau, Kaiarahi. There is no need to book – just pop in to whichever session suits you.

  Rāhina (Monday) 9
  12-1pm
  G Block: G201

  Rātū (Tuesday) 10
  12-1pm  
  Sargood: Z115  

  Rāpare (Thursday) 12
  12-1pm
  Cumberland Street: D103

  Rāmere (Friday) 13
  12-1pm
  L Block: L105

   

  Te Reo Māori quiz

  Rāapa (Wednesday) 11
  12:30-1:30pm
  G Block: G106

  Come along to fun and easy Te Reo Māori quiz and be in to win great prizes! Dr Gianna Leoni will lead the quiz, which is an opportunity to work your brain, have a laugh, and learn some new facts to impress your friends with. Everyone is welcome, and there is no need to book.

   

  Phrase of the day

  Tūhono and our digital screens will display a rerenga korero mō te rā – phrase of the day.

   

  Free treats at Eden

  Order your hot drink in Te Reo Māori during Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori and you’ll receive a free treat from Eden Café.

  Pick your coffee cup size…
  Iti                                 Small
  Waenga                       Medium
  Nui                               Large

  Your favourite beverage…
  Kawhe                         Coffee
  Mōwai                         Flat white
  Pango roa                   Long black
  Pango poto                  Short black
  Kaputino                      Cappuccino
  Moka                           Mocha
  Rate                            Latte
  Kapu Tī                        Cup of tea

  And your milk type…
  Miraka kirimi               Full fat milk
  Miraka kore kirimi       Trim
  Miraka Pīni                  Soy
  Miraka kokonati          Coconut

  Check out this handy chart for more information.

   

  Hub display

  While you’re at Eden ordering your kawhe, check out our Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori table display. 

   

  Polyfest

  Polyfest is also being held next week … check Facebook for details.

   

  …and more!

  During the week members from our Kaitohutohu Office will also engage with external stakeholders by running tikaka workshops for other organisations.

• Tertiary Precinct Consultation (September 3 2019)

  The Dunedin City Council will be seeking suggestions on how to develop streets in the heart of the university and polytechnic area.

  The DCC’s Tertiary Precinct Project aims to make it easier and more attractive for staff and students to travel around the area by bike, bus and foot.

  Feedback on the project, which covers Dundas Street, Albany Street, St David Street, Union Street East, Clyde Street, Forth Street, Riego Street, Harbour Terrace, and Anzac Avenue can be given from Monday 16 September to Wednesday 23 October.

  Priority streets the partners have agreed on are Union Street East, Clyde Street, Harbour Terrace, and Albany Street.

  The University of Otago Chief Operating Officer Stephen Willis says, "The selected streets are prioritised first as they’re heavily used by pedestrians and are the front door of our tertiary institutions".

  The cost of the project is $20 million, allocated in the DCC’s 10 Year Plan 2018 - 2028.

  DCC General Manager Infrastructure Services Simon Drew says, "We’re working in partnership with the University of Otago and the Otago Polytechnic to improve the vibrancy and atmosphere of the area, while celebrating its special character and enhancing road safety."

  The renewal of underground stormwater and wastewater pipes is included in the upgrade. This work will cost about $11 million and is budgeted separately from the project cost in the 10 Year Plan.

  Otago Polytechnic Chief Operating Officer Philip Cullen says, "This project will help to reduce our carbon footprint and contribute to our sustainability".

  An online interactive mapping tool and a survey will be available to give feedback. Information sites will be available at the university and polytechnic. Nearby suggestion boxes will enable people to share ideas about the project.
  
  

  Have your say 

  Visit the display boards in the Hub atrium 
  16 – 29 September
  14 – 23 October
  The boards will be set up down the far end of The Hub.

  Visit the display boards at Art School (P Block)
  16 – 29 September
  14 – 23 October

  Students can attend the OPSA information sessions 

  • Tuesday 17 September, 12noon – 1pm
  • Tuesday 24 September, 12noon – 1pm

  For more information and to give feedback see www.dunedin.govt.nz/tertiaryprecinct.

   

   

   

   

• Thanks for breakfast! (September 3 2019)

  The Executive Leadership Team sizzled at yesterday's Spring Breakfast, serving up a piping hot meal for staff as we welcomed spring. 

  Thank you to the ELT and to Functions and Catering for donning your hairnets and cooking the breakfast, which was just one of the many staff benefits we enjoy here at Otago Polytechnic. 

  Photos by Andy Thompson. 

• Students reflect on Shanghai experience (September 2 2019)

  A group of Otago Polytechnic students have expanded their horizons courtesy of scholarships from a Shanghai tertiary education institution.

  Bill Hendry, Whitney Kirk, Danielle Philippa, Hannah Rasmussen, Mary Dewe, Lucy Mayne and Tatyana King-Finau recently returned from the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, where they spent four weeks engaged in a variety of classes and cultural activities.
  
  Bachelor of Culinary Arts student Whitney Kirk says Shanghai was her first overseas trip, which made the experience all the more “amazing”.

  “As part of my elective, I’m studying group theory, so being part of a contingent that was quite different to most other people in Shanghai was a real eye-opener.”

  Bachelor of Applied Management student Danielle Philippa says that although she’s no stranger to international travel, the opportunity to connect with other students from around the world was invaluable.

  “I feel some of the connections I have made will last a long time – perhaps throughout my life.”

  Bachelor of Design (Communication) student Hannah Rasmussen says coping with Mandarin was more an opportunity than a barrier.

  “I did a lot of learning over there. Mandarin is now a real passion and I’m working hard at it. Having worked overseas, I know how important it is to have ability in another language.

  “I reckon more than half of the things I learned in China happened outside the classroom, in informal settings.

  “Every student should do this. It’s a great way to break down stereotypes of cultures, too.”

  Graduate Diploma of Applied Management student Bill Hendry says his mind has been opened to other cultures as well as the opportunities that personal growth and transformation bring.

  “The experience has expanded my idea of what is possible.”

  Otago Polytechnic fosters a wide range of overseas partnerships to provide opportunities for its students to prepare for the global workforce. Such experiences also greatly enhance their personal and professional capabilities.

  Studying abroad can help students creatively solve problems by applying familiar concepts to unfamiliar situations. These include looking at a project from different perspectives, learning from people whose value systems may be different, and being flexible and adaptable.

  In a recent survey, employers ranked the following as the top four employability skills for tertiary graduates:

  • ability to communicate verbally with persons inside and outside the organization
  • ability to make decisions and solve problems
  • ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work
  • ability to obtain and process information.

  Read more about Otago Polytechnic’s International partnerships

   

• Campus expansion plans gain consent (November 19 2019)

  Plans to expand Otago Polytechnic's Central Campus have received approval from the Central Otago District Council.

  Construction of new facilities at our Bannockburn Rd site are on track to begin next year.

  The project would not be affected by proposed national polytechnic reforms, campus manager Kelly Gay says.

  The council's hearing panel has granted land use consent for the polytechnic to erect buildings at its Bannockburn Rd site, on the outskirts of Cromwell.

  Otago Polytechnic has proposed a four-stage development to expand the Bannockburn Rd facilities and relocate some operations from its Cromwell site there.

  The plan includes the construction of a new cooking and hospitality building, incorporating a retail cafe/restaurant; a retail outlet for the existing brewery; a distillery, comprising a teaching facility and retail outlet; new propagation facilities, including retail sales of plants grown on site; and other new student learning spaces and administration areas.

  Otago Polytechnic has sought a 10-year, "flexible consent" because of the staged nature of the project.

  Read the full story on the Otago Daily Times website. 

• OP at forefront of proposed UN Regional Centre of Expertise for Sustainability (July 17 2019)

  Otago Polytechnic is leading the charge to establish a United Nations Centre of Expertise for Sustainability in Otago – RCE Otago.
  
  OP has embedded the concept of sustainable practice through our curriculum and campus development over the past decade. We are currently coordinating the proposed newest addition to the United Nations’ stable of sustainability expertise.
  
  There are 166 Regional Centres of Excellence (RCE) around the world. Each focuses on select United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs), of which there are 17 in total.
  
  The proposed RCE-Otago will focus on the following issues, all aligned to the SDGs:
  
  • Quality education
  • Water quality, availability, use and efficiency
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Sustainable cities and towns
  • Partnerships and collaboration.
  
  Within those, RCE-Otago will tackle issues important to our region such as high-quality learning experiences, waste production and management, disaster management, water management and sustainable horticulture, tourism and agriculture.
  
  

  “We should find out in mid-December if we’ve been successful in becoming a Regional Centre of Expertise,” Barry Law, Centre Director, says.
  
  

  “You have to demonstrate you’ve got partnerships in place, major projects planned that will benefit the UN’s sustainable development goals, a strong and collaborative governance structure and, finally, an ability to fund your working group projects. We already have some great partners.”

  
  All the Mayors of Otago have agreed to take part, as has the University of Otago, Kāi Tahu, Otago Regional Council, Chamber of Commerce, Naylor Love, Contact Energy, Queenstown Resort College, Untouched World Foundation, Tourism Industry Aotearoa, Wanaka Tourism, and many other businesses and groups, including four secondary schools.
  
  “One great thing about applying for an RCE is that it’s driven by local people deciding that they want a sustainable future,” he says. “Collectively, we are a group of people in a region facing potential climate change, water and tourism issues. We are a hub for education – so why wouldn’t we want to drive this and have some control over our future?
  
  “Another great thing about our RCE is that it could double as a Centre of Vocational Excellence – as proposed by the Government under its reform of vocational education. If we became a CoVE for sustainability, we could help strengthen and support other education providers in Aotearoa.”

   

• Student Health - Semester Break (July 11 2019)

  Student Health is closed for appointments on the following days:

  Thursday 11th July

  Friday 12th July

  Thursday 18th July

  Friday 19th July

   

  For any health advice over these days students can ring Healthline on 0800 611 116

  For any urgent medical care over these days students could go to their family GP or to the Dunedin Urgent Drs at 18 Filleul St between the hours of 8am - 10pm.

  Outside of those hours for urgent medical care they would need to go to ED at Dunedin Public Hospital.

  Many thanks

  Student Health

• Otago Polytechnic introduces Heavy Automotive Engineering programme (June 10 2019)

  Fans of big rigs rejoice! 

  Otago Polytechnic is opening a new avenue in its automotive programmes next month – a New Zealand Certificate in Heavy Automotive Engineering.

  The Level 4 programme is the result of close consultation with local industry and meets an acknowledged skills shortage.

  “It’s a win-win,” says Hamish Miller, Otago Polytechnic Automotive Programme Manager.

  “It gives learners a really strong grounding. In turn, that means it is great for employers looking for quality staff.”

  Chief Executive Phil Ker says Otago Polytechnic is pleased to be meeting the needs of the heavy transport industry.

  “The introduction of this programme is a good case study of our responsiveness.

  “It demonstrates that although the Vocational Education system may have some challenges, Otago Polytechnic continues to grow its offerings and, in doing so, strengthens industry and other organisations in the region.”

  The New Zealand Certificate in Heavy Automotive Engineering has strands in Road Transport, Plant and Equipment, Agricultural Equipment, and Materials Handling.

  It is structured in the same format as Otago Polytechnic’s light vehicle/auto electrical programmes, which have been highly successfully in training apprentices to meet industry needs in the Otago region.

  Otago Polytechnic is also expanding its New Zealand Certificate in Automotive Engineering
  (Level 3) (Pre-Trade) programme to offer increased content training in heavy as well as light automotive engineering training.

  Both of these programmes will be offered from July 2019 in our newly renovated premises in Donald St, Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin.

  HT Driver Training

  In addition to these, Otago Polytechnic plans to offer Heavy Transport Driver License* training from September.

  “The trucking industry is growing and, at the moment, a lot of companies are looking for drivers, too,” Hamish says.

  “So as well as training people to be HT mechanics, we are offering HT driver training, which means learners have a range of pathways once they complete their programmes with us.

  “This flexibility is important. It means an employer can take on someone for a driving role knowing that person also has the requisite skills and training to move into a workshop – or vice-versa.

  “And the people working on trucks have to be able to drive the vehicle anyway. For example, they might have to test-drive it before and/or after as well as get it into the workshop.”

  Read more about our New Zealand Certificate in Heavy Automotive Engineering (Level 4) as well as our apprenticeship pathways

  Check out the Otago Daily Times article

• Designing the Innovation Engine (March 31 2019)

  We need your help. Otago Polytechnic is rightly proud of our innovative culture.  We value our ability to try new things - from something quite small to new qualifications, pedagogies or learning environments/spaces (and beyond). 

  Let's make sure that our culture of innovation survives the reforms.  

  What do we need to see in the post-Reforms system to make sure that we can continue to innovate? 

  We seek to inform the reforms by exploring the conditions and structures that have led to innovation in education.  We are asking for you to describe your experiences of innovation in education.

  Your contributions will help develop a model for the future of educational innovation. 

  We are interested in hearing from any past and present staff of the ITP sector.  We want to be inclusive of all educational innovations, so if in doubt the answer is “Yes” – your incomplete innovation, your small not very innovative innovation, your huge scary innovation, your innovation that was not particularly successful…you get the picture, yes it counts.

  We would be grateful if you could complete this survey by the 15th of April. The survey has two pages and will probably take about 10 minutes to complete.   And please share with your national networks. 

  You can complete the survey here.

  Thanks
  Hamish Smith and Samuel Mann