Increasingly, our built and natural environments are becoming hybrids of real and digital entities where objects, buildings and landscapes are linked online in websites, blogs and texts. In the case of Aotearoa New Zealand, modern lifestyles have put Māori Indigenous oral narratives at risk of being lost in a world dominated by text and digital elements. Intangible values, transmitted orally from generation to generation, provide a sense of identity and community to Indigenous Māori as they relate and experience the land based on cultural, spiritual, emotion, physical and social values. Retaining the storytelling environment through the use of augmented reality, this article extends the biophysical attributes of landscape through embedded imagery and auditory information. By engaging with Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, a design approach has been developed to illustrate narratives through different media, in a way that encourages a deeper and broader bicultural engagement with landscape.
<p><b>Increasingly our built and natural environments are becoming a hybrid of real and digital entities where objects, buildings and landscapes are linked online websites, blogs and texts. In the case of Aotearoa/New Zealand, modern lifestyles have put oral narratives at risk of being lost in a world dominated by written text. Intangible values, transmitted orally from generation to generation, in response to the interaction with nature and history, provide a sense of identity and community to indigenous Māori as they relate and experience the land based on cultural, spiritual, emotional, physical and social values. New technologies have the potential to reconnect these oral narratives with both the indigenous Māori, but also a wider public in the context of high density.</b></p> <p>This thesis extends the biophysical template of a landscape with virtual objects or information in truly mobile settings, providing a storytelling environment which is specific to a location. It engages with the narratives of real-world objects that simulate people’s imagination of a hidden past using augmented reality. The methodology adopts a design-led collaborative participatory approach by engaging with Ngā Kahungunu ki Wairarapa to create and visualise narratives through sketches, photographs, and computer imagery. It then tests the visual experiences and explores design decisions by mapping different context conditions at different scales and the representation of the narratives revealed. The use of augmented reality in landscape architecture allows for a layering of history while retaining the existing landscape. In this way it enhances and modernises Māori oral narratives and encourages a deeper and broader engagement with landscape, promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity through the use of mobile augmented reality.</p>
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