This article shares good practice lessons relating to the running of an immersion studio designed to introduce planning students to working with an indigenous Māori community in New Zealand. The indigenous tribes of Aotearoa New Zealand are collectively known as Māori and represent the indigenous inhabitants who occupied New Zealand for hundreds of years before European contact (Fleras & Spoonley, 1999). In 1840, Māori chiefs and representatives of the British Crown signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Treaty of Waitangi which are the foundational documents of Aotearoa New Zealand. These treaties set out rights, obligations and responsibilities between Māori and the Crown that, in part, have been incorporated into New Zealand's statutory planning framework.
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