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About Generation Kāinga
‘Generation Kāinga (Gen K): Building a regenerative and resilient Aotearoa’ is a kaupapa Māori four-year research project led by Pūrangakura, hosted by Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi and funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Endeavour grant.
Gen K investigates rangatahi Māori lived realities of home and housing, and their aspirations for kāinga, with the overall aim to make Aotearoa ‘the best place in the world to live’.
This project is co-led by Prof. Jenny Lee-Morgan and Maia Ratana and brings together a large multi-disciplinary kaupapa Māori research team of both rangatahi and pakeke, working across critical areas that shape regenerative, rangatahi-centred kāinga. A defining aspect of the Gen K research design is the inclusion of rangatahi as co-researchers, strengthening Māori research capability and ensuring the project is future focussed and transformative for rangatahi and their whānau.
Whakarauoratia te Ūkaipō: Our be-loved places of belonging
Whakarauoratia te ūkaipō hei oranga mō te rangatahi
Whakaūngia te mana motuhake hei oranga mō te whānau
Revitalise places of home and belonging for the well-being of our rangatahi
Affirm our mana motuhake for the well-being of our whānau.
The theme of this conference derives from the above whakatauāki that has emerged from the Gen K project. The conference theme ‘Whakarauoratia te Ūkaipō: Our be-loved places of belonging’ captures the desires voiced by rangatahi through the research to strengthen and develop connections to kāinga as nurturing places of belonging.
More than 100 rangatahi interviewed and 1000 online surveys were completed by rangatahi Māori. Their expressions of yearning for ‘home’ were multi-faceted, diverse and insightful. Central to this was the concept of ūkaipō, alongside a strong emphasis on the agency of rangatahi and their whānau to make change to fully exercise their mana motuhake.
