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About Generation Kāinga
‘Generation Kāinga: 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 Endeavour, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
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
Reactivate our responsibilities to our ūkaipō for the flourishing of our rangatahi
Remaining steadfast to our mana motuhake for our whānau to thrive
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 connections and develop connections to kāinga as nurturing places of belonging.
Across more than 200 interviews and 1000 online surveys completed by rangatahi Māori, the ways in which they want to articulate this yearning for ‘home’ was multi-faceted, diverse and insightful. The focus on ūkaipō went hand in hand with an emphasis on the agency of rangatahi and their whānau to make change and more fully exercise mana motuhake.
