(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S)

Associate Professor Tobias Danielmeier is Head of School at the School of Architecture at Otago Polytechnic. His research and professional practice investigate the interface between industrial architecture and spaces for hospitality. His work focuses on how processes and production flows can be improved spatially, how buildings aid and optimise energy and water use, use of solar active and passive strategies, creation of positive and lasting visitor experiences, as well as place and corporate identity expressed through our built environment. He has been a faculty lead for Victoria University of Wellington’s Solar Decathlon entry. Tobias has worked at Bolles+Wilson as well as RMA. Many of his architectural designs have gained national and international awards in the disciplines of architecture, design and engineering. Tobias is member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, Green Building Council, Architectural Designers of New Zealand, Bund Deutscher Baumeister, the Designers Institute of New Zealand, the Building Technology Educators’ Society, and Bund Deutscher Önologen. He regularly acts as juror on architecture and heritage competitions and is on the editorial board of the International Journal for Architecture, Arts and Applications. Tobias has a wealth of postgraduate supervision and frequently acts as an examiner.

Andrea Farminer PhD is a lecturer at the School of Architecture at Otago Polytechnic. She is also a practicing heritage consultant and Conservation Advisor for Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (Otago Southland Area). Her thirty years of heritage experience extends from field archaeology, buildings archaeology and built heritage conservation in the UK through to practicing as a built heritage consultant in New Zealand. Andrea’s research interests (both published and professional) include the conservation of industrial and domestic heritage sites. Her PhD from the University of Otago, NZ in cultural geography focused on understanding the fluid development of meaning and value in people’s relationships with their recreational places, through the lens of place-making, using a hermeneutic epistemology and thematic analysis method. Andrea is a member of ICOMOS New Zealand, the Building Limes Forum (UK & NZ), and the Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society (UK). She was formerly Vice-President of the New Zealand Archaeological Association and a full member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (UK).

Ron Bull is of Kai Tahu / Kati Mamoe and Waitaha descent from Oraka, Colac Bay on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand. His whanau / family connections come from a “Titi” whanau and he participates in the annual harvest of Sooty Shearwaters from the off shore islands. One of his major passions is food, from harvesting and preparation right through to sharing and feasting. In particular, how these play a part in the formation of narrative which informs identity and practice. He is a foundation member of the Kaihaukai Art Collective which has shown nationally and internationally including recently at Te Papa Tongarewa, The National Museum, Wellington and at the Asian Pacific Triennially in Brisbane. Ron has a passion for education and in particular, locating knowledge systems within landscape, in order to create identity which ultimately informs practice. His Masters of Professional Practice used Roland Barthes essay from “From Work to Text “ to analyse “traditional” knowledge transference systems and how these are linked to place. He currently holds of the position of Tumuaki Whakaako at Otago Polytechnic and is responsible for embedding indigenous knowledge into all curriculum areas.