This kaupapa toi (creative project) aims to establish a campus quadrant with surrounding buildings that celebrate the cultural identity of the EIT | Te Pūkenga Hawke’s Bay campus through contemporary Māori, Pacific and New Zealand design. This initiative reflects a strong commitment to integrating indigenous knowledge and visual culture into modern academic spaces, fostering an enhanced sense of being centred to a place of learning for both students and staff. Te Papa o Kiwa – the landing place of Kiwa, provides a central point of orientation that connects to reception, information, enrolment, library, learning support and hospitality services. Like the ancestral Pacific navigator, Kiva or Kiwa – students, staff and visitors will be enabled to find their way to other campus faculties that radiate from the quad.
