Scoria Field: Volcanic Imaginaries of Tamaki Makaurau

How might a volcanic material imaginary — particularly of the basalt scoria field that underlies Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand provide ways for people to see themselves collectively? Our surroundings shape sense identity, and spatial interactions organize our experience city. ’Scoria Field’ is design research inquiry into place-making; investigating potential experiences landscape produce public space along coast Takapuna, on Tāmaki’s North Shore. Through imaginative engagement with rock, this explores abstract tangible unfold narrative matter. practice drawing artisanal explorations, engages geographical, cultural, social aspects Makaurau. The project culminates proposal refurbish an existing car park as offers new way each other collectively by engaging their terrain.