Kawakawa – Macropiper excelsum

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INTRODUCE:

A true gift from Mother nature, Kawakawa is a plant that we respect and honour. It is aptly known as “the pharmacy of the forest” and “the plant of the heart” due to its broad range of medicinal uses both internally and externally, its heart-shaped leaves and tonic effect on our cardiovascular system, and for sacred curative and protective uses in Rongoā – the traditional Maori system of healing.

SITE:

Kawakawa is a ubiquitous native shrub that is hard to miss if you are strolling in a lowland forest or coastal walkway throughout the North Island or upper half of the South Island. The deep green and yellow leaves are usually dotted with ragged holes due to it being the favoured host plant of the New Zealand Looper moth, and during the months of January and February, the female plants have fleshy, orange fruiting spikes that are a food source for native birds. The leaves, fruit and bark of this humble, health-giving plant all impart medicinal properties.

USE:

Kawakawa shrubs grow abundantly around New Zealand. This health-giving gift from nature is ideal to use as a refreshing tonic tea on a daily basis, or as a treat.

The benefits of drinking fresh kawakawa tea include:
Helping digestive problems, assisting urinary tract health, anti-inflammatory properties, cleansing the blood and detoxification.

About Kawakawa

Kawakawa – Piper excelsum

When I start doing native plants which there has question surround me. How many people who living in NZ know about native plants and native tea story. So, I start doing some small interview in Uni.

1. R. Half Maori and half of Europe

R knows a lot about native plants and can write a name for it. Because her parents teach her that knowledge and use it. She told me Kawakawa, Manuka and Harakeke can find in Uni.

2.RE. 8% Maori blood

RE don’t know too much native plants name and those plants story. Even she studies some Maori language at high school.

3.O. No Maori blood

O just know Manuka and fern. She doesn’t know Manuka can make tea. Although her mother is gardener, they haven’t talked too much about this.

4. P. Germany

P lives in NZ for about 10 years. She just knows Manuka trees, because she’s home garden have Manuka trees.

Much of Wellington’s land environment that has been identified as acutely threatened sits within the built urban and rural areas. The majority of this land is privately owned. Planning that protects and restores the indigenous remnants within these areas is critical to the survival of many species, mitigating the effects typical of human occupation.
Private gardens can greatly contribute to the overall biodiversity of the city through suitable plant choice and gardening practices. This not only provides a habitat for the plants themselves, but also creating an attractive environment for indigenous birds, lizards and insects.
People’s interaction with the natural environment also plays a key role; it is within the urban area, including Wellington’s central business district, that most people experience these interactions.
An awareness of the value of biodiversity in our own backyards can lead to an appreciation of the ecological importance of the wider landscape. In this context, social objectives can be as important as ecological outcomes. People in Wellington are increasingly aware of our indigenous biodiversity, but often this isn’t translated into action.

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Future

Our significant ecosystems are healthy and resilient to change. They are valued and no longer under threat from people’s actions. They contain a complex array of habitats and a large diversity of indigenous plants and animals thrive within them.
Urban and backyard conservation is at the centre of everything we do. We support and initiate restoration programmes across people’s backyards as well as within reserves.

New Zealand is characterised by a mix of native and introduced species, which make up the country’s total biodiversity. New Zealand has the highest number of introduced mammals of any country in the world and the second highest number of introduced birds. We also now have more introduced species of vascular plants in the wild than native ones, and this number is increasing all the time.
Many of the pressures on New Zealand’s indigenous biodiversity are from plants and animals that were introduced with the arrival of humans. These species were introduced into Wellington from other parts of
the country, as well as from overseas. However, these introduced species are neither all “good” nor all “bad”.
Introduced species can threaten our indigenous biodiversity through processes such as out-competition, hybridisation, predation, and browsing.

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Towards 2040: Smart Capital

Wellington Towards 2040: Smart Capital was developed in 2011 and focuses on the future development of Wellington over the next 30 years.

Towards 2040:

• builds on Wellington’s current strengths
• acknowledges the challenges the city faces now and over the medium to long term
• understands the changing role of cities
• is informed by Wellington’s communities
• is a statement of the future that we want for Wellington and how we believe this can best be achieved.

Goals

3. Eco-city

Developing Wellington as an eco-city involves a proactive response to environmental challenges. It recognizes the importance of Wellington taking an environmental leadership role as the capital city of clean and green New Zealand.

• Reference

Rethinking about small things to do. More available and suit for spatial design ways.

CHECKLIST:

Ask yourselves or work in pairs/teams with others from the class:

1)Have you enough preconditions? 

2)Are you making giant leaps towards your ultimate goal? If so add more stages/preconditions or reduce the time scale.

3)Over what time period does your TOC happen? Make this very clear on your TOC.

When we view things from the sustainability perspective, this need to reinvent the everyday increases enormously and the most elementary functions of daily experience appear as questions that are not easy to answer. What might life be like in a sustainable society?
» Sustainable Everyday attempts to answer this question by delineating possible scenarios and practicable alternatives. They are answers that, as you will see, refer to living strategies and forms of social innovation that are emerging from the capacity many people have to think and act inventively in their own everyday – imagining something that is not there, and finding a way to make it materialise.

-SUSTAINABLE EVERYDAY – Edizioni Ambiente

Precondition

As the population density increases, the government pays attention to economic development and ignores the urban greening development.

The resident population of Chongqing has a 30.75 million people and covers an area of 82,400 square kilometers. The green coverage rate is now around 27%. (NZ Trade-2018)

Audience

1. Residents. 2. A participatory citizen. People who think and understand independently- “universalism” and “self-direction”.

Vision

Air pollution is still going on for China. I hope to use co-design to shift the thinking of developers and governments to improve the living environment and air pollution to reach a livable city.

Livability has emerged as an important concept in the field of planning. It includes value communities and neighborhoods. –Enhance the unique characteristics of all communities by investing in healthy, safe, and walkable neighborhoods—rural, urban, or suburban (Tyce Herrman and Rebecca Lewis).

Theories of change

Through experiments at Sheffield University in the UK (each city creates a room where people can understand, debate and design the present and the future), I find that only a true understanding of one’s residents and habits can make sustainable improvements. A really good design is “people-oriented”, rather than a “utopia” urban design by a developer or government that unilaterally caters to international sustainability cases.

Participatory art is expected to provide an answer: a quick solution to the city’s ills (Cecilie, Sachs Olsen). Collecting residents’ views and ideas about the current green environment can solve problems faster and help the government to better move into a livable city.

Posture and Mindset

I am focusing on two small aspects from a big direction, a livable city. One is to improve the urban greening rate to change the future air pollution situation, and the other is to focus on the needs of residents to carry out greening. These two points are interrelated and can help to achieve the goals of a livable city in the future, and even develop more achievements.

New way of Designing

I hope that the public participation art will let the residents participate in the future green construction. Such urban design is “people-oriented”. An example is the work of Candy Cheng, called I Wish This Was which is a participatory public art project that explores the process of civic engagement. This gives me a lot of inspiration, I can change the way of using the media (APP) to get more the way people think, or the way they do social intervention.

Work Sited

Candy Chang. I Wish This Was，2010. http://candychang.com/work/i-wish-this-was/

Cecilie Sachs Olsen. Urban planning can be elitist, but art empowers people to reimagine their city’s future – artist’s view.

https://theconversation.com/urban-planning-can-be-elitist-but-artempowers-people-to-reimagine-their-citys-future-artists-view-111893Chongqing Municipality. New Zealand Foreign Affairs & Trade.

https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countries-and-regions/north-asia/china/new-zealandconsulate-general-chengdu-china/chongqing-municipality/

Tyce Herrman and Rebecca Lewis. What is Livability?

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