TY - JOUR TI - Adapting traditional healing values and beliefs into therapeutic cultural environments for health and well-being AU - Marques, B. AU - Freeman, C. AU - Carter, L. T2 - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health AB - Although research has long established that interaction with the natural environment is associated with better overall health and well-being outcomes, the Western model mainly focuses on treating symptoms. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Indigenous Māori have long demonstrated significantly more negative health outcomes than non-Māori. Little research has examined the causes compared to Western populations or the role of the natural environment in health outcomes for Māori. An exploration of rongoā Māori (traditional healing system) was conducted to ascertain the importance of landscape in the process of healing. Eight rongoā healers or practitioners took part in semi-structured narrative interviews from June to November 2020. Transcribed interviews were analysed using an interpretative phenomenological analysis and Kaupapa Māori techniques. The findings show how rongoā is underpinned by a complex set of cultural values and beliefs, drawing from the connection to wairua (spirit), tinana (body), tikanga and whakaora (customs and healing), rākau (plants), whenua (landscape) and whānau (family). Incorporating such constructs into the landscape can foster our understanding of health and well-being and its implications for conceptualising therapeutic environments and a culturally appropriate model of care for Māori and non-Māori communities. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DO - 10.3390/ijerph19010426 VL - 19 IS - 1 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122302904&doi=10.3390%2fijerph19010426&partnerID=40&md5=d768a4923224e58bf4e9a803b644ad4b DB - Scopus KW - Landscape architecture KW - Mātauranga Māori KW - landscape architecture ER - TY - JOUR TI - Conceptualising therapeutic environments through culture, indigenous knowledge and landscape for health and well-being AU - Marques, B. AU - Freeman, C. AU - Carter, L. AU - Zari, M.P. T2 - Sustainability (Switzerland) AB - Academic research has long established that interaction with the natural environment is associated with better overall health outcomes. Notably, the area of therapeutic environments has been borne out of the recognition of this critical relationship, but much of this research comes from a specific Western perspective. In Aotearoa-New Zealand, Māori (the Indigenous people of the land) have long demonstrated significantly worse health outcomes than non-Māori. Little research has examined the causes compared to Western populations and the role of the natural environment in health outcomes for Māori. The present study aimed to explore the relationship between Māori culture, landscape and the connection to health and well-being. Eighteen Māori pāhake (older adults) and kaumātua (elders) took part in semi-structured interviews carried out as focus groups, from June to November 2020. Transcribed interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis and kaupapa Māori techniques. We found five overarching and interrelated key themes related to Indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori) that sit within the realm of therapeutic environments, culture and landscape. A conceptual framework for Therapeutic Cultural Environments (TCE) is proposed in terms of the contribution to our understanding of health and well-being and its implications for conceptualising therapeutic environments and a culturally appropriate model of care for Māori communities. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DO - 10.3390/su13169125 VL - 13 IS - 16 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85113793600&doi=10.3390%2fsu13169125&partnerID=40&md5=06d825f2141e593181c8213f3e7927e0 DB - Scopus KW - Indigenous knowledge KW - Landscape architecture KW - Mātauranga Māori ER - TY - JOUR TI - Fostering Landscape Identity Through Participatory Design With Indigenous Cultures of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand AU - Marques, B. AU - Grabasch, G. AU - McIntosh, J. T2 - Space and Culture DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DO - 10.1177/1206331218783939 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 37 EP - 52 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049630076&doi=10.1177%2f1206331218783939&partnerID=40&md5=deac0015d7817b9777fb25ad70617005 DB - Scopus KW - Maori KW - indigenous culture KW - landscape architecture ER - TY - JOUR TI - Cross-cultural Rongoā healing: a landscape response to urban health AU - Marques, B. AU - McIntosh, J. AU - Hall, C. T2 - Landscape Research AB - The growing interest in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous worldviews has refocused attention on land and resource management systems as well as local knowledge of flora and fauna. As Western medicine often ignores the spiritual and mental intricacies of health, finding a balance between Western and Non-Western knowledge is vital to creating a culturally and ecologically responsive environment. This paper addresses the growing interest in TEK as a catalyst for urban landscape regeneration by incorporating the biophysical dimensions of place and environment. It explores the proposed design of a Māori Rongoā learning garden in a public space in the city of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. By identifying opportunities in designing plant collections and issues for plant harvesting, this paper aids the discourse on potential cultural collisions and strategies for both reconnecting with Indigenous people but also connecting non-Indigenous people to the natural surroundings. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 DO - 10.1080/01426397.2023.2230909 VL - 48 IS - 8 SP - 1091 EP - 1107 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85164206285&doi=10.1080%2f01426397.2023.2230909&partnerID=40&md5=60bf25acdb5304059c3fb97b06de2dd9 DB - Scopus KW - Indigenous knowledge KW - Māori KW - landscape architecture ER - TY - JOUR TI - Whispering tales: using augmented reality to enhance cultural landscapes and Indigenous values AU - Marques, B. AU - McIntosh, J. AU - Carson, H. T2 - AlterNative AB - Increasingly, our built and natural environments are becoming hybrids of real and digital entities where objects, buildings and landscapes are linked online in websites, blogs and texts. In the case of Aotearoa New Zealand, modern lifestyles have put Māori Indigenous oral narratives at risk of being lost in a world dominated by text and digital elements. Intangible values, transmitted orally from generation to generation, provide a sense of identity and community to Indigenous Māori as they relate and experience the land based on cultural, spiritual, emotion, physical and social values. Retaining the storytelling environment through the use of augmented reality, this article extends the biophysical attributes of landscape through embedded imagery and auditory information. By engaging with Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, a design approach has been developed to illustrate narratives through different media, in a way that encourages a deeper and broader bicultural engagement with landscape. © The Author(s) 2019. DA - 2019/// PY - 2019 DO - 10.1177/1177180119860266 VL - 15 IS - 3 SP - 193 EP - 204 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85068605679&doi=10.1177%2f1177180119860266&partnerID=40&md5=691c0c937d0b3e64011edaad53908a7b DB - Scopus KW - Indigenous knowledge KW - landscape architecture ER - TY - JOUR TI - Connecting Māori Youth and Landscape Architecture Students through Participatory Design AU - Rodgers, M. AU - Marques, B. AU - McIntosh, J. T2 - Architecture and Culture DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1080/20507828.2020.1768349 VL - 8 IS - 2 SP - 309 EP - 327 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85087494813&doi=10.1080%2f20507828.2020.1768349&partnerID=40&md5=16e037123a9696158c0248e026013dfa DB - Scopus KW - landscape architecture KW - participatory design ER -