The Critics

Professor Jenny Lee-Morgan 

Jenny Lee-Morgan is Professor of Māori Research, responsible for leading Unitec’s Strategic Focus initiative on Māori Research.

Professor Lee-Morgan is co-leading Te Manaaki o te Marae: The role of marae in the Auckland housing crisis; a significant Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua - Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities project funded by the National Science Challenge. The kaupapa Māori research project is based at Te Puea Memorial Marae and includes a focus on the work of the Manaaki Tāngata team led by Hurimona Dennis on rehousing homeless whānau.

Professor Lee-Morgan was most recently Deputy Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute (TKRI) at the University of Waikato. TKRI was the inaugural recipient of the Health Research Council of New Zealand’s Te Tohu Rapuora award, which recognises a significant contribution to Māori health excellence and leadership at the Royal Society Te Apārangi Awards October this year.

Prior to her role at TKRI, Jenny was the Head of School of Te Puna Wānanga, the school of Māori Education at The University of Auckland.  Jenny has also worked in the community, tertiary and business sectors with a focus on teaching and learning and Kaupapa Māori research. Her doctoral study ‘Ako: Pūrākau of Māori Teachers’ Work in Secondary Schools’ (Lee, 2008) was seminal in the methodological development of pūrākau as narrative inquiry. Her forthcoming co-edited book with Dr Joann Archibald and Dr Jason Santolo is entitled Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology. The New Zealand section will extend on her initial pūrākau work, and is due to be published by Zed Books next year.

Olivia Haddon 

Olivia Haddon is a Māori Design Specialist at Auckland Council. She supports Mana Whenua champions Māori design, and Te Ao Māori in urban kaitiakitanga and specifically works to incorporate Māori design thinking into council’s urban design and planning.

Olivia has a background in Māori art, planning and urban design. Olivia’s design work and research investigates indigenous innovation, Māori urbanism, māori design principles, qualities and outcomes. Which is when design is inclusive of indigenous knowledge and mixes old ways of knowing, being and doing with new modes, technologies, and media to have transformational urban social and enviromental outcomes of mutual benefit for all.

Olivia is from Pakiri, and is from Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti wai and Ngati Runanui iwi.

Juan Molina

Juan Molina is a senior architect and urban designer Yong and Richards.  Juan is a graduate of the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona and a Spanish Registered Architect,  member of the Collegi Oficial d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. Juan was taught by luminaries, Enric Miralles and Ignasi de Solà-Morales and worked with Viaplana and Pinon on the early days of the ‘Plazas duras’ in Barcelona. He has over 20 years of experience as a practicing architect in New Zealand and Spain, projects include the master planning of Britomart with Cheshire Architects and designing a NZIA award winning projects with CPRW Fisher.

Orson Waldock

Orson Waldock is Senior Urban Designer alongside a growing design team at HLC.

Based at HLC's Hobsonville Point Office, Orson is provising specialist Landscape Architecture and Urban Design input on HLC's urban redevelopment projects including 25,000 new homes across Auckland.

While working across a number of communities Orson is focused on the management of the urban renewal within the Tāmaki project, working alongside the asset owners, Tāmaki Regeneration Limited.