Projects
Connecting Rangatahi
Developing a school-based programme of voyages for rangatahi to discover and experience Te Whau River
Te Hono
Working with Athfield Architects on a new community hub and library for Te Whau / Avondale
FLUID CITY
A roaming installation art–science collaboration that aimed to foster awareness and understanding of the water issues in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
THE AVONDALE SUNDAY MARKET
Studying Auckland’s largest market, a place of super-diverse social and economic exchange
Haere MAI KI WAI
TE WHAU
A guided kayak tour focused on building relationships in support of improving the environment in and around Te Whau river
Flotilla Whau
An annual spectacle on Te Whau river which draws attention to an important yet overlooked waterway and allows people to enjoy their local river
Making Ways
An ongoing research project on alternative architecture practice in Aotearoa
Muddy Urbanism
An ongoing urban research project on the future of Te Whau river in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Make Believe
A sequence of projects developed by HOOPLA to help Auckland Council staff and local residents imagine the potential of a new urban park
Park for a Day
An eight hour ‘proto-park’ installation in collaboration with the Suburban Floral Association (SFA) which hosted a rich and performative conversation with elderly Chinese new migrants
COME JOIN THE CIRCUS
Come Join the Circus was a site-specific ‘performance walk’ exploring children’s experience of their town center on display
Here Now
Here Now: Re-imagining New Lynn was a three-day festival of large-scale installations occupying vacant shops in the New Lynn town center
Guided Walks
HOOPLA Guided Walks is an ongoing strategic project in which we collaborate with others to host guided walks around the Whau area
Field Day
Field Day was a one-day-only project for Te Whau Arts Festival which saw HOOPLA co-hosting the public in small, but special, local clubrooms
Bird In Hand
Bird in Hand was a one-day-only newspaper made by HOOPLA for the Auckland Heritage Festival. Given out free, it prompted thinking about the changing nature of places and possible future trajectories
Signals and Markers
Signals and Markers was a temporary river side installation for the Rosebank Art Walk, recalling the former land and river-scape along Te Whau river