Background and people

Whakapapa

Ko wai au
I te taha o toku papa

Ko Titirangi te Maunga
Ko Uawanui-a-Ruamatua te Awa

Ko Horouta te Waka
Ko Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti te Marae

Ko Ruakapanga te Whare
Ko Ngati Porou te Iwi

Ko Harmony Repia toku ingoa. 

Figure 1: Uawa

Harmony Repia

Kia ora, my name is Harmony Repia. Nō Tūranganui-a-Kiwa ahau. I am a 2018 MDes graduate from Ngā Pae Māhutonga – the School of Design at Massey University College of Creative Arts.

I am interested in community projects that benefit Māori and indigenous people through research or design projects.

Educated as visual communicator, I thoroughly enjoy working collaboratively and can apply my design skills in a variety of areas including discovering user insights, building empathy, and putting people at the centre of design. 

Above is my pepeha, which is translates as: 

My geneology on my father’s side
Titirangi is my mountain
Uawanui-a-Ruamatua is my river
Horouta is my canoe
Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti is my Marae
Ruakapanga is my ancestral house
Ngāti Porou is my iwi
My name is Harmony Repia

SeeHarmony's Linkedin profile

This project was supervised by the following staff from the School of Design at Massey University College of Creative Arts:

Jo Bailey

Jo is a Lecturer in Visual Communication at the School of Design, Massey University in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and a PhD candidate in Science and Society at Victoria University of Wellington. Her PhD research is using design as a process to explore ways to help scientist-communicators user-centre their communication. As a designer her practice focuses on systems for facilitating access to information.

j.bailey@massey.ac.nz
makinggood.design
@jo_bailey

Tristam Sparks

Tristam Sparks is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Design within the College of Creative Arts at Massey University. His research interests include the effect of technology on sociocultural systems and science communication. To date this has focussed on democratised crisis management in the event of a natural disaster.

Prior to his recent practice as a consultant designer, Tristam led User Experience at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London where he introduced human centred design and cross channel communication practices. While living in Europe, Tristam was able to exercise his passion for science subjects attending invitation only events at NASA, the ESA and CNES. He is a keen photographer and has also professionally practiced in motion graphics and videography.

t.sparks@massey.ac.nz
@tristamsparks

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