This seminar is hosted by Te Pātaka Research Group https://ecs.wgtn.ac.nz/Groups/TePataka/

Abstract: Indigenous connection to place is an important part of Indigenous identity around the world. but with increasing numbers of Indigenous people living in diasporic spaces this connection to place is necessarily changing. Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) and other digital technologies provide interesting ways in which Indigenous peoples might be able to proactively use these technologies to maintain traditional connections to place in an active way which enable us, as Indigenous peoples, to use different digital technologies to support us, as one particular Indigenous group, to maintain, revitalize, and even rethink how we can best continue our traditional practices in the modern environment we all now inhabit. The goal being, if we understand how better to do this, is to help us adapt different digital technologies to our world but also possibly provide general schema and practices that other Indigenous groups may be able to use in their own work.

Manuhuia Barcham (Ngāti Hori, Ngāti Hineiwaerea) works and researches in the field of Interaction Design - https://www.manuhuiabarcham.com/