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Welcome to Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation student work showcase. This site showcases our student's best architecture and design work in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation student work showcase

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Sophie Mertz Archi 212

"Commonplace?" materializes a desire that seeks to highlight the letter 'a'. As one of the vowels, 'a' is often forgotten in the conscious mind, much like the carpets underneath your feet. 

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a, Aa–Z! : a typographic installation

Using charcoal to study the movement of the body.

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Study of the human body

Whakapapa, the ontological and epistemological influence it has, guides me to honour the whakaaro of my tūpuna in the way I work as a designer, in order to create better futures for my mokopuna. This sets me up to create meaningful connections and forge strong, equitable, and impactful solutions, that design with people, not for them. Whakapapa forces us to think in ways that are in contradiction with western intuition. As designers, it requires us to shift away from being the perpetuators of resource exploitation and promulgators of mass consumerism. Instead, it requires us to be kaitiaki of the future.

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Anna Sophie Mertz

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Other Projects

a, Aa–Z! : a typographic installation

Study of the human body

Whakapapa in CoDesign

Other Projects

a, Aa–Z! : a typographic installation

Study of the human body

Whakapapa in CoDesign