Rebecca Kiddle

Contributor Profile

Rebecca has a background in urban design and urbanism. Her work focuses on Māori identity and placemaking/placekeeping in Aotearoa New Zealand urban settings and the nexus between community creation, social processes, and urban design. She holds a Marsden entitled Making Aotearoa Places: The Politics and Practice of Urban Māori Place-making and was an Associate Investigator (now Kāhui member) on another focused on Nature-based Urban design for Wellbeing and Adaptation in Oceania. She is the co-author of the award-winning, best seller – Imagining Decolonisation and co-editor of the Our Voices series with First Nations academics and architects - Kevin O’Brien and Patrick Luugigyoo Stewart.