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Kathy Waghorn
Born1970
Ōmata, Taranaki Region, New Zealand
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
RMIT University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
AUT
Monash University

Kathy Waghorn (born 1970)[1] is a New Zealand architectural academic, artist and curator based in New Zealand.[2] She is the director of the social enterprise company HOOPLA.

Biography

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Waghorn is from Ōmata, a settlement in Taranaki, New Zealand.[3] She graduated with a BArch from the University of Auckland and in 2017 received a PhD from RMIT University for her thesis, "The practice of feeling for place: a compendium for an expanded Architecture".[4]

Waghorn is co-director with Nina Patel of HOOPLA, an Auckland social enterprise, established in 2013.[3] HOOPLA and Waghorn were recognised in 2023 at the A+W Dulux Awards winning the Munro Diversity Award which celebrates those who support diversity in the field of architecture.[5] The judges said: "Dr. Kathy Waghorn is a highly esteemed academic whose work over many decades has constantly challenged the ideas of practice and pedagogy."[6]

She has taught at the University of Auckland, then at Huri Te Ao, The School of Future Environments at AUT.[3] She is associate professor in the architecture department at Monash University, Naarm / Melbourne.[3] As a teacher the community engagement work of HOOPLA 'underpins' her pedagogy.[7]

As an artist curator Waghorn created Muddy Urbanism, at the Auckland Triennial (2013)[3] and the New Zealand pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 15th International Architecture Exhibition.[8]

A 2019 project was exhibition and book Making Ways, Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa at Objectspace Auckland.[9] Waghorn was co-curator and co-editor along with architectural lecturer Mike Davis. In the work is themes of resistance to a capitalist, political economy and how architectural and design can do this.[9]

Selected publications

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  • Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa (2019) - book, Co-edited with Mike Davis, published by Objectspace[9]
  • A transformative architectural pedagogy and tool for a time of converging crises, journal article (2022), A Yates, M Pedersen Zari, S Bloomfield, A Burgess, C Walker, K Waghorn. Urban Science 7 (1), 1

References

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  1. ^ "Waghorn, Kathy, 1970–". viaf.org. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Associate Professor Kathy Waghorn". Monash University.
  3. ^ a b c d e "About". Hoopla. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  4. ^ Waghorn, Kathy E. (March 2017). The practice of feeling for place: a compendium for an expanded Architecture (PhD thesis). RMIT University. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Winners: A+W•NZ Dulux Awards 2023". Architecture Now. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  6. ^ "AWNZ". AWNZ. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  7. ^ Cox, Elizabeth (1 January 2022), "Endlessly Creative: Academics and Architectural Writers", Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture, retrieved 19 May 2024
  8. ^ "Reporting from the front". Architecture Now. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  9. ^ a b c "Review: Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa". Architecture Now. Retrieved 18 May 2024.

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