The above is what Justin feels is a crucial part of how our future is created \u2013 that in a business sense the values are brought to the fore to just remind
\n all the players within the business and around the business, of what we are there for and how we support each other and how we work together to enable
\n better outcomes.<\/p>\n
Justin see values as a pivotal issue as he sees our societal values are changing at a deep level and he feels it is quite problematic and is something
\n that has to be addressed so the business is leading the way as they spend a lot of time at work.<\/p>\n
Also, a lot of us build our social networks around our work. So that work is not separate as to who we are, it\u2019s part of who we are and that value alignments
\n need to be in place between our workplace and ourselves and as values shift and change he has noticed over the years that a lot of people\u2019s values
\n systems have become very focussed around materialism and monetarist outcomes.<\/p>\n
An example of this, say 20 years ago, when he was first getting into architecture he would hear chit chat around a building site, where the various contractors
\n and builders would be talking about how proud they were on what part of the job they had completed and what a fine building it was. Also, that they
\n were happy to see such a professional outcome and that was the kind of discussion being satisfaction and fulfilment in what they had achieved.<\/p>\n
Whereas recently there has been somewhat of a huge shift which he terms the \u2018do little - take more\u2019 type of attitude which seems quite prevalent as well
\n as actually being celebrated in our society to some degree especially via the media - where he sees money making as an end in itself. Which is a value
\n system that needs to be addressed going forward.<\/p>\n
He says that there is an importance to go back to the value systems that is found really deep in our bones which is looking after each other and being
\n responsible and doing the right thing by each other and taking pride in what we do and these kind of things.<\/p>\n
(And this is in the first 3 minutes!)<\/p>\n
Justin also says that he is fortunate, and it is what you know, and it is what you are born with \u2013 he strongly believes that these feelings, thoughts and
\n ways are basically latent and inherent within us, it just needs the correct environment (family) to draw them out and have them validate themselves.<\/p>\n
He gives examples of community engagement where he was able to facilitate and bring together all the people and components together where he asked questions
\n and listened intently and was able to draw out stakeholders, who had no experience in a large business context - the end result was a very cohesive
\n and successful conclusion with the building of the Whangarei Library.<\/p>\n
Covering building materials, choosing to have hands-on-building as against a very mechanistic model - which is based on contracting individuals or firms
\n to compete to complete the job, and the contracting becomes more important than the actual outcome which becomes very focussed on industry supplies,
\n the ingredients from a factory and it all slots together and there you are in your completed packaged box of a home.<\/p>\n
Whereas in the Tuhoe open space building in the Urewera, the game plan was to empower the local Iwi to source all their materials from their own land,
\n which they venerated, and no doubt with karakia (prayer) they were able to individually select and harvest their own timber out of bush as well as
\n mud for making mud brick. They also had special mud brick specialists come and teach them the skills of how to make mud bricks and have them learn
\n to become teachers themselves - giving them a localised skill for continuing building projects in the area. All, these procedures validated for them
\n their spiritual connection to the land.<\/p>\n
So that the many people, who learnt how to make bricks can go into that building and see the very bricks that they hand-made and can connect with the land
\n where the earth came from \u2013 where they remember the day that they made those bricks and it brings a deeper connection for all involved to the spirit
\n of community around the making of place.<\/p>\n
This project was a proper commercial project however they embedded values that were based on win win, and that the Tuhoe would be able to up-skill their
\n people in the process. The intent that was placed onto this project brought about a wonderful cohesion that allowed the Tuhoe to virtually merge with
\n their building as an organic extension of themselves.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.ngaituhoe.iwi.nz\/te-kura-whare<\/a>\n<\/p>\n Justin conveyed that when building together the end result is we wind-up belonging more to our built environment rather than our built environment being Justin implies that instead of us having outside sources plan and contract - via contractors a housing development that has essentially (no mana) no vibe, The interview continues that: We are not separate as a species at all, we are part of the living world and part of the material world, we are made of the Then he discusses that challenges in the building trade Covering wood products, the toxins in wood within the pine industry in NZ.The growing waste streams When this household and industrial waste goes to a landfill and eventually the landfill is turned into an area where buildings are placed and having to So there are consequences and we are having to pay for our reckless behaviour and this is going to be intergenerational due to the precautionary approach, And today a school is being built on that very landfill waste and it is costing the tax and ratepayers millions and this is here in NZ and we have not Change has happened surprisingly quickly. Having to since the 2nd World War deal with the exponential increase of the toxic petrochemical realm that has Also, the term Cradle to Cradle comes up and that Nature does not have a concept of waste. There is no waste in nature because everything bio degrades Waste is a human concept that in a well integrated harmonious homeostatic planetary system - there should not be any waste whatsoever.<\/p>\n Recycling is very good, but even better by reusing stuff - in this case Avondale college where Justin was involved in. Old buildings were taken down and This story is getting back to old pupils and they are returning to the college to see that the old buildings are holding up the new, evidently, it nearly Covering also, the housing challenge of affordable high quality, warm, light filled homes and the financial heavy lifting of finance. First how do we engage It comes down to values \u2013 sharing more \u2013 positive stories<\/p>\n Today in the commercial world having to deal with a mindset of a quarterly return in the corporate sector is a challenge for us all.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t defer profits for 2 years out to do something else \u2013 the shareholders are very needy so the industry is now locked into a cycle of having to Covers: community links, connection, regeneration, holistic systems<\/p>\n His visit to Portland in Oregon USA and its advanced systems of integration of housing and transport would be an excellent model for Auckland if our Council Of Innovative ways of enabling community to come together in an area and build houses, and engaging people to take part in the whole process of organising Viva Eco village in Christchurch after the earthquake <\/p>\n http:\/\/thevivaproject.org.nz\/?page_id=317&paged=2<\/a>\n<\/p>\n This situation could be said to have experienced a type of Jungian collective consciousness or group consciousness as they co-operate and co-create their Need for local government is to bring in the wider community interests always.<\/p>\n Justin has seen a shift and it is increasing - especially in the last 4 years \u2013 the changes are happening and they are already here …<\/p>\n We are also fortunate that tangata whenua is very much embedded in our language and in Law that there is really nowhere in the world, especially the wider With Iwi, tribes, throughout Aotearoa now becoming financially stronger, there is a very real possibility that they will build intentional marae\u2019s and Something that NZ needs to work with \u2013 to be-friend and empower.<\/p>\n The overall gist is that we need to become far more responsible as adults and really factor our children\u2019s future into all facets of our living and decision The Evatt Family - see below.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.greenplanetfm.com\/members\/greenradio\/blog\/VIEW\/00000001\/00000282\/Chris-Evatt---Entrepren eur-Business-Mentor-and-Assister-of-Non-Government-Organisations.html#00000282<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\n maybe something separate from the natural environment. That they become engaged with each other and start to overlap with each other.<\/p>\n
\n (lacking feng shui) - that when we commit to work and co-operate together in a group context we start to self-organise at a level that nearly has a
\n mysterious dimension to it and synchronistic happenings can emerge that are completely \u2018out of the blue\u2019 establishing a magical coherence that all
\n participants energetically feel and nearly a transcendent (my interpretation) quality embeds itself in the community.<\/p>\n
\n elements of our planet. He says that the acknowledgement for us is believing that we are part of a bigger context and really knowing that \u2013 and we
\n only do that by engaging and being part of what we do and he says that\u2019s where the investment that\u2019s made into buildings can actually be quite transformative
\n for people and culture and back to values again.<\/p>\n
\n from the building industry, dumpsters and skips on a building site, very complex, e.g with a large amounts of building waste, timber off cuts full
\n of copper chrome and arsenic treatments , old paint tins glue tins, light bulbs with mercury vapour not being disposed off properly, wall boards that
\n could have been recycled \u2013 so many toxic products and that skip then goes off to a landfill.<\/p>\n
\n cope with out gassing of methane and other toxic reminders of not being mindful in the first place and just by throwing stuff out, that we did not
\n want to be responsible for \u2013 into the rubbish bin and by default ending in dump, in this case, at Meola road Point Chevalier landfill, just meters
\n from the Auckland harbour.<\/p>\n
\n not being present in our vocabulary. Yet, in the 1960\u2019s and 70s, even the Flower Power generation were languaging proper recycling and disposal back
\n then. But, in fact these landfills are coming back to haunt us in our own generation due to our continued throwaway behaviour, \u2018out of sight out of
\n mind \u2013 couldn\u2019t care less\u2019 consumer culture that we are currently engaged in burying ourselves in.<\/p>\n
\n being occupying this place for very long.<\/p>\n
\n got right into every single element of the building trade. Like paints, rubber seals around windows and the glues the treatments we have, the adhesives
\n for carpets, the foams in our chairs \u2013 everything has toxic stuff in it.<\/p>\n
\n and breaks down as part of nature\u2019s process. It always feeds something else in the food chain. It is a closed system and our planet is biologically
\n organised, with everything tightly coupled with everything else in its niche within the web of life - as a self sustaining system that is seamlessly
\n integrated and the elements relive again and again in another form.<\/p>\n
\n the timbers that were still of high quality first generation NZ hardwoods were shipped up to Fiji, same for roofing iron. Justin then says that it
\n is disheartening having to destroy something that has had a long worthwhile history by taking it apart however, out of that there should be a phoenix
\n - a re-life - there needs to be something new that comes out of the old, out of the dismantling. And in this case, they stacked up the timber and are
\n now reusing it in their technology department making furniture etc including the struts or columns of a new atrium. So, good quality Matai and Rimu
\n is again finding a new life.<\/p>\n
\n brings them to tears it makes them feel that they still belong to a \u2018place\u2019 that assisted them through life.<\/p>\n
\n the people who are controlling or managing or directing the industry and so forth and it is premised in the intent, of having very clear vision and
\n processes around establishing vision and then have a strategic approach in delivering to a vision AND this is the part that is missing (listen in to
\n take this further)<\/p>\n
\n make a profit at all costs \u2013 these are systemic issues that are going on …<\/p>\n
\n wanted to jolt themselves out of its complacency.<\/p>\n
\n and then self-organising - collective approaches to building homes in an intentional community \u2013 people can self organise when given a space and a
\n forum to do that and it\u2019s a facilitative approach.<\/p>\n
\n unfolding future ?<\/p>\n
\n world where we have used an indigenous vocabulary to signify place.<\/p>\n
\n bring about a whole new possibility for Maori once again to live in a cohesive community setting. And with living buildings setting the template for
\n innovative dwellings and Whare Nui\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\n making.<\/p>\n