This 'aint Auckland.

From wherever you are. From the flat whites , to the white flats (or rather up and in and under them). This 'aint Auckland, this 'aint architecture, this is a podcast from Karangahape Road. 

This episode introduces us to wall-less and breathing type of architecture: Place. 

“I’m recording from Tāmaki Makaurau, the land desired by many. But it feels more appropriate in this instance to call it Auckland….”

Auckland has a main body of waterfront, with stagnant rooftop bars. 

This land also has other kinds of water inlets, where fluid currents can portal us to many more desirable places of Tāmaki Makaurau. 

Where your Auckland is?

Where your Auckland aint?

A big thank you to our sponsor for today’s episode, THE POTTERS PARK KID. An Auckland influencer and up-and-coming DJ, Potter is best known for the iconic plastic statue made in his image, erected in Potters Park nearly twenty-three years ago. Potter, now a thirty-three-years-young entrepreneur, party boy, and bachelor; has decided to “go the self-made route.” Potter is carrying on the legacy of his Dad’s construction company by building an empire that raves. Music has always been “the main vibes”, and POTTER (a.k.a DJ Chosen 1) is debuting tonight at the Waterfront, in a self-financed dance party that Potter has called “The Forever Future.” Buy your ticket today!

A more serious thank you to the essential samples used in the making of this podcast, as credited below:

Arohanui to :

• tēnā rawa atu koe to Tāmaki Makaurau, Grey Lynn, Pacific and poetic musician Schofield Strangelove for allowing their track Hopeless Romantic to be included in this episode. In extension, thank you to Noa Records, the collective that Strangelove collaborates with. Kia ora.
• Verona and it’s ripple affects.
• The CoconetTV’s Tales of Time Coconut Grove on K’rd, 
• “When I saw you at Verona, you sat down and I moved over.” Lyrics by Elemeno P - “Verona”

For any other resources referenced in the show, email the show at [email protected] for a copy of the full bibliography. 

This podcast was made in association with Poynton Studios.

This podcast was written, performed, and produced by Gabi Maffey. Sound technician and mixer was Ariki Perana.

https://www.poyntonstudios.com/

This episode involves rented buildings like Caluzzi and The Thirsty Dog. This episode also includes proper architecture, like Krd’s Lighthouse Apartments by Leuschke Group Architects. Proper architecture is not the same as a common building, it’s more elite than that. 

A big thank you to our sponsor for todays episode, TINA. 

An esteemed influencer, Tina will help you with the cosmetic renovations of your leaking assets. 

You got this girlfriend! Let’s reinvent! 

Arohanui to :

• Faʻafetai to Tāmaki Makaurau and Pasifika musician LEAO for allowing their track PAU MALIU to be included in this episode. In extension, thank you to Noa Records, the collective LEAO collaborates with. Kia ora. 
• "We cage with toothpicks getting their pools fixed, but we don’t care about them fools coz them fools rich.” Shiraz & LSJ Akl town.
• The CoconetTV’s Tales of Time Coconut Grove on K’rd, 
• Julie Hill’s essay, “Dark Side of the Rori.” 2015. North & South, no. 356(November): 83–98.
• Russell Brown’s article, “K’rd at the Crossroad.” Metro Magazine, January/February 2016.
• The Billy T James comedy sketch “A History of New Zealand” 1992.
• Waitematā Local Board Auckland Council. The Karangahape Road Plan 2014-2044. Auckland: Auckland Council, 2014.

Further Notes :

• This podcast references a building boom in Queen Street during the 1970’s, when it is more accurate to say that the demolishing of heritage buildings was happening in the 1980’s. Watch this documentary for context. https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/kaleidoscope-town-planning-1985 
• The reference to Chloë is not a dig at the Greens, but rather a dig at people like me who can get on board with a lot of left leaning intentions, maybe without the action to back them. “I, Gabi Maffey, am actually so progressive that I eat the left arm of the tiny teddy first.”

For any other resources referenced in the show, email the show at [email protected] for a copy of the full bibliography. 

This podcast was made in association with Poynton Studios.

This podcast was written, performed, and produced by Gabi Maffey. Sound technician and mixer was Ariki Perana.

https://www.poyntonstudios.com/

This third episode talks about the advertising on our walls. 

“I am here because they can afford me, can you afford me?”

The Karangahape view can feel like that time you saw adult diapers at the op-shop. A gross reminder of mortality, of what we will all be reduced to. An old face, leaking, reflecting on how we have spent our lives and who we have spent our lives in service to. 

A big thank you to our sponsor for todays episode, TINA. 

An esteemed influencer, Tina will help you with the cosmetic renovations of your leaking assets. 

You got this girlfriend! Let’s reinvent! 

A more serious thank you to the essential samples used in the making of this podcast, as credited below:

Arohanui to :

• Hape, and the Tainui whānau. 
• The poem “Karangahape Road” by poet Whaitiri Mikaere. This poem was accessed via the zine “Karangahape Road” printed by the Save Our Homes Aotearoa collective. This zine is available via the Auckland Council Public Library. 
• Property investor with man titties for eyeballs.

For any other resources referenced in the show, email the show at [email protected] for a copy of the full bibliography. 

This podcast was made in association with Poynton Studios.

This podcast was written, performed, and produced by Gabi Maffey. Sound technician and mixer was Ariki Perana.

https://www.poyntonstudios.com/

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode addresses themes to do with ownership of the land, and ownership of the body. The authorship of the whole body continues to be violated by those who seek to individually own. 

“Do you say tree, or timber?”

Arohanui to :

• Papatūānuku, Tangata whenua, Wāhine. 
• Whatungarongaro te tangata toitū te whenua - As man disappears from sight, the land remains. 

For any other resources referenced in the show, email the show at [email protected] for a copy of the full bibliography. 

This podcast was made in association with Poynton Studios.

This podcast was written, performed, and produced by Gabi Maffey. Sound technician and mixer was Ariki Perana.

https://www.poyntonstudios.com/

“Custom made cabinets were finished with hand carvings and mouldings imported from England.”

Victorian-styled Buildings made Europeans feel at home, and safe – like the whole of Krd was one giant living room. Colonial buildings are kind of like Big Macs, outputs of a franchise.

Franchise is the promise of access, the promise that from anywhere; the same cold drink. But you don’t just get that cold drink from anywhere – you get it from here. Franchise is also the promise of calling this one ‘yours’.

Arohanui to :

• The CoconetTV’s Tales of Time Coconut Grove on K’rd, 
• Bartley, M.W. Colonial Architect: The Career of Edward Bartley 1839-1919. Wellington: First Edition Ltd, 2006.
• Botton, Alain. Status Anxiety. Australis: Penguin Books, 2004.
• Russell Brown’s article, “K’rd at the Crossroad.” Metro Magazine, January/February 2016.
• Glamuzina Architects. “St Kevins.” Glamuzina Architects. Accessed July 5, 2020.

For any other resources referenced in the show, email the show at [email protected] for a copy of the full bibliography. 

This podcast was made in association with Poynton Studios.

This podcast was written, performed, and produced by Gabi Maffey. Sound technician and mixer was Ariki Perana.

https://www.poyntonstudios.com/

“If we can buy anything we need online, or anywhere that’s near our place of address, what are the forms of exchange that keep Karangahape Road relevant?"

This is the last episode of the season. Thank you for building x

Arohanui to :

• Tēnā rawa atu koe to Tāmaki Makaurau musician Gloria Florence for allowing their track LADYLIKE to be included in this episode. The full song is included at the end of this episode, to sign off from this season. Thank you to Gloria – a sister and a friend – who has been a pillar for me, especially this past year. Love you loser x
• Come break my chains come help me out, living in the city ain’t so bad.” Che-Fu - Chains.
• The CoconetTV’s Tales of Time Coconut Grove on K’rd, 
• RNZ’s coverage of Library Closures Auckland Uni Library Closures Slammed as ‘a betrayal’ , 2018
• Beyoncé - Kitty Kat
• The Billy T James comedy sketch “A History of New Zealand” 1992.
• Julie Hill’s essay, “Dark Side of the Rori.” 2015. North & South, no. 356 (November). 
• A recent protest along Karangahape Road that marched for safe spaces that prioritise Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and others (LGBTQIA+) and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC.) Specifically, this protest demands safe spaces for Trans people. The protestors assert that the safe spaces for Rainbow communities along Karangahape Road are diminishing. The Protest came in direct response to specific and recent transphobic acts by night clubs along Karangahape Road. Protest date: 01.05.21. 
• The Spinoff’s article The Grow Room, K’Road and the loss of Auckland’s creative spaces. 2018.
• Auckland Pride’s Boosted Campaign Where it Matters. 

For any other resources referenced in the show, email the show at [email protected] for a copy of the full bibliography. 

This podcast was made in association with Poynton Studios.

This podcast was written, performed, and produced by Gabi Maffey. Sound technician and mixer was Ariki Perana.

https://www.poyntonstudios.com/