Dr Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei is an architect, researcher and educator. Charmaine has a wide appreciation of early and contemporary Indigenous architectural research and practice. Her interests include how Indigenous people form values about their lived spaces and understanding their cultural aspirations about the built environment. Investigating co-design methods, storytelling and cultural narrative processes, participant-based research methods, alongside examining how designers translate, invent and embed such meaning to form culturally responsive architecture are current research interests...Continue Reading Dr Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei 

Dr Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei

Senior Lecturer

Creative Arts and Industries

Architecture and Planning

University of Auckland – Waipapa Taumata Rau

Appointments:

  • Senior Lecturer Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries, Architecture and Planning
  • Associate Dean Pacific Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries