Hinewaimarama Reihana-White

Publications

Reihana-White, H. (2025, November). Architecture of Aroha: Wahakura and Gietkka - Indigenous Ecologies of Care [Paper presentation]. WIPCE - World Indigenous Conference on Education 2025, AUT - Auckland University of Technology.

Tan, L., White, T., Renata, H., Lamwilai, P., De Groot, C., Smith, E., & Goldsmith, A. (2025, February). Decolonial Design and Indigenous Placemaking in the Wairaka Precinct [Poster presentation]. Thinking, Learning and Doing: Plural Ways of Design - Nineteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

Tan, L. (Curator), Te Hira, J. (Curator), Pihema, T. (Curator), Reihana White, H., Renata, H., Wood, R., & Lamwilai, P. (2025). Ihirangaranga - A Sonic Mihi to the Puna by Rachel Shearer. [Curatorial Exercise]. Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae: Auckland, NZ, 31 May.

Tan, L. (Curator), Te Hira, J. (Curator), Pihema, T. (Curator), Reihana White, H., Renata , H., Wood, R., & Lamwilai, P. (2025). Ihirangaranga - ORO ATUA Wānanga Rongoā Puoro by Jerome Kavanagh Poutama and Ruiha Turner. [Curatorial Exercise]. Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae: Auckland, NZ, 9 June.

Tan, L., & White, T. (2024, November). Ihirangaranga: Forest and Sound Bathing in Rangimārie Pā Harakeke [Paper presentation]. Tūwhitia Symposium 2024 - Ākonga success - Designing for the future, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.

Tan, L., White, T., Renata, H., Lamwilai, P., Smith, E., de Groot, C., & Goldsmith, A. (2024, December). Puna Kōrero – Marae Based Creative Placemaking in the Wairaka Precinct [Poster presentation]. ITP Research Symposium 2024, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Tan, L. (Curator), White, T., Renata, H., Lamwilai, P., de Groot, C., Smith, E., & Craven, M. (2024). Puna Kōrero. [Curatorial Exercise]. Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae: Auckland, New Zealand, 3 July.

Reihana-White, H.T. (artist), & Guttorm, G. (Artist) (2024). Architecture of Aroha: Objectspace. [The wahakura from Te Ao Māori and the Gietkka from the Sami people of Sapmi, Northern Sweden. Indigenous baby sleeping vessels.]. Group exhibition. Curated by Z. Black, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand 30 November 2024-16 March 2025.

Reihana-White, Tanya. (Artist), Guttorm, Gunvor. (Artist), Zoe, Black. (Curator), & Jasmine, Te Hira. (Curator). (2024). Architecture of Aroha. [Wahakura and Giettka]. Group exhibition. Curated by Z. Black and J. Te Hira, Lulea Biennale, Sapmi, Sweden 2 March - 26 May.

Reihana-White, Hinewaimarama. (2023). Creation of Taura Kūtai (harakeke mussel ropes, 40 metres) for deployment at Okahu Bay. [Artefact/Object/Craftwork]. Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand: Te Noho Kotahitanga marae.

Tan, L., & White, T. (2023). Raranga and Tikanga Pā Harakeke - An Indigenous Model of Socially Engaged Art and Education. In M. Sharma & A. Alexander (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education (pp. TBA). New York, USA.

Reihana-White, H., Warbrick, J., & Jeffs, A. (2023, September). Panel Kōrero on Taura (Mussel Ropes) [Paper presentation]. Pohewa Pahewa: Māori Design Symposium, Objectspace.

White, T., Tan, L., Blanchon, D., Toki, L., & Renata, H. (2023, April). Toitū te Whenua – Working Together for the Wellbeing of Te Taiao [Paper presentation]. Resilient and Responsible Architecture & Urbansim (RRAU) Conference, Auckland.

White, Tanya. (artist)/kairaranga. (2023). Pohewa Pahewa: a Māori design kaupapa. [Raranga Taura Kutai. An installation of harakeke mussel ropes.]. Group exhibition. Curated by Zoe Black, Johnson Witehira, Graham Tipene, Tyrone Ohia, Desna Whaanga-Schollum, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July - 3 Sep 2023.

White, T. (2022). Raranga Waha Kura : Weaving Wellbeing for Mokopuna and Whānau. In Pihema, L. & Lee-Morgan, J. (Eds.), Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke : Ancestral Knowledge and Tamariki Wellbeing (pp. 159-176). Wellington.

White, T., & Tan, L. (2022, October). Te Whānau Pā Harakeke: An indigenous artform of community intervention [Paper presentation]. Alliances and Commonalities Conference, Stockholm.

Hung, B. (curator), Renata, H. (curator), Tan, L. (curator), White, T. (curator), Wood, B. (curator), & Woodruffe, P. (curator). (2022). Te Pataka Art Trail. [Curatorial Exercise]. Te Puukenga Unitec Campus: Auckland, New Zealand 27 October - 16 December.

White, T. (2022). Wānangatia te Wahakura - Weaving Wellbeing for Mokopuna and Whānau. The Vessel : Embodied Knowledge, 3rd, chapter 4.

Tanya, White. (2021). Wahakura (woven harakeke safe sleeping vessels for newborn pēpi). Commissioned suite of 30 wahakura for Hapai te Hauora, to support mokopuna and whānau of South Auckland communities through Turuki Health and Raukura Hauora o Tainui. [Artefact/Object/Craftwork]. Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa: Hapai te Hauora.

White, T. (2019). Tiakina te Pa Harakeke. Hapai te Hauora Wānangatia te Wahakura Wānanga Series, Makaurau Marae, Mangere.

White, T. (2018). Sustaining the mana, tapu, and mauri ora of communities and the environment through tikanga pā harakeke and the weaving of wahakura. Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka, Unitec Ka Rewa Māori Innovation 2018 ITP Research Symposium, Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka, Unitec.

White, T. (2018). Mana Mokopuna : Sustaining Sacred Potential for Mokopuna Through Tikanga Pā Harakeke and the Weaving of Wahakura. Ngā Pae o te Maramatanga 8th Biennial International Indigenous Research Conference, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand.

White, T. R. (2017). Mana mokopuna mai i te waharoa ki te wahakura : activating sacred potential for mokopuna through raranga and tikanga pā harakeke. Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka, Unitec, Auckland, NZ.

White, T. (2017). Mana mokopuna : applications of raranga and tikanga pā harakeke for the protection of Papatūānuku and mokopuna. World Indigenous People's Conference on Education, Toronto, Ontario.