1[Māpuna] Architect and author, Jade Kake, decolonising through design Up and coming Maori architect, Jade Kake, has been making waves in both the architecture and literary worlds. She's the director and founder of Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, a kaupapa Maori architecture studio, and a part-time lecturer at Huri Te Ao School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology. She specialises in designing communities and housing based on papakainga (communal villages). She's also a published author, with not one but two books having been released this past month. One is a fiction novel, while the other is a tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngati Porou, Ngati Raukawa), who was an internationally-renowned indigenous architect. Jade spoke to Julian Wilcox. [Saturday 04 November 2023, 12:10]

2[Māpuna] CEO for the Kaupapa Māori and Cultural Communities at FENZ This week on Māpuna we speak to Piki Thomas, the newly appointed deputy chief executive for the kaupapa Māori and cultural communities branch of Fire and Emergency NZ. In his 35 years as a career firefighter, he's done pretty much every job in the service, from answering the phones as a 111 operator, to being the first Māori liaison officer. He joins Julian Wilcox to discuss what this new role means, Māori being over-represented in the number of fire-related deaths and injuries in Aotearoa, with many Marae not fully prepared in the case of a fire, and why taking a kaupapa Māori approach to day-to-day work will help improve outcomes for all. [Saturday 04 November 2023, 12:35]