MW2010: Samuel Mann and Khyla Russell, Protecting treasures: engaging communities and recreating narratives

Protecting treasures: engaging communities and recreating narratives
Samuel Mann
Khyla Russell

Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou
KātiHuirapakiPuketerakiRunaka
Te Runanga o Moeraki
HokonuiRūnaka

Objective 1: The development and testing of a participatory approach to game development. Objective 2: Develop a software tool for creating specific Māori virtual environments: the “SimPā toolkitObjective 3: Develop and test tools for the use of games in teaching Māori concepts. Objective 4: Develop techniques and practices for the further use of GamePā
Objective 5: Develop a new specialist area in education: Māori digital content
Objective 6: Develop a process of adoption of this initiative beyond the collaborating partners

Objective 1: The development and testing of a participatory approach to game development. Objective 2: Develop a software tool for creating specific Māori virtual environments: the “SimPā toolkit”Objective 3: Develop and test tools for the use of games in teaching Māori concepts. Objective 4: Develop techniques and practices for the further use of GamePā
Objective 5: Develop a new specialist area in education: Māori digital content
Objective 6. Develop a process of adoption of this initiative beyond the collaborating partners

All Rūnaka engaged in the process of developing digital Māori content through a series of wānaka.
Organic in process
Landscape

Participatory approach to game development
very much more organic in practice
recreation of the landscapes

Develop a software tool for creating specific Māori virtual environments: the “SimPā toolkit”
The “SimPā toolkit” was created
Process of partnerships of ideas and capabilities rather than technology
engaged in wider knowledge , application of digital technology
Intellectual Policy ensured the Rūnaka owned the rights to all their knowledge and narratives including the complete GamePā.

Use of GamePā in teaching Māori concepts
- did not expect the form of the GamePā to vary so much

Develop techniques and practices for the use of GamePā
did not expect the Rūnaka to move so quickly to using the skills learnt through the SimPā developments to develop further applications
This demonstrates a very successful community adoption of digital media

complex structures of knowledge ownership
Rūnaka actively using SimPā to connect with their youth
SimPā team had to be indistinguishably both Otago Polytechnic and Iwi.

Overwhelming success, but very different to that expected.
Need to abandon a linear flow to accommodate a process that is very much more organic.
SimPā toolkit has ended up being much more about process – partnerships of ideas and capabilities – than about the technology.
The project has taken far more partnership negotiation than the team ever imagined.
The SimPā team had to be indistinguishably both Otago Polytechnic and Iwi

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MW2010: Samuel Mann and Khyla Russell, Protecting treasures: engaging communities and recreating narratives

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