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The Re-invention of the ‘Behaviour Setting’ in the New Indigenous Architecture

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In understanding the new authentic indigenous architecture, this chapter analyses cultural appropriateness using a concept originally derived from ecological psychology in the USA. The ‘behaviour setting’ concept analyses how certain attributes such as spatial behaviour, physical boundaries, ecological structures, environmental meanings, management controls and time properties combine to form categories of complex architectural places to fulfil recurring human needs. Four case studies from indigenous groups in America, Polynesia and Australia (health clinic, meeting place, homeless centre, training camp) show how distinctive indigenous behaviour settings are being reinvented from traditional practices and combined with global architectural attributes, service and management practices to generate a new indigenous architecture, one which is contributing to a quality of lifestyle for the users.

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Notes

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    The spelling of this word in Māori follows the convention used at the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust.

  2. 2.

    See the Illustrated London News for an illustration of the Ōrākei Marae which was then a regional seat of Māori governance (1880: 557).

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    The spelling of this word in Māori follows the convention used at the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust.

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    ‘Sleeping rough’ means sleeping in public places with minimal possessions and without conventional housing.

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    The ‘Dreamtime’ is an Aboriginal English term used throughout Australia to refer to the creation time when Ancestral Heroes were shaping the landscape and leaving their sacred energies imbued in sites; these energies are believed to remain at the sites, energising life (Rose 2005).

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Memmott, P. (2018). The Re-invention of the ‘Behaviour Setting’ in the New Indigenous Architecture. In: Grant, E., Greenop, K., Refiti, A., Glenn, D. (eds) The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6904-8_31

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