Author Jade Kake on decolonising through design

Up and coming Maori designer, Jade Kake, has been making waves in both the architectural 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.