Kaitiakitanga 2030: Conscious Design Principles

Send us Fan Mail 2030 is not a distant milestone, it is already colliding with the reality of long design and construction timelines. We sit down with Ewan Brown, Director at Tenant Brown Architects, to unpack what NZIA’s Kaitiakitanga 2030 strategy is really asking of architects, and why “we’ll get to it later” quietly locks in decades of carbon, water use, and overheating risk across Aotearoa New Zealand. We dig into the practical heart of the strategy: moving beyond one-off “green” projec...