Jokatama Waqabaca

Jokatama Waqabaca
UNITEC Institute of Technology | UNITEC

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THE SEEMINGLY SIMPLE? COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT IN SAMOA, POST TSUNAMI 2009.
Conference Paper
  • Nov 2013
Community Engagement and its associated community participation seem to be a key factor for “successful” post disaster reconstruction. Yet not much is understood on what happens during such an “engagement” and how it occurs. This paper presents one case study on the impact of constructing new fale for those affected by the Samoan tsunami in 2009. A...
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Community Engagement: Rebuilding Samoan Fale post 2009 Tsunami.
Conference Paper
  • May 2013
A team of Unitec volunteers worked with Habitat for Humanity (HfH) in Samoa in early 2010, rebuilding fale (traditional houses) alongside the villagers, using collaborative techniques derived from Samoan cultural customs. Experience at the time indicated that the Unitec’s team acknowledgement of the villagers’ existing knowledge of both traditional...
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