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AUCKLAND, Today: Kātoitoi, the Aotearoa Design Archive, is calling for submissions for its 2020 archive, which aims to reflect contemporary design practice and the impact of design throughout New Zealand.

Submssions close on Tuesday 9 March.

From March 10, an impartial panel of design leaders will consider and evaluate each design based on the project’s impact, innovation, craft, and kaupapa.

The 2020 archive will be revealed, discussed and celebrated on Wednesday 31 March with online and in-person exhibition and speaking events held nationally throughout April.

Louise Kellerman and Nicole Arnett Phillips, who co-founded Kātoitoi, said (in a joint statement): “Our community will respond to the selected work through a series of interviews, critical essays, peer reviews and visual artworks to be published on katoitoi.nz to form a body of research and knowledge around our practice and practitioners today.

“As we build year by year, Kātoitoi will map NZ’s economic, cultural and social development through the lens of design.”

“The project seeks to examine emerging trends, shifting values, and to build a professional archaeology of our people and practice.

“More broadly, as we build the archive year by year, Kātoitoi will map the country’s economic, cultural and social development through the lens of design.”

Kātoitoi, the Aotearoa Design Archive, curates work that reflects contemporary design practice and the impact of design throughout New Zealand.

Piloted with funding support from Creative New Zealand, the inaugural archive invites submissions from the Aotearoa Design Community, for work completed during 2020.

Kellerman&Phillips: “Like the South Island robin which the Aotearoa Design Archive is named after, our design community is small but speaks with a large, brave voice that reverberates throughout the world. Kātoitoi, he iti te rahi, he nui te kōrero.

“Kātoitoi, the Aotearoa Design Archive, is a response to our world, our collective voice.

“The identity, campaign and website were executed through a co-design process with Karl Wixon, Johnson Mckay, Mark Easterbrook, Studio South and New Territory. The Aotearoa Design Archive is a Design Assembly initiative.”

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