Place, Place-making, and Well-Being in Oceania

Assistant professor of Art History Merih Denali organized a powerful visit with Kelema Lee Moses who shared the ancestral relationships and oral storytelling traditions of Pacific Islanders to the land, sea, and sky – to places and spaces. The familial relationships between Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) and the environs are reciprocal, they take care of each other. Place, place-making, and well-being were shared to explore the liberatory possibilities of practicing and communicating architectural histories that are culturally responsive.