Wairewa, a shallow polymictic shoreline lake on the southern side of Te Pātaka o Rakaihautū Banks Peninsula, has had a troubled history. The water is turbid and prone to toxic algal blooms. The ...

At Te Pūnaha Matatini we value the opportunity to work with artists to explore how art and research come together to tell stories about our world. Eager to bring new perspectives to our research, and ...

2 October 2024 This is the fifth of a series of posts on complexity. We’ll be exploring some of the ways that studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world, how this ...

Our big global problems can seem overwhelming, but by recognising how systems are related, we can create meaningful solutions.

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship to study the health of shallow coastal lakes across Aotearoa, which are mostly in a state of decline. A number of interventions have been trialled to ...

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship to study the health of shallow coastal lakes across Aotearoa, which are mostly in a state of decline. A number of interventions have been trialled to ...

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship to study the health of shallow coastal lakes across Aotearoa, which are mostly in a state of decline. A number of interventions have been trialled to ...

Our core research projects for 2021–24 are organised into four interrelated impact areas, which relate to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Projects ranging from evaluating the ...

Complexity arises in many domains, but is often characterised by the emergence of qualities that are unable to be reduce to simpler characteristics. Environmental scientist Donella Meadows described a ...

Communities of Inquiry (COI) are the central threads that weave through all the work we do at Te Pūnaha Matatini. Our three COIs provide leadership and community around key practices that are ...

We build community across disciplines to solve complex problems. Te Pūnaha Matatini – the meeting place of many faces – is the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems.