Karamia Müller

Contributor Profile

Dr Karamia Müller is a Pacific academic specialising in indigenous space concepts. Currently a lecturer at the School of Architecture and Planning, Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland, her research specialises in the meaningful ‘indigenisation’ of design methodologies invested in building futures resistant to inequality.

Habits of mind

People | Karamia Müller looks at the relational nature of Te Tiriti and the importance of collectivism over individualism.

Freedom for the hollow lands

People | Karamia Müller considers the ‘architecture’ of land occupation and the ideological differences that reveal the politics of sovereignty.

Is the system working?

People | Karamia Müller looks beyond the “electoral moment” to the built realm and asks whether or not the system is working.

What water?

People | Karamia Müller considers the politics of the built realm and uses a clever analogy asking “How’s the water?” to address the impact of social conditioning on how we view the housing crisis.

Fifteen cigarettes a day

People | Karamia Müller ponders New Zealand’s housing crisis and its connection with a decreased lifespan, and after discussion with former tutor Graeme Burgess, arrives at a possible solution.

The line between good and bad

People | Karamia Müller believes that if beauty in architecture is attainable then so, too, should be equity.

The bots are here

Review | Karamia Müller considers artificial intelligence, its relationship to creativity, and the ethics surrounding its application in the course of architectural study and/or practice.

Exhibition: Oceanic Architectural Routes: The photographic archive of Mike Austin

Review | Karamia Müller discusses the Mike Austin photography exhibition, designed by Hannah Manning-Scott for Objectspace, curated by Leali’ifano Albert L. Refiti.

Before there was dank, there was Frank

People | Karamia Müller calls for more irony, cynicism and criticality over beauty, earnestness and elitism upon revisiting the architectural satire account: @dank.lloyd.wright.

A touch of the architecture

People | Karamia Müller considers the role of her profession in imagining a better future for Aotearoa.

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Fifteen cigarettes a day

People | Karamia Müller ponders New Zealand’s housing crisis and its connection with a decreased lifespan, and after discussion with former tutor Graeme Burgess, arrives at a possible solution.

Before there was dank, there was Frank

People | Karamia Müller calls for more irony, cynicism and criticality over beauty, earnestness and elitism upon revisiting the architectural satire account: @dank.lloyd.wright.