Labs | Installations | Exhibitions | Experiences
For a comprehensive list see AwhiWorld
Media
Radio NZ 6 October 2024 (Profile on Culture 101)
The Big Idea 24 September 2024 (Mental Health Commentary)
The Big Idea 13th June 2024 (The Awhi Incubator)
The Northern Advocate 24 May 2024 (Alternative Reality Gardening Lab 24)
The Big Idea 11 December 2023 (Alternative Reality Gardening)
The Big Idea 15 June 2023 (BIOS)
The Northern Advocate 26 May 2023 (BIOS)
The Lifestyler 23 May 2023 (BIOS)
The Lifestyler 23 September 2022 (PlantLab)
The Northern Advocate 22 September 2022 (PlantLab)
The Lifestyler 28 April 2022 Feature Article
Te Hiku Media July 29th 2021 (Maui Stories)
The Northern Advocate 7 June 2020 (The Plant Room)
The Northern Advocate 4 February 2020 (Job Lab)
The Northern Advocate 7 December 2019 (The Plant Room)
The Northern Advocate 8 September 2019 (Strandlab/CBD Activation)
The NZ Herald 28 May 2019 (Strandlab)
The Whangarei Leader 14 November 2018 (11.11 Armistice)
The Northern Advocate 31 October 2018 (Sistema Sounds)
Beagle Radio Interview 24/10/2018 (Geek Zone – Sistema Sounds)
95bfm 11 August 2016 – The Wire (Te Ngira Project)
Stuff 4 August 2016 (Te Ngira Project)
Radio NZ 6 November 2015 (Awhi Creatures)
Maori Television: Te Kaea 7 October (Awhi Creatures)
Stuff 23 September 2015 (Awhi Creatures)
Maori Television: Te Kaea 12 September 2015 (Te Ngira Project)
Stuff 15 September 2015 (Augmenting Elders)
Maori Television Website 9 November 2015 (Park Jam: AwhiFlora)
Stuff 11 August 2015 (Place-Concrete Poetry)
Radio NZ 27 June 2015 (Place Stories)
Stuff 23 June 2015 (Place Stories)
Tiffany Singh – Interview for Collaborative Work (Conversation 2)
Public Speaking | Panels | Keynotes
Pecha Kucha Whangarei Fringe Festival 30 September 2024
ISEA 2024 (Brisbane) Institutional Presentation June 2024
Alternative Reality Gardening Lab May 2024
Weaving Waters Symposium November 2023
Podcast: Circuit Moving Image 8/5/2023 (BIOS)
SEADS International Network Meeting Talk (2nd October 2022)
ADA Symposium – Interdeterminate Infrastructures (with Kim Newall) 24th September 2022
Creative Northland Webinar – Tech Week May 22
PlantLab Symposium – Tech Week May 22
Weekend Lifestyler – Kaipara – Feature Article April 29th 2022
End of the Road Podcast, March 2022
Digital Humanities Conference December 2021: ADA Panelist
Aotearoa Community Development Conference October 2021
Whangarei Art Museum (online with Kim Newall)
Strandlab – 2019
Itchy Trigger Finger October 2018, Whangarei
AR/VR Panel – Tech Week, May 2018
Connect/Disconnect Symposia, RMIT Melbourne, 17th February 2016
Alumni Panel, AUT University, 22 September 2016
Antipodes Symposia Colab-AUT University, 19th September, 2016
International Social Innovation Research Conference, Glasgow, 5th to 9th September 2016
Indigenous Innovation Symposium September 2016
Turangawaewae – Guest Lecture, Massey University (Akld) 22 August 2016
AUT Auteurs Group August 2016
AUT Digital Day May 2016
International Conference on Interpretation, Wellington, 3-7th April 2016
New Zealand Social Innovation Entrepreneurship Conference, Massey University (Akld) 10 -12 February 2016
Spark Lab, Auckland: Virtual and Augmented Reality Panel 22 October 2015
Interpretive Network of NZ Conference, Wellington, September 12, 2015
“Speaking of….Home”, Hawkins Theatre 28 August 2015
Creative Technologists Meetup 26 August 2015
Radio NZ’s Music 101 Programme 27 June 2015
Integral Theory Conference 2015 (Sonoma State University, San Jose, CA)
Community Development Conference 2015 (UNITEC Auckland)
ADA (Aotearoa Digital Arts Network) Symposium 2014
Integral Australia Launch 2014 (….50.54 mins
Publications
Buxton, M (11 August, 2025) Strange Intelligence: Notes From The AI Frontline | The Big Idea
Buxton, M and Newall, K (2024) Strange Intelligences Lab Digest 1
Buxton (2023) Curator/Editor Alternative Reality Gardening, Digital (Oct 2023) and Hard Copy (2024)
Buxton (2022) Portals, Parallel Realities and Transdisciplinary Place Practice, Junctures (pp 18 – 28)
Fast Fibres (2020) Poem published within Northland Poetry Anthology No 7 – 10
Buxton (2018) Tricksters, Games and Transformation, Chapter in Playful Disruption of Digital Media, D. Cermak-Sassenrath and C. Walker (Eds) (pp 213-222), Singapore SG, Springer.
Buxton, M (2016), Te Marae o Papakura, designed and compiled by Fremaux, I. Published by Papakura Marae Society Inc. Interactive E-book format.
Williams, H (2016) Te Marae o Papakura. Edited by Buxton, M. Published by Papakura Marae Society Inc, New Zealand. ISBN: 9780473349103.
Buxton (2016) Practising Social Innovation: Case Studies from AwhiWorld, Proceedings from New Zealand Social Innovation Research Centre Conference, (ed. de Bruin, A and Lewis, K) Massey University.
Buxton (2015) Tricksters, Technology and Spirit: Practising Place in Aotearoa-New Zealand (PhD Thesis/AUT University)
Buxton, M (2013) ‘Place’, Papakura Art Gallery: Auckland NZ. ISBN: 9780473248055
Buxton, M (2012) A Multiplicity of Place, Proceedings of Asian Conference on Education, Japan.
Buxton, M (2012) ‘Augmented and Alternative Responses to 21st Century Social Change and Diversity’, Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal (Vol 4 Issue 4) Associate Editor
Buxton, M. (2011). ‘Augmenting Reality, Transforming Learning’. Journal: Creative Technologies, 2. Retrieved from http://journal.colab.org.nz/article/16
Buxton, M (2011) ‘Tricksters, Portals and Alternative Realities: Creating New Learning Opportunities using Mixed Reality Games’ Paper Presented at the International Conference of e-Learning Futures, Auckland: UNITEC, 2011
Buxton, M. (2011) ‘21st Century Disruption, Disorientation and Disturbance as a Path to Mindfulness’. In: A. Begg (Chair), AUT University. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Mindfulness and Tertiary Education, School of Education, AUT University.
Buxton, M (2010) ‘Playing with Fire, The Role of Tricksters in Organisational Learning’ Paper Presented at the The 5th Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Melbourne.
Buxton, M. (2008) 21st Century A.I.
Buxton, M (2008) What is Transdisciplinary Facilitation, and How Do I Get There? Consulting Today – Frontiers in Facilitation
Buxton, M., Fuchs, B., and Zeitlin, M., (2005) Building Collective Engagement and Community Visions Appreciate Inquiry Commons
Buxton, M., Fuchs, B. Briggs, B. (2005) Under the Amate Tree Appreciative Inquiry Commons
Buxton, M. (2003) Imagine Kartong Appreciative Inquiry Commons