Inhabit Project  

Now in its fifth year, Inhabit is a durational event-based project by Holli McEntegart that reimagines vacant or underused urban spaces as sites for connection, care and creative exchange. Exploring how our ecosystems of care have evolved in Aotearoa, how they survive and morph through colonisation and migration and how we engage with care-work inside and outside of the home. 

Iteration 4; Ngakinga was a year long participatory social sculpture nurturing interconnectedness, community collaboration and regenerative care. A living laboratory for taiao, creativity and natural dyeing practices. In 2026, Nekehanga, Iteration 5 of the Inhabit project, will be settling in gently between two connected sites, Daldy Street Community Gardens and Silo 6, in an area known as Waiatarau on the Tāmaki Makaurau waterfront. Taiao practitioner Charmaine Bailie (Te Uri o Hau – Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara) and artist Holli McEntegart (Pākehā - Irish Gaelic, Ulster Scots, English) will be growing dye plants in the community gardens on Daldy Street and offering a series of monthly workshops exploring te taiao and natural dyeing practices. This will be accompanied by an immersive exhibition at Silo 6 opening Friday, 4th of September, bringing together our collaborators in sound, Tāmaki Oro Rau, a Tāmaki Makaurau based taonga puoro collective, and the mighty plants and flowers of Ngakinga.