Up top/down low: devising and higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada

Abstract

The chapters in this book tell the stories of devised projects originating in three regions, integrating the voices of practitioners and academics who traverse across those spaces: Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. We must acknowledge our implicit biases, as well as our own worldviews here; as editors, these three regions are where we have, between us, studied, taught and lived. This chapter explores what we perceive as a gap in the existing discourse: the relationship between devising and higher education in Canada and New Zealand.