About Scott
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Scott Flutey (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe) was born in Gonville, Whanganui, and studied history to postgraduate level at Victoria University of Wellington. He subsequently obtained a Masters of Museum and Heritage Practice, also from VUW.
Building up experience in a number of museums and research institutions, he has a comprehensive familiarity with historical objects and artefacts backed up by deep research abilities.
Scott currently works as a Heritage Advisor for Whanganui District Council. Based in WDC’s policy planning team, Scott provides advice internally and externally on heritage processes and matters. He led the authoring of Whanganui’s He Kaupapa Here: Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho | Whanganui District Heritage Strategy and was a co-author of Whanganui’s successful application to become the country's only UNESCO City of Design.
He maintains a strong interest in heritage trades and skills, particularly conservation carpentry. He has spent time at Te Wananga o Aotearoa studying raranga (weaving) and the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodwork learning hand-tooled joinery techniques. While in Melbourne, he trained in campanology (bell-ringing) and has subsequently presented to the public on the hidden stories and technologies behind bell and chime installations.
He has particular interest in architectural and social legacies of the Arts and Crafts Movement in regional New Zealand, as well as exploring wider global connections with the international Arts and Crafts Movement. He is working to promote Whanganui’s historic and ongoing linkages to the Arts and Crafts Movement, with a current project being a historical account of the unique Liberty of London branch stores active in Whanganui in the early twentieth century.
Scott is an advocate for hidden heritage sites and stories. Outside of Whanganui, he is helping to raise awareness and advocate for a conservation-guided restoration of the ancestral Flutey whare at Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, constructed in the 1850s of pit-sawn totara. This was the home of his tīpuna, Merehana Puha (Puaha/Puhara) and John Joseph Fluerty.