Making Change Together

We are passionate about creating change that matters with you!
We engage communities, grow relationships, build strategies and create tools to support people and place to flourish.

*to catalyse is to activate and synergise
so that the result is more than the sum of the contributing parts.
Very often almost no trace of the catalyst is visible,
except to those most closely involved.

We believe that good change is possible

We also believe that local people know a lot about what can work best for them and their places. Every group of people and every place has strengths, and the capacity to adapt and thrive. So, like a catalyst, we inspire, support and facilitate positive change by engaging communities and organisations to imagine and create good lives for each and all, people and place. 

We do this by bringing strategy, design, evaluation, and creativity together with local leadership, participation, and a collective hunger for positive change.

Activating good change takes us to a wide range of places and sees us work with a huge variety of innovative people. Recently, we have been growing capacity for locally-led placemaking in Kaipātiki, engaging local people in tactical urbanism in Takapuna, evaluating community-led development in Whananaki and mentoring and developing resources with community workers in the disability sector in the Bay of Plenty and Otago.

1+1=3 when we work together

We actively contribute to systems change too. We initiated and deliver the Kūmara Awards and Ako Ako webinar series nationally for Placemaking Aotearoa as well as chair Grow Space here in Tāmaki Makaurau.

We collaborate with others across Aotearoa in our roles at Inspiring Communities, Powerdigm and Placemaking Aotearoa and internationally with IACD (Scotland), PlacemakingX (USA) and Synergia Institute (Canada).

 WE CREATE CONDITIONS FOR CHANGE

Together,
we can make a difference

Every place and every person, we believe, has something to offer and something to learn. We value trust and relationship and know that we can get more done, with more innovation and in more effective ways, when we work together.

We work collaboratively with communities, organisations, businesses and government across Aotearoa and beyond, helping to vision, plan and understand the differences their activities are making. 

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Tailored to your situation and goals, we offer proven strengths-based, participatory ways of understanding, inspiring and accelerating how local people – those who live, work, learn, play, care and invest in a place - can be part of making their places work well and flourish now, and into the future.

We are happy to talk!

If you would like to explore working with us to create good change in your community, book a free conversation