Hautū Waka

Our work is a deeply navigational practice; wayfinding the complexity of systems to build intergenerational equity and wellbeing. Much of our work is discovering the tools we need to navigate in indigenous practice, science, design…whatever works for what we need.

Hautū Waka is a navigational framework rooted in mātauranga Māori and can be used as a tool to help us navigate complexity.

Roimata Taniwha-Paoo, Specialist Advisor – Tamariki Wellbeing, and Ayla Hoeta, Youth Innovator, have been working on the Hautū Waka framework, guided by Matua Rereata Makiha.



Practice Foundations is a monthly online event hosted by the Co-design Lab as a public sector community of practice.

We’ve collaborated with a range of other practitioners with a shared interest in promoting and prioritising ethical whānau-centred and led design and innovation practice. Our shared practice includes the active involvement of community, families, whānau, ‘aiga and rangatahi in design, decision-making and leadership for wellbeing.

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