Practice Foundations 2022
Practice Foundations is a public sector community of practice.
The Co-design Lab holds monthly online events with guests who share their insights and learnings on innovation practice.
We collaborate 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.
To find out more or to be removed from the mailing list, please contact the Co-design Lab.
Hautū Waka
Our work is a deeply navigational practice; wayfinding the complexity of systems to build intergenerational equity and well-being.
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.
What’s the Mauri of the System?
If I am asking for the system to change, what change am I asking of *myself*? Since a colonial system cannot naturally produce indigenous outcomes, how do we help the systems we work in to indigenise?
In this Practice Foundations session, Dickie Humphries, Head of Community Impact in council’s Connected Communities department, leads us through some of these questions, based on his own experience of responding to these same questions in his practice. Dickie describes concepts and tools from Te Moana Nui a Kiwa and reflects on practical and real-life lessons from his work in indigenising systems.
Before (And After) Co-design
When we think of co-design, we often land directly in the ‘doing’ of the co-design with communities. However, when communities think of co-design, they are often thinking also of what comes before (co-governance, for example) and what comes after (such as co-evaluation).
Join us as we explore this issue with Dr Debbie Goodwin, who has recently completed her PhD in kaupapa Māori evaluation in co-design settings. Based in a te ao Māori worldview, Debbie will take us through what it means to adequately plan for co-design and introduces some tools and examples from te ao Māori for better co-design methodologies.
Shifting the Food System
The Healthy Families team is working with many of council’s services to help local government promote health and wellbeing. One project has involved helping council-run early childhood education centres and after-school programmes provide children with better access to good food.
In this Practice Foundations session, Winnie Hauraki, Manager of TSI’s Healthy Families programme, shares how she and her team worked to make these shifts in the system, the approaches they took and the challenges they faced.
Whānau-led Design – What Does It Actually Take?
He Whānau Whānui o Papakura (HWWoP) is a group of whānau residing or connected to Papakura who leading an innovation process focused on thriving futures for tamariki.
Supported by Papakura Marae and TSI, HWWoP has been working with local agency leaders to design and test local prototypes that are strengths-based, values-led alternatives to current service and programmes models.
Te Tokotoru
Te Tokotoru is a systems approach to wellbeing, developed alongside whānau and rangatahi. It provides a different starting point for designing and investing in equity and intergenerational wellbeing. It’s being used in different government settings like Te Aorerekura to enable a shift towards strengthening and healing.
In this session we share some of the origins of Te Tokotoru and the principles it represents, what we are learning about the kinds of conversations and shifts in thinking it can help support and provide opportunities to explore what this means in your own context.
Reflections with Karl Wixon
Karl Wixon specialises in envisioning, co-designing and achieving positive futures through thought leadership, strategy, change, design, growth and innovation. He brings a marriage of commercial, creative and cultural acumen to all he does and is frequently called on as a skilled facilitator to weave together complex collaborations spanning cultures, sectors, entities and interests to develop shared visions, find direction, and codesign solutions.
Karl has led pioneering strategic and transformative projects across a wide range of sectors spanning design, cultural heritage, health, housing, education, justice, language revitalisation, tourism, fisheries, primary sector and economic development, both in New Zealand and offshore. Karl has worked in Canada with the Treaty Relations Commission and for development of regional economic strategy for Northern Manitoba in a highly collaborative codesign process working with First Nations peoples, industry, communities and provincial government.