Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for one or several Ako Ako sessions! More than 190 people from across Aotearoa and overseas joined in! It was wonderful to see so many familiar and new people coming together as a collective, sharing all kinds of experiences, connecting and learning together.
We are very grateful to the hosts and contributors to each session for making this week full of examples and ideas so diverse, insightful and candid. Thank you.
All five recordings are now available on our website: watch, replay and share with others who might find them useful!
https://www.placemaking.nz/ako-ako-2021-recordingsHere’s a brief reminder of what we were talking about:
- Placemaking Aotearoa: what Placemaking Aotearoa is about, what we have been doing and where to next.
- Placekeeping Aotearoa: indigenous approaches to relationships between people and place and their application in practice.
- Think Like a Gardener: Waka Kotahi session about the learnings from the Innovative Streets for People pilot programme.
- Embedding Placemaking Practice in Local Government: real-life examples and learnings from placemakers working in/with local governments in Aotearoa and Australia.
- Placemaking at Kāinga Ora: what the New Zealand's largest urban development agency is doing in the placemaking realm.
Have ideas for the future Ako Ako sessions? Please get in touch!
Email us all at
placemaki...@gmail.com.
Ngā mihi,
Placemaking Aotearoa Collective