Community Led Design
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata he tangata he tangata!
What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people!
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Define.
We help various communities, hapu and marae understand their short to long-term visions, identify their current situations, and strategically plan their way towards better outcomes.
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Develop.
Through workshops, design exercises, consultation, and collaboration with various organisations, we help develop community plans that set out the visions and steps required to achieve those visions over time.
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Deliver.
Community plans are used as the road maps for budgeting and delivery by private or public entities. Often this will be a local council, Iwi or via central government funding such as the Provincial Growth Fund or the Oranga Marae scheme run by Te Puni Kōkiri and the Department of Internal Affairs.
Workshop. Hui
Design workshops, co-designing, community-led design, design charrettes are all terms that describe a process where professionals, decision makers and the community gather to discuss, collaborate and agree on the goals, reality, opportunities and ways forward for the town, suburb, city or marae. At blac projects, we facilitate this collaborative process.
Document.
We have the crucial ability to distill words, korero, pictures and sketches into a collective representation of the goals, realities, opportunities and ways forward for a project. There are a series of interactions with the parties involved which take our draft documentation through to final versions.
Present. Submit.
Community plans are true reflections of the communities that they affect because they have been compiled with community input. A plan will often have a list of priorities or actions which can be presented or submitted to relevant authorities or organisations to inform long-term planning, funding decisions etc.
Deliver.
Our work is often not complete once plans have been finalised. Most plans have agreed actions which will be undertaken over time. With the benefit of the prior knowledge of what informed the agreed actions, we can help communities deliver on their agreed actions.