We are wrapping up Critical Signals for 2025 with a party - you are all warmly invited to join on Saturday 27th from 6:00pm for reflections and conversation with drink and light snacks. Please join us as we celebrate and reflect on all of the connections, discoveries and understandings nurtured during this initial phase of Critical Signals, and dream together of what’s next.
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Hosts
Sophie Jerram
Curator, researcher and social entrepreneur, Sophie is a co-founder of Letting Space and Urban Dream Brokerage. She is a Trustee of the Vogelmorn Community Trust which owns and runs Vogelmorn Bowling Club. She wrote her …
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Ira Bailey
[Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika, Te Atiawa] An activist and tech entrepreneur with experience in fintech, platforms, security and cloud infrastructure, Ira has also worked with Indigenous communities in Australia. …
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Clay Joy Smith
Clay is a culture scout and local music lover from Te Whanganui-a-Tara who believes that community and knowledge are too important to be gatekept by profit-driven, unelected power hoarders. Moved by their dream of …
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Mix Irving
Mix Irving is a programmer, former teacher, and gardener of community. Has been building peer-2-peer tech for 10 years, and working in and on community-first organisations for longer (Ao Tawhiti, Loomio, Enspiral, Secure …
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Ed Strafford
A content writer and researcher/evaluator. Experiences include Public Service, Adult Education, IT Strategy/Policy, Māori-Crown Relationships, Curriculum Development, Assessment Design, and Classroom Teaching.
Ash Holwell
Ash is a design activist creating places through community ownership and participation, prototyping ecosystems of functional care, and pushing the boundaries of sustainable design through the simple and complex social …
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Ollie Hutton
A multidisciplinary myth-making artist, a self described ‘polymath peace pilgrim’ recently returned home to the harbour, and now nestling in the wing of his co-founded arts collective Mouthfull. With film, …
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Susan Basterfield
Susan is a catalyst and transformation accompaniest. Working with progressive founders, organisations, and projects worldwide, Susan aims to increase coherence between the what and the how of participatory and dynamic …
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Cathrine Dyer
Dr. Cathrine Dyer is a Lecturer in Climate Change at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches environmental poltiics and international climate change policy. Her PhD research examined government …
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Jack Gittings
Jack is a designer, musician, and co-founder of Mouthfull - a collective working with physical and digital spaces.