The people gathering, learning and acting together as part of Critical Signals. More bios to come
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 PhD on the practice of spatial commoning and continues to investigate tools of collectivity.
[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. He is the founder of CoShop , an online platform to reconnect communities to local producers.
Emily is a member of the Critical Signals core team.
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 technology of sharing. Ash works under spacelamp and has co-founded two/fiftyseven, oneonethree, oneonesix, and Whare Bike. He also chairs Whakaora Kai and works collaboratively with CoLiberate.
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 Scuttlebutt, Mātou ). Part of Protozoa Coop , and currently working on Socket Security .
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 community-owned spaces that spark our commitments and feed our spirits, their multidisciplinary work seeks to stitch our contextual fabrics into collective power, providing alternative narratives to rising techno-tyrannies. With a background including hospitality, event production, permaculture and software-oriented product management, they are now focused on creating conditions for experimentation, play, and learning - especially together.
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 leadership and governance. She is obsessed with the human interface and relational field. Her practices include Greaterthan, Generous Ventures, Enspiral, and lots of other zones of conscious collaboration.
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.
