He Whānau Whānui o Papakura (HWWoP) is a group of whānau residing or connected to Papakura, leading an innovation process focused on thriving futures for tamariki. Supported by Papakura Marae and The Southern Initiative (Auckland Council), 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.

In this Practice Foundations session, Dickie Humphries will lead us through some of these questions, based on his own experience of responding to these same questions in his practice. He will introduce concepts and tools from Moana Nui, and reflect on practical and real-life lessons from his work in indigenising systems.

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).