10 Years of The Auckland Co-Design Lab
June 2026
The Auckland Co-Design Lab
In 2025, The Auckland Co-Design Lab marked 10 years as an Aotearoa New Zealand public sector innovation initiative.
To mark this milestone, we have released a new report reflecting on a decade of work and learning about system level innovation to address complex challenges — and what will be required in the decade ahead.
If the first decade of The Lab was about demonstrating what is possible, the next is about enabling others to act on that knowledge. It calls for deeper systems capability — building the confidence, capability and momentum across the public sector to work differently alongside whānau and hapori, now and into the future.
We are deeply grateful to the whānau, hapori, colleagues and partners who we have had the privilege of working and learning alongside over the last ten years.
A special thanks to those who so generously shared their thoughts and experiences with The Lab, to Lee Ryan and Debbie Goodwin for conducting the interviews that formed the basis of this report, and to Holly Davies for design.
