WICI - Waitakere Inform Challenge Inspire 2008

How we confront change is a key issue for the city and region of tomorrow.		Waitakere Inform Challenge Inspire: 12-15 August
August Seminar Series	Recent Speakers
Featured Speakers - Notes and Video	Further Reading
Workshops	Relevant Websites

August Seminar series

Seminar and Workshop Times Times and booking details are available here. These are free events but bookings are essential.

WICI Seminar Programme (Size 47K) Learn more about the speakers and what content is covered in the WICI presentations.

Three nights of seminars are planned for August and these aim to inform you of what to expect for the future, to challenge your ideas and perceptions about how the future might look and to inspire you to contribute to creating a better future and to respond locally to global issues.

Unitec is a joint sponsor with the council and together they have gathered together an impressive list of speakers - local, national and international - to take you through a journey to the future.

Three half-day workshops are also planned to provide opportunities to create the future you want.

Take a look at the seminar and workshop programme and then join us in the revolutionising the future.

Featured Speakers

Tim Jones - Bio Convenor of the Sustainable Energy Forum Presentation: The Urgency of Reducing our Dependence on Oil 12 August Notes	Niki Harre - Bio Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland  Presentation: Mental Obstacles to Changing our Behaviour 12 August Notes	Gary Marshall - Bio Head of Design, DJ Scott and Associates Presentation: Designing a Different Future 12 August	Ann Magee - Bio Sustainability strategist Presentation: Let's start to create a better city 13 August Notes Video
Martin Udale - Bio Chief Executive Officer, McConnell Property Presentation: Re-Inventing Cities 13 August Notes Video	Jonathan Smales - Bio Group Chief Executive, Beyond Green Presentation: The Importance of Place 13 August	Jacquie Clarke - Bio Cultural Producer Presentation: The Ecology of Ideas 13 August Video	Peter Newman - Bio Sustainability Activist Presentation: The Urban EcoSystem 14 August Notes Video
Dorothy Wilson - Bio Community & local Government Leader, Advisory and Activist Presentation: Activating The Collective 14 August Notes Video	Damian Collins - Bio Assistant Professor of Human Geography, University of Alberta Presentation: The Value of Social Capital as the Currency of Change. 14 August  Notes Video	Bob Harvey - Mayor of Waitakere City Presentation: 12 August  Notes	Penny Hulse - Deputy Mayor of Waitakere City Presentation: My Own Back Yard 14 August  Notes Video

Workshops

Starting the day after each seminar, the workshops will provide a chance to talk about the ideas, concepts, challenges and words of inspiration that came out in the seminars.

We will spend the first hour of the workshops talking about the seminar content - we hope that local speakers will be able to join us at the workshops so you can ask questions of them and get involved in dialogue.

The second part of the workshop will be focused on group activities, exploring a different theme each day:

• Wednesday 13 August. Re-thinking. What needs to be considered | how do we do things differently | what does it mean to do things differently
• Thursday 14 August. Enabling creativity. How can we harness creativity as a means of managing change
• Friday 15 August. Going far and fast. How do we do this together

The workshops will be facilitated sessions, with participants being challenged to think about actions that could be taken to support doing things differently.

Recent Speakers

The WICI initiative has played host to a number of visiting speakers in recent months.

In July, the City heard from Jared Blumenfeld from San Francisco on sustainable city approaches and Dan Burden from Florida on walkability.

Further Reading

Relevant Websites

Story Of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. It exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

Project for Public Spaces
Project for Public Spaces is a non-profit planning and design organization dedicated to preserving public spaces as the nexus of community life.