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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
“I know – that’s the system. The system is wrong”: Allyship and social justice in community interpreting from a service-user perspective
Defined as the practice of gaining awareness and acting upon the oppression of marginalized groups, allyship can account for the power interpreters hold in systems of oppression and can contribute…continue reading
Posted on 3 January 2025 |
Huritanga 10 Years of Transformative Place-making
This book celebrates a decade of Life in Vacant Spaces, affectionately known as LiVS, and the collection of over 700 projects supported during this time.
Posted on 4 December 2024 |
Enabling life in vacant spaces: A partnership approach to evaluating holistic wellbeing in disaster recovery contexts
This report outlines two approaches to assessing the intentions and outcomes of the non-governmental organisation, Life in Vacant Spaces (LiVS), in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Ōtautahi Christchurch presents a useful case study…continue reading
Posted on 4 December 2024 |
Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise: Final Report
Urban communities around the world are using farming and gardening to promote food security, social inclusion and wellbeing (Turner, Henryks and Pearson, 2011). In the New Zealand city of Christchurch,…continue reading
Posted on 4 December 2024 |
When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment
Project overview: Urban communities around the world are using farming and gardening to promote food security, social inclusion and wellbeing. For Christchurch-based Cultivate, urban farms are not only physical places…continue reading
Posted on 4 December 2024 |
More than monitoring: Developing impact measures for transformative social enterprise
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 involves transformational change in the business of business, and social enterprises can lead the way in such change. We studied Cultivate, one such…continue reading
Posted on 4 December 2024 |
Refugees and mental wellbeing. A call for community approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper was co-produced by a mental health special interest group as part of the Migrant and Refugee Health Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology. The paper started as…continue reading
Posted on 3 December 2024 |
Workshop report: Improving working conditions for interpreters, a collaborative session
On 16 September 2023, an interactive workshop was held during the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters (NZSTI) Conference in Ōtautahi Christchurch to address fair pay and working conditions…continue reading
Posted on 26 November 2024 |
Nine approaches to buildings
Creating case studies of successful pathways to building ownership was an important part of the Stable Spaces research. They model strategies and tactics that we can learn from and repeat.…continue reading
Posted on 20 November 2024 |
The Stable Spaces Survey
The purpose of the Stable Spaces survey was to establish an overview of how the arts are housed in Aotearoa, and how their housing supports their activities. Going into the…continue reading
Posted on 20 November 2024 |
Stable Spaces
The Stable Spaces report is the first significant national survey on the state of independently owned physical arts infrastructure in Aotearoa. The report examines what makes successful asset ownership in…continue reading
Posted on 20 November 2024 |
State of Volunteering in Aotearoa New Zealand Report 2024
The State of Volunteering 2024 report marks the sixth edition in Volunteering New Zealand’s ongoing series. We surveyed volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations. The state of volunteering is fairly positive, though…continue reading
Posted on 14 November 2024 |