The city council told us they were going to replace our playgrd with their design. The community demanded to create the new design, collaborating with indigenous people & kids from the school.
The result: a playground that expresses hopes for the future (as part of our 100 year vision).

From knowledge gained on the history walks, the kids painted these panels to tell the story from the time of nothingness till now.

As part of our 100 yr vision we are teaching the kids about the past. We took them on walks to places where history has happened.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Dolphins
Rats
Tui
Kaka
Shining cuckoo

As part of our communities 100 year vision, we are teaching people how to forage in the forest. We had a picnic on the beach at the end of the tour.

Collaborating with indigenous & local community to restore creek (it's buried under landfill & toxic water flows onto beach and into a marine reserve). Marking the creek on top of the landfill generated expressions of loss from locals. Read story here: haewaihoughtonvalley.org/liftingthecr...

The review, published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social, develops an analytical framework and provide recommendations for community-based landscape regeneration to support and mobilise more democratic and socially just approaches to ecological regeneration initiatives.