To support the Auckland city centre in it's journey to Tamaki Makaurau, to help ensure it's a city for all it's people with spaces that invite, engage and support the development of community. To support the development of spaces from a place and community led perspective.

To facilitate, guide and support the range of suppliers and stakeholders shaping and carrying out the work. To engage with, promote and champion the creative industries.

To ensure that the work we carry out is authentic and meaningful and we can demonstrate it's value and impact.

In better being able to support those around me and affect change in line with my beliefs. To walk the talk.

To adapt my approach to a project and stakeholders, better understanding their role. To approach every project form a perspective of understanding it is part of a wider complex environment and consider that equally in the response.

Myself, my family, my knowledge and skills.

Philosophy, ethics, language, narrative/story telling, communication.
Terry Pratchett
Richard Dawkins
Leonard Cohen

I'll have a go. Humans are a chance development of evolution and society today is a continued evolution of this in that it's the best way we have found to exist as a large population. That said the creative expression and thinking we are capable of is incredible and I feel lucky to be alive in a time where there seems to be greater recognition of the value of knowledge and ritual practiced by indigenous and first nations people and that there is a lot we can learn from it and can practice to improve the way we live as communities and the impact we have on the environment.