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Bicultural practices:Self determination and hyperlocal planning in Vogelmorn, New Zealand
This paper aims to open a discussion about how urban and suburban commoning practices in New Zealand, largely driven by European influences, might meet at a conceptual and philosophical level, with the direction expressed by māori in a recent review on constitutional transformation, He Whakaaro Here Whakaumu Mō Aotearoa, also known as the Matike Mai Report (Matike Mai 2016). This report was written after three years and 252 hui (meetings) with māori by māori throughout Aotearoa New Zealand considering alternative forms of constitution. I will specifically examine a case study of a suburban, former bowling green and surrounding precinct in Vogelmorn Wellington, New Zealand as a site of commoning in action, one currently undergoing spatial and legal transformation through the work of its largely white-skinned (pākehā, non-māori New Zealander) neighbourhood in which the author is an embedded community member. A co-governance model has been set up to develop and care for the green. The wider neighbourhood’s decision-making has been developed alongside two years of participatory design workshops and an ongoing distribution of responsibility through largely non-hierarchical structures, and online decision-making tool Loomio. The existing municipal owner of the green, Wellington City Council, supports community co-governance at Vogelmorn and the emergence of what it terms ‘hyper-local’ planning tactics by funding the community’s spatial transformations. Hyper-local planning involves decision-making below the municipal level. The Vogelmorn project is a considered as a benchmark in community participation for Wellington city, laudable for sharing common assets. This paper considers how the evolution of this hyper-local work fits within the specific context of constitutional thinking of contemporary Aotearoa-New Zealand. In the 2016 Matike Mai report, the definition of constitution includes “…the way in which a community sets the rules and how the people should abide by them and live amicably together.” Matike Mai ...
Bicultural practices:Self determination and hyperlocal planning in Vogelmorn, New Zealand
This paper aims to open a discussion about how urban and suburban commoning practices in New Zealand, largely driven by European influences, might meet at a conceptual and philosophical level, with the direction expressed by māori in a recent review on constitutional transformation, He Whakaaro Here Whakaumu Mō Aotearoa, also known as the Matike Mai Report (Matike Mai 2016). This report was written after three years and 252 hui (meetings) with māori by māori throughout Aotearoa New Zealand considering alternative forms of constitution. I will specifically examine a case study of a suburban, former bowling green and surrounding precinct in Vogelmorn Wellington, New Zealand as a site of commoning in action, one currently undergoing spatial and legal transformation through the work of its largely white-skinned (pākehā, non-māori New Zealander) neighbourhood in which the author is an embedded community member. A co-governance model has been set up to develop and care for the green. The wider neighbourhood’s decision-making has been developed alongside two years of participatory design workshops and an ongoing distribution of responsibility through largely non-hierarchical structures, and online decision-making tool Loomio. The existing municipal owner of the green, Wellington City Council, supports community co-governance at Vogelmorn and the emergence of what it terms ‘hyper-local’ planning tactics by funding the community’s spatial transformations. Hyper-local planning involves decision-making below the municipal level. The Vogelmorn project is a considered as a benchmark in community participation for Wellington city, laudable for sharing common assets. This paper considers how the evolution of this hyper-local work fits within the specific context of constitutional thinking of contemporary Aotearoa-New Zealand. In the 2016 Matike Mai report, the definition of constitution includes “…the way in which a community sets the rules and how the people should abide by them and live amicably together.” Matike Mai ...
Bicultural practices:Self determination and hyperlocal planning in Vogelmorn, New Zealand
Jerram, Sophie (author)
2019-01-01
Jerram , S 2019 , ' Bicultural practices : Self determination and hyperlocal planning in Vogelmorn, New Zealand ' , Paper presented at Biennial IASC Conference (International Association for the Study of the Commons) , Lima , Peru , 01/07/2019 - 05/07/2019 . < http://hdl.handle.net/10535/10669 >
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