Indigenous brands, Maori business, Kaupapa Growth and innovation, collaborative pilot projects, culture connection and exchange, design enabled economic, culturally enriched.
Town development (5000 pp, 1900 house lots) atop and adjacent to ancestral pa sites in North Canterbury. Acrimonious beginnings, transformed through engagement of an experienced full time cultural advisor from local hapu, responsible for bringing local voices into the conversation AND weaving their values, narratives and aspirations into the towns design and operation.