Mangere Design the Future FLIPCHARTS
[Notes written up from flipcharts written over the two day workshop]
AWARENESS / BASELINE
Mangere’s likely challenges of the next 50 years [stickies clumped by theme]
Community
§ Community fragmented & transient
§ Community involvement / awareness
§ How do you keep the community intrinsic to the process?
§ Community regain control of decision-making for community matters
§ Community take ownership of activities that affect the community
Population
§ Population +ve, media bashing -ve
§ Growing population > lack of services and facilities
§ Accommodate population growth - more demand on a finite world
§ Overpopulation - green space, housing, family size, jobs, environment
§ Immigration impact > only natural growth, none from the outside
§ Young population
Local Housing
§ Affordable
§ Build using natural resources
§ Housing intensification
§ Huge housing increase south of Massey road
Services
§ Likely more crime
§ Stretch on the services
§ Schools full, EC participation
§ lack of Medical facilities
Youth
§ are not engaged with traditional culture so gap with parents
§ Youth rebel
§ Relationship breakdowns in family
Environment
§ Lack of support for environment and sustainability of resources
§ Less green space, more houses
§ Health of Manukau harbour
Lack of resources / pressure on resources
§ Food
§ Water
§ Energy
§ Work
§ Sewage; bio solids - remove from dumping on Puketutu
Use of land & use of soils
§ Green belt
§ Recreation
§ Food bowl
§ Tourism gateway
§ Retaining green areas
Industrialisation / Urbanisation
§ Industrialisation cutting off access
§ Increased urbanisation at expense of open space
§ Industrial development
Employment
§ Retaining local businesses
§ Opportunities for people to live and work in local area
Transport
§ Transport / roading / public transport, road congestion; no train
Airport
§ Consumption
§ Relocate it
Powerful Questions
§ How can we get control of our own rates?
§ How can we empower communities when we don’t have management of the resources?
§ How can we unify (recognise) the already existing power and leadership hubs?
§ What could be a first critical event towards our desired future?
[The latter two of these were discussed in the next exercise]
WORLD CAFÉ DISCUSSIONS
1. How can we unify (recognise) the already existing power and leadership hubs?
GROUP 1
Stocktake
§ The hubs / who are the leaders?
§ What is the succession plan for leaders?
Communication
§ Nga Manga - strengthen
§ PHO’s
§ Culture groups
§ Youth Forums
§ BOT & schools
§ Sports clubs
§ Neighbourhood Watch groups
§ ARL referees association
§ Your own Whanau
§ Ethnic Radio and media
§ Council Community Boards
GROUP 2
§ Identify the groups (CAB database) - who?
o Who is the “we”? - diversity (demographic)
o Communities impacting on policies that affect them
Identify common:
§ Problems, needs, and groups it affects
§ listening to and learning from one another as well as talking - communication
§ Sharing knowledge, expertise
Communicate with them (How?)
§ Community Leadership [Leadership without power]
o Schools
o Social Services
o Churches
o Probus
o Marae
§ Decision-makers [who does have the power?]
o MSD, WINZ
o Airport
o Watercare
o Council
o Housing Corp
§ Common Issues or goals
o The harbour
o Mangroves
o Public transport
§ A forum
o Email list
o Funding?
o Apolitical
GROUP 3
§ Recognise - e.g. churches
§ Identify e.g. data bases - NMOM / Web / Health
§ Language e.g. this is how hubs occur - Mangere Bridge, Central, East
§ Nga Manga o Mangere - the many branches of Mangere
§ Where do we get our info? - local radio, the internet
§ Communication links, networks, web
§ Meet more
§ Marae - treaty model
§ Shift and empower residents - encourage movement, connection, issues
Group 4
§ Identify groups (database)
§ Communicate / discussion
§ Seek common ground
§ Agree on principles that being groups together
§ Currently Nga Manga is forum for action
§ Promote participation (engage) - of all groups in process
§ Marae, Churches also have own groups
§ Communities mean different things to different people
§ E.g. Mangere as a whole - or different parts of it
§ Industries, business a part of communities
§ Identify (discussion) - what comprises community?
2. What could be a first critical event towards our desired future?
§ Clean up the Manukau Harbour and foreshore for recreation
§ Recognise and celebrate the diversity and plurality of the area defined on a map as being Mangere
§ Co-ordination and development of public transport for Mangere
§ We don’t know what a desirable future for Mangere is
§ We don’t have a collective vision - there are many different groups, with different desires.
§ Specific to groups > common ground > whole of Mangere
§ Maybe the collective vision is the first step
§ Bring groups together to discuss their future, Vision, objectives, goals
§ Using Nga Manga as a starting point
§ Create workstreams to identify tasks and projects
§ Must bring them back together, identify priorities & critical projects
§ Constitution / Incorporated Society? Charitable status?
§ Forum - as a Lobby group - power of numbers to affect Voting & public opinion
§ Super City is Current Critical Event - democratic rights; representation in our community, realignment of boundaries / boards / wards reduced
OPEN SPACE EXCERCISE
Questions raised or topics posted
(not all were posed as questions, and not all were discussed):
§ What is our benefit out of the whole Design the Future exercise?
§ How do we bring people of the community together?
§ How do we redeem families?
§ How do you see youth in the next 50 years?
§ What change could I make in my home / work life that would make even a small difference?
§ What can we start today that will change tomorrow?
§ How do we turn words into action?
§ After all is said and done, WHEN?
§ How can arts centre and/or community centre improve the future and benefit the community?
§ Sustainable changes that are already happening
§ Energy
§ To hear about positive changes that relate to our area & can be used
§ Production in Mangere - self sustaining businesses locally in Mangere - start-up enterprises
§ The growth of the airport
§ Tourism & marketing
How can a community Arts Centre best benefit the community and improve the future of Mangere?
§ Treasure and support our languages in the community (indigenous languages)
§ Make resources, tools, technology accessible
§ Training, upskilling the community and education
§ Use our culture as a tool for tourism and to market / promote Mangere
§ Build leadership
§ Make the most of our celebrities as leaders and role models
How?
§ Partnerships
§ Share resources
§ Marae, churches, work together
§ People as a resource!
§ Engage youth through music
§ Exchange / trade food, or knowledge, or …?
§ Hold markets
§ Value history and heritage
What can we make from this process? What is the benefit of this exercise?
§ Formation of a leadership? Strategy group?
§ Do we put together a leadership group?
§ Is it a super city responsibility?
§ “ Community Board “ ?
§ “ Community “ ?
§ Who will assume a leadership role now?
§ Potential in Nga Manga o Mangere?
§ Non political - perhaps a place that attracts potential to form another group
§ Problem is many NMOM members work for organisations
§ Not necessarily decision-makers
§ Require a map of key leadership in the Mangere area - groups & networks
§ Who should be in such a leadership group?
§ Council = no $ resource, but a big relationship building resource
§ Cultural barriers to stepping up? - (AJ explain)
A virtual leadership strategy forum?
§ Other mechanisms
§ A project to unify community actions e.g. water front? Community gardens?
§ A common goal
§ Allotments 0- churches / schools
§ Resource - tractor and plough
What can we start today that will change tomorrow?
50-Year Needs
§ Clean food producing harbour
§ Green spaces
Sustainability
§ Getting people together to share stories
§ Individuals making sustainable choices - bags, cars, live/work)
§ Re-educating / awakening consciousness e.g. smoking being socially unacceptable
§ Permission-giving to self
Urban design -
o Grey water
o Run-off
o gardens
Large businesses
o Airport - e.g. philosophy of sustainability applied to all lease-holders
o Mahunga Drive / motorway > deal with grey water, run-off, rubbish
Plastic bags
§ NOT legislated
§ community awareness & recycling, cotton / recyclable bags
Transport
§ Individual action
§ Be example to others
Farming
§ sustainable
§ Negative effect of large business (e.g. milking in central Otago > water rights
Gardening
§ Watering
§ Use of grey water
§ Detergent issues
§ Implications for housing design
[Notes from one group]
§ Sharing Stories
§ Different imperatives for generations
§ Influence of consumerism
§ Actively promoted by business practice
o BUT also have alternatives - electric cars, charging stations, batteries
o BUT these cost
§ Implications for social change
§ Life: work / live
§ Urban design - e.g. corner shops vs. malls
§ End User does not make the Corporate decision
§ Public choice
§ Confectionery = success [?]
§ OIL is too (?) big
§ Airport Company
o Sustainability factors
o Solar cells, water run-off
o But what about applying theory to lease holders and make them subscribe to sustainability
[Some potential goals identified by another group]
1. No HNZ leased, or owned housing in Mangere by 2020
2. Auckland Airport investments in Mangere Leisure and Tourism infrastructure from 2012 onwards
3. Rail transport through and stopping in Mangere, by 2018
4. Central government policy change to reduce the number of immigrants residing in Mangere by 2015
5. Establishment of Social Policy and Strategy group for Mangere holding central government funding for Mangere services by 2012 (de-centralised decision-making)
6. Action for the regeneration of market gardens and re”clamation” of Green Space in Mangere by 2014
7. Establishment of a local Harbour Agency for the protection of local waterways and Coast by 2019
8. Puketutu Island returned to Mangere people - tomorrow!
9. Bio-solids returned to the point of creation
DOWN TO ACTION > What Actions will you take? [Notes taken from closing circle comments]
Community
§ Start dialogue
§ Start with Nga Manga
§ 16 cameras made a difference to the footbath issue
§ Show the proof
§ Ask for what we want
§ Good Luck! J
§ There are 1001 barriers - where will this go next?
§ One channel is the Board
§ Mangere has great potential
§ Pick some big projects with multiple benefits
§ Where are the Pacific voices; the Tongan voice - I am Tongan, but there needs to be many more of our people involved in this
§ Can we get together 4-5 of us and talk together to share across ethnicities - we could share more, find out what our communities are thinking e.g. about the super-city
§ I question how we can involve more with literacy problems - how can we connect?
§ Have a bigger conversation, leading to action
§ Our learning organisations involve over 40 families - need to use opportunities around Adult Education
§ We are so diverse
§ The voice of community > pride and participation - encourage people
§ Create ripples
In Organisations / with MCC
§ Talk with all groups
§ Put this information on a data stick with to share in my own group & my church
§ Tell our stories
§ Keep doing (or start) things like saving grey water, installing water tanks
§ Talk with our groups
§ Save Water
§ Avoid plastic bags
§ Talk to my groups about Design the Future
§ Encourage them
§ Decisions made by people outside Mangere, have a big impact on Mangere
§ E.g. airport, council, Puketutu, Watercare, Auckland Council!
§ Notice who is not in the room
§ Show we have teeth, do some biting
§ We should question our dependence on Council for water
§ Ask council to help us sustain ourselves, e.g. by use of back yard water tanks
§ Talk with pastors, ministers of churches - get involved
§ Mangere College (student participant) will report to school - I will talk to my school meeting on Monday and tell them about this - it has been a mind-blowing experience
§ We can learn from the past to help our future
§ I want to show our ideas to other people
§ I will talk to the ARL Committee of Voluntary Referees - we can use this as a way to encourage youth to avoid gang life
§ Probus, Historical Society, walkers group would all be interested
§ Many challenges > Puketutu, Airport, MCC etc
§ Tell council this was a really good workshop, with good international information and research
§ Ask Towards 2060 team how they can support us in the ripples we make
§ Sua W Sio - the MP for Mangere sends apologies, and a plea to keep him informed and involved - he can only help if he knows the issues
§ Big issue of overstayers, pressures they cause on other NZers - under the radar
§ Need a Youth MP
§ Talk together, more often
Me / My Family
§ As a resident
§ Who will lead us?
§ I’m unsure how much more time I can commit but I am already taking action [on local issues]
§ Recycle, save our rainwater
§ Garden, encourage our kids
§ I’m proud to be here
§ I’ll share what I learned with my kids
§ Raise awareness
§ Swimming pools could use rainwater, and if no backwash filter, could be used for lawns & garden
§ Encourage others