Design Futures Aotearoa
Empowering future thinkers across Aotearoa to connect, collaborate, and shape the future, together

What we do | Our Purpose

Amplify futures practice among public-interest organisations in Aotearoa to embed foresight in decision-making
Create inclusive futures experiences that cultivate intergenerational equity and long-termism at the heart of Aotearoa’s imagination
Connect Aotearoa’s futures ecosystem to encourage strategic collaboration, coherence, and collective impact

Who we are | Our People

Victoria Mulligan

Jade Tang-Taylor

Dr. Cheryl Doig

What’s Happening? | Upcoming Events

Join us for a Design Futures Aotearoa event, webinar and/or community of practice - a vibrant community of future-focused humans like you.

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Who we collaborate with | Our Partners

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Future Threads

Draw on, draw on

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Draw on the supreme sacredness

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To clear, to free the heart, the body and the spirit of mankind

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Rongo, suspended high above us. Draw together! Affirm!

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Draw on, draw on ✴︎ Draw on the supreme sacredness ✴︎ To clear, to free the heart, the body and the spirit of mankind ✴︎ Rongo, suspended high above us. Draw together! Affirm! ✴︎

Unuhia, unuhia

Unuhia ki te uru tapu nui

Kia wātea, kia māmā, te ngākau, te tinana, te wairua i te ara takatā

Koia rā e Rongo, whakairia ake ki runga

Kia tina! TINA! Hui e! TĀIKI E!