Community Led Development - Auckland NZ 2011
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Waiheke Island's
Okahuiti/Ostend Residents & Ratepayers Association
hosts a workshop on Community Planning, with guest speakers Tess Lieu, Max Thompson, Joel, Marjike Ransom.
March 2011
What happens when centralised Council continually imposes top-down mentality & inappropriate business led plans on small communities?
Waiheke Island, New Zealand, is well known for its population's forthright opinions, historically dictated neither by profit led plans nor necessity for conformity.
Here representatives of the island & greater Auckland Community groups discuss how to go about working with existing structures & having a positive impact on the spanking new Auckland City governance outlines.
Auckland Council has recently gone against express will of the majority of its voters & conglomerated formally independent electorates into its 'Super City' Structure. This is in keeping with the National Governments theology of a centralised power base. This increases concern that these growing international trends tend to reduce power of unique cultural and environmental heritage, overriding the will of its people and undermining individual and community growth in favour of a predatory and dominating business model.
Anyway - as this film was commissioned & not my own project, I report as shown on the day (give or take initial minimal artistic licence). However I remain sceptical of these CLD plans, as a donkey may remain sceptical of the dangling carrot - to placate or not placate, that is the question.....
Okahuiti/Ostend Residents & Ratepayers Association
hosts a workshop on Community Planning, with guest speakers Tess Lieu, Max Thompson, Joel, Marjike Ransom.
March 2011
What happens when centralised Council continually imposes top-down mentality & inappropriate business led plans on small communities?
Waiheke Island, New Zealand, is well known for its population's forthright opinions, historically dictated neither by profit led plans nor necessity for conformity.
Here representatives of the island & greater Auckland Community groups discuss how to go about working with existing structures & having a positive impact on the spanking new Auckland City governance outlines.
Auckland Council has recently gone against express will of the majority of its voters & conglomerated formally independent electorates into its 'Super City' Structure. This is in keeping with the National Governments theology of a centralised power base. This increases concern that these growing international trends tend to reduce power of unique cultural and environmental heritage, overriding the will of its people and undermining individual and community growth in favour of a predatory and dominating business model.
Anyway - as this film was commissioned & not my own project, I report as shown on the day (give or take initial minimal artistic licence). However I remain sceptical of these CLD plans, as a donkey may remain sceptical of the dangling carrot - to placate or not placate, that is the question.....
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