#2 SPOTLIGHTS – Let’s talk: The Auckland Co-Design Lab, New Zealand w. Penny Hagen and Eruini Hawke

For 10 years, The Auckland Co-Design Lab works as an implementation and learning partner to government agencies in Auckland. It genuinely centers place-based, community-led collaborations, indigenous knowledge and equity in knowledge co-production and public sector innovation. Exemplary, it initiated Niho Taniwha, which is a framework designed to weave together Mātauranga Māori, systems thinking, and on-the-ground practice to shift outcomes for Whānau and communities - bottom-up, not top-down. If you want to get inspired by other approaches that support Collaborative and Transdisciplinary Research around the world, check out the full recorded program of the SPOTLIGHTS -Let’s talk online series. SPOTLIGHTS brings global perspectives to PartWiss 2026 – the largest conference in Germany on participation in science. The SPOTLIGHTS program highlights people, institutions, and support structures making collaborative research possible. Together, we explore how transdisciplinarity, participation, and public engagement are embedded in science systems worldwide. The program consists of this series of online talks and of an exploratory study on support structures worldwide. More info can be found here: http://www.spotlights-partwiss.de/ SPOTLIGHTS is organized by the Laboratory for Transdisciplinary Research (TD-Lab) of the Berlin University Alliance and Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. Partners: Gesellschaft für transdisziplinäre und partizipative Forschung (GTPF), Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research (ITD) Co-funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. https://www.partizipation-wissenschaf... https://www.berlin-university-allianc... https://www.stifterverband.org/english https://www.gtpf.science/ https://itd-alliance.org/