Prepared by Helen Algar, presented by Roger Blakeley
Karen Coutts – Wow! A mihi in our 3 official languages
Marion Cowden – gave us a possible dream from Rotary in 1979 – eliminating polio. By 2018 the numbers have been reduced to 17 cases worldwide.
Jill Day – picked up the dreams from last year:
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Wellington as a te reo city
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Wellington as a child-friendly city
Georgina Beyer – not a dream, a recurring nightmare – State Highway 2 through the Wairarapa to future-proof Wellington against cataclysmic events.
Michelle Dickinson – Nanogirl – looking to the way our cells work, to heal our city
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titanium paint in our tunnels
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powering our city by walking, with nanofibres woven into our clothing
Susan Freeman-Greene – Wellington as a playpen for human ingenuity powered by STEAM – science, technology, engineering, arts, and maths
Eric Janssen – Eric dreamed a city where truth wins. Wellington is largely values-driven. We are happier than nearly all the cities in the world. But we still have gaps between the haves and the have-nots, and abuse of powers.
In the face of this, we need journalism we can trust.
Nick Kapica – told us about design thinking, looking at living through a different lens.
Some rules for designing cities:
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be bold
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get out
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think wrong
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make stuff
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bet small
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move fast
Nick Morrison – told us about microplastics in beer. Dreamed of plastic as a long-term love, not a one night stand. And … resources moving in a circular, regenerative system.
Ben Johnston – challenged us to walk on the vulnerable path – to reduce the relational distance between ourselves and the vulnerable and marginalised in Wellington.
Also talked about better resource use – food, in this case.
Melissa Clark-Reynolds – told us about the way a vision from last year’s Forum is being achieved.
Told us that the biggest risk to our children going to the corner store is traffic, not stranger danger.
Kim Workman – Parliament resolving issues by bipartisan public discussion of critical issues.
A city of collaborative conflict resolution – children learn it in school.
Fraser Callaway – Design is a process to creatively solve problems and find a solution.
Together we can change the world by design.
Peter McKenzie – gave us “social cohesivity”. The need to create vertical connections in our communities.
Jaye Glam Morgan – Wellington as the Emerald City.
A city filled with creative arts.
Bring back fashion to the capital.
Grant Robertson
1. Picked up on STEAM and took it to STEAMED – by adding ‘’designed’’
2. Noticed that the Summary related to his framework for the 2019 Wellbeing Budget – human capital, social capital, environmental capital and physical/ financial capital
3. In 2017 he talked about ‘Wellington – a city that is the opposite of loneliness’
4. For 2018 his dream is:
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A city where we care
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Where our defining value is Manaakitānga - emphasising kindness above everything else
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Kaitiakitanga over the resources in our city
5. The importance of third spaces in our community that are available to be and exist, to mix, to share, and enjoy,
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e.g. community gardens
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especially a place for people with mental illnesses to be warm, safe, with a sense of identity for a period of time during the day
6. Climate change – the need for a just transition
THEMES
Dream 1: Wellington as a playpen for human ingenuity
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powered by STEAM -science
- technology
- engineering
- ARTS
- maths
finding the power of bringing these together
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a city powered by walking with nano-fibres embedded in our clothing
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design as a strong element of the Wellington we want – all of us being involved in designing the city we want to live in
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a city filled with creative arts and fashion
Dream 2: Commitment and connection to our city and its people
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looking at life through a different lens
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different perspectives on the way we look at the city, including children
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achieving dreams through a coalition of the willing
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a city of collaborative conflict resolution – using the skills that children already learn in school
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building community cohesiveness through vertical connections in communities
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a city where we walk the vulnerable path alongside the vulnerable and marginalised in Wellington
Dream 3: Commitment and connection to the natural world
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plastic as a long-term lover, not a one night stand
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resources being re-used in a circular, regenerative system
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cleaning up our toxic tunnels with titanium paint
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wild spaces to play
Dream 4: Dreams about transport
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our transport links as the arteries and capillaries in the body of our city
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short walls between cyclists and cars
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drone personnel carriers –will they fix the transport issue over the next 10 years?
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conscious design of railway crossings
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‘fix the bloody buses’
FEATURED VIDEO
Impossible Dreams for Wellington: city and the region.
‘Impossible Dreams’ follows the highly successful Rotary Forum 2017: Achieving the Impossible Dream for Wellington: the city and the region.
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Presented by the Rotary Club of Wellington in partnership
with Victoria University of Wellington - Centre for Lifelong Learning.