Designing With Nature: Regenerative And Mātauranga Māori Pathways To Resilient Stormwater And Community Wellbeing.
This workshop introduces regenerative design practice and Te Ao Maori values and principles, with a strong focus on how these can transform stormwater management and the delivery of blue green networks. Drawing on examples from projects In Tamaki Makaurau, partiopants will explore how regenerative thinking can strengthen the stormwater industry’s ability to respond to climate, flooding, and community wellbeing challenges.
A short presentation will be followed by an interactive session where participants apply key regenerative frameworks and tools to stormwater specific scenarios. We will share practical examples from projects such as Te Ara Awataha, Te Whakaoranga o te Puhinui and Healthy Waters and Flood Resilience’s Blue green Network Programme, illustrating how place-sourced,culture-led and community-fed interventions improve flood performance, ecological, social and cultural outcomes, alongside improving urban resilience.
Designed to be engaging and collaborative, the session encourages cross disciplinary discussion and inspires participants to integrate and apply regenerative and matauranga Maori approaches into their stormwater and blue green network practice.
National Soakage Design Guide Draft – Open for Feedback
Stormwater soakage is widely used across New Zealand, but current practice varies significantly between regions, councils and site conditions.
This workshop will present the draft National Soakage Design Guide currently being developed by Engineering New Zealand and outline how it supports more consistent assessment, testing and design of soakage systems. This draft is currently open for feedback and this session will invite discussion on key topics covered in the guide, including site suitability, groundwater, geotechnical risk, testing methods, overflow management and long-term performance.
A short presentation of the draft will be followed by a Q&A session. Participants are encouraged to review the draft guide here.
Please email any initial questions or comments to siobhan.lilley@engineeringnz.org by Monday 11 May, so the panel can identity any recurring themes and address these during the session.
Too Much Water, Too Much Data: A Personas-Based Look At Flood Data Use
Flood modelling produces vast volumes of outputs, yet only a fraction of this information is published or used in practice. But who are the end users of flood data – and what information do they actually need to make decisions?
This workshop explores flood information needs through persona based lens, shifting the focus from what we can produce to what different users need to decide and act. Participants will unpack the wide range of flood data users – from planners and engineers to emergency managers, asset owners, and the public – and examine how their contexts and responsibilities shape their data requirements, focusing on identifying the information that each persona needs to support effective decision-making.
