Launched in March 2025, Transitions in Action is a field guide to the future. It shows how communities, iwi, local businesses and organisations in the Wellington region are already reshaping the fabric of urban life in response to climate change, social inequality and housing pressures. Initiatives documented included Toast Electric, a social energy retailer, Wai Waste, a community food organisation, and Capital Kiwi, a kiwi habitat restoration project in Wellington. The guide is available for free online and is designed to be used by a wide range of audiences, from policymakers and planners to community organisers, iwi and educators. Link:

This short film illustrates how cities are already serving as agents of change, fostering innovation to build resilient, biodiverse urban systems that prioritize non-human and human wellbeing. Launched at Aotearoa New Zealand’s Architecture & Design Film Festival the film introduces Ngā Tohu MauriOra, a wellbeing-centered compass designed to guide transitions toward zero-carbon, regenerative, and community-focused cities. By documenting these real-world examples of resilient change, the film aims to inspire and accelerate further local action toward urban wellbeing.

The short film Fruitvale: A Community Compass for Regeneration explores a school and neighbourhood community acting for urban regeneration. Launched at Aotearoa New Zealand’s Architecture & Design Film Festival the film focuses on how the community is activating their regenerative‘compass’ and action plan to revitalise their local river, grow local food, teach their kids about local ecosystems, andsupport their local community.

This urban exhibition by LiVS & K-ORA celebrates a decade of Life in Vacant Spaces (LiVS), and a collection of over 700 projects supported during this time. Projects vary in shape, scale, location, aims, outputs, participants and the people they have reached within the space of the city.

During the course of the K-ORA research programme multiple compass co-creation workshops were run with building industry professionals. Compasses were developed within these sessions to draw attention to the practice's potential to operate regeneratively and to support action in this space. Acknowledgements and thanks to Context Architects and Jasmax (architecture &design practice).

K-ORA, the urban wellbeing programme, was invited to exhibit to represent the National Science Challenge Building Better Homes Towns and Cities at the Local Government conference 2022, in Papaioea, Palmerston North.