A big week last week for our Urban Development Institute of New Zealand UDINZ team delivering
“Whakatipu Taone: Growing cities with Mana Whenua".
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| Gala Dinner:
📅 Thursday 9 October, 2025
⏰ 5.30pm onwards
📍SOHO Hotel, Auckland
The dinner will be a celebration of Urban Development empowered by Iwi Māori Partnerships to be held the evening of 9 October 2025.
It will highlight, through:
(i) a Panel discussion between sector leaders; and
(ii) an inspiring keynote dinner speaker,
the ingredients for successful partnerships between Iwi and urban developers - partnerships creating outcomes that are also attractive to those wishing to invest for purpose.
It will showcase future visions where cities honour Te Ao Māori, promote sustainability and create spaces that reflect our unique identity and aspirations.
If you are keen to be part of this register now and join other progressive individuals and organisations in:
➡Celebrating partnerships that honour mana whenua and intrinsically NZ values of inclusiveness in shaping urban spaces; and
➡ Improving your understanding of how urban development can be sustainable, culturally responsive, community-driven AND attractive to international purpose driven investment
This event is for developers, urban designers, policymakers, consultants and supply chain as well as central and local government and iwi leaders wishing to explore the potential to collaborate for future urban landscapes that reflect and honour Aotearoa's bicultural heritage.
| Our Speakers:
Names of our Speakers and Panelists will be added as they are announced.
Kaikōrero
Kaiwhakahaere o Te Pae Kōrero | Panel Facilitator
Rārangi Pae Kōrero | Panel Line-up
Kaikōrero Matua | After Dinner Keynote
| Our Sponsors:
With thanks to all of our sponsors for stepping up to support this great new event on the calendar.
| Site Tours:
📅 Thursday 9 October, 2025
⏰ 1.00pm - 3.30pm
📍SOHO Hotel, Auckland
UDINZ along with, supporting organisations Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga|Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Ockham, are proposing to run a site tour early on the afternoon Thursday 9 October as an adjunct to the Whakatipu Taone: Growing Cities with Mana Whenua gala event, of the former Carrington Site. Like the main Gala this tour celebrates Urban Development outcomes empowered by Iwi partnerships
This project, a collaboration between the government, Marutūāhu, Ngāti Whātua, and Waiohua-Tāmaki rōpū, and their project partners will transform a 39.7-hectare area into a thriving community with at least 4,000 new homes.
The development, also known as Te Kukūnga Waka, aims to create a vibrant and livable neighborhood with a mix of medium- to high-density housing, including market, affordable, build-to-rent, and social housing options. The project will also feature extensive native plantings, high-quality open spaces, and upgraded public transport infrastructure .
Three Tāmaki Makaurau rōpū are working together to deliver the project, which is enabled by collective Treaty redress arrangements. This collaboration ensures that Māori values, perspectives, and interests are integrated into the development process. In terms of progress, enabling works, including road realignments and upgrades, are well underway. Housing delivery has commenced but the entire project anticipated to take around 10-15 years to complete.
Join us initially at SOHO where we will hear from our supporting organisations Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga | Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Ockham and then travel to the site to visit the recently completed Toi and view the wider site from the top of the first building to be completed – “Toi” by Marutūāhu/Ockham.
End the tour with Q&A and refreshments at the Residence Lounge.
Tour Guides:
Fiona Coughlan, Manager, Development Tools at Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga | Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
David Hermans, Chief Advisor at Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga | Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
William Diehl, CEO at Ockham.
📅 Friday 10 October, 2025
⏰ 9.45am - 12.30pm
📍Panmure, Auckland
UDINZ along with, supporting organisation Tāmaki Regeneration Company (TRC) will run a site tour the morning after the Gala Dinner on Friday 10 October as an adjunct to the Whakatipu Taone: Growing Cities with Mana Whenua gala event. Like the main Gala event this tour of TRC's work in Tāmaki will celebrate Urban Development outcomes empowered by Iwi partnerships.
Tāmaki Regeneration is a housing-led, place-based regeneration organisation that works alongside Mana Whenua, the community, and partners to shape the future of Tāmaki through New Zealand’s largest regeneration programme.
Their focus is on increasing the pace of housing delivery by building new warm and dry homes, being an excellent tenancy and asset manager for social housing in Tāmaki, and delivering social and economic programmes that leverage the redevelopment and accelerate broader outcomes for whānau.
Tāmaki is made up of approximately 20,000 diverse residents, with around 35 percent of residents aged under 25 and approximately 60 percent of the population identifying as Māori and/or Pasifika. Through the regeneration programme and redevelopment of homes in the area, the 900ha of Tāmaki will become home to a population of approximately 60,000 by 2043.
Join us to hear about their program of work and tour the wider site by bus with TRC team representatives ending the tour with Q&A and refreshments.
Our Tour Guides:
Shelley Katae, TRC Chief Executive, (also our Gala Dinner Panelist)
Daniel Henderson, TRC GM Commercial & Development
Joanna Brain, TRC GM Strategy & Masterplanning.