Gather offers a range of professional landscape architecture services to connect people and places through design.
Projects range in scale from urban neighbourhoods and spaces, parks & reserves, ecological restoration and landscape conservation plans, to co-design projects alongside community initiatives and child-centric design programmes.
We work with you to create a tailor-made process that inspires, transforms and changes the way people feel about the places in which they live.
Our Services
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Co-Design
Empowering communities to participate meaningfully in the design of their outdoor places. We encourage collaboration, kaitiakitanga (ownership) and manaakitanga (care of places) for the long term, strengthening local identity, connection and belonging.
Re-imagining Doris Lusk Reserve
Christchurch City Council
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Landscape Architecture
Protecting and enhancing the health of indigenous ecosystems and biodiversity in public places including parks, open spaces and recreational areas.
We do this through waterway and habitat restoration, green corridors, community gardens and trees for shelter, well-being and lowering urban air temperatures. We work enhance experiences of natural and cultural heritage, facilitating cultural expression and identity, enabling people to feel a connection with and responsibility towards their natural environment.
Greening the East
Christchurch City Council & the Inner City East Revitalisation Working Group
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Child-led Design Programmes
Our child-centric design programmes involve children and young people throughout the design process, empowering them to shape the places where they live.
Drawing on children’s natural curiosity, we design learning experiences to enhance their sense of place and belonging in their local community.
By participating in meaningful ways, children learn they can make a difference in shaping the places where they live.
Place Cadets Phillipstown Community Centre Charitable Trust
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Design is a social process.
By pairing design expertise with participation, we draw on people’s local knowledge and experiences of outdoor environments to facilitate public agency, wellbeing and the re-imagining of places.
Our Participatory
Design Approach.
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Our co-design methods put people back into the heart of problem solving, ensuring meaningful collaboration that responds to lived experience.
Through design thinking, we bring new energy and innovation to public places, empowering people through a strong sense of ownership and belonging.
Our process is iterative, organic and experiential, bringing communities together to work towards common goals.
Interaction Design Foundation