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Anne Cunningham has over two decades experience working at the intersection of local people, public sector and professional spatial design across Aotearoa, Europe and beyond. She balances research with practice, focusing on in what ways participatory/co-design methodologies enable and limit equitable and vibrant places. She is currently Director of Consentire, and Acting WSP Fellow at the Helen Clark Foundation. She has submitted a PhD (Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki and Copenhagen University) in Landscape Architecture and Planning, examining how ‘how' we design shapes consent for ‘what' we design. From 2013-2018 she worked on Ōtautahi Christchurch’s regeneration: including co-founding Te Pūtahi, Christchurch Centre for Architecture and the City-Making, and co-designing, with Christchurch City Council and ReNew Brighton, a novel approach to engagement - ’The How Team’. Prior, she held a range of roles including 10yrs at the award-winning, Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. Her programme was supported for by the Scottish Government’s Architecture Policy Unit, and was cited to the OECD and UNESCO as exemplary practice.