Anna Michels Portfolio

The way we live and work is changing. The way we shop, eat, and travel: all changing. This rapid change and growth mean we need to better plan and help shape our cities to be places that can support great quality of life. We need to think clearly about how we can contribute to tackling one of the biggest challenges of our time, climate change. When it comes to transport, it means looking at how we can offer safer, healthier, and more accessible alternatives for everyone across New Zealand to move around more easily.

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By providing better and safer cleaner travel options, we will be able to make our towns and cities more people friendly and pleasant places to live, work and visit.

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This project accompanies newly developed separated cycleway routes throughout the city to provide destinations and stopping points along the route. It aims to create a vibrant an pleasant cycle experience in order to facilitate permanent modal shift.

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The project is funded through the Climate Emergency Response Fund (CERF) programme by Waka Kotahi (New Zealand transport agency). The public funding stream brought its own challenges and complexities to the project. 

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The project design was undertaken alongside the local shop owners and community to ensure desire for the parklets and foster stewardship by the community over the newly created public spaces.