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Our projects

We run our own projects and partner with others. Our projects promote diversity, creativity and social change. 

To learn more about a particular project, click the links below.

CURRENT 
PROJECTS

My Friend is a Superhero!

A children's book, which aims to reframe disability through the lens of functional diversity. On sale at Mighty Ape now! Or email us for discounts on 10 copies or more.

• I Think Differently

A toolkit to reframe and rename disability in order to focus on uniqueness and resilience rather than abnormality and deficit.

• dpsn

A blog that features commentary about diversity, creativity and social change.

• Unique Extras

A project that aims to use popular culture through the media to make disabled people visible in everyday life.

• IGODAP (International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers) 

A collective of artists and performers who identify with impairment and/or disability.

• DIVINQ (Diversity Inquiry)

An online and offline process designed for young adults, particularly senior high school students, that creates space for a light-hearted and fun yet meaningful and exploratory conversation about diversity.


PARTNERED 
PROJECTS

Active

• signDNA

project to preserve evidence of the origins and early development of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and NZ Deaf culture.

On hold

• Whānau Hauā: The Forgotten Treaty Partners

This project involves the production of a documentary video relating to Maori with disabilities from rural areas and their experience of poverty, with a goal of raising awareness and obtaining more support and resources.

PAST 
PROJECTS

• Unique Business

A six-month intensive self-employment mentoring and coaching programme.

• As Love Draws Near 

A music video by Philip Patston, creative and social entrepreneur, telling the story of how we all have the opportunity to move from fear to love by removing the labels that tie us down. 

• Pink Shirt Day

Pink Shirt Day is a national campaign aimed to raise awareness of how to prevent bullying.

• How Diversity Works

An exhibition that aimed to develop a more in-depth dialogue about diversity – moving beyond the usual characteristics of culture, race, gender, disability, sexuality

• Unique Sense

A project that aimed to build a collection of short films (3-5 mins long) that capture images, words and ideas about diversity and human rights and present them in an inspiring and creative multi-media mix of still images, moving images and sound.

• Creative Momentum

An archived collection of keynote addresses and interviews on creative diversity, compiled during 2009.