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    Civic circle : empowering young New Zealanders to volunteer with local non-profit organisations : a thesis submitted by Ross Patel in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2018) Patel, Ross
    The most common comment made by volunteer-involving organisations in both 2015 and 2016 State of Volunteering in New Zealand reports was that “the majority of volunteers are older (aging) and there aren’t enough young people stepping up” (Volunteering New Zealand, 2017, p. 26). Another common observation was that volunteers are less committed and are ‘time poor’. This is in contrast to the research that shows millennials (people born between the 1980s and 1990s) are upbeat about their ability to have a positive impact on the world (Green, 2003). Millennials can offer many skills and qualities to help non-profit organisations, although such organisations are currently inadequately prepared to welcome them (Fine, 2008). This design-led research sets out to explore how to empower young New Zealanders to volunteer with local non-profit organisations. Participatory design methods were employed to engage 27 representatives from 21 organisations and 19 young New Zealanders in the design process. Keywords: Volunteering, non-profit organisations, volunteering-involving organisations, young New Zealanders, millennial engagement, generation-y, civic engagement, design thinking, co-design.
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    Making moves : an adventure through space, colour & form : an exegesis presented with exhibition as fulfilment of the requirements for thesis Masters of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2012) Peters, Gary C G
    This exegesis reveals a practice that has been driven by making as the means to address questions concerning colour, space, form, time and site. From an initial desire to create a sustainable and self generating painting practice this text plots the development of a systematic method that uses data derived from choose-your-own-adventure books. As the system is deployed across a variety of sites, wall drawing and paper folding become the focus where the rules based generation of form is fused with an intuitive sense of placement and use of colour. Further deployment explores the role of colour in response to site, the temporal nature of this work and it’s engagement with the viewer resulting in a response to architectural site.