From December 17 to 21, 2023, MIT D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith led a week-long, hands-on course in creating appropriate technology solutions to help address livelihood challenges in the predominantly Māori community of Tolaga Bay on the East Coast of New Zealand's north island. The training was organized by longtime D-Lab collaborator Thabiso Mashaba of These Hands GSSE who is currently working with The Tolaga Bay Inn Charitable Trust.
Twenty-two participants of diverse backgrounds and ages learned skills such as silk-screening, woodworking, metalworking, basic electric circuitry, and aluminum casting.
Additionally, participants learned to apply the co-creative design process to identify community challenges and work together as a community to address them using locally available materials.
Read the report:
Report - Tolaga Bay Skill Builder Training II
