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Urban community catchment management
City council catchment project
City infrastructure assessment

Urban community catchment management

Creative Decisions was commissioned by the urban catchment management community group, Friends of the Whau, to create a CD-based information system. Friends of the Whau are committed to taking an integrated catchment (or watershed) management approach to achieving sustainable development. The purpose of the CD-based multimedia information system was to bring together, in a lively and compelling way, available information on the Whau-Oakley catchment ecosystem, and position the group to develop a strategy for their involvement in ecosystem management, including further information gathering and monitoring. Friends of the Whau provide the CD to all new members, and use it to promote their activities and inform their meetings and discussions. The CD focuses on urban sustainability issues from the perspective of ecological rehabilitation, and includes much information on landscape and ecological transformations within the catchment, the activities of the group, as well as general background information on the catchment and the activities of the Auckland and Waitakere City Councils who share jurisdiction.

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City council catchment project

When Waitakere City Council, Auckland, was in the process of establishing a flagship integrated catchment management project centred on the "Twin Streams catchment", they commissioned Creative Decisions to prepare, in 2003, a CD-based multimedia information system that would assemble key information about the catchment, present the proposed plan for rehabilitation of stream margins with community involvement, and present the entire project within a local and international sustainable urban development context. The Council was also keen to explore the value of multimedia information systems as devices for informing group discussions and strategic planning, as Project Twin Streams was seen as a test of the hypothesis that a major stream rehabilitation effort could provide the impetus for building community involvement, not just in environmental projects, but in the democratic process generally. Project Twin Streams has become a major initiative of the Council, which places a high priority on community strengthening.

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City infrastructure assessment

Waitakere City Council. Auckland, New Zealand, wanted to present their inaugural 2005 Assessment of Water and Sanitary Services using multimedia. They also wanted to present the assessment in terms of the "quadruple bottom line", as the Council was in the process of marshalling ideas on how best to approach sustainability reporting. As an EcoCity since 1993, the Council had a number of projects under way that were in all contributing in different ways towards developing an armoury of tools with which to implement sustainable development. Many of these related to how the Council proposed to manage the City's water services, as management of water was pivotal to the council's strategy to achieve sustainable development. The 2005 WASSA (Water and Sanitary Services Assessment) was structured around the various urban and rural communities within the city, and Creative Decisions prepared a CD/DVD-based multimedia information system that allowed the user to investigate background information, descriptions of the water and sanitary services, assessments of current and future demand, an assessment of performance, a synthesis of issues (based on the NZ2100 framework), a review of tools and technologies available to manage the issues, and a presentation of "choices and directions" which examined options for managing future growth and water services within the city, and included a decision support tool, based on previous options evaluation studies, and a comparison of alternative futures in terms of issues identified using NZ2100. Almost every page within this information system included interactive elements requiring the user to engage with it to explore the information content, and thus provoke curiosity and increase the likelihood of information retention. It was the first readily accessible holistic, integrated assessment of water and sanitary services that the Council had ever done, and integrated social, economic, environmental and cultural information in a way that had never been done before.

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