Urgent Moments Art and Social Change: The Letting Space Projects 2010-2020

Mark Amery is a writer, producer, curator and facilitator who works across the public arts and media with a focus on new forms of participation. Co-founder of Letting Space, Paekakariki.nz and Paekakariki FM 88.2, Amery works at RNZ and as a contributing arts editor for The Post. He is a member of the Wellington City Council Public Art Panel and in 2022 completed a public art project, The People's Voice, with Wellington social housing residents.

Sophie Jerram works with artists in community, government and academic roles. Following the Letting Space and Urban Dream projects she completed a PhD in spatial commoning at the University of Copenhagen and Victoria University of Wellington. She is a founding trustee of the Vogelmorn Community Group in Wellington. She currently works as the aho tini (arts strategy) implementation manager at Wellington City Council, and as curator/researcher at Toi Taiao Whakatairanga University of Auckland.

Amber Clausner is a British arts producer based in Te Whanganui-a-tara, Wellington. She ran artist-run space MEANWHILE between 2019 and 2022 and has co-produced projects such as CubaDupa (Public Art Curator, 2023), Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui (2018 and 2022) and Shared Lines (2019 and 2020). Amber currently works as an organiser for E tu union.