Critical Signals

(1/6) Critical Signals is a lab for collective and creative resilience - a gathering place for people who believe communities can build their own futures. Here's some exciting news! We are kicking off again in August 2026 and want to hear your voices in the shaping of this year's programme ✨

Free movie screening tonight! Directed by the world-famous Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, Wałęsa: Man of Hope tells the story of Lech Wałęsa, an electrician at the Gdańsk Shipyard, who became the country’s first democratically elected president since 1926. buytickets.at/criticalsign...

What a fantastic, energising few months it has been with all of you! Critical Signals is close to the end, but we're wrapping up with a bang, with an event on nearly every day of the week. Click here for more info on all these events: criticalsignals.nz/programme/

For 16 years Sophie Jerram has worked to develop spaces for community and artists in environments free of commercial forces,and government purview– urban commons. Crucial to the survival of spaces is examining how and who makes decisions around them. buytickets.at/criticalsign...

The future of energy is being revolutionised by energy communities like Ecopower and Som Energia, who generate energy communally. Hear the case for local institutions that generate knowledge & trust that the market cannot, from someone who has seen it firsthand. buytickets.at/criticalsign...

buytickets.at/criticalsign... There are still 8 slots left for Sculpt the City this Saturday! Come along to build our city out of clay, and explore the meeting points of vulnerability, strength, connection, and adaptation.

Modern economics treats energy as just another input, when in reality, energy is the foundation of everything we call “the economy”. WEAll Aotearoa joins us at 113 to explore how we can build systems grounded within planetary boundaries. 📅 21st October 🕒 6.00PM-7.00PM 🏠 113 Taranaki Street

Giuseppe Micciarelli was instrumental to writing laws that made space for community in cities, and he's coming to NZ to tell us about it. Can we change our laws in Aotearoa to empower communities to use the space around them? And what direct action could we take now? buytickets.at/criticalsign...

Critical Signals has come so far in only a few months. We still have so much more to do even though we don't have much time left! A huge thank you to our sponsors, The Goethe Institut NZ and EUNIC, for enabling space for our community to form. criticalsignals.nz

Critical Signals is teaming up with @wellingtonzinefest so you can create MORE ZINES! Come along to process, express, or prep for Zinefest in October. Never made a zine before? This is the perfect place to start! 🕑 2.00-6.00PM 📅 17th October 📍 115 Taranaki St 🔗 buytickets.at/criticalsign...

Come see us in person! Our kiekie koha coffee hours are from 1o-2, Tuesday to Friday. Come our from behind the screen, and come have a koha coffee, read books, enjoy art, and kōrero about what you want for the future. 📍115 Taranaki Street

Join Sound Designer & Field Recordist Emma Bernard for a workshop on the basics of field recording, exploring how it can be used to document and deepen our understanding of the environments we inhabit. 📅 10th October, 10.00AM 📍 113 Taranaki & Central Park 🔗 app.tickettailor.com/event/ev_902...

By 2034, one-fifth of the New Zealand population will be over 65. What are the implications for this coming change for democracy, and collective resilience? 📅 Thursday 1 October ⏰ 5.30pm -7.00pm 📍 115 Taranaki Street 🔗 RSVP HERE: buytickets.at/criticalsign...

We're thrilled to be hosting a kōrero with expert in grassroots community resilience, Justin Corbett, this week! Come along on Thursday evening to discuss community-led responses, why top-down philanthropy has missed the point, and what we can be doing instead. 🎫 criticalsignals.nz/programme/we...

Professor Julia Steinberger, a world leading researcher in post-growth living, has a plan to halve our energy use globally, while still live fulfilling, comfortable lives. 🗓 Wednesday, 9th September ⏰ 6.00PM - 8.00PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street ⭐ criticalsignals.nz/programme/li...

How much energy do we actually need to meet our needs as a society? Prof. Steinberger's zoom talk will explore new ideas, and connect you with people who want to make change happen. 🗓 9th September ⏰ 6.00PM - 8.00PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street 💫 RSVP at tinyurl.com/3w53u28y

❤️ Deliberative Democracy Workshop An intro workshop to deliberative democracy, a consensus based system for making healthier collective decisions. criticalsignals.nz/programme/de... 🗓️ Today, at 5.30PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street

Why are arts, culture, and mātauranga Māori such important ingredients for community climate action? And who is showing up to make change in Pōneke, and how can we build on that energy? 🕢 September 2nd, 6.00pm 📍 113 Taranaki Street www.tickettailor.com/events/criti...

From creating fairer economies, community climate action, consensus decision making, to sculpting Pōneke out of clay, we have something for everyone next week! ✨ View our programme here: lnkd.in/eV6f7HY2

Our 2026 programme is off to an incredible start! Tonight we're calling in 📣 our wāhine & non-binary whānau to workshop alternatives to increasingly unsafe tech giants. What's the Bluesky for Youtube? For Slack? Let's share what we know! Tickets and info here: criticalsignals.nz/programme/de...

Pōneke people, would you care to share your insights? If you'd like to shape Critical Signals' thematics for 2026, you've got another day to weigh in on this survey. Let's hear it!

Kia ora! 👋 Critical Signals is a three-month long pop-up public space at 115 Taranaki Street, Wellington, Aotearoa NZ for learning, imagining, and practising how sovereignty, resilience and collective care will shape our futures in times of rapid change.