Arts Month in New Zealand is a grass-roots style campaign led by the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi to put the arts into the national conversation. The public were given the opportunity to write, draw, sing, dance and express what the arts meant to them in a digital and physical space.

In March 2019 what began as a normal Friday, ended as a day that no New Zealander would ever forget. The terrible mosque shootings in Christchurch, Ōtautahi New Zealand left over 50 people killed and a city in disbelief. How could design unite and create solidarity and hope?