关于我们
我们是一家创意空间营造机构，致力于连接社区发展、城市设计、艺术和公共干预的交汇点。我们创造条件，使人们与场所产生积极、实验性和富有乐趣的互动，从而将人们与地方联系起来。

全球知名
Gap Filler是一家创意空间营造机构，致力于连接社区发展、城市设计、艺术和公共干预的交汇点。我们利用这些手段探索如何以创意方式吸引和参与人们，从而塑造和重新想象他们居住的地方。

我们制作独特且具地方特色的创意活动、互动装置和其他形式的干预，来培养地方认同感，并使地方更加令人兴奋、富有社交氛围和多样化。我们利用这些经验来指导城市战略和空间营造咨询服务。

Gap Filler是新西兰Aotearoa的领先空间营造组织，在全球范围内拥有十多年的激活公共领域的经验，推出创新有趣的装置和活动，并开发支持这些成果的策略。我们致力于让重新想象世界的行为变得愉悦、具体和有感染力。

Gap Filler是Ākina认证的社会企业和注册慈善机构。

总部设在新西兰
我们的试验基地是Ōtautahi基督城，自2010年以来，我们丰富多样的成果吸引人们参与实验、参与并重塑一个正在经历巨大而迅速变化的地方。我们的工作帮助改变了我们保守的花园城市的身份，使其成为“一个无所不可能的城市”（基督城市议会战略框架，2018年）。基于这种演变的经验，我们在新西兰Aotearoa和世界各地提供战略、装置和支持服务。

我们的方式
我们通常让重要相关方参与从构思到交付的空间营造项目的开发和创建。偶尔，Gap Filler会创造“提案性”项目，这些项目源自我们团队内部，并随着项目的展开而扩大范围 - 需要时引入设计师、制造商、行业专家和专业人员。公众通过参与一个从明确需求中发展出来的活动或体验成为最终受益者。

我们的愿景
健康繁荣的积极主动的市民共同努力塑造他们的地方。

我们的使命
设计并创造条件，促进引人入胜、实验性和富有乐趣的相遇，将人们与地方联系起来。

愿景成为现实
我们会暗示（有时明确说明）人们作为负责保持社区、城镇和城市充满活力和繁荣的市民的权利和责任 - 我们为人们提供更多参与机会。通过与关心该地方的人们互动，介入措施得以制定和实现。

Gap Filler识别出社会需求，一种需要不同“看法”的愿望，一种新视角，一种吸引人们参与的对熟悉事物的扭曲。通过参与，需求得到满足，市民得到看到和倾听，现状被挑战，以至于人们会再次回来，期待类似的经历，或者被激励参与未来项目。Gap Filler希望人们在如何在他们生活和工作的地方被代表的方面变得直言不讳和可见。

我们希望独立或合作地让市民在体验他们的地方时说：“这就是我们 - 这就是我们是谁；我们是我们社区中的积极决策者；我们在街头玩耍；我们愿意尝试一些新事物，公开展示，这是因为我们看到其他人也在这样做。我们寻求共同体验因为这让我们感觉良好；我们活在自己和我们居住的地方之中。这些经历鼓励我们寻找更多的经历；它们鼓励我们要求更多，问‘为什么不？’，期望我们的城市、我们的街道和我们的公共领域代表并反映我们，展示我们所有的信仰和文化。”

About us
We are a creative placemaking agency operating at the crossroads of community development， urban design, art and public intervention. Creating the conditions for engaging, experimental and playful encounters to connect people to place.

Globally-acclaimed

Gap Filler is a creative placemaking agency operating at the crossroads of community development, urban design, art and public intervention. We use all these means to explore how to involve and engage people in creative ways to shape and reimagine the places where they live.

We make unique and place-specific creative events, interactive installations and other sorts of interventions to grow a sense of identity and make places more exciting, sociable and diverse. We use these experiences to inform an urban strategy and placemaking consultancy.

Gap Filler is a leading placemaking organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand, with more than a decade of worldwide experience in activating the public realm with innovative and fun installations and events – and developing the strategies that underpin these outcomes. We strive to make the act of reimagining the world joyful, tangible and infectious.

Gap Filler is an Ākina-certified social enterprise and registered charity.

New Zealand-based
Our testing ground is Ōtautahi Christchurch, where since 2010 our prolific and diverse output has invited people to experiment, engage in and reshape a place undergoing vast and rapid change. Our work has helped shift the identity of our conservative Garden City to “a city where anything is possible” (Christchurch City Council Strategic Framework, 2018). Drawing on this evolutionary experience, we deliver strategies, installations and support services all around Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.​

Our Way

We typically involve significant others in the development and creation of placemaking projects, from inception to delivery. Occasionally, Gap Filler creates ‘propositional’ projects that grow from within our team and the reach of the project expands as it unfolds – bringing in designers, fabricators, industry experts and professionals as required. The public are the final benefactors, through taking part in an event or experience that has developed from an identified need.

Our Vision
Healthy and thriving communities of active and proactive citizens working together to shape their places.

Our Mission
To design and create the conditions for engaging, experimental and playful encounters to connect people to place.

Vision into Being

We implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) remind people of their rights and responsibilities as citizens charged with keeping communities, towns and cities alive and thriving – and we provide more accessible opportunities for people to participate. Interventions are developed and realised by engaging with the people who care about the place.

Gap Filler identifies a social need, a desire that requires a different ‘take’, a new perspective, a twist on the familiar that attracts people to participate. Through participation, needs are met, citizens are seen and heard, and the status quo is challenged in such a way that people come back for more, expect similar experiences, or are motivated to participate in future projects. Gap Filler wants people to be vocal and visible with respect to how they are represented in the places they live and work.

We want to independently or collaboratively engage citizens in experiences of/in/with their places that has them say: “This is us – this is who we are; we are active decision-makers in our communities; we play in the streets; we are willing to try something new, in public, and we do that because we see others doing it as well. We seek the communal experience because it makes us feel good; we are alive to ourselves and where we live. These experiences encourage us to seek out more of them; they encourage us to ask for more, to ask ‘Why not?’, to expect that our cities, our streets and our public realm represent and reflect us, in all our beliefs and cultures.”