Café Complexité
Learn more about Café Complexité—a relaxed, pre-work meet-up to engage with complexity science.
Complexity can be simplified, and stimulate new ideas and solutions. And to us, everyone is part of doing complexity science!
We invite you to pop in to learn about how new insights and tools in complexity science can help solve policy problems, uncover new opportunities for collective well-being, and be applied across scientific disciplines. Café Complexité is a space for conversation, bridging the gap between the latest developments in complexity science and real-world challenges.
We invite government workers, practitioners, and interested members of the public to our conveniently located Pipitea campus to share ideas and establish links between our communities.
We will hear from experts presenting key concepts, methodologies, or case studies to illustrate their approach to complexity in their daily work. Attendees are welcome to raise areas of interest or share their challenges, which we can explore as a group through a complex systems lens.
The 2026 Cafés are once a month on Thursdays from 8-9 am in The Atom—Te Kahu o Te Ao innovation space, 33 Bunny Street, Pipitea Campus. As you enter the Ground Level of Rutherford House, the Atom is immediately to your right. Discussion topics to be announced soon.
| 2026 Café Complexité Dates |
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| 19 March: Natalia Albert Llorente, PhD Candidate, Victoria University of Wellington, "Policy as a Complex System: What happens when political science meets complexity science?" |
| 16 April: Kristi Palmer, Manager, Intervention Design, WorkSafe New Zealand |
| 13 May: Tamatha Paul, MP for Wellington Central, Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand |
| 18 June: Deputy Mayor Keri Brown, Deputy Mayor, Hutt City Council |
| 16 July |
| 13 August: Mayor Andrew Little, Mayor of Wellington |
| 17 September |
| 15 October |
| 19 November |
| Pub Complexité TBA |
Contact us at Chair_in_Complexity_Science@vuw.ac.nz for a calendar invitation and for more information about the events.
Check out the Cafė channel on our Discord server to join the conversation: Café Complexité Discord
