Café Complexité

Learn more about Café Complexité—a relaxed, pre-work meet-up to engage with complexity science.

Complexity science is complex—but we invite you to pop in to learn about how new insights and tools in complexity science can help solve policy problems 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
12 February
19 March
16 April
14 May
18 June
16 July
13 August
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

View of the Atom meeting space with tables
Meet-up area in the Atom innovation space.