Te Pūnaha Matatini is the home of complex systems research in Aotearoa New Zealand. They reveal the patterns and dynamics shaping our world and grow ethical, collaborative experts equipped to address our most pressing challenges.
Te Pūnaha Matatini
Well, we had fun with this one 😁.
Te Pūnaha Matatini (TPM), as you would imagine for the home of complex systems research in New Zealand, creates a LOT of content and different kinds of outputs. They needed a website design that distilled the interwoven nature of their content; projects, posts, resources, team members and symposiums into something clean and easy to navigate.
We were invited into a talented team co-ordinated by Jonathan Burgess from TPM to work with them and the design team from Toi Āria to rebuild the site into something truly representative of the mahi they do.
The combined effort of the team yeilded great results.
“The presentation of the site comes with such an outstanding clarity that it underpins beautifully a key message we want to pursue: the world is naturally complex, but there are approaches and tools to bring clarity to this and move from complexity to possibility!”
Their previous website was in WordPress and lacking in cohesive structure. The new website needed to be fully manageable by their content team so we chose Statamic CMS for the job. We used Statamic’s collections and content management features to make a website where all the content has a place and can easily be edited and linked across the site.
Best of all we got to collaborate with the fantastic team at Te Pūnaha Matatini, the wonderful design team at Toi Āria and use the gorgeous fonts from New Zealand type designer KLIM fonts. The design work, icons and patterns and strong typeface driven design created by Jean, Anna and the Toi Āria team produce a striking website.
A truely enjoyable project.
How we helped
Structured the content into multiple “collections” for easy management. This also allowed us to link different types of content throughout the site, team members to their posts and projects for example
We made sure all the links auto populated between content types, reducing admin time. So if you link a team member to a project, the project is automatically added to the team members profile at the same time.
Optimised Statamic’s back end to easily manage all the content and give complete content control to the Te Pūnaha Matatini team
Comprehensive search and filtering for several of the collections
Migrated hundreds of existing blog posts and team members from the previous site.
Managed some complex redirects to preserve SEO from the previous site
