Indigenous Futures Design.
We work with our indigenous ancestral concepts to inspire our arts-based research and environmental concept designs.
Designing beneficial net positive futures inspired by our ancestral past.
net+ community
CURRENT PROJECT
NET+ FUTURES DESIGN
2020
REGION NET POSITIVE LTD.
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION DATABASE.
Platform/ App concept design & development
Social Enterprise: built on a circular model whereby all profit is returned to the environment.
Allowing the land to become self-sustaining as a 'legal entity' in its own right
Building a Net+ Community Network.
ENVIRONMENTAL art
2021
ART WHAU
Weaving Biodiversity Art Project:
A collaborative with local community gardens & gardeners.
Creating a series of 3 digital weavings promoting Te Ao Māori concepts of Manākitanga, Kaitiakitanga, Māramatanga.
AUCKLAND
2021
THE NATURE OF CITIES FESTIVAL
AOTEAROA ARTS CURATOR
22nd - 26th February
GLOBAL
2021
SCULPTURE TRAIL
A proposed sculpture trail for Manawa Karioi, Ecological Restoration Project.
Design & Project Management.
WELLINGTON
2021
BIODIVERSITY
COLLAB
A collaboration with artist Virginia Woods-Jack to mark the opening of UN biodiversity conference COP15 22ND MAY 2021.
WELLINGTON
ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES DESIGN
TE AO MĀORI PRINCIPLES
TE AO MĀORI PRINCIPLES
FUTURES DESIGN
VISUALISING TE AO MĀORI PRINCIPLES
Building resilience means protecting, preserving and enhancing the Mauri or life force of our environment, communities and ourselves.
URBAN REGENERATION
Working with Amanda of Ecomatters and Urban Farmers Alliance on a workshop that incorporates Te Ao Maori principles of Raranga Rerenga Rauropi: Weaving Biodiversity community art project in the Whau district, Auckland.
Ecofest 2021
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Legal & administrative research with the Waitaha Executive Grandmothers Council regarding environmental issues across ancestral + tribal lands in New Zealand.
Using GIS data mapping, geospatial documentation & Te Takutai Moana Information Hub.
2007 - Ongoing
FLAX FIBRE
RESEARCH EUROPEAN FLAX LINEN.
Nutrient dense organically grown European flax linen in cycles with food. To define a net positive food & fibre growing environment in tune with native plants & trees.
BLACK FLAX
PRODUCT R & D
Future design label using linen textiles that are 100% pure flax plant fibre, organically grown in New Zealand.
KAWAKAWA
PRODUCT R & D
Wild sourced and sustainably foraged from the forest, using tikanga Maori methods, we are developing a range of rongoa teas. Kawakawa is the first.
RONGOA FOREST
PRODUCT R & D
Small scale research and growing of native trees and plants to have a better understanding of how we can regenerate our forests. To create biodiverse nutrient dense beneficial rongoa forests.
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY