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
HUA PARAKORE
A series of graphic images promoting Manaakitanga, Kaitiakitanga and Maramatanga for distribution via the community gardening and food networks in the Whau
Whau wide
2021
BIODIVERSITY
WITH NATURE
A collaboration with artist Virginia Woods-Jack to mark the opening of UN biodiversity conference COP15 22ND MAY 2021.
As an adjunct to @withnature2020 global collaboration by artist Emma K Thomas.
ENVIRONMENTAL
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
PLANT FIBRE & MATERIALS
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.
RONGOA | MAORI PLANT MEDICINE
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.