OUR PROJECTS
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.
Future projects
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
Rongo-marae-roa-a-rangi: He moemoeā.
RONGOĀ TEASHOP
&
COMMUNITY RONGOĀ FOREST GARDEN
Letting Space | Urban Dream Brokerage
Awarded Community Art Commission.
WELLINGTON CBD
2021
PROPOSAL
A continuation of the community-based project in Auckland.
The design of a citizen forest for health and wellbeing.
WELLINGTON
FILM DOCUMENTATION
OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
REGION NET+ COLLABORATION
MASSEY TEXTILES/
RANGI TE KANAWA/ AGRESEARCH
ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES DESIGN
TE AO MĀORI PRINCIPLES
KAUPAPA MAURI
VISUALISING TE AO MĀORI PRINCIPLES
Learning about Biodiversity from a Mātauranga Māori perspective while collating scientific data.
Visual data collection of native plants & trees
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.
Collaborating with Better Futures Forum & Transitional HQ
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
PLANT FIBRE & MATERIALS
HARAKEKE FIBRE
2017 -
HARAKEKE PLANT FIBRE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE PARTNER WITH MASSEY UNIVERSITY.
FLAX FIBRE
2017 -
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
2017 -
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
2017 -
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
2017 -
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