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Contemporary Māori Design: Keeping Culture Movi...
Māori visual culture has never been a museum piece. It has changed, adapted and responded to new materials, new technologies, new environments and new generations of artists. That is one...
Contemporary Māori Design: Keeping Culture Movi...
Māori visual culture has never been a museum piece. It has changed, adapted and responded to new materials, new technologies, new environments and new generations of artists. That is one...
Understanding Māori Motifs: Koru, Manaia, Mangō...
In Part 1, we looked at why Māori design is about much more than attractive patterns. Visual forms can carry relationships to whakapapa, whenua, te moana, people and the natural...
Understanding Māori Motifs: Koru, Manaia, Mangō...
In Part 1, we looked at why Māori design is about much more than attractive patterns. Visual forms can carry relationships to whakapapa, whenua, te moana, people and the natural...
The Meaning Behind Māori Symbols: Understanding...
Introduction: More Than Patterns A design can be beautiful. It can catch your eye from across a room. It can make you think of a place, a memory or a...
The Meaning Behind Māori Symbols: Understanding...
Introduction: More Than Patterns A design can be beautiful. It can catch your eye from across a room. It can make you think of a place, a memory or a...
The Ocean Continues to Shape Who We Are
Thousands of years have passed since the first great Pacific voyages, yet the ocean remains central to life in Aotearoa. Every sunrise over the East Coast. Every paddle out through...
The Ocean Continues to Shape Who We Are
Thousands of years have passed since the first great Pacific voyages, yet the ocean remains central to life in Aotearoa. Every sunrise over the East Coast. Every paddle out through...
Living with the Moana: Fishing, Diving and Coas...
For Māori communities throughout Aotearoa, the ocean has never been viewed as a place that exists separately from everyday life. It has always been part of it. Long before modern...
Living with the Moana: Fishing, Diving and Coas...
For Māori communities throughout Aotearoa, the ocean has never been viewed as a place that exists separately from everyday life. It has always been part of it. Long before modern...
Surfing and Māori Culture: A Connection That Sp...
Introduction Stand on almost any beach in Aotearoa before sunrise and you'll notice something familiar. A surfer waxing a board beside the car. A fisher checking the tide before launching...
Surfing and Māori Culture: A Connection That Sp...
Introduction Stand on almost any beach in Aotearoa before sunrise and you'll notice something familiar. A surfer waxing a board beside the car. A fisher checking the tide before launching...