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Visualising he kupenga

Design drafts are invited to implement he kupenga, a Māori fishing-net, as a Network logo. Should the logo include text? You decide.

The kupenga was chosen to convey a wealth of meanings that resonate also with the western knowledge traditions that most of us study:

  • the kupenga begins with harvesting and preparing natural fibre, and weaving and knotting; multiple kinds of knowledge play into its production
  • using a kupenga requires skills to throw or set it, plus natural history knowledge of where and when
  • its few material parts are widely spread yet connected to form a strong, flexible surface
  • like most historical evidence, waters flow right through and are never seen again; the net, like an historian, captures only very little — but what it captures, matters.

Feel free to post sketches or discussion below, or e-mail them in to us. A final design is not needed yet: unless a network node happens to have time to do that, our goal is to write a brief for a graphic designer who'll produce some candidates for us to choose among or build upon.

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