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.