Waka Whetu

Whakatere (to navigate) from the dream space we are exploring Māori & Indigenous Speculative Design & I.S. Fiction I.Futures.

‘Waka Whetu’ is a mahere ariā (concept map) bringing together ancestral matauranga, applying it to contemporary life, and imagining how it looks in the future. 

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Waka Whetu | Mahere pae tukutuku (website map): 

• Te Whare-o-Tane - information from our native plant research, rongoā recipes, visual data collection, the Community Rongoā Forest & Region Net Positive.

• Digital Paepae - shared stories and writings from our collective.

• Whare Wananga - a library of indigenous stories, thinking, and research.

• Kōrero Paki - (telling yarns) a more casual conversation sharing thoughts, stories, discoveries, and information from our journey.

• Paeāhua - photo essays of life on te waka whetu. 

The future goal for Waka Whetu is to add a subscription plan, offering the opportunity to koha invited artists/ musicians/ poets/ writers/ thinkers to create and help visualise new Net+ futures as a collective.

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If you are a fellow Substack-er please add Waka Whetu to your library, this will also help us to find you and keep up to date on all of your work. This space will be rich, full, and diverse we would like recommendations on speculative fiction, speculative futures, sci/fantasy writers, authors, musicians, poets, and artists of all cultures. We are most interested in the stories that inspire the imagination and exploration of hopeful positive dreaming.

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