Together, they strive to foster spaces that strengthen community connections through furniture, architecture, and event series.
At a monthly mahjong gathering, a new generation of players finds community through the centuries-old game.
Ambivalently understood, the phrase “Hawaiian sense of place” is heard everywhere from the tourism industry to design sector. The islands’ traditional place names, however, often remain silenced. Can one truly honor places without acknowledging the importance of inoa ‘āina?
Through his mastery of the laborious wet-plate collodion process, Hawaiian photographer Kenyatta Kelechi memorializes modern-day Hawai‘i.
For the past three years, filmmakers Joan Lander and Sancia Miala Shiba Nash have been digitizing and cataloging half a century’s worth of invaluable Native Hawaiian footage.
Ma nā ‘ulu‘ulu palapala a me nā waihona ki‘i, he nui ho‘i kau nā hunahuna ‘ike waiwai o ko Hawaiʻi...
He mea pohihihi paha ka hoʻomaopopo ʻana i ka ʻōlelo he “Hawaiian sense of place”, he hopunaʻōlelo e lohe hele ʻia ana mai ka ʻoihana hoʻokipa malihini a ka ʻoihana hakulau. I ka hapa nui naʻe o ka manawa, he hoʻohāmau ʻia ke ō ʻana mai o nā inoa ʻāina kuʻuna. Ua hiki anei ke hoʻohanohano maoli i ka ʻāina me ka ʻike ʻole ʻana i nā inoa ʻāina?