This research-through-design project is a labour of love for the Ōrongorongo Valley, its clusters of hidden huts, the people who built and used them, and future generations of visitors. Faced with ownership transfer to DOC and possible demolition, what will become of the unique material, narrative and heritage of the huts? The research documents all 56 huts and proposes a system of re-membering that remains open to multiple possibilities and timescales of de/re-construction.
When you flow through my body, I know, I am caught in the current of a river, larger than the length of my own lifetime, it bends where we have all been before, same rapids, other waters, our veins, my blood, I know, I am in the flow, of something greater than my own self - Mana by Karlo Mila 2020
