After OcEAnic //
Project Index
After Oceanic projects operate as applied culture and theory in design: built environments are treated as evidence, and ʻāina is approached as a system of sustenance. Organized below by practice registers, the index shows how work takes shape across land stewardship, spatial evidence, prototyping, and institutional transformation.
Design and ʻĀina Stewardship
Architecture, planning, and advocacy as long-term acts of care—where form is accountable to land, water, governance, and cultural continuity.
Hāmākua Hikina · Hawai‘i Island
A long-horizon stewardship project centered on the sustainable care of roughly 1,000 acres. Work includes master planning and pre-construction design that supports ʻāina restoration and food cultivation, alongside concepts for a versatile hālau (learning center/community hub/commercial kitchen) and agricultural workforce housing—strengthening the capacity for ʻohana to live and thrive in place across generations.
Waialua / Haleʻiwa · O‘ahu · with Mālama Loko Ea Foundation
A phased restoration and development vision for Oʻahu’s third-largest wetland, grounded in cultural and historical knowledge and calibrated for climate adaptation. The masterplan addresses long-term infrastructural alteration and future flooding risk; the Foundation Building concept proposes a learning and community hub designed to support education, administration, and intergenerational gathering—architecture as stewardship infrastructure.
Hilo · with Hui Ho‘oleimaluō + Ka ʻUmeke Kā‘eo
A fishpond-centered place of learning designed to be regenerative, ecological, and biocultural. The work integrates planning and architectural concept development across phases (from pre-design through construction administration), emphasizing the relationship between land, people, and architecture while advancing education, food sovereignty, climate justice, and cultural excellence.
Maui
Site analysis and advocacy within a contested resort development context, supporting community implementation of prior settlement agreements. The work contributes to ongoing negotiations by helping make sustainable local affordable housing options and ecological restoration legible as interconnected responsibilities rather than competing objectives.
Spatial Evidence and Cartography
Mapping and analysis as civic intelligence—making cumulative conditions visible so communities and institutions can speak from a shared spatial reality.
Hawai‘i
A geospatial study translating statutory definitions and public records into a novel zip-code-level dataset and a set of infographics that make patterns of harm and wellbeing legible across the islands. The project demonstrates mapping as evidence: not illustration, but a tool for clearer understanding and more accountable prevention and care.
Using excerpts from the Hawai‘i Health Atlas concept, this project contributed spatial graphics to support statewide CHNA reporting and stakeholder dialogue. The emphasis is shared comprehension: giving communities and health systems a clearer spatial language for need, access, and inequity.
An artist-driven collaborative cartography initiative mapping the resurgence of ʻāina across Hawaiʻi’s built environments. The work assembles an index of ʻāina organizations (2019–2023) alongside public and custom GIS datasets, using “geospatial dialogue” to spark challenging, transformative conversation about how land actively produces intellect and wellbeing. Organized with poet Dawn Mahi.
Published in the Hawai‘i Journal of History
A research contribution tracing more than a century of American infrastructure projects and their cumulative impacts on the biocultural system of ʻUkoʻa Loko Ea. Using digital mapping and spatial analysis, the work demonstrates how cartography can function as historical method and civic argument—strengthening the case for restoration grounded in evidence and cultural responsibility.
Material Inquiry and Prototyping
Material study and making as a way of thinking—tools that bring complex spatial ideas into shared space, where people can see, question, and revise together.
A material research thread exploring how Native and island-based techniques—such as thatching and canoe lashing—can be carried forward within contemporary structural frameworks. By challenging default dependence on global industrial material logics, the work reintroduces localized knowledge as a driver of architectural innovation, cultural continuity, and future adaptability.
A hands-on learning prototype translating GIS into a scaled, color-coded 3D landscape model (where each LEGO unit corresponds to 100 meters). By turning aquifers, soil types, and precipitation into a tactile interface, the project builds spatial literacy as a shared capacity—opening conversations about ʻāina and ahupua‘a through making and play.
A hybrid physical–virtual platform built on a satellite-accurate terrain model with projected, data-driven graphics. Designed to infuse group conversation with spatial thinking, the holodeck functions as a civic interface—supporting shared learning, consensus-building, and kuleana-based dialogue at the intersection of new media, public art, and Indigenous intellect.
Learning and Institutional Transformation
Projects that build the field around the work—studios, platforms, and structures that sustain discourse and stewardship beyond any single site.
A long-running public-art and pedagogical framework bringing ʻāina forward as both built environment and living system of sustenance. The work introduces “recovery” (rather than “restoration”) as a futurist process—reclaiming land and water that have been lost, erased, or degraded—while shaping architectural and planning discourse through studio-based inquiry across multiple institutions.
A nonprofit public art and stewardship platform caring for the wellbeing of Native built environments across Pae ʻĀina Hawai‘i. It convenes critical conversations about past, present, and future recovery of Indigenous regenerative places, supports practitioners working in culture, food sovereignty, and land justice, and works toward structural transformation of Hawai‘i’s built environments through Native intellect and advancement.
Design and ʻĀina Stewardship
Architecture, planning, and advocacy as long-term acts of care—where form is accountable to land, water, governance, and cultural continuity.Hui Mālama I Ke Ala ʻŪlili (HuiMAU) Restoration Project
Hāmākua Hikina · Hawai‘i Island
A long-horizon stewardship project centered on the sustainable care of roughly 1,000 acres. Work includes master planning and pre-construction design that supports ʻāina restoration and food cultivation, alongside concepts for a versatile hālau (learning center/community hub/commercial kitchen) and agricultural workforce housing—strengthening the capacity for ʻohana to live and thrive in place across generations.
ʻUkoʻa–Loko Ea Wetland Fishpond Complex — Masterplan + Foundation Building Concept
Waialua / Haleʻiwa · O‘ahu · with Mālama Loko Ea Foundation
A phased restoration and development vision for Oʻahu’s third-largest wetland, grounded in cultural and historical knowledge and calibrated for climate adaptation. The masterplan addresses long-term infrastructural alteration and future flooding risk; the Foundation Building concept proposes a learning and community hub designed to support education, administration, and intergenerational gathering—architecture as stewardship infrastructure.
Kaumaui Learning Laboratory — Masterplan + Building Concept
Hilo · with Hui Ho‘oleimaluō + Ka ʻUmeke Kā‘eo
A fishpond-centered place of learning designed to be regenerative, ecological, and biocultural. The work integrates planning and architectural concept development across phases (from pre-design through construction administration), emphasizing the relationship between land, people, and architecture while advancing education, food sovereignty, climate justice, and cultural excellence.
Mākena Golf and Beach Club Affordable Housing Project
Maui
Site analysis and advocacy within a contested resort development context, supporting community implementation of prior settlement agreements. The work contributes to ongoing negotiations by helping make sustainable local affordable housing options and ecological restoration legible as interconnected responsibilities rather than competing objectives.
Spatial Evidence and Cartography
Mapping and analysis as civic intelligence—making cumulative conditions visible so communities and institutions can speak from a shared spatial reality.Consuelo Foundation — Child Abuse and Neglect Mapping Study (1992–2016)
Hawai‘i
A geospatial study translating statutory definitions and public records into a novel zip-code-level dataset and a set of infographics that make patterns of harm and wellbeing legible across the islands. The project demonstrates mapping as evidence: not illustration, but a tool for clearer understanding and more accountable prevention and care.
Healthcare Association of Hawai‘i — Community Health Needs Assessment Spatial Mapping
Using excerpts from the Hawai‘i Health Atlas concept, this project contributed spatial graphics to support statewide CHNA reporting and stakeholder dialogue. The emphasis is shared comprehension: giving communities and health systems a clearer spatial language for need, access, and inequity.
ʻĀINAVIS Mapping Project
An artist-driven collaborative cartography initiative mapping the resurgence of ʻāina across Hawaiʻi’s built environments. The work assembles an index of ʻāina organizations (2019–2023) alongside public and custom GIS datasets, using “geospatial dialogue” to spark challenging, transformative conversation about how land actively produces intellect and wellbeing. Organized with poet Dawn Mahi.
Public Scholarship — ʻUkoʻa Loko Ea Fishpond (Digital Mapping and Spatial Analysis since 1898)
Published in the Hawai‘i Journal of History
A research contribution tracing more than a century of American infrastructure projects and their cumulative impacts on the biocultural system of ʻUkoʻa Loko Ea. Using digital mapping and spatial analysis, the work demonstrates how cartography can function as historical method and civic argument—strengthening the case for restoration grounded in evidence and cultural responsibility.
Material Inquiry and Prototyping
Material study and making as a way of thinking—tools that bring complex spatial ideas into shared space, where people can see, question, and revise together.Design Innovation and Material Advancement
A material research thread exploring how Native and island-based techniques—such as thatching and canoe lashing—can be carried forward within contemporary structural frameworks. By challenging default dependence on global industrial material logics, the work reintroduces localized knowledge as a driver of architectural innovation, cultural continuity, and future adaptability.
LEGO Ahupua‘a
A hands-on learning prototype translating GIS into a scaled, color-coded 3D landscape model (where each LEGO unit corresponds to 100 meters). By turning aquifers, soil types, and precipitation into a tactile interface, the project builds spatial literacy as a shared capacity—opening conversations about ʻāina and ahupua‘a through making and play.
ʻĀina Holodeck (Hawai‘i Futures Holodeck)
A hybrid physical–virtual platform built on a satellite-accurate terrain model with projected, data-driven graphics. Designed to infuse group conversation with spatial thinking, the holodeck functions as a civic interface—supporting shared learning, consensus-building, and kuleana-based dialogue at the intersection of new media, public art, and Indigenous intellect.
Learning and Institutional Transformation
Projects that build the field around the work—studios, platforms, and structures that sustain discourse and stewardship beyond any single site.Hawai‘i Futures — Architecture Studio Interventions
A long-running public-art and pedagogical framework bringing ʻāina forward as both built environment and living system of sustenance. The work introduces “recovery” (rather than “restoration”) as a futurist process—reclaiming land and water that have been lost, erased, or degraded—while shaping architectural and planning discourse through studio-based inquiry across multiple institutions.
Hawai‘i Nonlinear
A nonprofit public art and stewardship platform caring for the wellbeing of Native built environments across Pae ʻĀina Hawai‘i. It convenes critical conversations about past, present, and future recovery of Indigenous regenerative places, supports practitioners working in culture, food sovereignty, and land justice, and works toward structural transformation of Hawai‘i’s built environments through Native intellect and advancement.