Te Puna can be translated as well spring or source. It is a watery term, suggesting things that, while powerful (like a river carves the landscape) is also flexible. We see -puna appearing in words like Tipuna ~ ancestors and Mokopuna ~ grandchildren. Te Puna is the past and leads to the future.
Thinking of the ‘well spring’ of Spatial Design encourages us to consider how we actually know and experience space, at an intimate 1:1 scale. In other words, how everyday existence ‘produces space’ It also asks us to interrogate the ‘origin’ of the design: is it with the designer who plans (produces representations of) the space, the construction team who build the space, or the client who raised the ‘problem’ of the space in the first place.
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