Ka Leo O Nā Koa
Volume XIV
Issue 1
March 5, 2020
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KA LEO O NĀ KOA
Kamehameha Schools Maui • ʻAʻapueo Parkway, Parkway, Pukalani, HI 96768 • (808) 573-7019 • www.kaleoonakoa.org • kaleoonakoa@ksbe.edu
Courtesy of KUMU NAKEIA
Kumu Can coaches sophmores Jaston Patao and Jayden Pahukula during the first semester of Intro to Engineering. Ever since his disapearence in December, people have wondered who this guy is.
Kumu Can can do it all By MAX BIELAWSKI staff writer
Every morning, he would ride his e-bike to school, drinking four cups of black coffee, and with a poke bowl from Foodland in tow. This earned him the nickname Bike Man, but he also went by Kumu Can (pronounced John).
Kumu Can taught design and engineering at KSM, yet he had a lot more going on. Artist, designer, entrepreneur —Kumu Can, who is from Turkey, has traveled around the world sharing his art. His first name fits him. In Turkish, Can means “something like anima, life force or soul,” and the interesting life of Kumu Can certainly shows
that. His last name, Büyükberber, however, means “the great barber, although we don’t have any hairdressers in the family,” Kumu Can said. Kumu Can is from the city of Izmir on the west coast of Turkey. It is the third most populous city with nearly 3 million residents. He also has lived in Istanbul, San Francisco, New York, and recently
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here on Maui. Just for this fall semester, he worked here in the NuVuX lab. He and NuVu travelling fellow Nakeia Medcalf worked with Kumu ʻIokepa Meno in the school’s new maker space in Kalanikūpule, the information and technology academy building. “I visited Kauaʻi several years ago and fell in love with the nature and culture of Hawaiʻi. I’m passionate about education and when I was informed about the opportunity at NuVu for this Design/Tech Education Fellow position at Kamehameha Schools on Maui, I thought it was a really good chance to have a living and teaching experience in Hawai’i.” Kumu Can said. WHAT IS NuVuX? Early in July, NuVu and KSM entered into the partnership that brought nā kumu Can and Nakeia to campus to work with students. According to Kumu Nakeia, “NuVuX is an initiative of NuVu that brings design, creativity and innovation inside schools and organizations. NuVuX methods are based on the architectural studio model and geared toCAN continued on A2
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