The Cultural Knowledge Revival Programme

This project is a collaboration between two organizations, Design Reparations and Kenge Content Hive. The Cultural Revival Program seeks to research, document, and share the rich cultural and ecological knowledge of the Samia people in the Lake Victoria Basin in Kenya. The project aims to preserve intangible cultural heritage through digital formats such as entertaining visual narratives, publications, exhibitions, information architecture databases, and educational content. It also explores the role of ancestral wisdom in local climate adaptation, giving us an opportunity to borrow wisdom from the past to inform practices that will propel us to a sustainable future. The project aims to generate content that bridges generations, sparks dialogue, and integrates indigenous knowledge into education systems.

Brief

Our role in this project was to provide visual storytelling illustration to develop visual storytelling tactics for making this knowledge accessible, educational and entertaining through the use of illustrations, education comics, and concept designs for publications and exhibitions to spread awareness about the cultural Heritage of the Samia people.

Client

Design Reparations + Kenge Content Hive.

Themes

SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities + SDG 3 – Good Health & Well-Being + SDG 13 – Climate Action + Sustainable Urban Living