The More Than Just A Tree project is about remembering, recording, learning, and utilizing environmental literacy based in traditional African knowledge systems. We want to create engaging, accessible educational materials that help us to have a sustainable and conscious relationship with the natural environment. Our goal is to shift the narrative and broaden our perspective on what it means to be literate.
We hope for this eco-literacy project to grow over time into other fields of research, record forms of traditional knowledge, create further educational materials, and expand on the type of mediums we use to share and communicate this knowledge. Therefore, we welcome other educators, designers, artists, scientists, and activists to join us in our goal to shift the narrative on how we look at Africa and to broaden our perspective on what it means to be literate.
This project was started by Hannah Riley, a social and environmental impact designer from Melbourne Australia, who was a year long environmental researcher and design intern at Kokrobitey Institute from 2021-2022.
