KAKUM NATIONAL PARK EXHIBIT
Kakum National Park is Ghana's most visited attraction, located in the central region of Ghana. It offers visitors spectacular scenery of forest wildlife and is best known for its bridges suspended up to 27 meters above the forest floor from trees that are over 300 years old. In October 2022, Kakum National Park Museum had the opening of their new Museum where Kokrobitey was asked to exhibit our work on eco-literacy to be a part of their Museum.
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The installation we designed was focused on native plants of Ghana and exhibiting their medicinal uses, environmental benefits, native regions, and how they are a core foundation of traditional Ghanaian culture.
EXHIBIT LAYOUT
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NATIVE COUNTRIES OF LOCAL PLANTS
This map was designed to Broaden people's perspective and understanding that local plants in Ghana are native to countries all around the world. ​Furthermore, How plants have a whole history of migration naturally through seed dispersal, human migration, trade, and discovery.
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF PLANTS
This poster demonstrates the range of environmental benefits plants provide from acting as natural: infrastructure, protection from animals to weather, and sustainable agriculture.
Every panel has a description and diagram explaining how this specific planet provides an environmental benefit.
Each plant in the poster has a specific environmental benefit and is also a local plant found in Ghana.
Each benefit has a panel that is designed to be blended into the illustrations and is located on top of each listed benefit.
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HOW TREES ARE NATURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
This poster demonstrates the natural qualities trees have that provide natural infrastructure to a community. Moreover, how traditional raw earth construction mimics nature, and we should use it as an example of sustainable infrastructure.
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MEDICINAL GUIDE OF PLANTS IN GHANA
This installation exhibits the traditional medicinal uses of native plants in Ghana and how they are essential to traditional ecological knowledge. Text in the installation uses a combination of English and Twi language.
The poster is made up of 32 panels, each representing a local plant in Ghana and listing its most common medicinal benefits.
Inside the panel lists the main medicinal uses of the plant. Ailments are translated into Twi language and are accompanied by illustrations so that they are easier for the audience to comprehend.
