PREVIOUS EVENTS
Epupa Knowledge Fair
The Inaugural Namibian Indigenous Knowledge Fair was held in April 2021, with approximately 100 participants, bringing together indigenous community members from different conservancies, academics, funders, NGOs and government officials. The event was hosted by the Epupa community, and co-organised with the Namibia University of Science and Technology, sharing local and recent research findings around the topic of co-designed conservation technologies to improve ecosystem management.
The three-day event consisted of numerous workshops on digitalisation ethnobotany, and wildlife activity reporting, workshops on intestine reading, drone wildlife surveillance, and livelihood, amongst community narratives, speeches, discussions and dialogues.
Statements from recent participatory Design Conference in Sibu,
Malaysia, 11-16 August 2024

The sangoma, the mountain and the bureaucratic mud

