This room is about nature and the natural world but is called “landscapes” because they are culturally curated. Sudan still has a lot of indigenous knowledge and practices that remain part of Sudanese culture. At the same time urbanization has been going on for over 100 years with mixed results. Roughly speaking, indigenous or traditional knowledge is equated with sustainable practices because they predate the industrial revolution/modernisation/globalisation, and they did not cause climate change. Although the effects of human activities, going back millennia, caused changes to the natural landscape, the effects were more localised. The wild and the tamed could co-exist.
This room is about nature and the natural world but is called “landscapes” because they are culturally curated. Sudan still has a lot of indigenous knowledge and practices that remain part of Sudanese culture. At the same time urbanization has been going on for over 100 years with mixed results. Roughly speaking, indigenous or traditional knowledge is equated with sustainable practices because they predate the industrial revolution/modernisation/globalisation, and they did not cause climate change. Although the effects of human activities, going back millennia, caused changes to the natural landscape, the effects were more localised. The wild and the tamed could co-exist.
