Posters

Illustration, art, digital photography and cartography provide powerful tools for inspiring, motivating and communicating  in ways that substitute or complement written documents. Using a wide range of visual approaches and skills PPI collaborators have produced a materials designed to assist in the transmission of technical or socially-valued knowledge among a wide range of social actors.

Wild maguey, Mexico

PPI is working with two NGOs, Grupo de Estudios Ambientales "GEA" and Sansekan, on a project supporting the community management of wild maguey (Agave  spp), a plant widely used in the production of such fermented beverages as pulque and mezcal, and which has great economic and cultural importance in the economically deprived region of La Montana de Guerrero,  Mexico.  These posters were produced during a workshop with villagers, and are meant to raise awareness of the importance and vulnerability of maguey and its pollinators.
 

Black Dammar (Canarium strictum), southeast Asia

Black Dammar is a resin used by indigenous communities in India, Bangladesh and northern Burma for spiritual and medicinal purposes. These posters, which provide practical  information and guidelines on the cultivation, uses, quality, characteristics and sustainability of harvesting the resin, were produced  by PPI to assist Keystone Foundation in communicating research results to communities.

 Black Dammar: A Guide to Harvest Impacts and Resin QualityDammar: Quality, Characteristics and SustainabilityBlack Dammar Cultivation

Vegetable Dyes used in traditional weaving, Indonesia

This series of posters were produced by PPI Steering Committee member Tony Cunningham and Indonesian partners Yayasan Pecinta Budaya Bebali and Threads of LIfe, and distributed to a large number of weaving communities (14 languages groups in seven islands in eastern Indonesia)  who  use the bark and leaves of several species of Symplocos as a red dye in their fabrics.  Though intensely dependent on this plant, most of these people have never seen the actual plant or are aware of its endangered status.