Mapping the Zenú

Photoshop, Illustrator, Google Maps

This project is a scarf design campaign created for Fundación Herencia Ambiental Caribe to raise awareness of the Zenú people, a local native community located in northern Colombia, and their relationship to the land. The Zenú people developed one of the most sophisticated hydraulic agricultural systems in pre-Colonial South America, but have lost their land due to Western acquisition and factory farming.

The design draws on the story of the Zenú’s ancestral canal systems using abstracted satellite data of the Zenú waterways. The foundation sells the scarves to support visibility and advocacy for the Zenú community and their territory.