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Designer, activist, academic,
and author of Lo—TEK,
Design by Radical Indigenism.
A leading expert of Lo—TEK nature-based technologies for climate-resilience.
Her eponymously named studio brings creative and conceptual, interdisciplinary thinking to urban projects and corporate clients interested in systemic and sustainable change. Julia regularly teaches urban design at Harvard and Columbia University.
Lo—TEK Water
Date: Upcoming Spring 2025
Project Team: Julia Watson + TASCHEN + Piera Wolf + Stephanie Specht + Lina Muller
Julia Watson’s second book
Lo—TEK Water explores water-responsive, intergenerational infrastructures.
The sequel to award-winning Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, Lo—TEK Water explores sustainable technologies evolved by indigenous people who have built water-responsive infrastructures for generations. Ecologically-intensive, rather than energy, chemical, or capital intensive, the technologies engage and support complex ecosystems; their reinforcement and hybridization addresses global water-related challenges, like sea-level rise, storm surge, and salinization.
22 first nations from across the globe co-authored or contributed to the writing of chapters to make the Living Water Curriculum possible.They are the Visayan of the Philippines; the Yapese and Poluwatese of Micronesia; the Bretons and Normans of France; the Wale I Asi of the Solomon Islands; the Tunisians and Amazigh of Tunisia; the Native Hawaiians of Hawai'i; the Goans, Malayalis, and Paat-mi of India; the Māʻohi of French Polynesia; the Venetians of Italy; the Persians of Iran; the Baka of Southeastern Cameroon; the Bhumihin Krishok of Bangladesh; the Sundanese of Indonesia; the Japanese of Japan; the Nahua Xochimilca of Mexico; the Intha of Myanmar; the Han of China; and the Southern Bohemians of Czechia.
Lo—TEK Water, will be published by TASCHEN in Spring 2025. Co-authored by Watson and Indigenous experts, each chapter of Lo—TEK Water examines water-related technologies and contemporary projects that integrate traditional and Indigenous wisdom to promote climate resilient, nature based technologies.
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