In August 2023, Julia Watson collaborated with the UNFCCC's Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples platform to create an installation for the Korea Global Adaptation Week 2023 exhibition in Songdo, Korea. Titled the "Gallery of Indigenous Values and Minds," the exhibition stemmed from a larger UNFCCC initiative called "R3 for Transformative Climate Action (Recognize to Recalibrate and Reset)." This is part of their ongoing efforts not just to recognize the importance of Indigenous values and worldviews in the climate change process, but more importantly, to apply them in policies and actions at the national and sub-national levels.

On view for the entire duration of the international event,the installation was composed of an adapted version of Watson’s Symbiocene (2021) art piece originally commissioned by the City of London for the Barbican Museum’s exhibition ‘Our Time on Earth’. The Symbiocene project was executed in collaboration with Buro Happold and Morningstar Khongthaw of the War Khasi community, Dr. Ir. I Wayan Alit Artha Wiguna of the Subak community, Jassim al-Asadi of the Ma’dan community. This adapted version of the Symbiocene featured images from Lo—TEK Design by Radical Indigenism, which were accompanied by three urban technologies represented through projection mappings on scaled urban landscapes, which are accompanied by videos—edited by an Indigenous production house—of the workshop-based, participatory process that occurred between the communities and design teams. As a suite, these vignettes are a playbook for how designers can coevolve hybrid technologies with knowledge-keeping communities.