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World-Architects

Julia Watson's 'Lo—TEK Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology'
Thinking About Water This Earth Day

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Common Edge

Indigenous Design and the Intelligence of Water

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EL PAÍS

What is Lo-TEK, The Ecological Alternative To Extractive Technology

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HOWL Issue 12

Julia Watson: Reclaiming
Indigenous Wisdom for a
Climate-Changed Future

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The Comm Sheet

Julia Watson Wants Designers to Rethink Water

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NewsWav

Eight Indigenous Technologies That Could Turn The Tide On How We Manage Water

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The Observer

Rezwan's floating school wins UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy

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Bouw Natuur Inclusief

Developing for the climate thanks to centuries-old knowledge

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Shaping Resilience in Mountains

Shaping Resilience in Mountains: The Case for DRI

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ARD Capriccio

“A guide to improving the world… Lo–TEK Water is more than just brilliant technological historiography. It is a look into the future.”

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NRC Newspaper

Landscape Architect Julia Watson: Will We Continue to Resist the Water, or Will We Work With It?

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Dezeen

Eight Indigenous technologies that could turn the tide on how we manage water

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This Is Colossal

‘Lo—TEK Water’ Wants to Reshape the World Through Indigenous Technologies

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De Tijd

Architect Julia Watson: 'Why should innovation always be high-tech?'

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NewScientist

Dramatic images show where water and humanity meet

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artdaily

How water shapes worlds: Indigenous aquatic technologies for a climate-adaptive future

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Nature Journal

Top 5 Science Book Picks 2025

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© DAMN° Magazine

Shifting Gears 

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the Slowdown Media

Gift Giving Guide for 2025

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ASLA the Dirt

Best Books of 2025

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SCAPE Magazine

/ Designs That Make Her Beautiful

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Morning Star

Changing Our Relationship to Water

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World Architecture Community

Best Books of 2025

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Dezeen

"Lo-TEK is reframing how we think about water" says Julia Watson

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Magazine

Wallpaper* USA 400: The people shaping Creative America in 2025

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Magazine

Landscape Architect Julia Watson: 'I can name twenty tribes that have been building climate-proof for centuries'

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Magazine

Landscape architect Julia Watson: 'I can name twenty tribes that have been building climate-proof for centuries'

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Newspaper

We need to build a world that we do believe in

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Newspaper

Can indigenous technology change the way our cities are designed?

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Magazine

Reinventing climate solutions through indigenous knowledge

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Care Manifesto

Care Pavilion at London Design Biennale

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Magazine

Taschen Magazine 2021

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Magazine

Meghalaya's living root bridges and Kerala's kuttanad show indigenous climate resilience

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Our Guide To What To Read, Watch And Listen To This Week

Read: Lo—TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson

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13th Anniversary Special

October 2020 Vol 14 Issue 1

Forces of Nature

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May 14, 2020

The Power of Lo—TEK

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Book Review

Nine New & Notable Books
 

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Italia, Numero 464, 2020

Come Natura Crea

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March + April Issue 2020

Ancient Ingenuity

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Book Review

Rooted In Place
 

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IGTV

Living bridges and supper from sewage: can ancient fixes save our crisis-torn world? 

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The Reformers Spring 2020

TEK Report

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Third Issue

Lo-TEK
 

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Observations

Lo—TEK: What Cities Can Learn From Indigenous Innovation

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The Guardian: Art and Design

Living bridges and supper from sewage: can ancient fixes save our crisis-torn world? 

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The Reformers Spring 2020

TEK Report

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Episode #35

Julia Watson on the Power of Indigenous Technologies to Transform Our Planet

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Open Skies

Do Indigenous Communities Hold The Secrets To Modern Design?

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The Plum: Juicy Women

Juicy Woman: Julia Watson

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Episode #28

Julia Watson:

Lo-TEK Technologies &

Indigenous Knowledge

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Design Section

These Books Move

Heaven and Earth

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Culture

Ancient infrastructure, resilient future: Julia Watson’s ‘Lo-TEK’ vision for sustainable cities

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Architectural Digest

7 Examples of Centuries-Old Design That Combat Climate Change

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Artnet

Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

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Dwell Online

May Already Have the Technology to Survive a Climate Crisis—We’ve Just Been Ignoring It

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UK Garden Magazine

Full Bloom Book Review

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Design Week

Can designers bring tech and the natural world closer together?

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Harvard GSD

First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design

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The Age

When fire is a friend: Indigenous approaches

point the way

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Library Journal

New Bestsellers

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Politiken

How to Build Extremely Sustainably

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Borneo Bulletin

For innovative and sustainable design solutions, look to indigenous history

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The Guardian

The case for... making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones

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ABC

Architecture without architects

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The Washington Post

How can we live more sustainably? Indigenous groups have some ideas.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Book World: For innovative and sustainable design solutions, look to indigenous history

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The Independent

In photos: A global exploration of nature-based technology

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Activist Post

Shouldn’t More Environmentalists Promote Natural Tech, Not Electrosmog and E-Waste Producing Smart Cities?

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Curbed

The world’s oldest design techniques might be the most radical

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Design Week

Ushering in the lo-TEK age: designers can learn from indigenous practice

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Fast Company

What indigenous design could teach us about surviving climate change

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Brisbane Times

The natural technologies that could hold keys to climate resilience

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Sydney Morning Herald

The natural technologies that could hold keys to climate resilience

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Metalocus

Book review

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Design & Science

Returning to Roots

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Design

The Masai and the Uros teach us how to build 

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CNN Style

How nature's ancient technologies can inform today's cities

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Aperture

Bali’s stunning rice terraces offer clues to sustainable water use

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Frankfurt General

Only The Best From Around The World

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2019/20

Lo—TEK, On to ancient knowledge

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Kerb 26 — Homelands

Lo—TEK, From the First to the Fourth World

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Essay

The Power of Lo-TEK

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Archinect

Working out of the Box series

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Humans and Nature

On Designing Landscapes

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PopTech

Poptech Social Innovation
Fellow and Speaker

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UQ

Alumni Profile from University of Queensland in Australia

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