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.

Awards
Press



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

Why Waste is a Socio-political Issue

Lo-TEK: Design-Bewegung setzt auf indigene Technologien

Top 10 Unforgettable Design Quotes of 2020

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

Dezeen Virtual Design Festival

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

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

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


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

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


Borneo Bulletin
For innovative and sustainable design solutions, look to indigenous history


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


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


Sydney Morning Herald
The natural technologies that could hold keys to climate resilience

Design
The Masai and the Uros teach us how to build

