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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.

Glimcher Residence in Sagaponack New York
Date: 2018
Location: Sagaponack, NY
Project Team: Julia Watson
Client: Private
Julia was the landscape concept designer for the 1.3-hectare estate which was conceived around the idea of a secret, sunken garden circumambulated by an Art Walk.
The Art Walk circumnavigates the site like a medicine wheel and is similar to a traditional kora, pradakshina, or yatra. It is a pilgrimage route with four ceremonial spaces that align with the directions of the compass. The Art Walk is to be walked in a clockwise direction starting at the Southern Ceremonial Space. In the ceremony, one works their way around the medicine wheel in four directions - from South to West to North to East. Along the Art Walk, a series of sculptures will be featured as well as intimate spaces for reflection.

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