Eight Indigenous technologies that could turn the tide on how we manage waterArchitect Julia Watson has followed up her seminal book Lo-TEK with...
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Architect Julia Watson has followed up her seminal book Lo-TEK with a new volume focused specifically on Indigenous approaches to extreme water scenarios. Here, she shares an exclusive preview of eight examples from floating farms to sponge parks.
With the first Lo-TEK book, subtitled Design by Radical Indigenism, Watson introduced readers, many for the first time, to the idea of TEK, or traditional ecological knowledge.
Lo-TEK Water by Julia Watson
Lo-TEK Water is published by Taschen
These are building, landscaping and farming practices that belong to the world's Indigenous communities and hold great lessons for Western practitioners trying to design for climate resilience.
With Lo-TEK Water, the Australian architect wanted to take a deep dive into water as the element linking four different climate-related disasters: droughts, flooding, sea-level rise and extreme storms.
The book also puts more of a focus on instances where TEK and contemporary urban design are already working together.
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- Urban Water
- Water Supply Design
- Water Harvesting Structure Design
- Storm Water Management
- urban water security
- Water sensitive design and planning