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.
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.
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