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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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Eight #Indigenous technologies that could turn the tide on how we manage water
by Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 October 2025
"Architect #JuliaWatson has followed up her seminal book #LoTEK with a new volume focused specifically on Indigenous approaches to extreme water scenarios. Here, she shares an exclusive preview of eight examples from #FloatingFarms to #SpongeParks.
"With the first Lo-TEK book, subtitled Design by #RadicalIndigenism , 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 #ClimateResilience.
"With #LoTEKWater, the Australian architect wanted to take a deep dive into water as the element linking four different climate-related disasters: #droughts, #flooding, #SeaLevelRise and #ExtremeStorms.
"The book also puts more of a focus on instances where TEK and contemporary #UrbanDesign are already working together.
" 'Through the lens of water, I wanted to understand the potential of hybridisation and co-design,' Watson told #Dezeen. 'How does a non-Indigenous design practice or scientist or institution work with an Indigenous community and their knowledge to shape some of the most resilient urban landscapes?'
" 'And with urbanism, I'm talking about cities, villages, rural landscapes, peri-urban landscapes – not just city landscapes.'
"Co-authored with Indigenous #KnowledgeKeepers and experts, Lo-TEK Water features both traditional and contemporary projects from countries including #Mexico, #China, #Tunisia, #Canada, #Peru and #India.
" 'There are so many varied ways in which traditional ecological knowledge is being merged with engineering systems, #cladding, #roofing – in architecture but also in landscape, creating really large-scale infrastructures and our most resilient urban parkland on the planet,' Watson said.
"Read on for Watson's introduction to eight key projects from the book, showing the diversity of ways that water-based TEK shows up around the world."
Learn more:
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/24/lo-tek-water-julia-watson/
#SolarPunkSunday #WaterIsLife #TEK #IndigenousSolutions #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousKnowledge -
Eight #Indigenous technologies that could turn the tide on how we manage water
by Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 October 2025
"Architect #JuliaWatson has followed up her seminal book #LoTEK with a new volume focused specifically on Indigenous approaches to extreme water scenarios. Here, she shares an exclusive preview of eight examples from #FloatingFarms to #SpongeParks.
"With the first Lo-TEK book, subtitled Design by #RadicalIndigenism , 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 #ClimateResilience.
"With #LoTEKWater, the Australian architect wanted to take a deep dive into water as the element linking four different climate-related disasters: #droughts, #flooding, #SeaLevelRise and #ExtremeStorms.
"The book also puts more of a focus on instances where TEK and contemporary #UrbanDesign are already working together.
" 'Through the lens of water, I wanted to understand the potential of hybridisation and co-design,' Watson told #Dezeen. 'How does a non-Indigenous design practice or scientist or institution work with an Indigenous community and their knowledge to shape some of the most resilient urban landscapes?'
" 'And with urbanism, I'm talking about cities, villages, rural landscapes, peri-urban landscapes – not just city landscapes.'
"Co-authored with Indigenous #KnowledgeKeepers and experts, Lo-TEK Water features both traditional and contemporary projects from countries including #Mexico, #China, #Tunisia, #Canada, #Peru and #India.
" 'There are so many varied ways in which traditional ecological knowledge is being merged with engineering systems, #cladding, #roofing – in architecture but also in landscape, creating really large-scale infrastructures and our most resilient urban parkland on the planet,' Watson said.
"Read on for Watson's introduction to eight key projects from the book, showing the diversity of ways that water-based TEK shows up around the world."
Learn more:
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/24/lo-tek-water-julia-watson/
#SolarPunkSunday #WaterIsLife #TEK #IndigenousSolutions #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousKnowledge -
Eight #Indigenous technologies that could turn the tide on how we manage water
by Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 October 2025
"Architect #JuliaWatson has followed up her seminal book #LoTEK with a new volume focused specifically on Indigenous approaches to extreme water scenarios. Here, she shares an exclusive preview of eight examples from #FloatingFarms to #SpongeParks.
"With the first Lo-TEK book, subtitled Design by #RadicalIndigenism , 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 #ClimateResilience.
"With #LoTEKWater, the Australian architect wanted to take a deep dive into water as the element linking four different climate-related disasters: #droughts, #flooding, #SeaLevelRise and #ExtremeStorms.
"The book also puts more of a focus on instances where TEK and contemporary #UrbanDesign are already working together.
" 'Through the lens of water, I wanted to understand the potential of hybridisation and co-design,' Watson told #Dezeen. 'How does a non-Indigenous design practice or scientist or institution work with an Indigenous community and their knowledge to shape some of the most resilient urban landscapes?'
" 'And with urbanism, I'm talking about cities, villages, rural landscapes, peri-urban landscapes – not just city landscapes.'
"Co-authored with Indigenous #KnowledgeKeepers and experts, Lo-TEK Water features both traditional and contemporary projects from countries including #Mexico, #China, #Tunisia, #Canada, #Peru and #India.
" 'There are so many varied ways in which traditional ecological knowledge is being merged with engineering systems, #cladding, #roofing – in architecture but also in landscape, creating really large-scale infrastructures and our most resilient urban parkland on the planet,' Watson said.
"Read on for Watson's introduction to eight key projects from the book, showing the diversity of ways that water-based TEK shows up around the world."
Learn more:
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/24/lo-tek-water-julia-watson/
#SolarPunkSunday #WaterIsLife #TEK #IndigenousSolutions #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousKnowledge -
Eight #Indigenous technologies that could turn the tide on how we manage water
by Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 October 2025
"Architect #JuliaWatson has followed up her seminal book #LoTEK with a new volume focused specifically on Indigenous approaches to extreme water scenarios. Here, she shares an exclusive preview of eight examples from #FloatingFarms to #SpongeParks.
"With the first Lo-TEK book, subtitled Design by #RadicalIndigenism , 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 #ClimateResilience.
"With #LoTEKWater, the Australian architect wanted to take a deep dive into water as the element linking four different climate-related disasters: #droughts, #flooding, #SeaLevelRise and #ExtremeStorms.
"The book also puts more of a focus on instances where TEK and contemporary #UrbanDesign are already working together.
" 'Through the lens of water, I wanted to understand the potential of hybridisation and co-design,' Watson told #Dezeen. 'How does a non-Indigenous design practice or scientist or institution work with an Indigenous community and their knowledge to shape some of the most resilient urban landscapes?'
" 'And with urbanism, I'm talking about cities, villages, rural landscapes, peri-urban landscapes – not just city landscapes.'
"Co-authored with Indigenous #KnowledgeKeepers and experts, Lo-TEK Water features both traditional and contemporary projects from countries including #Mexico, #China, #Tunisia, #Canada, #Peru and #India.
" 'There are so many varied ways in which traditional ecological knowledge is being merged with engineering systems, #cladding, #roofing – in architecture but also in landscape, creating really large-scale infrastructures and our most resilient urban parkland on the planet,' Watson said.
"Read on for Watson's introduction to eight key projects from the book, showing the diversity of ways that water-based TEK shows up around the world."
Learn more:
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/24/lo-tek-water-julia-watson/
#SolarPunkSunday #WaterIsLife #TEK #IndigenousSolutions #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousKnowledge -
Eight #Indigenous technologies that could turn the tide on how we manage water
by Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 October 2025
"Architect #JuliaWatson has followed up her seminal book #LoTEK with a new volume focused specifically on Indigenous approaches to extreme water scenarios. Here, she shares an exclusive preview of eight examples from #FloatingFarms to #SpongeParks.
"With the first Lo-TEK book, subtitled Design by #RadicalIndigenism , 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 #ClimateResilience.
"With #LoTEKWater, the Australian architect wanted to take a deep dive into water as the element linking four different climate-related disasters: #droughts, #flooding, #SeaLevelRise and #ExtremeStorms.
"The book also puts more of a focus on instances where TEK and contemporary #UrbanDesign are already working together.
" 'Through the lens of water, I wanted to understand the potential of hybridisation and co-design,' Watson told #Dezeen. 'How does a non-Indigenous design practice or scientist or institution work with an Indigenous community and their knowledge to shape some of the most resilient urban landscapes?'
" 'And with urbanism, I'm talking about cities, villages, rural landscapes, peri-urban landscapes – not just city landscapes.'
"Co-authored with Indigenous #KnowledgeKeepers and experts, Lo-TEK Water features both traditional and contemporary projects from countries including #Mexico, #China, #Tunisia, #Canada, #Peru and #India.
" 'There are so many varied ways in which traditional ecological knowledge is being merged with engineering systems, #cladding, #roofing – in architecture but also in landscape, creating really large-scale infrastructures and our most resilient urban parkland on the planet,' Watson said.
"Read on for Watson's introduction to eight key projects from the book, showing the diversity of ways that water-based TEK shows up around the world."
Learn more:
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/24/lo-tek-water-julia-watson/
#SolarPunkSunday #WaterIsLife #TEK #IndigenousSolutions #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousKnowledge -
#LoTEK: Reclaiming #Indigenous Techniques to Work with #Nature
Written by Belén Maiztegui | Translated by Amelia Pérez Bravo
Published on June 07, 2022Original version in Spanish linked below.
Excerpt: " 'Indigenous technologies are not lost or forgotten, only hidden by the shadow of progress in the most remote places on Earth'. In her book Lo-TEK: design by #RadicalIndigenism, #JuliaWatson proposes to revalue the techniques of construction, production, cultivation and extraction carried out by diverse remote populations who, generation after generation, have managed to keep alive ancestral cultural practices integrated with nature, with a low environmental cost and simple execution. While modern societies tried to conquer nature in the name of progress, these indigenous cultures worked in collaboration with nature, understanding #ecosystems and species cycles to articulate their architecture into an integrated and symbiotically #interconnected whole.
"The term Lo-TEK, composed by the author Julia Watson, brings together, through a play on words, the abbreviation #LowTech (globally used to refer to low-tech systems) and the acronym #TEK, which stands for #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge . On the one hand, this concept seeks to revalue technologies that, overshadowed by mechanised and highly complex systems, are considered simple, unsophisticated and primitive. However, for the author, the destructive and global approach of high technology, which takes all territories as if they were homogenous and uniform, is not enough to respond to the natural complexity of each particular ecosystem. 'While in this New Age we are drowning in information, we are starving for wisdom'. On the other hand, it seeks to promote the dissemination of Traditional Ecological Knowledge developed by native populations in direct contact with nature. This wealth of information has allowed, in each place, the generation of designs in balance with the ecosystem, instead of exploiting its resources indiscriminately, fostering symbiosis between species by making nature the basic element used to build technologies.
"On the other hand, coined by Princeton professor and Cherokee Nation member Eva Marie Garoutte, the concept of radical indigenism takes its name from the Latin derivation of the word 'radical': radix, meaning 'root'. Design by radical indigenism seeks to reconstruct and understand indigenous philosophies in relation to design, construction and production in order to generate #sustainable and #resilient #infrastructures adapted to each particular ecosystem. This movement bridges the gap between innovation, architecture, urbanism, conservation and indigenism. Once hybridised and scaled, these indigenous technologies could offer a new path for our contemporary societies, exponentially reducing humanity's ecological footprint and mitigating the predicted collapse."
Read more:
https://www.archdaily.com/982652/lo-tek-reclaiming-indigenous-techniques-to-work-with-nature#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #Interconnectedness #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #LocalKnowledge #LocalSolutions
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#LoTEK: Reclaiming #Indigenous Techniques to Work with #Nature
Written by Belén Maiztegui | Translated by Amelia Pérez Bravo
Published on June 07, 2022Original version in Spanish linked below.
Excerpt: " 'Indigenous technologies are not lost or forgotten, only hidden by the shadow of progress in the most remote places on Earth'. In her book Lo-TEK: design by #RadicalIndigenism, #JuliaWatson proposes to revalue the techniques of construction, production, cultivation and extraction carried out by diverse remote populations who, generation after generation, have managed to keep alive ancestral cultural practices integrated with nature, with a low environmental cost and simple execution. While modern societies tried to conquer nature in the name of progress, these indigenous cultures worked in collaboration with nature, understanding #ecosystems and species cycles to articulate their architecture into an integrated and symbiotically #interconnected whole.
"The term Lo-TEK, composed by the author Julia Watson, brings together, through a play on words, the abbreviation #LowTech (globally used to refer to low-tech systems) and the acronym #TEK, which stands for #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge . On the one hand, this concept seeks to revalue technologies that, overshadowed by mechanised and highly complex systems, are considered simple, unsophisticated and primitive. However, for the author, the destructive and global approach of high technology, which takes all territories as if they were homogenous and uniform, is not enough to respond to the natural complexity of each particular ecosystem. 'While in this New Age we are drowning in information, we are starving for wisdom'. On the other hand, it seeks to promote the dissemination of Traditional Ecological Knowledge developed by native populations in direct contact with nature. This wealth of information has allowed, in each place, the generation of designs in balance with the ecosystem, instead of exploiting its resources indiscriminately, fostering symbiosis between species by making nature the basic element used to build technologies.
"On the other hand, coined by Princeton professor and Cherokee Nation member Eva Marie Garoutte, the concept of radical indigenism takes its name from the Latin derivation of the word 'radical': radix, meaning 'root'. Design by radical indigenism seeks to reconstruct and understand indigenous philosophies in relation to design, construction and production in order to generate #sustainable and #resilient #infrastructures adapted to each particular ecosystem. This movement bridges the gap between innovation, architecture, urbanism, conservation and indigenism. Once hybridised and scaled, these indigenous technologies could offer a new path for our contemporary societies, exponentially reducing humanity's ecological footprint and mitigating the predicted collapse."
Read more:
https://www.archdaily.com/982652/lo-tek-reclaiming-indigenous-techniques-to-work-with-nature#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #Interconnectedness #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #LocalKnowledge #LocalSolutions
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#LoTEK: Reclaiming #Indigenous Techniques to Work with #Nature
Written by Belén Maiztegui | Translated by Amelia Pérez Bravo
Published on June 07, 2022Original version in Spanish linked below.
Excerpt: " 'Indigenous technologies are not lost or forgotten, only hidden by the shadow of progress in the most remote places on Earth'. In her book Lo-TEK: design by #RadicalIndigenism, #JuliaWatson proposes to revalue the techniques of construction, production, cultivation and extraction carried out by diverse remote populations who, generation after generation, have managed to keep alive ancestral cultural practices integrated with nature, with a low environmental cost and simple execution. While modern societies tried to conquer nature in the name of progress, these indigenous cultures worked in collaboration with nature, understanding #ecosystems and species cycles to articulate their architecture into an integrated and symbiotically #interconnected whole.
"The term Lo-TEK, composed by the author Julia Watson, brings together, through a play on words, the abbreviation #LowTech (globally used to refer to low-tech systems) and the acronym #TEK, which stands for #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge . On the one hand, this concept seeks to revalue technologies that, overshadowed by mechanised and highly complex systems, are considered simple, unsophisticated and primitive. However, for the author, the destructive and global approach of high technology, which takes all territories as if they were homogenous and uniform, is not enough to respond to the natural complexity of each particular ecosystem. 'While in this New Age we are drowning in information, we are starving for wisdom'. On the other hand, it seeks to promote the dissemination of Traditional Ecological Knowledge developed by native populations in direct contact with nature. This wealth of information has allowed, in each place, the generation of designs in balance with the ecosystem, instead of exploiting its resources indiscriminately, fostering symbiosis between species by making nature the basic element used to build technologies.
"On the other hand, coined by Princeton professor and Cherokee Nation member Eva Marie Garoutte, the concept of radical indigenism takes its name from the Latin derivation of the word 'radical': radix, meaning 'root'. Design by radical indigenism seeks to reconstruct and understand indigenous philosophies in relation to design, construction and production in order to generate #sustainable and #resilient #infrastructures adapted to each particular ecosystem. This movement bridges the gap between innovation, architecture, urbanism, conservation and indigenism. Once hybridised and scaled, these indigenous technologies could offer a new path for our contemporary societies, exponentially reducing humanity's ecological footprint and mitigating the predicted collapse."
Read more:
https://www.archdaily.com/982652/lo-tek-reclaiming-indigenous-techniques-to-work-with-nature#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #Interconnectedness #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #LocalKnowledge #LocalSolutions
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#LoTEK: Reclaiming #Indigenous Techniques to Work with #Nature
Written by Belén Maiztegui | Translated by Amelia Pérez Bravo
Published on June 07, 2022Original version in Spanish linked below.
Excerpt: " 'Indigenous technologies are not lost or forgotten, only hidden by the shadow of progress in the most remote places on Earth'. In her book Lo-TEK: design by #RadicalIndigenism, #JuliaWatson proposes to revalue the techniques of construction, production, cultivation and extraction carried out by diverse remote populations who, generation after generation, have managed to keep alive ancestral cultural practices integrated with nature, with a low environmental cost and simple execution. While modern societies tried to conquer nature in the name of progress, these indigenous cultures worked in collaboration with nature, understanding #ecosystems and species cycles to articulate their architecture into an integrated and symbiotically #interconnected whole.
"The term Lo-TEK, composed by the author Julia Watson, brings together, through a play on words, the abbreviation #LowTech (globally used to refer to low-tech systems) and the acronym #TEK, which stands for #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge . On the one hand, this concept seeks to revalue technologies that, overshadowed by mechanised and highly complex systems, are considered simple, unsophisticated and primitive. However, for the author, the destructive and global approach of high technology, which takes all territories as if they were homogenous and uniform, is not enough to respond to the natural complexity of each particular ecosystem. 'While in this New Age we are drowning in information, we are starving for wisdom'. On the other hand, it seeks to promote the dissemination of Traditional Ecological Knowledge developed by native populations in direct contact with nature. This wealth of information has allowed, in each place, the generation of designs in balance with the ecosystem, instead of exploiting its resources indiscriminately, fostering symbiosis between species by making nature the basic element used to build technologies.
"On the other hand, coined by Princeton professor and Cherokee Nation member Eva Marie Garoutte, the concept of radical indigenism takes its name from the Latin derivation of the word 'radical': radix, meaning 'root'. Design by radical indigenism seeks to reconstruct and understand indigenous philosophies in relation to design, construction and production in order to generate #sustainable and #resilient #infrastructures adapted to each particular ecosystem. This movement bridges the gap between innovation, architecture, urbanism, conservation and indigenism. Once hybridised and scaled, these indigenous technologies could offer a new path for our contemporary societies, exponentially reducing humanity's ecological footprint and mitigating the predicted collapse."
Read more:
https://www.archdaily.com/982652/lo-tek-reclaiming-indigenous-techniques-to-work-with-nature#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateSolutions #ClimateResiliency #WorkWithNature #Interconnectedness #ClimateChange #TraditionalPractices #TraditionalTechnology #LocalKnowledge #LocalSolutions
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#LoTEK: Reclaiming #Indigenous Techniques to Work with #Nature
Written by Belén Maiztegui | Translated by Amelia Pérez Bravo
Published on June 07, 2022Original version in Spanish linked below.
Excerpt: " 'Indigenous technologies are not lost or forgotten, only hidden by the shadow of progress in the most remote places on Earth'. In her book Lo-TEK: design by #RadicalIndigenism, #JuliaWatson proposes to revalue the techniques of construction, production, cultivation and extraction carried out by diverse remote populations who, generation after generation, have managed to keep alive ancestral cultural practices integrated with nature, with a low environmental cost and simple execution. While modern societies tried to conquer nature in the name of progress, these indigenous cultures worked in collaboration with nature, understanding #ecosystems and species cycles to articulate their architecture into an integrated and symbiotically #interconnected whole.
"The term Lo-TEK, composed by the author Julia Watson, brings together, through a play on words, the abbreviation #LowTech (globally used to refer to low-tech systems) and the acronym #TEK, which stands for #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge . On the one hand, this concept seeks to revalue technologies that, overshadowed by mechanised and highly complex systems, are considered simple, unsophisticated and primitive. However, for the author, the destructive and global approach of high technology, which takes all territories as if they were homogenous and uniform, is not enough to respond to the natural complexity of each particular ecosystem. 'While in this New Age we are drowning in information, we are starving for wisdom'. On the other hand, it seeks to promote the dissemination of Traditional Ecological Knowledge developed by native populations in direct contact with nature. This wealth of information has allowed, in each place, the generation of designs in balance with the ecosystem, instead of exploiting its resources indiscriminately, fostering symbiosis between species by making nature the basic element used to build technologies.
"On the other hand, coined by Princeton professor and Cherokee Nation member Eva Marie Garoutte, the concept of radical indigenism takes its name from the Latin derivation of the word 'radical': radix, meaning 'root'. Design by radical indigenism seeks to reconstruct and understand indigenous philosophies in relation to design, construction and production in order to generate #sustainable and #resilient #infrastructures adapted to each particular ecosystem. This movement bridges the gap between innovation, architecture, urbanism, conservation and indigenism. Once hybridised and scaled, these indigenous technologies could offer a new path for our contemporary societies, exponentially reducing humanity's ecological footprint and mitigating the predicted collapse."
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