Episode 8
TWO QUESTIONS EACH Episode 08
Julia Watson
Designer and Author
In this conversation we discuss ‘the future’ and ‘human behaviour’ as mutually exclusive and inclusive things, and how to design new practices via new mythology, to re-create generational Lo-Tek systems.
Plagued by cross-continent connectivity issues, this conversation is patchy and thus shorter than the usual marathon.
“Julia Watson is a designer and researcher, currently teaching urban design at Harvard, Julia released a book recently with Taschen called Lo-Tek, design by radical indigenism. It looks into the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of multigenerational, practices, and beliefs of indigenous cultures to generate sustainable, resilient, nature-based technologies.
This breakdown catalogues 7th generational thinking as expressed through ritualised relationships with interconnected ecologies”
A conversation taken on July 24, 2020.
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