Lo—TEK
Design by Radical Indigenism

Is it a technical architectural/agricultural book? A work of academic anthropology? A coffee table book? A polemical zine? It's all of these, without committing to any one genre in particular. I'm going to go ahead and say that it's primarily a Vibe Book, and on the level it definitely succeeds. Som......more

deep glance into humanity' brains. found the roots of everything that amazes me. 'we cannot find solutions to the problems we face with the same ideology from which those problems emerged. our global survival is dependent upon our thinking shifting from 'survival of the fittest' to 'survival of the......more

A beautiful but conflicted book. In creating Lo-TEK as using traditional ecological knowledge as an approach for designing, Watson claims it as her own. The writing feels extractive, as though she hasn’t really built relationships with the indigenous people she writes about, instead claiming the kno......more

Best book so far this year! Julia Watson takes the reader through the Americas, Africa, Asia, And the Middle East where she shines a light on the sustainable Technologies that have been in use by indigenous people for centuries. Close your eyes and imagine crops that don’t need pesticides, floating h......more

Super cool book, case studies of indigenous solutions and innovations using local materials, and all the while enriching biodiversity. Great photos and well designed schematics of how each example of TEK works. Traditional ecological knowledge rules!......more