Design by Radical Indigenism
by Julia Watson
- Author(s)
- Julia Watson
- Publication, year
- Cologne : Taschen, 2019
- Scope
- 420 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783836578189
Designers understand the urgency of reducing humanity’s negative environmental impact, yet responding to climate change by building hard infrastructures and favoring high-tech homogenous design, we are ignoring millennia-old knowledge of how to live in symbiosis with nature. Without implementing soft systems that use biodiversity as a building block, designs probably remain inherently unsustainable. Enter Lo—TEK, a design movement building on indigenous philosophy and vernacular infrastructure to generate sustainable, resilient, nature-based technology. With a foreword by anthropologist Wade Davis and spanning 20 countries from Peru to Iran, this book explores millennia-old human ingenuity on how to live in symbiosis with nature.
- Keywords
- inheemse kennis / indigenous knowledge , sustainability
- Location
- Cabinet 18 - 2: Duurzaam bouwen / Sustainist Architecture
- Contains
- notes , index
