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<p><a href="https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2020/02/first-ever-compendium-of-indigenous-technologies-provides-a-powerful-toolkit-for-climate-resilient-design/">https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2020/02/first-ever-compendium-of-indigenous-technologies-provides-a-powerful-toolkit-for-climate-resilient-design/</a></p>
<p><em>The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology, and begin to see biodiversity as a building block of urban environments. Julia Watson’s lush and meticulous new book, Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, provides a blueprint for sustainable architecture in the 21st century. For designers of the built environment, it is a first-ever compendium of overlooked design technologies from indigenous groups around the world. For the intrepid traveler or curious citizen, it is an invitation to know millennia-old societies thriving in symbiosis with nature thanks to local ingenuity, creativity, spirituality, and resourcefulness. For the indigenous groups represented, it is a source of satisfaction from seeing contemporary design scholarship catch up with their time-tested practices.</em></p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Camille E. Acey</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://camilleacey.com">http://camilleacey.com</a></span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - </span></em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Audre Lorde</span></div>
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