[Themaintainers] First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design

[Camille E. Acey]

https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2020/02/first-ever-compendium-of-indigenous-technologies-provides-a-powerful-toolkit-for-climate-resilient-design/

_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._

-- 
Camille E. Acey
  http://camilleacey.com

_"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and 
that is an act of political warfare." - _Audre Lorde
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