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Lo-TEK: Reclaiming Indigenous Techniques to Work with Nature
29 days ago | By Arch Daily
Islas flotantes de AI-Tahla - Pueblo Ma'dan. Image © Esme Allen
"Indigenous technologies are not lost or forgotten, only hidden by the shadow of progress in the most remote places on Earth". In her book Lo-TEK: design by radical indigenism , Julia Watson proposes to revalue the techniques of construction, production, cultivation and extraction carried out by diverse remote populations who, generation after generation, have managed to keep alive ancestral cultural practices integrated with nature, with a low environmental cost and simple execution. While modern societies tried to conquer...
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