“Design can be a vessel for remembering. When rooted in ancestral intelligence, it shifts from extraction to reciprocity. “
Australian designer of Greco-Egyptian descent and expert in traditional ecological knowledge. Author of Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism (Taschen, 2019) and Lo—TEK Water: A Fieldguide for TEKnologists (2025), she highlights Indigenous low-impact technologies from around the world. She cofounded the Lo—TEK Institute and created The Living Earth Curriculum to integrate ancestral knowledge into STEM education. A landscape architect trained at Harvard, she has taught at Columbia, RISD, and Harvard, and leads the Lo—TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism in Brooklyn.
” Indigenous technologies are not relics, they are living systems that sustain life. Design can listen to rivers, to elders, to forgotten futures. The most radical design futures aren’t new, they are remembered.”
WHAT DESIGN CAN DO MEXICO GNP 2025
Julia Watson will take the main stage in the first block:
ANCESTRAL AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE
She will also present her book “Lo—TEK Water: A Fieldguide for TEKnologists”, with more details coming soon.
Join Julia Watson and hundreds of creatives on September 26th. Tickets are now available!