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Bezig met laden... Lo—TEK, Design by Radical Indigenismdoor Julia Watson
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) sunforsiberia | Dec 28, 2023 |  "There are so many examples," she told Dezeen. "They have increased biodiversity, they're producing food, they're flood mitigating, they're resilient in terms of foreshore conditions, they're cleaning water, they're carbon sequestering." "They have all of the natural qualities that we're really interested in, in terms of ecosystem services, but they're completely constructed by man," she added. Progress requires a new toolkit Watson believes that the tech industry is more limited in scope than people realise, based solely on a concept of high-tech that developed after the industrial revolution. She calls for this industry to adopt some of the principles of indigenous design, many of which are thousands of years old, to help cities around the world to not only mitigate the impact of climate change, but to be resilient for the future." from Dezeen review 1  sarahemmm | Feb 12, 2020 |
 Watson first visited the subak seven years ago when she began researching her new book, Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, which dives into the history, philosophy, and engineering behind climate-resilient infrastructure developed by indigenous people: “those who have evolved a cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and beliefs of the environment in which they live,” she tells Curbed. As Watson argues in her book, such “traditional ecological knowledge”—the “TEK” in Lo-TEK—could unlock more sustainable solutions to solve crises of housing, resource management, farming, water treatment, and more. She says her book isn’t about prescribing solutions; rather, it analyzes the building techniques and philosophical underpinnings of indigenous communities through the lens of architecture, providing a more accessible read than the anthropological approach usually found in academic journals.
"Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realize that the legacy of this mythology is haunting us. Designers understand the urgency of reducing humanity's negative environmental impact, yet perpetuate the same mythology of technology that relies on exploiting nature. 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 remain inherently unsustainable.Lo--TEK, derived from Traditional Ecological Knowledge, is a cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and beliefs, countering the idea that indigenous innovation is primitive and exists isolated from technology. It is sophisticated and designed to sustainably work with complex ecosystems. With a foreword by anthropologist Wade Davis and four chapters spanning Mountains, Forests, Deserts, and Wetlands, this book explores thousands of years of human wisdom and ingenuity from 20 countries including Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania, Kenya, Iran, Iraq, India, and Indonesia. We rediscover an ancient mythology in a contemporary context, radicalizing the spirit of human nature."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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