Name: Julia Watson. Lo―TEK. Water. A Field Guide for TEKnology
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Julia Watson. Lo―TEK. Water. A Field Guide for TEKnology

English Language ｜Hardcover ｜ 2025｜ 558 pages ｜24×16 cm

Publisher　 TASCHEN
Author 　 Julia Watson (Author), Lina Müller (Illustrator), Piera Wolf (Designer), Stephanie Specht (Designer)
ISBN 　 9783836594448

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Design with Water: Indigenous Wisdom and Regenerative Futures is a groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work that bridges architecture, design, and Indigenous ecological knowledge. Author Julia Watson invites readers to rediscover water—the vital force that has sustained civilizations for millennia. With captivating storytelling, she reveals how humanity has long lived in harmony with aquatic systems through ingenious technologies such as Mexico’s chinampas, China’s dike-pond systems, Bangladesh’s floating farms, and Micronesia’s tidal fish traps. These ancestral practices are not relics of the past, but powerful, regenerative models for addressing today’s climate crisis.

Watson introduces the concept of a “TEKnological Renaissance”, fusing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with contemporary technology. She redefines water as a living intelligence—not merely a resource, but a dynamic force shaping resilient cities and landscapes. Future infrastructures, she argues, must move beyond extraction and industrialization toward regeneration and symbiosis, allowing water to become a medium that nurtures life and connects civilizations.

Structured as a journey bridging past and future, the book explores ancient hydrological systems alongside 22 contemporary TEK-based innovations—including reed-insulated housing in Peru, terraced rooftop farms in Thailand, and China’s Sponge Cities—demonstrating how Indigenous knowledge continues to drive transformative, nature-based design across the globe.

Co-authored with Indigenous knowledge-keepers and featuring a foreword by Dr. Lyla June Johnson (Diné/Tsétsėhéstȧhese), this is both a field guide and a manifesto. It calls on architects, planners, and communities to design with water, building a future world grounded in resilience, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence.

Design with Water challenges us to rethink the foundations of civilization itself—urging humanity to learn once more from water’s wisdom, and to imagine cities and landscapes where nature and culture breathe as one.

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Author: Julia Watson

Illustrator: Lina Müller

Designers: Piera Wolf, Stephanie Specht

Publisher: TASCHEN

Format: Hardcover

Size: 24 × 16 cm

Pages: 558 pages