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04153aam a2200433 i 4500 001 10422F9465BB11EAABDD622297128E48 003 SILO 005 20200314011428 008 191207t20192019gw abe 001 0 eng c 020 $a 3836578182 020 $a 9783836578189 035 $a (OCoLC)1130119634 040 $a OHX $b eng $e rda $c OHX $d YDXIT $d OCLCO $d YDX $d MNU $d OCLCF $d MNU $d NZAUC $d CUV $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 4 $a NA208 $b .W38 2019 072 7 $a NA $2 lcco 072 7 $a GN $2 lcco 072 7 $a GF $2 lcco 082 04 $a 720 $2 23 100 1 $a Watson, Julia, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Lo-TEK : $b design by radical indigenism / $c Julia Watson ; foreword Wade Davis. 246 3 $a Lo-Tech : $b design by radical indigenism 246 3 $a Design by radical indigenism 264 1 $a Cologne : $b Taschen, $c [2019] 300 $a 419 pages : $b illustrations, maps, plans (some color) ; $c 25 x 18 cm 500 $a Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to cover. 520 $a 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. 500 $a Includes index. 505 00 $t Sawah Tambak rice-fish aquaculture of the Javanese, Indonesia -- Conclusion: constructing a new mythology. $r Wade Davis -- $t Introduction: The mythology of technology -- $t Waru Waru agricultural terraces of the Inca, Peru -- $t Jingkieng Dieng Jri living root bridges of the Khasis, India -- $t Palayan rice terraces of the Ifugao, Philippines -- $t Subak rice terraces of the Subak, Bali -- $t Milpa forest gardens of the Maya, Mexico -- Kihamba forest gardens of the Chagga, Tanzania -- $t Surangam underground aqueducts of the Malayali, India -- Waitiwina dams of the EnaweneÌ-naweÌ, Brazil -- $t Apete forest islands of the KayapoÌ, Brazil -- $t Waffle gardens of the Zuni, New Mexico -- $t Boma corrals of the Maasai, Kenya -- Qanat underground aqueducts of the Persians, Iran -- $t Anok corrals of the Ngisonyaka Turkana, Kenya -- $t Torta reed floating islands of the Uros, Peru -- $t Al-Tahla floating islands of the Ma'dan, Iraq -- $t Bheri wastewater aquaculture of the Bengalese, India -- $t Acadja aquaculture of the Tofinu, Benin -- $t Sawah Tambak rice-fish aquaculture of the Javanese, Indonesia -- Conclusion: constructing a new mythology. 650 0 $a Vernacular architecture. 650 0 $a Architecture $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Sustainable architecture. 700 1 $a Davis, Wade, $e writer of supplementary textual content. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403013607.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025414.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200314011453.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=10422F9465BB11EAABDD622297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search