{"product_id":"lo-tek-water-a-field-guide-for-teknology","title":"Lo—TEK Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLo—TEK Water\u003c\/strong\u003e makes the case that the infrastructure best suited to a climate-altered world already exists—built by Indigenous communities over millennia, and largely ignored by the discipline that most needs it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Watson's second Lo—TEK volume narrows the focus of her 2019 survey to a single element, and gains force in doing so. Water is the axis on which four climate emergencies turn—drought, flooding, sea-level rise and extreme storms—and Watson argues that the technologies capable of absorbing them are ancestral rather than novel. Mexico's chinampas, China's dike-ponds, Bangladesh's floating farms, Micronesia's tidal traps: each is examined as working infrastructure rather than heritage, organised across salty, brackish and fresh water systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat distinguishes the book is its refusal to leave these systems in the past. Watson pairs them with 22 contemporary projects—reed-insulated housing in Peru, terraced rooftop farms in Thailand, China's sponge cities—to argue that traditional ecological knowledge remains a live design methodology. The result reframes aquatic infrastructure from something extractive and industrial into something regenerative, and reads as both field guide and manifesto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Dr. Lyla June Johnson (Diné\/Tsétsėhéstȧhese)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCo-authored with Indigenous knowledge-keepers rather than written about them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCase studies organised by water type—salty, brackish and fresh—across diverse ecosystems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwenty-two contemporary TEK projects demonstrating current application\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrated throughout by Lina Müller; designed by Piera Wolf and Stephanie Specht\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow chinampas, dike-ponds and tidal fish traps function as engineered systems, not folk practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy water behaves as a linking element across drought, flood, sea-level rise and storm risk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe design logic connecting ancestral hydrological technologies to contemporary sponge-city thinking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow biocultural resilience offers architects and policymakers an alternative to hard engineering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Watson is an Australian-born designer, educator and author of Greco-Egyptian-English heritage, trained as an architect in First Nations knowledge systems. She founded the global Lo—TEK movement and co-founded the Lo—TEK Institute and the Lo—TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism, both co-led by Indigenous and non-Indigenous designers and scientists. She lectures at Harvard and Columbia, and is the author of \u003cem\u003eLo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism\u003c\/em\u003e (Taschen, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover, Swiss binding, five foldouts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170 x 244 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 558\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9783836594448\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Taschen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 15 April 2026 (Australian release)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Landscape architects and urban designers working on water-sensitive design, architects and planners engaged with climate adaptation, and readers of the first Lo—TEK volume wanting its argument tested against a single element.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48907872534753,"sku":"9783836594448","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/cover_lo-tek-water-indigenous-water-technologies-julia-watson_1200.jpg?v=1786519577","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/lo-tek-water-a-field-guide-for-teknology","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}