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= Julia Watson = Julia Watson (born 1977) is an Australian born author, researcher, lecturer, and landscape designer. Watson is a leading expert on nature based indigenous technologies and focuses her work at the intersection of anthropology, ecology and innovation.[1][2] She is the founder and Principal of Julia Watson, a landscape and urban design studio, and co-director of A Future Studio, a collective of eco-conscious designers.[3]

She is the author of Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, a bestseller that has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Dwell, Vogue, Architectural Digest, and The Washington Post. Julia Watson currently teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York.[2]

Early Life and Education
Julia Watson's born in 1977, in Brisbane. Her Mother was Greek, immigrating with her family to Australia from Egypt in the 1950s, and her father was Australian.[4][5] Watson grew up in the West End of Brisbane, an inner city neighbourhood ten minutes from the city centre that is well known for its multiculturalism, with a prevalent Greek, Vietnamese and Italian presence and large Indigenous population.[6][7] She has cited this environment as foundational to her upbringing.[5][4]

Career & Education
Watson studied Architecture and planning at the University of Queensland where she received her Bachelor’s in 1998, she then went on to complete her Graduate Diploma of Landscape Architecture (GDLA) at the Queensland University of Technology in 2001.[5] After her graduation from the GDLA program Watson went on to work for John Mongard Landscape Architects in Brisbane for a year.

In 2002 Watson moved to London, where she began work for Randle Siddeley Associates. During her time in London, she took an aside trip to the Island of Borneo where she spent a month traveling and visiting with Indigenous communities.[5]

In 2006, Watson moved to the U.S. to peruse a Master of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she graduated with a specialization in living landscape eco-technologies and the preservation of sacred cultural space.[8]

Her work and research focus on the global study of the large-scale local innovations of indigenous communities and nature based indigenous technologies.[2] In 2013 Watson founded her studio Julia Watson, a landscape and urban design studio with a focus on indigenous design, in New York.[3] In 2019 she published her seminal work Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism. Lo-TEK, which stands for (Lo)cal + (T)raditional (E)cological (K)nowledge, is centred around Indigenous technologies and the opportunities they hold for designing a sustainable future.[9] In addition to her practice, Watson has taught at the Harvard University School of Design and currently teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York.[2]

Projects

 * Vanderbilt Ave with So-IL
 * Rockefeller Center Channel Gardens, Campus and Lobby Interiors[10]
 * Dubai Central Business District Master Plan with Woods Bagot
 * Private Estate for contemporary art collector Artur Walther NY
 * Private Residence for contemporary artist Rashid Johnson NY
 * Tourism Management & Conservation Plan for Bali’s 1st UNESCO World Heritage Site
 * Restoration of the Southern Wetlands of Iraq of the Ma'dan People

Publications
Watson’s publications include Lo-TEK; Design by Radical Indigenism, she is the co-author of A Spiritual Guide to Bali’s UNESCO World Heritage, and has written for an array of platforms such as ArchDaily, Blueprint, and loARCH and Kerb.

Books

 * Lo-TEK; Design by Radical Indigenism (2019)
 * The Philosophy of Dumbness (2020)
 * Guide to Bali’s UNESCO World Heritage. Tri Hita Karana: Cultural Landscape of Subaks and Water Temples, co-author with Dr. Steve Lansing (2012)

Reports

 * ELCI Paddy Farming Below Sea Level (2022)
 * Design by Radical Indigenism; Equitable Underwater & Intertidal Technologies of the Global South SPOOL Vol. 8 No. 3: Landscape Metropolis #8 (2021)
 * Growing Living Bridges in Mumbai Responsive Cities Symposium (2021)
 * Topos Water Issue 111; Towards A New Vernacular (2020)
 * Nakhara Journal (2016)
 * Landscape Urbanisms East; ' Water Urbanisms East' (2014)
 * World Heritage Sites and Living Culture of Indonesia (2012)

Essays & Articles

 * KOOZARCH Learning from Indigenous Wisdom and Ecological Symbiosis (2022)
 * Seacities; Towards a new vernacular (2020)
 * LAF 045 Vol 8 Issue 3; Nature-Based Solutions and Urban Resilience (2020)
 * ioARCH One Earth Issue; A Lo–TEK Life After COVID-19 (2020)
 * Kerb 26; Homelands (2019)

Awards
New York Times Bestseller’s list