Show Notes
As we AskNature for nature positive solutions to climate resilient design, author and designer Julia Watson challenges us to look beyond high tech fixes and embrace the multi generational genius of LO-TEK infrastructure.
"I’m really interested in exploring: How is contemporary technology interacting or intersecting with ancestral knowledge systems to create new forms of technologies that we've never seen before?" – Julia Watson
Tune in to Episode 4 of the AskNature Podcast to travel from the 6,500 year old floating reed islands of Iraq to the potential that indigenous knowledge carries for designing the infrastructures of contemporary cities.
Hosted by Amanda Sturgeon, CEO of the Biomimicry Institute, and Andrew Howley, Chief Editor.
Sound design and music composition by Simon Thomas George and Lucas Murray.
Senior producer is Ayoade Balogun.
The AskNature Podcast is a project of The Biomimicry Institute.?
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