American anthropologist, architect, and designer championing indigenous technologies and ecological design through the concept of Lo-TEK.
Lo-TEK is reframing how we think about the relationship between human systems and nature
It is the blending of both worlds
Architects and designers weren't really writing about this
Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change
There is a loss of relationship to the natural world. Our relationship to nature is the driver of the system
Lo-TEK is inclusive of contemporary technology and contemporary design
We can't really move forward using the same toolkit that got us to the place we are now