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 18 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. The tactile reading experience of Lo-TEK
reflects the ingenuity of carefully selected projects with
sophisticated design details: copper highlights the value of
ancient knowledge, a cardboard hardcover echoes rawness, and the
Swiss binding showcases an open spine and reveals the construction
of the book, just as the book discloses hidden technological
knowledge.
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