Julia Watson S Profile At Ies Diego Velázquez Architect, design activist and academic julia watson is a leading expert on indigenous technologies and author of lo tek, design by radical indigenism. she teaches urban design at harvard and columbia while leading her eponymous experiential, landscape and urban design studio. From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, watson introduces us to some of these resilient solutions and shows how they can teach us to design with nature,.
Julia Watson Speaker Ted Trained in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism, founder principal julia watson is an award winning designer and educator, a best selling author, a ted speaker, and a leading expert on indigenous nature based technologies. Julia watson is a designer, author, ted speaker, educator and storyteller recognized globally for advancing the integration of traditional ecological knowledge, or tek, into contemporary design, climate adaptation and urban resilience. From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, watson introduces us to some of these resilient solutions and shows how they can teach us to design with nature, instead of against it. Julia teaches at harvard and columbia, while also leading an experiential, landscape, and urban design practice: julia watson studio. she is also a director and cofounder of a future studio, a consultancy of designers focused on positively changing our interconnected ecologies.
Julia Watson Speaker Ted From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, watson introduces us to some of these resilient solutions and shows how they can teach us to design with nature, instead of against it. Julia teaches at harvard and columbia, while also leading an experiential, landscape, and urban design practice: julia watson studio. she is also a director and cofounder of a future studio, a consultancy of designers focused on positively changing our interconnected ecologies. Julia watson is an australian born designer, educator, author, and ted speaker advancing climate resilient design through indigenous knowledge systems. she is author of lo—tek: design by radical indigenism (2019) and lo—tek water (2025), and founder of the lo—tek institute and office for intercultural urbanism. Julia watson is a designer, author, ted speaker, educator and storyteller recognized globally for advancing the integration of traditional ecological knowledge, or tek, into contemporary design, climate adaptation and urban resilience. Her unconventional research led her to writing and design projects inspired by pilgrimages to sacred natural sites, while her formal education has led to speaking and teaching positions with ted, npr, the long now, harvard, columbia, risd, and rensselaer universities. From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, watson introduces us to some of these resilient solutions and shows how they can teach us to design with nature, instead of against it. this talk was presented at an official ted conference.
Ted Watson Net Zero Conference Julia watson is an australian born designer, educator, author, and ted speaker advancing climate resilient design through indigenous knowledge systems. she is author of lo—tek: design by radical indigenism (2019) and lo—tek water (2025), and founder of the lo—tek institute and office for intercultural urbanism. Julia watson is a designer, author, ted speaker, educator and storyteller recognized globally for advancing the integration of traditional ecological knowledge, or tek, into contemporary design, climate adaptation and urban resilience. Her unconventional research led her to writing and design projects inspired by pilgrimages to sacred natural sites, while her formal education has led to speaking and teaching positions with ted, npr, the long now, harvard, columbia, risd, and rensselaer universities. From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, watson introduces us to some of these resilient solutions and shows how they can teach us to design with nature, instead of against it. this talk was presented at an official ted conference.
Julia Watson Human Nature Climate Conference Her unconventional research led her to writing and design projects inspired by pilgrimages to sacred natural sites, while her formal education has led to speaking and teaching positions with ted, npr, the long now, harvard, columbia, risd, and rensselaer universities. From floating villages to living root bridges that strengthen over time, watson introduces us to some of these resilient solutions and shows how they can teach us to design with nature, instead of against it. this talk was presented at an official ted conference.
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