Designer, activist, academic and author, Julia Watson is a leading expert on indigenous nature-based technologies. Her unconventional practice led to research, writing, and design projects inspired by pilgrimages to indigenous sites, while her formal education led to teaching positions at Harvard, Columbia, RISD, and Rensselaer. In 2019, her award-winning, bestseller, Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, was published by Taschen. Coined by Julia, Lo— TEK has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Monocle, Architectural Digest and the Indigenous Peoples and Climate Technologies Guidebook. Julia is a NPR guest, Long Now & TED Speaker. Studio work involves speaking, writing, landscape and urban design, alongside futures consulting for Fortune 500s. HONORS• NYSCA Independent Design Project Panel JudgeAWARDS• NYSCA Architecture + Design Awards, 2018 & 2022 • Christensen Fund Grant• Arnold W. Brunner Award for Architectural Research• Summit REALITY 2016 • WIRED/Oakley's 'Disruptive By Design’ Ambassador• Poptech Social Innovation Fellow & Speaker• Robert S. Brown Fellow• Olmsted Fellow• Charles Eliot Traveling Fellow• Penny White FellowEDUCATION• Adjunct Professor of Urban Design, Columbia• Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard• Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, RISD• Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.• Master in Landscape Architecture II, HarvardPROJECTS• Vanderbilt Ave with So-IL• Rockefeller Center Channel Gardens, Campus and Lobby Interiors• 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 PeoplePUBLICATIONS• Lo-TEK, Design by Radical Indigenism• ELCI Paddy Farming Below Sea Level• KOOZARCH Learning from Indigenous Wisdom and Ecological Symbiosis• Circular Water Stories SPOOL Vol. 8 No. 3: Landscape Metropolis #8 • Growing Living Bridges in Mumbai Responsive Cities Symposium • Seacities• Kerb 26 Homelands• Nakhara Journal • The Philosophy of Dumbness • LAF 045 Vol 8 Issue 3 Nature-Based Solutions and Urban Resilience • Topos Water Issue 111 Towards A New Vernacular • ioARCH One Earth Issue A Lo–TEK Life After COVID-19• World Heritage Sites and Living Culture of Indonesia• Spiritual Guide to Bali’s UNESCO World Heritage• Landscape Urbanisms East 'Water Urbanisms'