Founder & Co-Founder
Lo—TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism & Lo—TEK Institute
East Hampton, New York
Julia Watson is an Australian-born designer, educator, author, and TED speaker of Greco-Egyptian-Welsh heritage whose work advances climate-resilient design through Indigenous knowledge systems. Engaging with First Nations ecological perspectives from an early age, she explores how human and natural systems co-evolve. She authored the award-winning Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism (2019) and Lo—TEK Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology (2025), and founded the global Lo—TEK movement. Watson co-creates with Indigenous communities worldwide, founded the Lo—TEK Institute and Office for Intercultural Urbanism, teaches at leading universities, and collaborates with major organizations, reframing sustainability through Traditional Ecological Knowledge and intercultural design.
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FRI-B02: Healing the Water: Practices of Nurturing and Honoring Rivers as Radical Regeneration
Friday, September 18, 2026
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM PT