„Julia Watson” – książki

In this era of progress, we have gone from being protectors of life on earth, to its greatest threat. One challenge we will confront in the next millennia is water. This book offers a wide diversity of ancient wisdom and technology from Hawaii to Brazil, from fishing to wastewater treatment, to navigate and co-create our increasingly aquatic world. Podmiot odpowiedzialny za bezpieczeństwo produktu: SOLIS KOPER ANDRZEJ, ul. Ludna 4/4, 00-406 Warszawa (PL), adres e-mail: wydawnictwosolis@gmail.com

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 humanitys 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.LoTEK, derived from Traditional Ecological Knowledge, is a cumulative body of multigenPodmiot odpowiedzialny za bezpieczeństwo produktu: SOLIS KOPER ANDRZEJ, ul. Ludna 4/4, 00-406 Warszawa (PL), adres e-mail: wydawnictwosolis@gmail.com