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ABIERTO 2020        7 — 31. octubre    Octava edición
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               Diseño y poder | Design and Power

               Julia Watson
IG | FB | TW   Lo —TEK, Design by Radical Indigenism
               Julia Watson es una diseñadora que aborda la disciplina del diseño desde un
               punto de vista antropológico y ecologista. Con su libro Lo — TEK, Design by
               Radical Indigenism, explora 18 países, para destacar el ingenio humano basado
               en filosofía indígena e infraestructura vernácula, para generar tecnología
               sustentable, resistente y basada en la naturaleza.

               Julia Watson is a designer who addresses the discipline of design from an
               anthropological and environmental point of view. With her book Lo — TEK, Design
               by Radical Indigenism, she explored 18 countries, to highlight human ingenuity
               based on indigenous philosophy and vernacular infrastructure, to generate
               sustainable, resilient and nature-based technology.
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Indigenism

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                                     copyright: © Amos Chapple                                          copyright: © Esme Allen

                                     caption: A young fisherman walks under a                           caption: Qasab reed has long served as raw
                                     living root bridge at Mawlynnong village,                          material for homes, handicrafts, tools, and animal
                                     India. In the relentless damp of Meghalaya’s                       fodder with the distinctive mudhif houses of the
                                     jungles the Khasi people have used the train-                      Ma’dan people appearing in Sumerian artwork
                                     able roots of rubber trees to grow Jingkieng                       from five thousand years ago.
                                     Dieng Jri living root bridges over rivers for
                                     centuries.                                                         file name: taschen to fill in
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                                                                                                        copyright: © Jassim Alasadi

                                     file name: taschen to fill in                                      caption: In the Southern Wetlands of Iraq,
                                     book page:                                                         an entire Ma’dan house known as a mudhif,
                                     copyright: © David Lazar                                           which is built entirely of qasab reed without
                                                                                                        using mortar or nails, can be taken down and
                                     caption: A view over the sacerd Mahagiri                           re-erected in a day.
                                     rice terraces, a small portion of the one
                                     thousand year old agrarian system known as
                                     the subak, which is unique to the island of
                                     Bali, Indonesia.
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                                                                                                        copyright: © Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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                                     book page:                                                         caption: Las Islas Flotantes is a floating
                                     copyright: Alireza Teimoury                                        island system on Lake Titicaca in Peru inhab-
                                                                                                        ited by the Uros, who build their entire
                                     caption: A line of evenly spaced spoil craters                     civilization from the locally grown totora
                                     snake along the surface of the desert from                         reed.
                                     the high Elburz Mountains to the Plains of
                                     Iraq and is the only evidence of an invisible,
                                     subterranean man-made water stream called
                                     a qanat, first constructed by the Persians
                                     during the early years of the first millennium
                                     BCE.

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                                                                                                        copyright: © Iwan Baan

                                                                                                        caption: Built by the Tofinu, the city of
                                                                                                        Ganvie meaning ‘we survived’ floats on Lake
                                                                                                        Nokoué surrounded by a radiating reef
                                                                                                        system of twelve thousand acadja fish pens.

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EXPOSICIÓN CENTRAL MAIN EXHIBITION - Abierto Mexicano de Diseño
EXPOSICIÓN CENTRAL           ABIERTO 2020     7 — 31. octubre    Octava edición
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Julia Watson
Lo —TEK, Design by Radical
Indigenism
EXPOSICIÓN CENTRAL MAIN EXHIBITION - Abierto Mexicano de Diseño
EXPOSICIÓN CENTRAL           ABIERTO 2020     7 — 31. octubre    Octava edición
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Julia Watson
Lo —TEK, Design by Radical
Indigenism
EXPOSICIÓN CENTRAL MAIN EXHIBITION - Abierto Mexicano de Diseño
EXPOSICIÓN CENTRAL           ABIERTO 2020     7 — 31. octubre    Octava edición
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Julia Watson
Lo —TEK, Design by Radical
Indigenism
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