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Cómo construir un futuro resiliente recurriendo a la sabiduría ancestral

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Julia Watson |

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• June 2020

En su búsqueda de diseños de sistemas indígenas, la arquitecta Julia Watson investiga prácticas de innovación duraderas para enfrentar los desafíos del cambio climático. Desde pueblos flotantes hasta puentes de raíces vivas que se fortalecen con el tiempo, Watson nos muestra algunas de estas soluciones resilientes, y nos enseña lo que podemos aprender de ellas para diseñar con la naturaleza, en lugar de contra ella.

En su búsqueda de diseños de sistemas indígenas, la arquitecta Julia Watson investiga prácticas de innovación duraderas para enfrentar los desafíos del cambio climático. Desde pueblos flotantes hasta puentes de raíces vivas que se fortalecen con el tiempo, Watson nos muestra algunas de estas soluciones resilientes, y nos enseña lo que podemos aprender de ellas para diseñar con la naturaleza, en lugar de contra ella.

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About the speaker

Julia Watson

Designer, academic, author

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Julia Watson designs built environments with an eye towards sustainability, climate resilience and dismantling the barriers between urban environments and the natural world.

Julia Watson | TASCHEN, 2020 | Book

Lo―TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism

Bernard Rudofsky | University of New Mexico Press, 1987 | Book

Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture

Fikret Berkes | Routledge, 2017 | Book

Sacred Ecology

Mark Dowie | The MIT Press, 2017 | Book

Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Donate to The Iraq Foundation to support the Ma’dan of the Floating Islands in the Southern Wetlands of Iraq.

Learn more about Give A Little–Ektu Deen, an initiative dedicated to supporting the Bengalese of the East Kolkata Wetlands in recovering from COVID-19 and Cyclone Amphan.

Learn more about the Living Bridge Foundation, a group of young local people dedicated to preserving, protecting and multiplying the tradition of constructing the living root bridges of the Khasi in Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, India.

Learn more about the work of the Benin Environment and Education Society, which promotes the protection and sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity in two wetland sites in Benin.