{"id":60340,"date":"2021-11-08T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60340"},"modified":"2021-11-08T07:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:17:38","slug":"the-power-of-lo-tek-a-design-movement-to-rebuild-understanding-of-indigenous-philosophy-and-vernacular-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60340","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild Understanding of Indigenous Philosophy and Vernacular Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild Understanding of Indigenous Philosophy and Vernacular Architecture<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

A <\/span>Mythology of Technology:<\/strong>\u00a0Stemming from the Greek\u00a0mythos<\/em>, meaning \u201cstory\u00a0<\/strong>of\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<\/strong>people,\u201d mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, the mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Guiding this was a perception of technology that feasted on the felling of forests and the extraction of resources. The mythology that powered the Age of Industrialization distanced itself from natural systems, favoring fuel by fire.<\/p>\n

Today, the legacy of this mythology haunts us. Progress at the expense of the planet birthed the epoch of the Anthropocene\u2014our current geological period characterized by the undeniable impact of humans upon the environment at a global scale.\u00a0Charles Darwin<\/a>, the scholar and naturalist who is seen as the father of evolutionary theory, said \u201cextinction happens slowly,\u201d yet 60% of the world\u2019s biodiversity has vanished in the past 40 years. Coming to terms with an uncertain future, and confronted by climate events that cannot be predicted, species extinctions that cannot be arrested, and ecosystem failures that cannot be stopped, humanity is tasked with developing solutions to protect the wilderness that remains and learning how to transform the civilizations we construct. While we are drowning in an Age of Information, we are starving for wisdom.<\/p>\n

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Columns of bundled reeds are prestressed by insertion into the island at opposing angles, then bent and tied into arches. Photo by Stephen Foote.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Built entirely of qasab reed without mortar or nails, reed islands and houses can last up to 25 years. Image created by Julia Watson and Berke Yazicioglu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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