{"podcast":{"title":"Clever with Amy Devers","slug":"clever-with-amy-devers-50760","podcast_index_feed_id":50760,"rss_url":"https://rss.acast.com/clever","website_url":"http://www.cleverpodcast.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61b7709a16956261f5e950ae/1781540192806-b43eb219-7c56-4256-a9ea-0aa70f8e0e59.jpeg","author":"Amy Devers","episode_count":352,"summary":"Clever is an award-winning, independent podcast that offers a window into the humanity behind the design of the world around us. In each episode, designer Amy Devers has candid and revealing conversations with the visionaries, culture-makers, and creative forces who shape our world and inform our society. Through a disarming mix of raw candor and honest shop-talk, Clever peels back the layers to unearth the gritty, authentic and sometimes surprising details of their creative paths. Clever Confidential is Clever’s offshoot series where we dig into the lesser told stories of the darker side of design; the shadowy, sometimes sordid, tales hiding under a glossy top coat of respectable legacy. Visit our website: cleverpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T14:20:04.844805+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/clever-with-amy-devers-50760"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 228: Lo-TEK’s Julia Watson on Applying Indigenous Knowledge to Climate-Adaptive Design","slug":"ep-228-lo-tek-s-julia-watson-on-applying-indigenous-knowledge-to-climate-adaptive-design","published_at":"2025-10-07T04:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/clever-with-amy-devers-50760/ep-228-lo-tek-s-julia-watson-on-applying-indigenous-knowledge-to-climate-adaptive-design","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/clever-with-amy-devers-50760","url":"https://www.cleverpodcast.com/blog/julia-watson-lo-tek-climate-adaptive-design-indigneous-technology","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/clever/e/68e408ead17b81f346f66cd2/media.mp3","summary":"Julia Watson, a landscape architect, author, and educator, developed a passion for global cultures and knowledge as a child in Australia, inspired by her parents' National Geographic collection. She has since dedicated her career to exploring traditional knowledge systems and their application to contemporary design challenges like extreme weather, waste management, and population growth. At the heart of Watson's work is a profound respect for indigenous knowledge systems and a commitment to applying Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to climate-adaptive design. Through her work with Lo-TEK, including the recently launched Lo-TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism, and her books, Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism and the upcoming Lo-TEK Water (November 30 release), she strives to facilitate the equitable exchange and implementation of indigenous knowledge and technology to the crucial and complex challenges of our evolving world. Images, links and more from Julia Watson on our website! Special thanks to our sponsor - Wix Studio is a platform built for all web creators to design, develop, and manage exceptional web projects at scale. Clever is hosted &amp; produced by Amy Devers , with editing by Mark Zurawinski, production assistance from Ilana Nevins and Anouchka Stephan, and music by El Ten Eleven . SUBSCRIBE - listen to Clever on any podcast app! SIGN UP - for our Substack for news, bonus content, new episode alerts VISIT - cleverpodcast.com for transcripts, images, and 200+ more episodes SAY HI! - on Instagram &amp; LinkedIn @cleverpodcast @amydevers Special thanks to our sponsors! Wix Studio is a platform built for all web creators to design, develop, and manage exceptional web projects at scale. Join us for Emerging Designers Spotlight LIVE , Sunday May 17,…","meta_description":"Julia Watson, a landscape architect, author, and educator, developed a passion for global cultures and knowledge as a child in Australia, inspired by her…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3656,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/clever-with-amy-devers-50760/episodes/ep-228-lo-tek-s-julia-watson-on-applying-indigenous-knowledge-to-climate-adaptive-design/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/clever-with-amy-devers-50760/ep-228-lo-tek-s-julia-watson-on-applying-indigenous-knowledge-to-climate-adaptive-design.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}