Lo‐TEK源自Traditional Ecological Knowledge（传统的生态知识），是多代知识，实践和信念的累积体，反驳了“本土的创新是原始的且与存在于技术之外”这一想法。它是一种高级的理念，旨在与复杂的生态系统可持续地共同发挥作用。

本书由人类学家韦德•戴维斯（Wade Davis）撰写前言，包含四个涵盖山脉，森林，沙漠和湿地的章节，探索了20个国家几千年来的人类智慧和**性，包括秘鲁，菲律宾，坦桑尼亚，肯尼亚，伊朗，伊拉克，印度，和印度尼西亚。我们在当代环境中重新发现了古老的神话，使人性的精神得到了激进化。

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 humanity’s 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.Lo―TEK, derived from Traditional Ecological Knowledge, is a cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and beliefs, countering the idea that indigenous innovation is primitive and exists isolated from technology. It is sophisticated and designed to sustainably work with complex ecosystems.

With a foreword by anthropologist Wade Davis and four chapters spanning Mountains, Forests, Deserts, and Wetlands, this book explores thousands of years of human wisdom and ingenuity from 20 countries including Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania, Kenya, Iran, Iraq, India, and Indonesia. We rediscover an ancient mythology in a contemporary context, radicalizing the spirit of human nature.