Julia teaches at Harvard and Columbia, while also leading an experiential, landscape, and urban design practice: Julia Watson Studio. She is also a Director and Cofounder of A Future Studio, a consultancy of designers focused on positively changing our interconnected ecologies. After graduating from Harvard with the highest award for her work on conservation and spiritual landscapes, she has been widely published and co-authored the Spiritual Guide to Bali’s UNESCO World Heritage with Dr. J. Stephen Lansing. Julia approaches design as a 'rewilding', with a portfolio of projects including the Reef Resilience Initiative with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, private estates with the art collector Artur Walther, the owners of PACE Galleries, and the artist Rashid Johnson. She is a fellow of Summit REALITY & Pop!tech, received a Christensen Fund for her work in conserving Bali’s first UNESCO World Heritage site, and was a Disruptive By Design Ambassador for WIRED.

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