An essay that weaves historical perspectives with a unique interpretation of Kerensa Dewantoro’s performance art of Menjahit Marat Sade/ Sewing Marat Sade in Urban Kampong Dago Pojok, Bandung-Indonesia

An essay that weaves historical perspectives with a unique interpretation of Kerensa Dewantoro’s performance art of Menjahit Marat Sade/ Sewing Marat Sade in Urban Kampong Dago Pojok, Bandung-Indonesia

The 15th Jakarta Biennale’s curatorial premise, Siasat (Tactic) identified artists and art works which demonstrated how individuals and communities, especially in urban Indonesia, cope with social inequality, environmental pressure, and poverty. The resulting exhibition raised questions relevant to recent scholarship around relational aesthetics a…[Read more]

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Public space as a visual spectacle contributed for discovery and possible strengthening of new rhetorics outside the planning sector. Contestation of public space featuring various aspects of life residents, including; economy, entertainment, politic, and life style. One of the paradox emerging from this, manifest in the use of public space that…[Read more]

The Pasupati flyover (Pasteur-Surapati) connecting Bandung to Jakarta has become a new symbol for the city. Recent policy has made the space located under the bridge, transformed from ‘dead space’ into a socially-significant urban space for marginal people governed by many stakeholders and consequently a contestation of multiple and con…[Read more]

Traditional society cosmology is an instrument of territorial, space and buildings order as a whole language.Megalithic Nias was found with its organizational and architectural concept arranged with its cosmology.The belief of three worlds/cosmos: upper world or ancestor’s world, human world, and underworld, is local cult approved as local…[Read more]

Traditional society cosmology is an instrument of territorial, space and buildings order as a whole language.Megalithic Nias was found with its organizational and architectural concept arranged with its cosmology.The belief of three worlds/cosmos: upper world or ancestor’s world, human world, and underworld, is local cult approved as local…[Read more]

Local wisdom producing genius loci is a conceptual idea that lives, grows and develops in the society. It develops continually and in relation with society awareness, organizing sacral and profane parts of their lives. Genius loci in traditional settlements can be found in the different pattern and order corresponding to traditional values of the…[Read more]

Local wisdom producing genius loci is a conceptual idea that lives, grows and develops in the society. It develops continually and in relation with society awareness, organizing sacral and profane parts of their lives. Genius loci in traditional settlements can be found in the different pattern and order corresponding to traditional values of the…[Read more]

The 15th Jakarta Biennale’s curatorial premise, Siasat (Tactic) identified artists and art works which demonstrated how individuals and communities, especially in urban Indonesia, cope with social inequality, environmental pressure, and poverty. The resulting exhibition raised questions relevant to recent scholarship around relational aesthetics a…[Read more]

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Kampong Dago Pojok is a local neighborhood within the Dago area of Bandung, an area well-known for its cultural and artistic activities which have contributed significantly to the development of Bandung as a ‘creative city’ in the early 2000s. This paper draws on a participatory research method to explore the lived experiences and creative pra…[Read more]

How built environment plays role in social transformation?This question is one concern of social-constructivism approach in study of place. Place construction studies focus on space that socially constructed and social that spatially constructed. This article explores place construction on urban social transformation in creative-kampung phenomena…[Read more]