I had a tutorial about ethic with Richie on July 8th 2025 (wow such a long time ago, why did you just write it today? :p), and I got a chance to narrowed down my ideas and action plan before I did my first intervention with Richie.

But we can say this is a reflection because the tutorial did give me a clarity and ideas on how will I do my first online intervention.

We were first went through my ethical reflection document, which is really important because what I am going to do might involve people for my intervention.

I told him that I am going to do my first attempt on “Urban Imaginarium” to interact with Cipadu locals using online platform. Therefore, I need to make it clear for the people about their consent and also permit on documenting and protecting their data. That’s why I am having it on the beginning of the Padlet activity for my first intervention.

Richie said it might be really tricky to do urban participatory using online platform, because he said the result might be blurry. Which is somehow true, because apparently the participants are not fully engaged throughout the process. Even though they wrote down their aspiration on the Padlet, they said writing is far more comfortable rather than speaking on the meeting. Which is related to Richie’s feedback on making people have different choices to address their thought!

In my tutorial with Richie, he highlights key important values I need to have in order to empathize and making all the people feel included in the discussion. One of them is to choose the right method to make them get involved, if you want to create an art or drawing, make sure these people are not pressured and not being judged if they might not be able to draw. Therefore, in the online intervention I am using Padlet with several prompts to ease them to write. Because writing is a form of visual that everyone able to do. And voilà! They did share their thoughts confidently on the Padlet.

Because the format is facilitating the host to curate their imaginative solution and issues in their neighborhood, it is recommended to let people show their artefacts. As a result to that, I invited people to bring their “memorable artefacts” that reminds them of their village/neighborhood on WhatsApp. These pictures does really help to defining and giving more depth to the research.

The project might be very huge and required a lot of support, and yes I agreed! Thus it is recommended to collaborate with a lot of parties and experts. Richie also told me to be considerate and mindful to talk with the local authorities, and collaborate with them. It was really helpful, because the local authorities and communities seems to be willing to collaborate and expect more collaboration to improve their village with external experts.

To engage with people, it is really important to have actual interaction and collaborate directly. So, Richie asked me whether I might going to go back to implement the idea or not. I was not actually plan to do one, but apparently, this is the best idea to actually implement the urban imaginarium. So yeah, see you Indonesia on September!

Lastly, he highlighted the potential risk that I have written in the document and it was about ‘loneliness during the journey’. Albeit, I already stated that it is important to still catch up with the peers in London, he also told me to make sure I have a good, healthy progress, which led to self-management and also be well aware that everyone’s there to help.

And indeed, I got a lot of help along the way. Including with people in London, and Jakarta.

So this ‘Tale of Two Cities’ will continue, and hopefully can bridge the gap between the north and the south.