Category: Unit 3
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Local Philosophy and Documenta
Last week, while tidying up my room, I found out that I have two series of Documenta that I haven’t finished reading yet. One of them is Documenta Fourteen, which I borrowed from Rahul Patel, and the other is Documenta Fifteen, which I borrowed from the library. And I thought, oops.. And yeah, I began…
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Second Intervention – The Power of ‘Gotong Royong’ in Zine-Making
Welp. The second intervention is DONE! Although it was rough and made me got out of my comfort zone (initiating an event, gathering people around, SCARY). But apparently, I did?? But beforehand, why zine-making all of a sudden? This is not all of a sudden, anyway. Publication is one of the methods to communicate our…
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The Rise of Social Design Collectives in Indonesia – Discussions with Kampung Kollektief and Karasa BDG
Based on what we usually have known, or on ontological level, design are purposely made for mass production – Product, advertising, marketing and many others. This, however, leading to disillusionment on every emerging to established designers who were told they had the tools to make the world a better place, but instead the world takes…
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Giving Definition to My Project (What a Week!)
Alright, I know how hard it is to explain my own project. Even to explain it as quick as 3 minutes elevator pitch. Not only to communicate it in English but also in Indonesian. Therefore, I spent my weekend to literate myself and redefining my research question after I did 3 tutorials in a row…
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Experimenting at a Fabric Recycle Workshop
I went to Are You Mad workshop on July 22nd 2025 at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross for a Paper Making from fabric waste workshop, and it was so amazing yet I found it very relaxing. Are You Mad is collaborating with a fabric waste recycling organization called Fibrelab based in East London, who actively…
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Annotated Bibliography Exercise
Manzini, E. (2015) Design, when everybody designs: an introduction to design for social innovation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. I used to believe that design was solely about planning and producing closed-ended products and services, heavily narrowed on expected outcomes. Being caught in a capital-driven process eventually made me feel disillusioned about identifying myself as…
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Building a New Method for Collecting Imaginations
For my second intervention I am going to test a new method on how can creative self confidence can influence collective imagination . In a book called Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, there is a question that intrigued me: how can a heterogeneous society develop shared values and yet encouraged cultural diversity and personal…
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Online Discussion with Cipadu Residences – Part Two!
“It’s not about you, it’s about people!” Thank you Liz for reminding me that this project is not designing the future that I want, but designing the future that we– the people – want. After the PAR session with the citizen, I shared them the feedback form to assess and rate the activity they’ve just…
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Tutorial about Ethic
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…
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Online Discussion with Cipadu Residences (Finally!)
Above: Padlet as The Discussion Tools Please change your website translation to English if you want to read the Padlet result in English! On June 2025, I initially asked Mrs. Asla Laila, the village secretary of Cipadu, about my initiative to do collective imagination with Cipadu residents because I live closely and grow up near…