My last interview with Dinda and Isra from Kampung Kollektief eventually led me to Karasa BDG, a creative collective borned in the alleyways of Gempolsari, Bandung, West Java. From their reference, I arranged an online interview in July 2025 with Abdul Qodir—or Kang Qodir—the founder and creative director of Karasa BDG. We discussed his vision…

Image 1: Social Media Invitation for The Event After nine months miles away from home, I finally come back home. But this time, not as a local, but as a visitor. With the eyes of both a stranger and a researcher, the familiar suddenly feels unfamiliar. What once seemed ordinary and normal, now reveals its…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 freedom? At…

“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…