Citizen Urbanism: Reflection of Urban Activism in Indonesian Cities
Wann: Donnerstag, 19.05.2022, 16:15 – 17:45
When: Thursday, 19/05/2022, 04:15PM – 05:45PM (CEST) / 21:15 – 22:45 (WIB)
Wo/Where: ONLINE via Zoom https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/65943401080;
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Urban planning, infrastructure, and intervention are never neutral in a more extensive sense. Power relations always matter. The long-lasting view that urban planning is a technocratic process is strangely upheld until recently in Indonesian cities. In a way, it is a reproduction of colonial practices. No meaningful participation and collaboration are considered necessary, desirable, or even possible. As a result, resistance always stands up against plans from above.
For over a decade, Rujak Center for Urban Studies puts emphasis on the citizens as the center and the key actor in effecting changes in cities. Our work is meant to bring about changes through the activism of empowered citizens. It is not meant to directly change urban practices. This choice is made to reflect the permanency of the citizens, vis-à-vis the changing politicians, bureaucrats, and the overall landscape of governance.
We put the citizens in charge to engage others and initiate changes. We always intend to promote ways in which myriads of daily experiences and practices, together with other knowledge, can come together to create solutions. An important task is to understand under what conditions struggles for clean government, collaborative planning, and accountable urban management do work and focus our attention on how to enlarge and possibly replicate those institutional and political capabilities.
The reflection will be based on our past and current works in several cities, including Jakarta, and on various issues such as housing struggles, environmental issues, mobility, and art activism.
Elisa Sutanudjaja is executive director of RUJAK Center for Urban Studies. She studied Architecture at the Universitas Taruma Nagara in Jakarta and at the University of New South Wales (Australia). Elisa has been involved in urban activism for more then a decade and is often consulted by national and intonernational institutions, NGOs, urban scholars, film makers and art curators involved in urban affairs.
Marco Kusumawijaya is an architect and urbanist. He studied at Parahyangan University in Bandung (Indonesia), and at the University of Leuven(Belgium). He co-founded the Rujak Center for Urban Studies (RCUS) in 2010 and has been its until 2016. He works also as consultant for architectural designs, urban and rural planning, and development projects with emphasis on community participation, ecological sustainability and creative engagement.
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