Month: May 2011
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Peneliti Indonesia pada ke mana?
Kamis 12 Mei 2011 malam saya datang ke Goethe Institut Jakarta, untuk acara Akber Akbar-nya Akademi Berbagi. Pembicaranya adalah Yanuar Nugroho, dimoderatori oleh Onno W Purbo, dengan topik Citizens in @ctions yang merupakan penelitian doktoralnya di Manchester University. Sebelum acara dimulai, para peserta yang telah menunggu dapat menonton Linimas(s)a, atau Timeliner(s), sebuah film dokumenter mengenai…
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Imagination, Creativity, Innovation
Sir Ken Robinson takes on Creativity in interdisciplinary settings (Summit on Science, Entertainment and Education, February 2011): [vimeo http://vimeo.com/22441226] I’m learning a lot from his talk, also by connecting the following excerpts with my own experiences from working in a so-called ‘creative’ field. ============================ Most people go through the whole of their education and never…
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Negotiating A New Indonesia
Ridwan Kamil filled in my Design & Sustainability class today as a guest lecturer, at the Master Program of The Faculty of Arts and Design, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB). I invited him to talk about architecture, creative urbanism and creativity. Negotiating A New Indonesia was the title of his lecture, which actually contained lots…
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The Other Ninety Percent
This semester I teach an “Eco-Design” class at the Master Program of Industrial Engineering at Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung. Among our main references is Design for Sustainability (D4S) published by UNEP and TU Delft, especially when we were discussing the subject of Design for Sustainability in Developing Countries. I couldn’t help but also included another…
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A fuss over a lid
This is probably the most mundane subject I bring up here, but hey- I need to get it out of my system. It’s about this thing. It’s not because I’m unfamiliar with this object. On the contrary, I used to use this thing a lot of times during my commuting years in The Netherlands. When…