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“SENDAL” CREATIVE BOTTOM-UP SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN ISSUES AT DISTRICT LEVEL

It is compulsory for each faculty at ITB to have a subject on environmental issues, therefore the Faculty of Art & Design established a course since 2013 called Seni, Desain, Lingkungan (Art, Design, Environment) - abbreviated into “SENDAL”, taught by all 5 lecturers from each program within the Art & Design Faculty (Industrial Product Design, Interior Design, Visual Communication Design, Craft, and Visual Art); and is attended each semester by approximately 200 students from the whole faculty. The main aim of this course is to raise awareness of the impacts of art, design, and all creative works, to the environment. Considering the amount of students and the target it brings, a particular method is applied to this classroom with massive creative potentials: by having a different theme in each semester, to be responded to by the students, in groups, on how creativity could solve real problems within an urban scope. In the last term, this class collaborated with Karang Taruna, an area-based social youth organisation, who brought real issues or problem at a district or sub-district level. This paper discusses an experimental form of partnership between academia and a community organisation, working on real challenges within a (sub-) district level, and creating prototypes of solutions based on the capacities of all involved stakeholders. During the process, the students learned to apply their knowledge by also considering the impacts on the environment and the social dimension. As a conclusion, this paper presents an evaluation of such partnership, while also delivers the best results that came out to this activity.