Participatory design of street vendor tents at PKL Wahidin, Yogyakarta City

The existence of street vendors (in Indonesian called Pedagang Kaki Lima/PKL), who are often shabby and disturb the visual image of the city, has become an issue raised in this community service program. This service program assists PKL Communities along Wahidin Sudirohusodo Street Yogyakarta (in front of the Duta Wacana Christian University Campus). The PKL Wahidin community has the intention to improve itself to organize street vendors that involve relevant stakeholders (according to the Yogyakarta City ‘gandeng-gendong’ program) it is hoped that it can become an identity for an image of a city in Yogyakarta. The process of designing street vendors tents using participatory design methods, community-based design with stages in the form of surveys, observations, interviews, Focus Group Discussion (FGD), and making tent design mockups. The participatory design method chosen was expected to make the community have a ‘sense of belonging’ to the arrangement of street vendors along Wahidin Street so that sustainability would be created. This tent design can later be moved (movable) and following user needs and because the location of the design sidewalks remains environmentally friendly to pedestrians.

Activating Data through Eco-Didactic Design in the Public Realm: Enabling Sustainable Development in Cities

This paper explores how design in the public realm can integrate city data to help disseminate the information embedded within it and provide urban opportunities for knowledge exchange. The hypothesis is that such art and design practices in public spaces, as places of knowledge exchange, may enable more sustainable communities and cities through the visualization of data. To achieve this, we developed a methodology to compare various design approaches for integrating three main elements in public-space design projects: city data, specific issues of sustainability, and varying methods for activating the data. To test this methodology, we applied it to a pedogeological project where students were required to render city data visible. We analyze the proposals presented by the young designers to understand their approaches to design, data, and education. We study how they “educate” and “dialogue” with the community about sustainable issues. Specifically, the research attempts to answer the following questions: (1) How can we use data in the design of public spaces as a means for sustainability knowledge exchange in the city? (2) How can community-based design contribute to innovative data collection and dissemination for advancing sustainability in the city? (3) What are the overlaps between the projects’ intended impacts and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Our findings suggest that there is a need for such creative practices, as they make information available to the community, using unconventional methods. Furthermore, more research is needed to better understand the short- and long-term outcomes of these works in the public realm.

From theory to practice: the three principles of community-based design.

One of the challenges in developing tourism in many local communities, particularly in developing countries, is the danger of commodification of culture. Existing models of cultural tourism often see culture as a relatively static product to be 'sold' to tourists. By embracing local identity and intangible cultural assets, and concentrating on local creative processes, creative tourism can emerge as a fundamental tool for combatting such negative impacts of traditional models of cultural tourism. This chapter reflects on an experimental learning journey, a creative tourism pilot project initiated by the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA) in Thailand. The main objective of this learning journey with DASTA was to develop a Creative Tourism Brain Bank (CTBB), working together in a creative tourism lab which aimed to explore the following questions: (1) What constitutes creative tourism, specific to the Thai context?; (2)What makes creative tourism different from other forms of tourism?; (3) How can we transform community cultural tourism/activities into creative tourism?

Seni Tata Taman Pendukung Perintisan Desa Wisata di Desa Sidoagung, Kecamatan Godean, Sleman, DIY

Budi daya ikan di kawasan Godean memang bukan fenomena baru, tetapi kemampuannya untuk menarik wisatawan dan pengunjung belum pernah dieksplorasi secara menyeluruh. Beberapa generasi muda di Desa Sidoagung memiliki ide untuk mengembangkan kawasan budi daya ikan mentah menjadi restoran keluarga dengan area bermain untuk anak-anak. Ketidakmampuan mereka dalam mendesain mendorong Jurusan Desain Institut Seni Indonesia untuk membantu mereka dengan pelatihan singkat tentang bagaimana mendesain area taman berdasarkan partisipasi masyarakat. Dengan pendekatan desain berbasis komunitas, pelatihan diadakan dengan cara temu komunitas dan mengajak komunitas muda untuk secara aktif mengkomunikasikan gagasan mereka sendiri satu sama lain. Mereka mengembangkan keterampilan desain dengan mempraktikkan menggambar dan menggambar ulang beberapa objek umum dalam komposisi taman. Pelatihan tersebut berhasil meningkatkan kemampuan anggota komunitas remaja untuk mengembangkan desain restoran keluarga dengan taman dan area bermain untuk anak-anak. Fish culture in Godean area is not a new phenomena however its ability to atrracts tourists or visitors is never thouroughly explored. Some younger generations in the Sidoagung village had an idea to develop raw areas of fish culture into family restaurant with playground area for the children. Their lack ability to design prompted design department of Indonesia Institute of The Art to help them with short training on how to design garden area based on community participation. Using community based design approach the training was held in the manner of community meeting and encourage youth community to activily communicate their own ideas with one another. They developed design skill by practicing drawing and re-draw some of the common objects in the garden composition.The training succeed in upgrading youth community member to develop family restaurant design with garden and playground area for children.

Principles of Collaborative Education Research With Stakeholders: Toward Requirements for a New Research and Development Infrastructure

A group of collaborative approaches to education research sits uneasily within the existing infrastructure for research and development in the United States. The researchers in this group hold themselves to account to ways of working with schools, families, and communities that are different from the ways envisioned by models for education research promoted in U.S. policies and endorsed by U.S. federal agencies. Those models, widely supported by funders, privilege the research priorities of individual investigators and regularly yield products and findings with little relevance to educational practice. In this article, we review four collaborative approaches: Community-based Design Research, Design-based Implementation Research, Improvement Science in Networked Improvement Communities, and the Strategic Education Research Partnership. Through a participatory process involving developers and advocates for these approaches, we identified a set of interconnected principles related to collaboration, problem solving, and research. Further, we reviewed evidence of these principles in projects belonging to these four approaches. We contend it is worth attempting to understand, build upon, and support enactments of these principles in research proposals and projects, because there is evidence these approaches can promote agency and equity in education. To do so would require the field to develop criteria for judging quality, which peers can use to evaluate individual studies or sets of research; new outcomes by which to measure progress; new venues for developing and giving accounts of research; and an appreciation for the value of developing and cultivating relationships with educators, families, and communities as an integral part of research.