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DOCUMENTARY : Baynchandmani district

2010-06-11T10:40:00.003+07:00

Title : We are one family. Community upgrading process in Baynchandmani soum, Tov province, Mongolia
Synopsis : Community upgrading process in Baynchandmani soum
Running time : 10 minutes
Subtitle : English
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynx_rv4E8Ag

DOCUMENTARY : Tunkhel village

2010-06-11T10:29:00.003+07:00

Title : We are one family. Community upgrading activities by people in Tunkhel village, Selenge province, Mongolia
Synopsis : Community upgrading activities by people in Tunkhel village
Running time : 10 minutes
Subtitle : English
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEaiLzbw8c

DOCUMENTARY : Mongolia

2010-06-11T10:24:00.002+07:00

Title : Community driven upgrading activities in Mongolia. General information
Synopsis : To have all brief information about Mongolia
Running time : 6 minutes
Subtitle : English
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jug7Eqx9WjU

DOCUMENTARY : Upgrading community and Re-generating the city, Naratiwat

2010-06-11T10:07:00.006+07:00

Upgrading community and re-generating the city, Naratiwat

DOCUMENTARY : Learning from disaster tsunami 2004 in Thailand

2010-06-11T10:06:00.005+07:00

Learning from disaster tsunami 2004 in Thailand

DOCUMENTARY : Satun Mapping and Data Survey's Process Part 1-2

2010-06-10T16:44:00.007+07:00

Satun Mapping and data survey's process Part1

Satun Mapping and data survey's process Part2

DOCUMENTARY : Our Community, Pattani

2010-06-10T16:12:00.005+07:00

Our Community, Pattani

DOCUMENTARY : Heritage Project, Sam Chuk

2010-06-10T15:41:00.006+07:00

Heritage Documentary Project, Sam Chuk

DOCUMENTARY : Build the home, grow the community, Koh Mook

2010-06-10T14:30:00.005+07:00

Build the home, grow the community, Koh Mook

Workshop and Training

2010-06-01T11:18:00.003+07:00

Download .pdf here 09 - Workshop & Training

City Participatory Planning

2010-06-01T11:17:00.005+07:00

Download .pdf here 08 - City Participatory Planning

Heritage

2010-06-01T11:16:00.026+07:00

Download .pdf here 07 - Heritage

Disaster

2010-06-01T11:16:00.025+07:00

Download .pdf here 06 - Diaster

Design with Peoples

2010-06-01T11:14:00.003+07:00

Download .pdf here 05 - Design With People

Urban Regeneration

2010-06-01T11:13:00.003+07:00

Download .pdf here 04 - Urban Regeneration

Upgrading

2010-06-01T11:02:00.006+07:00

“If we start building a lot of smaller constituencies within a city, where people start relating to each other – and sharing between constituencies - a lot of horizontal learning, linking, and creativity will start to happen.”

Somsook Boonyabancha

Download .pdf here 03 Upgrading

Situation and Development of the Community Architects Movement

2010-06-01T10:51:00.015+07:00

'The architect’s role is to assimilate, to assimilate technology, culture
and ideas of people who want to build and form all this

to create something new."

Fr. Jorge Anzorena

Before KIP

After KIP

KIP’s Infrastructure Development

1970s - Kampung Improvement Programme (KIP)
The Kampung Upgrading Programme (KIP) has been implemented in Indonesian cities since 1969 until the present. Over time, there have been various versions of KIP according to its project design and source of support. Perhaps the most renowned was the first stage of KIP, implemented by the government of Jakarta during the 1970s. Exceptional for its ambition, scale, and the political will, KIP in Jakarta was adopted as an affordable and effective way to improve the life of urban poor families through basic infrastructure development. The physical projects include construction of pathways, drainage, bridges, and community buildings. Through the fully stratified governance structure in Indonesia, KIP was able to reach around 3 million people or 60% of the city’s population, although participation remained limited to information and consultation. The project won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1980. Today, there is barely any evidence of implementation of KIP in Jakarta. Due to lack of maintenance, the KIP kampungs were densified and degraded; others were pushed out of city by the burgeoning commercialization which began in the late 1980s.

1980s - Kali Chode, Yogyakarta
Kampung Kali Chode is distinctive in the cityscape of Yogyakarta. It presents a picturesque composition of A-framed bamboo-timber stilt houses with bamboo infills, painted with imaginative colors and pictures, suggesting a strong sense of community and place. Who would have thought that in 1983 this urban poor settlement of 35 families, located on a steep bank of river Chode, was on the verge of eviction? Community leaders began to negotiate against eviction, with the assistance of the architect Y.B. Mangunwijaya (1929-1999). The resulting people’s alternative development plan convinced the municipality, and the initial threat was successfully turned into an opportunity for upgrading. Construction took two years, with the involvement of residents and volunteers, including art students, while financial support was provided by two local newspapers. In 1992, the project won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Unfortunately, like in some KIP cases, there is evidence of densification in kampung Kali Chode. Newer buildings have been constructed of brick masonry, diverting from the community’s initial architectural language.

Kali Chode, Yogyakarta

Kampung Ngibikan - Bantul Yogyakarta

1990s – Present

Indonesian urban areas in the 1990s were marked by burgeoning private developments. The architecture was dominated by super-developments of high-end retail, office, and residential facilities. Community architecture was much less active, with only a few sporadic initiatives taking place in less urbanized areas. One example is the work of Marco Kusumawijaya and Yori Antar on self-help housing in Kupang. The new millennium was marked by an increase of urban challenges and natural disasters, leading to a stronger demand for architects working with communities. Disaster rehabilitation projects involving young architects gave birth to a network of community architects calling themselves barefoot architects. This new generation of community architects continues to flourish in many architectural schools across the country. Community organizations and NGOs are proving to be an ideal developing ground for this young generation of community architects. A handful of architects have been involved in the works of UPC/UPLINK in some innovative housing developments for the urban poor and disaster survivors in Indonesia. A Jakarta-based NGO, Humanitarian Volunteer Network (JRK), has been providing urban laboratories for student architects. This publication features the work of this new generation of community architects in Aceh, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Jakarta.

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OVERVIEW

2010-06-01T10:25:00.011+07:00

In the squatter areas and resettlement areas of Asian cities, houses grow little by little. When some money is saved, some materials are available or some friends gather, a wall is completed, a roof is improved, another room is added.

A Time to Build: People’s Housing in Asia

The active role of professionals is not something to be boosted in isolation. It’s not possible. There is a distinct social context of change in each country, and this social context has a great influence upon how architects and professionals work - or don’t work. It might be very important for each country to examine their own social contexts and look back at their own change processes - in which the professionals operate.

( more soon )

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THE CONTRIBUTERS

2010-06-01T10:21:00.005+07:00

The Contributers

Somsook Boonyabancha

Kirtee Shah

Gregor Meerpohl

Muhammad Younus

Inamoto Etsumel

Antonio Ismael

Fr. Jorge Anzorena

Andrea Fitrianto "Cak Cak"

Chaiwat Rak-u

May Domingo

Octavianus Hendra Pratama "TOMO"

Sakkarin Sapu

Lumanti Joshi

Kasama Yamtree

Chawanad Luansang "NAD"

YP Team working with HPFPI-PACSII in lloilo City

Meas Kin Seng

Ashram of Community and Environmental Architect, Arsom Silp Institute of the Arts

Rolando Palacio

Phailin Thongthammachat "PLOY"

Young Professional Team of Loas

Hugo Moline

Andre Alexander

Jaringan Relawan Kemanusiaan Team

CASE-Japan

Arlene Christy Lusterio and Maria Faith Varona

Nattawut Usavagovitwong