IN-PERSON London. Section A
Abstract
In recent years, citizen-driven urbanism has been considered a novel approach to urban planning and has risen globally. This concept centres on the notion that cities should be planned and built with due consideration for the desires and aspirations of their residents. In contrast to being a process solely driven by experts and urban planners, the community group has an active role in the decision-making, execution, and maintenance of public space initiatives. In practice, these actors serve as facilitators in urban transformation processes. Learning from research on temporary use that has developed, especially among Western scholars, this concept is often associated with active citizen movements in appropriating and intervening urban spaces. The temporary use phenomenon is conceptualised when a city faces the problem of vacant spaces (buildings or land). The vacancy problem is usually apparent within crises (urban decline) such as deindustrialisation, shrinking cities, war, etc. This research focuses on community-driven urban intervention as a response to vacancy. This is important because the attitude taken by the authorities in dealing with vacancy problems tends to be conventional, such as tearing down unused buildings to build new functions. Apart from being an alternative way, the study of community initiatives is also expected to be able to define the concept of temporary use, especially in the Global South. Qualitative case study research was used in this research, aiming to explain the issues mentioned above by studying the practices of community-led urban intervention in addressing the vacancy problem in Bandung, Indonesia.
Dwi Hatmojo Danurdoro is a Ph.D. Researcher at the Architecture & Urbanism Research Group, University of Leeds. His research focuses on temporary use in vacant urban spaces, especially in how the community takes the initiative to intervene and claim urban voids. Through his research, he contributes to alternative city-making and contextualises temporary urbanism, especially in the Global South. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, he had 5 years of experience as a lecturer and researcher in the human and interior space research group at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.
Gehan Selim is the Hoffman Wood Chair in Architecture at the University of Leeds. She is the Deputy Director at Leeds Social Sciences Institute and was Fellow of The Senator George Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (2017/18). She leads the Architecture and Urbanism Research Group at the University of Leeds with her research covering interdisciplinary methods bridging between Architecture, Urban Politics and Digital Heritage. She leads several funded research projects with empirical research in the global south. She authored ‘Unfinished Places’ (Routledge, 2017) and ‘Architecture, Space and Memory of Resurrection in Northern Ireland’ (Routledge, 2019).;
May Newisar is an architect, urbanist, and researcher working at the intersection of theoretical exploration of cultural heritage and professional practice of heritage conservation. She has held several academic posts in several international schools of Architecture in the Middle East and the UK. Through active community engagement, her interdisciplinary research advocates social-constructivist approaches to studying the politics of technical decision-making and its impact on shaping tangible and intangible cultural heritage. She has 10 years of experience in teaching and delivering courses in architecture and urban design at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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