SAPPK 13th Webinar Series 2024
Housing and Human Settlement Research Group presents:
Whose willingness? Urban ‘Slum’ Involution Programme
Speakers:
Dr. Koen De Wandeler
Associate Professor, KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture.
P.PUL Research Group – KU Leuven Department of Architecture.
Chair, KU Leuven Regional Committee for South-East Asia.
Mohammad Jehansyah Siregar, S.T., M.T., Ph.D.
Expert Staff to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing 2011-2017.
Housing and Human Settlement Research Group, ITB.
Sri Suryani, S.T., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Housing and Human Settlement Research Group, ITB.
Khusnul Hanifati, S.T., M. Ars.
Secretary of ASF Indonesia.
Architecture, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember.
Moderator:
Dr. Eng. Dian Sekartaji, S.T.
Housing and Human Settlement Research Group, ITB.
Thursday, 17 October 2024
09.00 -11.00 WIB (GMT+7)
Seminar Room, Labtek IX-A, 2nd floor, Institut Teknologi Bandung
Zoom link : bit.ly/wsappk24_13
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Whose willingness? Urban ‘Slum’ Involution Programme Since the early 20th century, the international development agenda has coined the notion of ‘slum’ to represent urban agglomeration and concentration of population in the emerging growth of cities. Ever since, iconic images of dilapidated houses in high-density environments are circulating amongst multiple scales of governmental policy, project, and programme to respond to the materialist view of social welfare with provisional interventions on what constitutes human habitation and the desire of improvements. Despite this, there is rarely a conversation on why the notion of slum matters and by whom? Whose willingness counts in the desire to improve the slum? If the intervention barely copes with the urban growth and the reality of the slum persists, what are the possible assumptions and narrations in understanding multiple realities of slums? These are the questions that surround the Webinar that aims to identify the subjection and development of ‘slum’ as well as create a room for possible alternatives of seeing inhabitation in human settlement.