Tanahku Indonesia: Celebrating the Indigenous Interior

Abstract

Towards Meaningful Indigenous Material Practices Tanahku Indonesia was a week-long, architecture and interior design exhibition showing local earth-based materials to reveal their potential as an integral part of Indonesia's creative economy development. Curated by Yandi Andri Yatmo and Paramita Atmodiwirjo, the exhibition was held in dia.lo.gue Artspace in Central Jakarta, Indonesia from 8 to 12 November 2017. This exhibition attempted to reveal the materiality of earth-based materials across a broad spectrum, which was not limited to the physical presence of the materials, but more as a reflection of knowledge that was grounded on the deep understanding of their context. This multifaceted exhibition showed various earth-based materials gathered from different places within the Indonesian archipelago, as well as the methods and techniques related to the materials, while also revealing their values within architectural and interior design practice in Indonesia. Every exhibition has its agenda, so did Tanahku Indonesia. The title of the exhibition, which means "My Earth Indonesia", was entirely reflected the agenda, in order to show the richness of Indonesia's earth materiality and to illuminate this materiality as a local treasure. Based on thorough research by the Architectural Design Research Group from the Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia, and funded by Indonesia Creative Economy Agency, this exhibition put materiality in interior and architectural practice into scrutiny, and at the same time attempted to bring forward an awareness of materiality to a wider audience. It focused on indigenous material

Revealing circular material flow in Terrazzo making process

“…The data in this study are collected from a workshop in Suradadi Village, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This workshop is a part of an exhibition of architectural materials that were produced locally from earth-based ingredients [5,6]. The artisan is a Lombok-native who previously worked in Bali.…”

Sun-Drying in Traditional Brickmaking: Strategies for Achieving Efficiency

“…Such strategies, though laborious (Dalkılıç and Nabikoğlu, 2017), particularly reflect the local nature of the traditional brickmaking process. The strategies also emphasize the indigenous characteristics of the traditional brick (Johanes and Wahid, 2018). The strategies consist of continuous actions of moving and arranging the brick in a particular manner that maximizes heat exposure to the brick (Dalkılıç and Nabikoğlu, 2017).…”

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“…They demonstrate the site-specific knowledge in particular area that has been handed down across generation in particular culture [4] and become the common practice that has been sustained until the present. The traditional brick making process in Pedurungan Kidul illustrates how the material practice becomes a reflection of cultural and social practices of the community, and this is only one case among many others that may be further investigated in different traditional brick making processes in different contexts [6].…”

“…It could also be considered as representing the cultural spatial strategies in dealing with the environmental living context where the cultural values, habitual routine and preferences are embedded [5]. The traditional making of material is often embedded with cultural values that are often neglected in modern industry [6] yet they strongly reflect the embeddedness with the contexts. Since the indigenous knowledge is closely related to the ecological everyday practice, the traditional way of making things is worth studying as a part of the overall ecological system within particular context.…”