DESIGN UNLEASHED November 7th - November 9th 2008
- Kota Surabaya sebagaimana kota besar di Indonesia tentunya memiliki permasalahan multidimensional yang cukup pelik. Sebagai sebuah kota tentulah Surabaya dituntut untuk bisa menyediakan sarana/fasilitas dan prasarana beserta pelayanannya yang memadai kepada warganya, sehingga warganya dapat ‘hidup’ secara ekonomi, manusiawi dan berbudaya (civilized society). Dengan segala keterbatasan pemerintah kota dalam melayani warganya tidaklah menjadi pembenar dan pembiar atas terjadinya problem perkotaan. Salah satu cara lain yang coba dihelat untuk turut membantu meringankan permasalahan kota Surabaya adalah paradigma disain kreatif. Mencoba membantu memecahkan permasalahan …

Indonesia had almost 9 million motorized vehicles in 1990, of which 70% were motorcycles and 15% were cars. The motorized vehicle fleet increased in line with the urban population. There were 5 motorized vehicles for every 100 persons in 1990. The percentage of urban households owning a non-motorized vehicle in 1989 was only slightly higher (35%) than those owning a motorized vehicle (29%). By 2015, it is forecasted that about 2.5 million cars and 1.2 million motorcycles will crowd the roads of Jabotabek.
-BPPT, 1992
Rapid increases in car and …

“It is predicted that without the 3R program, by 2012 Surabaya’s landfills will be totally paralyzed by the enormous amount of trash produced per day. Thus a zero waste solution must be devised; preferably a simple, cost-efficient, and community-based method.”
Everyone knows that trash, rubbish, garbage; whatever you want to call it, society’s refuse is a problem to practically every city in the world. A city has faced waste-related problems at least once during its existence. Failure to treat waste can lead to the genesis of an unhealthy environment, …

The Plan-less Concept is strongly related to Catalytic Planning; both being strategic approaches. Although referred to as Plan-less, but this does not mean that the planning was conceived without any thoughts or considerations. This planning model does not, in the end, come up with an actual plan as regular planning models do; its end result, instead, is a spatial program.
This type of planning model can be used to restore functions, and control planned zones that have been violated. The consideration towards implementing this concept is the characteristic …