Architects for Self-help and Facilitation (ASF) is a non-profit and participatory organization with commitment to social justice, culture, and environment working through architecture, construction, and urbanism. ASF is found on May 15th 2015 in Bandung by community architects, apprentices, and architecture teachers. ASF is working in the fields of alternative construction technologies, bamboo architecture, participatory design, and community planning. Financial capacity is obtained through members fee, donation, and services
3rd Regional Workshop COMMUNITY Manila, Philippines ARCHITECTS 16-24 June, 2015 GROUPS OVERVIEW
1/PROFILE
Architects for Self-help and Facilitation address: Jl. Kota Baru 32A, Regol, Bandung 40252 INDONESIA fanpage: www.facebook.com/asfindonesia c/o: andrea.fitranto@gmail.com, m.damarratri@gmail.com
Nepal Earthquake Fundraising One of the main activities conducted at the beginning of the organization is fundraising campaign in Bandung, Yogyakarta, and Jakarta to support the work of Lumanti Support Group for Shelter in reconstruction and rehabilitation process in the aftermath of April 25th Earthquake in Kathmandu valley. The fund, that is collected from public talks, sell of merchandise, and donation boxes, is channeled through Community Architects Network (CAN). (2015, “Slum Chic,” Errik Irwan)
Night for Nepal, 23 May 2015, at Pecha Kucha/LABO, photo: Ari Suci Rahayu (above). Cak2,Siska, and Usie are the current staff members at ASF Secretariate in Bandung (right).
Although, founding members are based in Jakarta, ASF Secretariat is located in Bandung, and as discussion groups already existed in Yogyakarta, Solo, Semarang and Makassar. Bandung is the capital of West Java province, Indonesia. The city is located around 768 m above sea level. Its northern area is mountainous while the southern area is relatively flat. The highest temperature in 2013 is 30.1°C and the lowest is 18.5°C. Its geographical coordinate is 107° 36’ E, 6° 55 S. Situated 160 km away from Jakarta, Bandung has strategic position in terms of economy and communication. Main economies of Bandung were including textile, educational, hospitality, and manufacture industries.
Hasselt Charter (after ASF-Int’l) ? Cooperate for fair and sustainable development initiatives in active collaboration with disadvantaged people or communities. This process shall follow principles of human solidarity, non- discrimination and will be aimed at promoting their self-sufficiency; ? Foster the socially responsible role of built environment professionals by stimulating social modes of practice before speculative economic profitability; ? Encourage ‘ethical professionalism’ by favouring cooperation and practice in hand with ‘ethical trade’, and with entities and financing institutions that work for peace-building processes; ? Identify, disseminate and work alongside public institutions, multilateral organisations and private sector’s policies, programmes and sustainable socio-economic systems fostering social equity and urban inclusion within the built environment; ? Facilitate the use of appropriate technologies, materials and labour adequate to local values, to the cultural specificity and responsive to the natural environment; ? Share knowledge, promote discussion, reflection and awareness, and collaborate in the advancement of the ‘social production of habitat’; ? Promote the facilitation of trans-national dialogues and long-term partnerships with and within the less affluent countries; ? Support participatory, democratic, multicultural and interdisciplinary processes and approaches in strengthening community solidarity as a factor of rural and urban social development; ? Endorse the integration of post-emergency relief interventions into long-term sustainable development strategies; ? Defend, promote and enable access to adequate and dignified habitat for all as a ‘Fundamental Human Right’.
(2015, “Bandung for Nepal,” Addina Faizati)
2/IMPACT 3rd Regional Workshop COMMUNITY Manila, Philippines ARCHITECTS 16-24 June, 2015 GROUPS OVERVIEW
Community Mapping at Cikapundung facilitated by Perween Rahman Fellow Siska and Usie on Sunday, 7 June 2015.
Adobe Workshop The seeds of ASF was cultivated through friendship among community architects and social activists, such as through this workshop on self-help housing and ecological building conducted during March 2014 in Parung,
Map of Pasirluyu communities at the banks of Cikapungdung river, Bandung.
Community Upgrading at Cikapundung River Regol Subdistrict is one of the city’s area where the intensity of economic activities is high with population density of 18.946 inhabitants/km2. In this subdistrict, a portion of Cikapundung river flows. The 28 kilometres river, is now ridden with waste and contamination, especially in the city area. The settlers of the river edge are currently facing problems; waste, sewage, sanitation, housing condition, and land-use as well as the health of the river itself. This aims to catalyze and empower awareness of the settlers in the area about their ability to prioritize, organize, and solve immediate environmental and housing problems, concerning their informal living habitation along Cikapundung river through proposed activities: Community mapping and workshops during 6 months. ? Problems acknowledgement and prioritization, along with initial solution plans in the first three months. ? The enactment of solution plans within the last three months in the form of housewives savings and community space betterment. ?
3/GROWTH
Friends and Network ? Civil Society: Ciliwung Merdeka, Urban Poor Consortium, Rujak Center for Urban Studies, JALA-PRT ? Architecture colleges: Universitas Katholik Parahyangan, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Institut Teknologi Nasional, Universitas Gajah Mada, Universitas Negeri Sebelas-Maret, Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Universitas Syiah Kuala. ? Architectural firms: LABO, Urbane, SAGI, Supie Architects, Yu Sing Architects, Arkomjogja. ? International: ACHR-CAN, ASF-INT, Arc*Peace.
3rd Regional Workshop COMMUNITY Manila, Philippines ARCHITECTS 16-24 June, 2015 GROUPS OVERVIEW
Bamboo Mini Mosque in Maribaya, Lembang, north of Bandung was constructed by students for local farmers association as part of First Parahyangan Bamboo Nation in June 2014 (below).
Village Planning at Kampung Badaraksa Badaraksa is an idyllic suburban village in the south of Bandung with rolling green hills and rice fields. It is adjacent to textile industrial zone Leuwigajah and Citarum River, which fed hydroelectric dams. Investors came to Badaraksa to mine stone and sand, turn hills into flat barren lands. The remaining hills host plenty of bamboo and were the main source of ground water. Yet locals cut the bamboo rampantly for instant cash. Holistic bamboo practice can secure sustainability, while opens a new “green economy.”
Currently, a team consists of village head and local youth agrees to develop an enterprise that will sell bugs-proof bamboo poles for construction purposes. Team members also aspire to use the bamboo to build a pedestrian bridge over an accident-infested inter-city road which crosses the village, and to build village gathering places. The initiative is called Rhizomatic Kampung: Architectural Enterprise and Village Planning in Bandung’s Suburb.
Bamboo Alternative School in Bogor (left).
Way Ahead and Sustainability ASF seeks to form a new mode of urban-rural partnership based on fairness and equality. All parties in collaboration will learn together in capitalizing local potentials in an appropriate future vision of communities; it must addresses economic needs, while strengthening social capital. Thus, ASF ventures for new mode of urban-rural social development. Without being ambitious, in its first year program of 2015-2016 ASF take charge in planning and architectural works that are related with foundations and non-profits. This aims to generate fund to keep the group alive and kicking… ;-)