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CONTENTS 01
THE TEAM Background story and founding team
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PROJECT LOCATION
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KID’S ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
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Kampung Akuarium Location
September - October 2018
HOUSEHOLD WASTE REDUCTION EXPERIMENT October - November 2018
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INCUBATION PROGRAM SHOWCASE
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GALLERY
December 2018
Activity Gallery
THE STORY... Kanopea was started from a regional #HACKJAK 2017 competition, Jakarta Open Data Challenge. The competition was held in 3 categories, and since the team were from architecture and design background, they participated in the Designathon category, which is for urban space design. The main challenge was to utilize Jakarta Open Data as a basis to design solution, especially in improving public space. The team already had some volunteering experience in one of the slum area in Jakarta, so they use this as case study to analyse the existing social problem using the demographic data provided.
From field observation they found that there are three main problems: poverty, unmanaged waste, and huge rate of unemployment. The team’s idea was to propose a more inclusive waste bank design, which can provide economic opportunity, introduce environmental education education while also help solve the unmanaged waste in the neighborhood. The proposition won the 1st place out of 11 submission in the Designathon category, and as part of the prize, the team went through a 5-month incubation program to implement the idea guided by mentor organizations.
Pa r t n e r s a n d M e n t o r s :
THE TEAM
Amelia Santoso
Ellen Septiane
Meta Tresna
Community Manager
Program Manager
Creative Manager
Amel is an architect with keen interest in sustainable building design, she strives to learn how to lead a more sustainable lifestyle through responsible consumption. She wants to build a business that works with materials innovation. A person with deep empathy, she leads the relationship with the community and volunteers.
Ellen is an interior designer passionate in climate change, plastic waste and environmental issues. She wishes to establish a social enterprise that can close the consumption loop and promotes circular economy. A big-picture thinker, she is mainly responsible for the strategic planning, program design and impact evaluation.
Meta is an interior and product designer with great love to local culture and marine life. Her dream is to build a business that create everyday products, which are safe for environment and can empower local artisan. With great attention to detail, she develops creative tools for the program using local resources.
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PROJECT L O C AT I O N * North Jakarta
* Kampung Akuarium Jl. Ps. Ikan, RT.12/RW.4 Penjaringan, North Jakarta City Jakarta 14440 Indonesia
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KID ’S ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Module 1: Recognizing Our Environment INTRODUCTION
With the help from the coordinator of the neighborhood, we were able to gather 40 kids living in Kampung Akuarium and started our program by introducing our program activities.
As for the opening week, we led a small activities as an ice breaker. Before the teaching session, we had already walked around the neighborhood and took picture of specific objects and corners.
This was our first meeting with the children in Kampung Akuarium and the main purpose was to explain what they will learn, kind of activities they can expect and registration process for the children who are interested.
We then showed the photograph to the children and made them guess where it was. The children could answer this very easily and with enthusiasm. This activity was intended to introduce them to the term ‘environment’ and that it entails everything around us.
We explained that our activities was designed for children aged 6-12 years old and not for infants, because we would deliver interactive educational activities and not simply giving out food or donation materials.
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The first week was still hectic and disorganized, but we gained some experience with the local children and evaluate on it to improve the following week’s activities.
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Module 2: Clean and Dirty Environment The second module’s goal was to build an understanding to distinguish what is a clean and dirty environment. These children were living in a temporary shelter because their houses had been evicted by the municipal government of Jakarta, so they might had a disrupted sense of place and environment. And since their home is in the coastal area of the city, these children often play and swim in the sea shore. We prepared photographs of places that are familiar to them: marine environment and a neighborhood - each with a good and bad condition so these children can compare the difference. Once the kids could distinguish the good and bad, they were asked why they think the environment on the picture is bad.
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We then explained why a clean ocean is important, as habitat for diverse marine animals, and also as source of food and livelihood for people. Afterward we told the story about the various reasons the ocean had become dirty and undesirable. One of the main cause was our own waste which was mismanaged and in the end flow into the ocean. Some of these waste can be very problematic like transparent plastic bags which was mistaken as jellyfish and being eaten by turtles. Overall, the story can be accepted by the children because it related to the environment they live in. We then encouraged the children to think about what small actions they can do to save the ocean.
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M o d u l e 3 : WA S T E S E PA R AT I O N G a m e s One of the most common problem in Jakarta is that people still put their waste in any bin even though the local government had already provided separate trash bins in different colors. We designed this activity to teach the children about different categories of waste and how to discard them properly. So we already prepared real waste examples in five different materials: paper, plastic, glass, organic and hazardous waste. We made it into a game where the kids are divided into teams and they need to race to put the waste into the right category.
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For older children, we also made some tricks by giving out waste that was combination of two materials. For example, a cookie jar with glass body but with plastic lid. From this activity, we could see that kids were very enthusiastic to play and they could understand which waste went into which bin quite well. But a better understanding does not guarantee behavioral change, because from our observation we still saw some kids still throw their garbage on the ground. In this case, our role is to remind the children which behavior is desirable and ask them to do it.
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M o d u l e 4 : C r e at i v e Bottle Recycling Materials: • Used plastic bottle • Scissors • Acrylic paint • Painting Brush • Small rope • Glue • Googly eyes • Markers
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This week, kids were taught that plastic bottle can also be creatively repurposed into something useful, in this case, to make a toy.
Kids also learned other creative skills, such as mixing and making their own color, and also designing a fish with free imagination.
Because these kids live near the coastline and are very familiar with marine environment, we guided them to make sea animals.
Once the fish ‘body’ was dried and finished, they just need to connect the rope between the bottle cap and the fish catch.
From this exercise, we found that kids can express their creativity in unexpected ways. They were so excited that they also made extra details, like fins.
After making their own toys, these kids can play with it by throwing the bottle cap and try to catch it with the ‘fish’ bottle.
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Module 5: My Hope for The Environment This was the closing week and kids were prompted to express their hope and wishes for the places around them. The exercise encouraged them to think about what kind of environment they want to live in - in the future. For example, the neighborhood they currently live in was dirty and a lot of children still not discard their garbage on the available bins. What are their hope for their neighborhood in the future?
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Kids were divided into teams based on their age, and each team was given a paper board for them to stick their responses on. Every team were given images of three different places which are very close to these kids at heart: Kampung Akuarium (their own neighborhood), Maritime Museum, and the ocean.
Not only writing down their hopes, they also asked to think about what kind action they can do to help achieve that wish. The facilitators explained to the kids that this can be done as simple as discarding their waste into the garbage bin.
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household waste reduction experiment
Week 1: Introduction and Composting Bucket The first week was for general program introduction, explaining the purpose, type of activities and that there would be a sort of individual competition to reduce waste in each of participant’s household. Participant with the highest rate of waste reduction would be announced by the end of the program and could win prizes.
Since the beginning of the children’s education program, we had already informed the local authority that after the 5-week programs for children, it would be continued with another series of workshops for housewives. So we already gathered 12 women from Kampung Akuarium registered, four people from each house block - some are the mother of the kids joining our learning sessions.
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We already did waste measurement within the previous three weeks, and participants was expected to reduce their household waste by implementing several strategies that will be shared throughout the series of workshops. And since the following week they would learn about reducing organic waste through composting, the activity of the first week is to decorate their own bucket which will be used for composting practice.
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Week 2: Composting Workshop This week’s activity was to introduce the participants one method to reduce household waste: composting. By composting organic waste at home. we can reduce the amount of household waste going to landfill. Some of the housewives actually already grew vegetables at home as hobby and they already did organic composting in some way.
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Some of the housewives just put eggshells or fruit peels on their plant pots to decompose without any special treatment. We invited a composting expert, Mdm. Ida, to share experiences and to teach the one of popular method to compost household waste, Takakura composting, which let the organic waste fermented and turned it into liquid fertilizer for any plants. Besides teaching about composting, Mdm. Ida also went around the participants’ houses to see their home garden and give advices about how to take care their specific plants at home.
Takakura composting materials: • Composting bin with sufficient holes for air circulation • Used cardboard • Used water bottle to keep the liquid compost, two-1.5 liter bottles for each person • Pillowed husk for the base of the compost bin • Raw husk • Ground (1/3 of the composting bin volume) • Rice water (from the first wash) 500 ml • Coconut water 500 ml • Fermented cassava • Sugary water (dissolve 300 gr of sugar into 500 ml liquid) • Organic household waste (fruits and vegetables) • Small bucket for the mixing process • Knife and scissors
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Week 3: Experience Sharing Session After two weeks of trying to reduce waste in their house, the participants are invited to share their experiences, challenges and also dreams. We gave seven questions and the housewives wrote their responses on paper, such as: which waste was the most difficult to prevent and why, how was their feeling after trying to reduce waste in their home, what was their biggest personal hope and dream, and what change did they want to see in the world.
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From the responses, we learned that organic waste was a major part of their household waste, and composting helped to reduce these waste. But not all participants was interested in gardening. Furthermore, we also learned that these housewives’ main concern was to get their right back to housing, which was evicted in 2016, rather than worried about waste problem. They were also struggling to get a decent job with limited skill and opportunity.
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Week 4: Plastic-less Traditional Market Shopping This week we tried a no-plastic traditional market shopping experiment. The housewives had already briefed that on the following week they were required to make local and traditional snacks served without plastic. So this week we went to the nearby market to buy the ingredients needed to make the snacks.
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On the previous week, the participants were already given a reusable bag they can use to carry the shopping items. We also encourage them to bring their own food container or lunchboxes to buy any raw ingredients and prevent using plastic.
From this experiment, we learned that some housewives took this seriously than other participants. They said that it was not that troublesome to carry their own container when shopping in the market. But some others just did shopping as usual and put everything they bought inside the reusable bag. Some items are easy to buy without using plastics but some are more difficult, such as rice grains. And there were also confusion about packaged ingredients, like flour
or ready-to-use seasonings, which undoubtedly use plastics. The conclusion is, it was very difficult to remove plastic bag usage in market shopping activities, since there are a lot variety of ingredients and other important factors such as hygiene, smell, wet products vs dry products, etc. Plastic is very convenient for this purpose, because people can separate different items in different bags, and carry it safely without damaging the bought items.
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W eek 5: Tr a di ti ona l Delica cies F est ival The series of activities was closed with a small ‘Kampung’ festival, where each team of participants prepared traditional snacks which did not served with plastic, but mainly used the long-tradition banana leaves. The housewives prepared the food since morning and it was later shared with other neighbors through exchanging food coupons. We could see that cooking together was a wonderful activity to foster relationships within communities.
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After distributing the snack, we announced the winning participants for the household waste reduction competition. During the workshop period, we had asked each participant to measure and report their weekly household waste and then compare it to the waste data collected before the program started. Beside waste reduction rate, we also took into account two other factors: participation in workshops and waste reduction stability. After giving the prize for the winners, the event was closed with afternoon exercise.
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I ncub atio n P r o gr a m S howca s e
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