Re-Visit ART Participatory Art Model for Transforming Place Identity in Urban Villages of Indonesia

Abstract

Over the past decade transforming urban slums into colorful urban villages have become art movement across Java, Indonesia. Several urban villages have become tourist destinations, expressing their local identities by creating colorful murals, inventing unique local food, organize festivals, rejuvenate historical and cultural heritage. The effort in shaping Place Identity in urban villages involves the participation of multi-stakeholders thus participatory and co-creation model is common practice. The collaborative effort in shaping place identities helps local residents to reconnect with place memory, place history, and tradition. Despite these creative efforts many empowerment projects in urban village stopped only at physical transformation, and continuity of empowerment strategy was often over sighted. The sustainability of urban village should be supported with transformative steps. Urban village is a place inherent with cultural dimensions, historical narratives and an extension of the community’s identity. This study examines empowerment strategy conducted in two urban villages and explores how art-design process can be incorporated in participatory action model. This study propose Re-Visit ART participatory art model as empowerment and assessment strategy in urban villages to shape place identity. The participatory art model is intended to create a stimulus and activate local residents in developing their village’s identity. The Re-Visit ART participatory model contributes to the participatory action literature which combines construction of place identity with participatory action and approach through art.

Keywords: Participatory art model, Community Empowerment, Urban villages, Place identity.

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/101-02

Publication date:June 30^th 2022