Collaboration Building Prototyping Based on Sketch as Communication Language in Indonesia Rural Area

Abstract

Researchers and builders collaborate on the manufacture of two-wheeled vehicles prototype for the Cikadu community in the rural village of West Java, Indonesia. Ethnography is used to understand the activities and solutions of two-wheeled vehicles in the community. The default, intervention, and compromise phase describe the process of collaboration with the community and execution through prototyping involving local workshops. Transparency, mutual trust, and mutual acceptance are the three intersections of the process phase carried out. Regarding collaboration of the local builder, manufacturing process for vehicle prototype, as matter of fact local builder utilizes and refers heavily on perspective sketches rather than shop drawings, these local builder utilizes perspective raw sketches during the logical measurements and prototypes assembling process.

Keywords: collaboration, Cikadu, ethnography, sketch, rural vehicle

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/102-05

Publication date:August 30th 2022