Session Name: Design and Architecture: The Making and Managing of Urban Space and Social Life
Critical Framework on Design : A “Kampungan” Perspective on Marketplace Revitalization Program
Monday, July 29, 2024
11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)
Paper Abstract: This paper argues that public space design is under the global city regime, even though it is narrated as meeting sustainable development goals. Discourse on the Southeast Asian marketplace revitalization program is within the debate on public marginalization and the application of sustainable development standards on the other side. Meanwhile, direct infrastructure investments and rapid urbanization in the region have met with architects playing a vital role in mediating and aspiring imperial ideas of space and place. With Southeast Asia as the stage of contemporary development discourses, design is at a critical point; in between the discourse of going global and green city, as well as automatization and authorization of design in development practices. However, design has yet to be in the spotlight in such rich interweaving discourses. Design is presumed to be not the main culprit of public marginalization and exclusion. Building on these contradictions, by investigating how discourses of marketplace revitalization programs in Southeast Asia perform design aspects in the development narrative, this article proposes three theoretical frameworks from the border thinking subject positionality to study processes of how global city aesthetics co-opt sustainable development through public space design.
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