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Community-powered urban design tackles local issues in S. Tangerang
A design thinking program is helping youth and other communities develop their own solutions to local urban issues.
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The Karang Taruna Ikatan Remaja Griya Asri (Ikagiri) youth group of community unit (RW) 07 in Jelupang subdistrict, North Serpong, South Tangerang, has come up with a Monopoly-like portable game that uses the narrow space left after the public space was converted into a neighborhood parking lot. (JP/Sausan Atika)
M
assive urban development has come at the cost of public space, with the shrinking space diminishing opportunities for person-to-person interaction – an issue that youth in South Tangerang, Banten, are trying to tackle.
Members of Karang Taruna Ikatan Remaja Griya Asri (Ikagiri), the official youth organization of community unit (RW) 07 in Jelupang subdistrict, North Serpong, South Tangerang, are racking their brains to find a way to accommodate the inexorable situation in their area.
The residents of RW 07 had long been using its largest public space, a 26.4-meter-long and 14-meter-wide outdoor area that consisted of a volleyball court and a badminton court, before half of it was swiftly transformed into a parking lot five years ago.
Ikagiri member Juliansyah Putra, 25, said that the youth group had taken the initiative to repeatedly request that car owners not park their vehicles during specific times when they played volleyball.
Most of the time, however, the request fell on deaf ears.
Ikagiri member Reza Dwiputra, 22, chimed in, saying that they even let the air out of the tires of some cars.
The youths finally arrived at a temporary solution when two “collaborators” from Fraktal City offered their assistance.
