Learning from Homemaking Practices of Kampung Susun

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10.2991/978-94-6239-632-6_12How to use a DOI?

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Kampung susun; Incremental housing; Informality; Homemaking

Abstract

This research examines Jakarta’s kampung susun, a community-driven vertical housing pilot, as a form of resistance against forced evictions. The study aims to understand how residents adapt to reconfigured living spaces and how socio-economic, cultural, and spatial practices are sustained or transformed in vertical kampung settlements. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, narrative interviews, and design exploration, the research examines everyday homemaking practices, economic activities, and cooperative governance structures. Key findings reveal that kampung susun can preserve social networks, strengthen tenure security, and incrementally adapt their spaces through collective agency, challenging the standardised, top-down model of current public housing (rumah susun or rusun). By critically examining these practices, the study both critiques existing social housing paradigms and proposes an alternative cooperative-based and incremental typology for more inclusive and context-sensitive urban development in rapidly urbanising contexts.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Amelia Mega Djaja
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/04/13
TI  - Learning from Homemaking Practices of Kampung Susun
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Research and Design (ARDC 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 171
EP  - 193
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-632-6_12
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-632-6_12
ID  - Djaja2026
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