Reimagining Other Narratives

Navigating the Role of Design in Fostering the Cultures of Inclusive Innovation in Rural Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211228.065How to use a DOI?

Keywords

inclusive innovation; participatory action research; community resilience; sustainable development

Abstract

The growing recognition of the creative economy’s critical role in Indonesia’s sustainable development sector poses new questions and challenges around inclusive innovation. Whilst formal and institutionalised forms of innovation proliferate in this sector, the role of informal, rural everyday community-based practices within development frameworks remain underexplored, thus overlooking the communities’ collective assets that might be potentially an empowering source of resilience. The research presented in this paper focuses on fostering the cultures of inclusive innovation within the context of community-based design engagement in Indonesia. This paper attempts to expand understanding of inclusive innovation and its situated nature by exploring space for often-undervalued community-based innovation practices to attend to relevant development concerns through community-based everyday practices. It further explores how design can nurture the process and encourage plural ideas of what constitutes development and progress. This study reflects the need to deeply consider plurality within the debates of inclusive innovation in an increasingly global-oriented development agenda. This study suggests that embedding local knowledge in the design frameworks may support the practice to ethically engage with Indonesia’s development plans, thus opening up discussions on the significance of respecting the community’s assets to enhance their participation and sense of ownership.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gamia Dewanggamanik
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/28
TI  - Reimagining Other Narratives
BT  - Proceedings of the ICON ARCCADE 2021: The 2nd International Conference on Art, Craft, Culture and Design (ICON-ARCCADE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 501
EP  - 508
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211228.065
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211228.065
ID  - Dewanggamanik2021
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