This study presents preliminary findings from built-environment research based on audiovisual documentation from the Recording the Future (RtF) project, which spans more than 22 years. 

The recordings of everyday life document changes in three urban kampung inhabited by domestic migrants without formal land rights. This audiovisual archive reveals how residents survive within spatially and legally constrained environments, prompting them to creatively adapt and shape their surroundings. Ultimately, however, these communities are compelled to comply with government-led development programs that frequently marginalize or exclude them. 

Introduction

Ireen Hoogenboom (KITLV, coordinator Recording the Future).

Speaker

Harmilyanti Sulistyani is a lecturer in the Architecture Department at Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta. She obtained her PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2022. Her research activities focus on architecture and heritage. Harmilyanti's spotlight on architecture to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 11-Sustainable Cities and Communities. Currently she is a fellow at KITLV doing research on the Recording the Future archive.

Moderator

David Kloos is a historian and anthropologist with a focus on Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia and Malaysia), working as a senior researcher at KITLV. His main interests are religion (particularly Islam), gender, the politics of knowledge formation, visual methods, and the study of the social, political, and cultural aspects of climate change.

Recording the Future

Recording the Future (start 2003-) is a long-term audio-visual documentation KITLV-project in collaboration with Indonesian partner PRMB-BRIN. The aim is to establish an audiovisual archive of everyday life in Indonesia during the 21st century, and to conduct research on daily life through this archive. To this end recordings are made in Jakarta, Delanggu (Central Java), Payakumbuh (West Sumatra), Kawal (on the island of Bintan), Sintang (West Kalimantan), Bittuang (Tana Toraja on Sulawesi), Ternate, and Surabaya. Every four years recordings are made at the same locations in order to trace changes and continuities.

Format, date, time & venue

This seminar is an onsite event and will be held in the conference room of KITLV, Herta Mohr building, room 1.30, Witte Singel 27 A, Leiden on Thursday 24 February from 15.00-16.30 PM (CET).  

Image

Kampung Melayu, Jakarta. Image: Recording the Future archive (2007).

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