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Abstract

This paper is an attempt to converse about urban heritage preservation and its experience. To converse is to colloquially discuss ideas that comes to mind while we are looking back at the 2019 photographs of some parts of Kota Tua Surabaya (The Old Town of Surabaya) and reflect upon our knowledge background, one of architecture, the other of history. This conversation is created through a form of creative writing, creative nonfiction, where we begin with our personal thoughts, one of experiencing ruination and the other of witnessing complexity of urban heritage preservation, one of decay and the other of paint. We involve relevant discourses and the use of visual materials such as collages, diagrams, and drawings as a form of visual inquiry and visual illustration, showing the interpretation, reality, and the imagination of fragments of Kota Tua Surabaya. The process involved in creating this conversation could be one of the ways to creatively build collaborative knowledge and have the writings and the visual materials based on personal voice, expanding the academic form of writings

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Author Biography

Diandra Pandu Saginatari
Diandra Pandu Saginatari teaches architecture at the Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia. Having completed her MA in Art, Space, and Nature at the University of Edinburgh, she is currently a PhD by Design candidate in University of Nottingham. Her research revolves around the connection between architecture and the wider ecologies, exploring spatial and design practices driven by materiality. She is also interested in how art and architecture may inform environmental and contextual learning, particularly for children; having developed research and design works such as children library and outdoor classroom. With the Architectural Design Research Cluster at the Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia, she has received the FuturArc Green Leadership Award 2019 for the project of Sekolah Indonesia Cepat Tanggap, an initiative to build schools for disaster-impacted communities across Indonesia.

Adrian Perkasa
Adrian Perkasa is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Humanities, Universitieit Leiden. He is also a lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya. He is a member of East Java Provincial Cultural Heritage Experts Board and actively involved in several Urban Kampung for research and pedagogical development with the Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network (SEANNET) as an International Principal Investigator of Case Study Surabaya.

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