Indonesian and Dutch designers team up for a Sustainable Society

Five young and inspiring Indonesian designers have recently been selected to participate in ‘What if Lab: the sustainable society’. The lab is based upon a method of co-creation in which each designer from Indonesia has been teamed up with a designer from the Netherlands who is working in the same field. This collaborative method promotes the exchange of knowledge, craftsmanship, and experience, while providing the opportunity for the designers to work together to develop a shared idea.
 
The design teams have been partnered for their varied expertise, and are sure to bring about some interesting results. Ronaldiaz Hartantyo (Mycotech) and Iwan Pol (Olasol) will research the possibilities of working with the sustainable bio material Mycelium. Nidiya Kusmaya (Nidiya Kusmaya textile studio) and Karin Vlug work with fashion and circular textile production methods. Darina Maulana and Mitchell Jacobs (Studio Tast) will concentrate on bringing eco-pedagogy to the classroom (teaching methods on the environment). Kamil Muhammad (PPPOOOLLL) (and Joes + Manon will look into developing tools to design with communities. Adisaputra Kianjaya and Lou van Reemst will explore the material waste that gets left over after an earthquake.

This first programme get-together during Dutch Design Week will then be followed by the Dutch designers travelling to Jakarta for a residency in January 2019. The resulting prototypes and concepts of each design team will be shown during the spring in Jakarta.

The programme is organized by the Dutch Design Foundation and supported by DutchCulture, the Embassy of the Netherlands the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta and Bekraf (Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy).