year
2017
commissioner
BEKRAF
team
AD-Lab UI
collaborator
Serrum Arthandling
Dia.Lo.Gue
Tanahku Indonesia is an exhibition where we reveal the potential of local earth-based materials as part of Indonesia’s creative economy development, held at Dia.Lo.Gue, Jakarta. We produced the exhibition as part of BEKRAF Creative Labs 2017, an initiative by BEKRAF in which the Department of Architecture Universitas Indonesia is appointed to represent its architecture and interior sub-sectors. It highlights materiality as a reflection of architecture and interior knowledge grounded in a deep understanding of the context.
The visitor experience follows the stories of local raw materials, tools and techniques used in material processing, the craftsmen/women responsible behind the scenes, and the visitor themselves. Curated by Prof Yandi Andri Yatmo and Prof Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Tanahku Indonesia also involves several Indonesian architects and interior designers associations. The exhibition encourages contemporary architectural practices that are more sustainable and conscious about the ecological and everyday context to protect our environment.
The Colours of Indonesia
240 types of soils, sands, rocks, and other materials from the earth were gathered from all 34 provinces of Indonesia to exhibit the richness of the land.
Value in Materials
The investigation into the wide range of materials and their derivation highlights the capacity of the materials to be transformed into many forms.
Tools in the Making Process
Tools represent the manual efforts and methods that are used by the local society, which contribute to the emergence of architecture and interior elements.
Actors Behind the Materiality
Behind each local material products, there is the everyday life of the society, along with the creative efforts and contribution of many individuals.
Make & Share
An area at the end of the exhibition where visitors can make their own objects from clay and then display it as part of the exhibit. They can also swap if they want to bring another visitor’s creation home.
Tanahku Indonesia is also published in the form of journal articles as follow:
Johanes, M., & Wahid, A. R. (2018). Tanahku Indonesia: Celebrating the Indigenous Interior. Interiority, 1(1), 79–86. https://doi.org/10.7454/in.v1i1.10
Atmodiwirjo, P. & Yatmo, Y. A. (2020). “Tanahku Indonesia” : On Materialscape as the materiality of a nation. Architecture and Culture, 8, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2020.1774850