Joint Studio is an annual activity that is included in elective courses in Urban and Regional Planning Study Program. Joint Studio activity is collaborating with the University of Queensland, Australia since 2015. The purpose of the Joint Studio is to make planners in the future be able to deal with and solve problems, both in the economic, social and environmental fields faced by people throughout the world. Each year the University of Queensland sends average 30 students to Indonesia and coordinated by Dr. Sonia Roitman, Associate Professor Ron Johnstone, and Dr. Karen McNamara.
This year, Joint Studio was held from July 1-14, 2019 which was attended by 18 students from Urban and Regional Planning, UGM and 22 students from the School of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Queensland. This activity was divided into 2 groups, namely the Rural Group and the Urban Group which each group was further divided into 3 small groups. The Rural group obtained the location of the survey in Gunungkidul in collaboration with the Lingkar and the Provincial Government of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, while for the Urban Group the location of the survey was in Kampung Ledhok Timoho and Kampung Gendeng in collaboration with Arkom Jogja and Kalijawi.
The first day’s activities were filled with material presentations from both parties, UGM and the University of Queensland which were then followed by group discussions. After group discussions, students who have been divided into Rural Groups and Urban Groups then went to survey locations to site visit. The third day was filled with visits to Karangwaru Riverside, Kampung Code, and Kampung Sukunan which were areas that should be used as a pilot. Site visits and group discussions were then continued in the following days interspersed with visits to several communities in Yogyakarta. On the eighth day, each group visited the local government in Yogyakarta as needed. Results from site visits, community visits, and also group discussions were then presented in Sorowajan Village which was witnessed by residents from each survey location, community, as well as collaborating parties. The series of events was then closed with a vacation together to Prambanan and Borobudur Temple.
Joint Studio activities that use the bottom-up method in the learning process are expected to be able to make students more creative and innovative in providing solutions to problems faced by the community every day. In the end, students can apply the skills they have after graduating.
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