Abstract
Rivers worldwide are increasingly modified due to climate change, urbanization, and shifting land use patterns. This visual paper demonstrates how various drawing modes drive design research to uncover everyday practices along the modified riverfronts of the Citarum and Gombak Rivers in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively. Three drawing approaches are employed to investigate different timelines, capture residents’ lived experiences, and illustrate riverfronts’ complex, socio-economic, spatial, and environmental attributes. Drawing histories involves using historical mapping and visual ethnographic methods to gain in-depth insights into the localities. Drawing narratives entails gathering and overlaying narratives, stories, and everyday activities within river corridors. Lastly, drawing entanglements involves exploring and revealing multi-layered relationships, connections, and patterns. Drawings have contributed to a spatial investigation and representation of the dynamic and complex status of the modified riverfronts, demonstrating a gap between the lived and planned and aiming to foster a dialogue into how this gap can be narrowed.
Keywords
design research; visual ethnography; river transformations; everyday life
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.650
Citation
Taskoparan Stassi, S. (2024) Life At The Riverfront: Drawing Histories, Drawing Narratives, Drawing Entanglements, in Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.650
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Life At The Riverfront: Drawing Histories, Drawing Narratives, Drawing Entanglements
Rivers worldwide are increasingly modified due to climate change, urbanization, and shifting land use patterns. This visual paper demonstrates how various drawing modes drive design research to uncover everyday practices along the modified riverfronts of the Citarum and Gombak Rivers in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively. Three drawing approaches are employed to investigate different timelines, capture residents’ lived experiences, and illustrate riverfronts’ complex, socio-economic, spatial, and environmental attributes. Drawing histories involves using historical mapping and visual ethnographic methods to gain in-depth insights into the localities. Drawing narratives entails gathering and overlaying narratives, stories, and everyday activities within river corridors. Lastly, drawing entanglements involves exploring and revealing multi-layered relationships, connections, and patterns. Drawings have contributed to a spatial investigation and representation of the dynamic and complex status of the modified riverfronts, demonstrating a gap between the lived and planned and aiming to foster a dialogue into how this gap can be narrowed.