Posted at : 2010-03-07

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
PROPOSAL

To solve social problem

Through art and cultural activities

Urban Research Plaza Yogyakarta Sub-center

Urban Research Plaza Osaka City University

In Collaboration with Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas
Gadjah Mada (UGM)

And Indonesian Institute of the Art (ISI)

Yogyakarta

2010

http://urp.ucrc-yogya.or.id/updatedetail.php?id=3

http://fib.ugm.ac.id/index.php?action=news.detail&id_news=60

INTRODUCTION

Arts and cultural activity have become an increasingly important
part of urban regeneration in many cities, though the bulk of effort and
resources to date has  been on
capital investment.
Recently, increasing interest has been shown in participatory arts
programmes which are low-cost, flexible and responsive to local needs.
This use of the arts and cultural activity coincides with a shift in
emphasis in regeneration strategies towards seeing local people as the
principal asset through which renewal can be achieved.
Arts and cultural
activity programmes have been shown to contribute to enhancing social
cohesion  and local image; reducing
offending behaviour; building private/public sector partnerships; promoting
interest in the local environment; developing self-confidence; enhancing
organisational capacity; supporting independence and exploring visions of the
future.
The 8^th
Academic Forum  on solving social
problem through art and cultura activities is being co-organized by the Urban
Research Plaza of Osaka City University in association with Faculty of Cultural
Sciences at Universitas Gadjah Mada and Indonesia Institute of the Art (ISI).
The object of this forum is to promote research and intellectual studies in
urban issues. This annual forum seeks to encourage creative and intellectual
thinking and the themes that have been selected for the forum are thus issues
that are crucial today to the field of urban culture and social problem
solving.

TIME
AND PLACE

March 17^th 2010
Multimedia Room of Universitas Gadjah Mada, 3^rd
Floor North Wing Rectorate

SPEAKERS

There are seven
speakers for the seminar of which three are from Japan (Osaka City University
and Kyoto University), two from UGM and another two from ISI. The following is
the detail:

Geerhardt
Kornatowski (Osaka City University)
“Religion
and Homeless Support: After-life Concerns and Practical Support Involvement by
New Religion (Shin-shukyo) Groups in Japan”
 
Akihiro
Takasaki (Osaka City University)
Depoliticization
of Environmental Movement: a Case Study of the Kuma River Basin in Japan
 
Dr.
Eiji Kawano (Kyoto University)
Social
Integration through the Reciprocity in the deprived Area: Case of ‘Banlieue’ in
France
 
Setiadi, S.Sos., M.Hum. (UGM)
Art and the Disabled: A Study of Disabled
Empowerment in Yogyakarta Special Region
 
Wisma Nugraha Christianto Rich, Drs., M.Hum. (UGM)
Jekdong: The Enforcer of Social Bond
Two
ISI speakers

COMMITTEE

Prof. Dr. Shin
Nakagawa
Prof. Dr. Toshio Mizuuch
Prof. Dr. A.M. Hermin Kusmayati,
Dwi Maryanto,
Drs., MFA, Ph.D.
Dr. Ida Rochani Adi, S.U.
Prof. Dr. Soeprapto Soedjono, MFA
Prof. Dr. Sjafri Sairin, Dr.
Prof. Dr. Timbul
Haryono, M.Sc.

About the study

The preceding paragraphs summarise the findings of The Art of
Regeneration, which was written by Charles Landry, Lesley Greene, François
Matarasso and Franco Bianchini and is published by Comedia in March 1996. It is
based on over 10 years’ experience of art and urban regeneration policy in the
UK, Western Europe, Australia and the United States.