The Role of Socio-Technical Instruments in Craft and Design Practice in Indonesia - The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking (original) (raw)

Prananda L. Malasan earned a doctoral degree at Department of Cultural Resource Management at Kanazawa University in 2019. Previously, he was also a visiting PhD student in 2016-2019 at the Department of Anthropology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. Born in Indonesia and raised in several places, Prananda has experienced the rich diversity of languages, behaviors, rituals, and people’s everyday activities, which have influenced him to learn more about what culture means to society and adopt this experience to his research and design activities. Bearing this principle to the mind, he believes that with the capacity of design in solving problems and constructing what the future can be, every designer should always consider the socio-cultural context where design activities take place. In other words, design 2 methodology should always be fluid and flexible depending on each contextual factor. Currently, with a concentration on the social studies of craft and design and the everyday politics of small enterprises, Prananda has conducted vast numbers of ethnographic research in various craft villages in Indonesia. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at Industrial Design Department, and also Graduate School of Business and Management, at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.