BSH 2013 - 7TH INTERNATIONAL FIELD SCHOOL ON BOROBUDUR SAUJANA HERITAGE

7TH INTERNATIONAL FIELD SCHOOL ON BOROBUDUR SAUJANA HERITAGE
Theme:
Local Communities’ Initiatives for the Evolutive Conservation
Yogyakarta & Borobudur, September 4-10, 2013
Co-organized by:
Center for Heritage Conservation
Department of Architecture and Planning
Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada
In collaboration with:
Kanki Laboratory
Graduate School of Architecture and Architectural Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan,
Chairperson of Sub-committee for Rural Cultural Landscape,
Committee for Rural Planning, Architectural Institute of Japan
Jogja Heritage Society
INTRODUCTION
Saujana heritage or cultural landscape heritage is the inextricable unity between nature and manmade heritage in space and time, or the variety of interactive manifestation between manmade heritage and natural environment. The interaction of nature and culture has become a new perspective in global discourse of sciences especially those which concern with heritage
conservation started in the end of the 80’s. However, in the Indonesian higher education as well as the discourse on the saujana has not well developed. Whereas in fact, Indonesia from Sabang to Merauke is a mosaic of one of the world’s largest diversity of saujana that needs interdisciplinary developed.
Borobudur Temple compound, which consists of Borobudur, Mendut and Pawon Temples, was inscribed in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List No. 592 in the year 1991. The area of this compound has rich of natural and cultural potentials associated with the establishment of the temples existence. There are surrounding mountains, ancient lake, fertile soil, and rural atmosphere as well as everyday community life of cultural villages which performs the value and variety of interactive manifestation between manmade heritage and natural environment called saujana. However, in the last decade there has been a tremendous movement of the local communities to be more concerned into unbalance conservation and development on this World Cultural Heritage Sites.
In order to response the comprehensive needs, in scientific as well as practical, on the conservation of Borobudur cultural landscape, since 2004, the International Field School of Borobudur Cultural Landscape Heritage Conservation (shortly named Borobudur Field School/BFS) has been annually organized by the Center for Heritage Conservation, Department of Architecture and Planning, Gadjah Mada University in collaboration with Kanki Laboratory for Architecture and Human Environmental Planning, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan; Miyagawa Seminar, Dept. of Environmental System, Wakayama University, Japan; and Jogja Heritage Society. Every year, each BFS has emphasized on specific implementing techniques of cultural landscape conservation, including enhancing participants’ skill on the inventory, documentation and presentation some unique villages surrounding Borobudur Temple which are ignored in the Borobudur Temple conservation and development (1st BFS); developing village design guidelines (2nd BFS); emphasizing on the formulation of village design guidelines (3rd BFS); emphasizing on the various principles and issues on the regional context of Borobudur conservation planning (4th BFS); deeply learn various principles and issues on regional conservation planning of Borobudur (5th BFS); and emphasizing on participants’ skill in implementing techniques of saujana heritage conservation in the context of Borobudur as a National Strategic Area (6th BFS).
Those abovementioned programs have exhibited that each program had each own topic from micro to macro scale, from village to regional context. However, the focal point of Borobudur saujana heritage learning process has been the local community initiatives. Heritage conservation is likely a cultural movement. The involvement of the local community is an important aspect in resolving conservation through a bottom-up planning approach and support people as the center of conservation management. This year is marked as the Indonesian Heritage Year 2013 with the theme of “Heritage for Community Welfare”. The Seventh Borobudur Field School is, therefore, will focus on describing saujana (cultural landscape) heritage from the viewpoint of the local communities’ initiatives and to deeply discuss on the new academic idea of ‘Dynamic Authenticity’ and ‘Evolutive Conservation’ generated from those initiatives.
THE OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the Field School program in general are:
To give participants a comprehension on conservation and management of saujana (cultural landscape), including historical buildings, setting and culture system, living culture and other natural environment components and its position of temples compounds as World Cultural Heritage Sites and its area as National Strategic Area.
To give participants understanding on local communities’ initiatives in conserving and managing their environment.
To enhance participant skill in implementing concepts, methods, conservation process and landscape management in the actual cases.
To enhance participant interest in saujana conservation.
To give participants experience in doing a research on saujana conservation directly in the field.
The objective of Field School program in a specific theme is emphasized on enhancing participants’ skill in critically understanding the local community initiatives and implementing techniques of rural saujana heritage conservation, including inventory, documentation, analysis, formulating village design guidelines, and presentation of a particular village area in Borobudur.
TIME AND VENUE
The program is organized for 7 days (September 4-10, 2013) in Yogyakarta as well as Borobudur area, Magelang Regency, Central Java. Participants will depart together from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta to Borobudur on September 4, 2013. During the program, participants will stay in the modest accommodation in Yogyakarta and home-stays in Candirejo Village, Borobudur Sub-District.