Studio Co-urban

The 2025 STUDIO CO-URBAN examines the various localised innovations and strategies that communities often self-organise to address crises such as climate change, pandemics, and the persistent issue of poverty and resource scarcity in urban areas. The studio will use "comparative urbanism" as a lens, which recognises the diversity of urban experiences and stays away from (often eurocentric) theoretical reductionism. Instead, it learns about urban conditions by closely examining a range of different empirical realities. It then compares these realities across places to develop southern knowledge that is more focused on the experiences of the people who live there. In the Indonesian context, students will investigate three major thematic areas: urban settlements, urban nature, and urban infrastructures. This is a multi-disciplinary studio bringing together students of urban planning, design, and architecture from Melbourne ABP and ITB Indonesia. Co-learning and co-design are at the heart of the studio; therefore, students will do initial research and fieldwork in group settings prior to delving into their individual project.