Becoming an Agent of Change

By angelinhere

Today I’ve listen to hardrock FM Jakarta 87.6FM, they are discussed about Jakarta and its public space. They inform us (listeners) that they invite Ridwan Kamil as their resource person. Do you all -The Hartanto Readers- know about him?

Ridwan Kamil
He is an architect, urban designer, writer and educator at ITB Bandung. He is Principal of Urbane, an architecture and urban design studio in Bandung serving international design clients mostly in Asia and Middle East. In 2006, He was awarded as 2006 Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year.
He is also Chair of Bandung Creative City Forum. BCCF was founded by more than 20 creative communities in Bandung aiming to bring Bandung to be the World-class Creative city.
He loves watching movie in cinema, jogs every weekend and rides his Harley to surrounding mountain In North Bandung. You can find more about him here or just simply find his twitter account.

His Contribution to the surroundings
At first I want to raise this topic since this month we celebrate Jakarta Birtday 484th years old. Our lovely city has been full with sooo many problems. From traffic jam, flooded, criminality, and today I was concern about Why we are Jakarta citizen have lack of convenient public space.
Ridwan Kamil, has push himself to become out of the box, he is dreaming to create Jakarta a better place to live. By how?
By designing some architectural building which improve its quality to serve better to the surrounding. So it not always about giving benefit to client (capitalist side) but also to surrounding(ecological side). This is some of examples that I have gather by doing lil’ research from uncle google. *hihihi* But you can find it more in here
A. Al-Irsyad Mosque (Kota Baru Parahyangan, Padalarang, Bandung)

B. Musium Tsunami di Aceh (Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda)

C. Rasuna Epicentrum Kuningan (Jl. Rasuna Said, Kuningan , Jakarta)

You can find his other masterpiece by searching on google. okay? ^_^

How bout Us?
Any of us can make a different, by doing something good to our earth and our environment and we’ll have its impact later. Don’t think something big, do it from simple thing, from now on.
Anyone can make a change, would you ?