Drawing Kampung through Cognitive Maps Case Study: Jakarta

Abstract

Participatory planning is an urban planning paradigm that emphasizes the entire community involvement in the strategic processes of urban or kampung (urban village) planning; or, community-level planning processes. Cognitive map is proposed as an alternative method of planning with local communities participatory to determine which the most important infrastructure, facilities, and utilities expressed by people in the slums. The mapping done by the people concerned, reporting images held by the individuals themselves, and reflecting affective and symbolic meaning, preferences and other factors. This paper reports the methodology underpinning the use of cognitive maps, and then describes how they were used in this study and what they established. In this work the method involves the collection of cognitive maps made by kampung dwellers in Jakarta to represent aspects of their specific problems. All the ideas, concepts or models of cognitive mapping are leading to conclusion that a cognitive map is an appropriate method for reading the ‘real’ image of the environment or the world around us. Through analysis of cognitive maps, we gain a better understanding about the most interesting or prominent physical condition of slum. In this case focused on the aspect of infrastructure, facilities, and utilities are most needed by respondents in the area. Based on analysis of respondent's cognitive map, we have recommended a priority treatment of slum environment and facilitate the wishes and needs of local communities at research location. Through infrastructure, facilities, and utilities improvement, hopefully the slum settlements turned into a decent housing and habitable.