时间：2012.10.31（14：00-15:30）
地点：人文楼教一5
报告人：Prof. Suzanne Moon
题目：Building from the Outside: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in New Order Indonesia
内容简介：Using the concept of the sociotechnical imaginary, this talk will examine the ways that engineer/social activists used technology to respond to social problems in New Order Indonesia in the 1970s and 1980s. The New Order became famous both for the economic decisions that produced a dramatic uptick in Indonesian industrialization and infrastructure from the 1970s, and Suharto's leadership, which fostered corruption that tended to reinforce highly centralized models of organization. This talk will explore the other side of development in Indonesia: small-scale technological projects that attempted to operate according to a different social logic than that which operated in large New Order industries. These projects aimed to redirect development practices and priorities in pragmatic and material ways, to create a material alternative to New Order developmentalism. Hasan Poerbo, the lead architect of these projects, employed a sociotechnical imaginary that emphasized the importance of distributive economic justice and the wide participation of the poor in fundamental technological activities essential to the smooth operation of cities, like construction and sanitation. Projects like Poerbo's aimed to make distributive justice both central and practical in Indonesia's development.
