Pressured by climate change and a growing megacity, banjir(flood) in Indonesia’s capital region have increased in scale and frequency. Is it sufficient to describe these floods as “natural disasters”? This lecture will map out the spatial politics of North Jakarta’s water, as a vital resource and as a dynamic, destructive feature in the urban landscape. We will see examples of adaptation, a design and planning strategy that focuses on an urban environment’s capacity to adjust to different futures.

Meredith Miller is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Through design research and writing, her work describes the intersections of architecture, environmentalism and urban life.

This is the third of six lectures in the series, "Indonesia; Culturally Diverse, Geographically Fragmented, Strategically Located."