Collecting Artifact Data from Craftsmen with Participatory Design Methods

Abstract

The culture from artifacts in Indonesian society is a culture that has existed for a long time and has been passed down from generation to generation until now. Craftsmen are the one who produced the cultural artifact and has its own culture that still attached to them until now. Information related to cultural artifacts that are very diverse can be seen from the craftsmen's point of view and their interaction with the artifact. However nowadays information related to the production process of cultural artifacts and the link between craftsmen and cultural artifacts began to be difficult to find. Preservation of cultural artifacts and information related to craftsmen are important to increase their cultural value. Participatory design can be a method for collecting artifact data by involving craftsmen related to the cultural artifacts they produce. This research involves ceramics craftsmen in Cianjur who has a wide market across Indonesia, especially market from Papuan people who made these ceramic into artifacts that had high value for local culture in their society. This research is necessary for the need of data collecting of cultural artifacts and the connection with the ceramic craftsmen and the preservation of the craftsmen's culture using participatory design methods in producing cultural artifacts. This research aims to identify the application of participatory design methods of cultural artifact data collecting for the preservation of craftsmen culture with the production of cultural artifacts and turn the data outcome into a digital museum. Using a qualitative approach that refers to participatory design methods. The output from this research is an application of participatory design methods and design recommendations from collecting cultural data as preservation that expected to encourage the craftsmen to continue to preserve their culture.