Walasuji’s Transformation Opportunity in Today’s Life

Abstract

The existence of tradition in today's life faces many challenges to be able to continue to live. Likewise, with Walasuji, a tradition that was born from the Bugis Makassar community, carries a number of local wisdom values that should be preserved. This research was conducted to find out how Walasuji's transformation opportunities are based on the characteristics of his current condition. This study uses the Innovation Guiding Pyramid method. All data gathered qualitatively using interviews, observations, and literature studies. The results show that there are 3 factors intervening Walasuji tradition. Based on that, transformation strategy given as follow: (1) Maintaining its Culture's Material, (2) Adding its traditional environment, (3) Removing/replacing the old Artefacts, (4) Changing its teaching's tradition. The strategies can be used as "Design Guide" for designer in order to create innovative solution for the tradition. Hence, we suggest to consider the "maintained" area first, then the other elements follow.