This research is focussed on the representation of the complex forms of settlement that are emerging in the wet-rice agricultural landscapes around the city of Jakarta. It documents the limitations of official macro-scaled planning maps in recording these areas, and diagnoses alternative styles of representation that various private sector and community actors have developed. This research hypothesizes that such representations are forming nascent 'cultures of legibility', and it examines their capacity to inform the formal urban and regional planning processes without being subsumed by their instrumental logics.\n\nThe settlement forms emerging around Jakarta (and other Southeast Asian mega-cities such as Bangkok and Manila) have been dubbed desa-kota landscapes ('rural-city' in Indonesian). They are characterized by a unique combination of land uses and infrastructures / rice agriculture, traditional villages, gated suburbs, cottage industries, malls, golf courses, industrial complexes, freeways. Desa-kota landscapes are visually, morphologically, and functionally more complex and fluid than even the most dispersed of western cities. Despite the ecological, social and economic difficulties such zones experience, they sustain (through various legal, illegal, and quasi-legal means) relatively successful communities.\n\nThe complexity and fluidity of desa-kota landscapes means that they present particular difficulties for the conventional modes of representation as deployed by the state agencies responsible for planning and managing their futures. These agencies rely heavily on the quantitative, orthographic and instrumental logics of traditional cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). These forms of mapping, while suited to recording hard urban infrastructures, such as suburban housing, industrial complexes, and freeways, tend not to register the more ephemeral, landscape or vernacular elements of desa-kota zones. As a consequence, existing planning maps of desa-kota zones always contain substantial areas of 'illegibility' in which certain areas are left unmapped.\n\nIn many respects such desa-kota zones have, to date, benefited from their illegibility to the visual regime of state planning. This said, the longer-term viability of these zones requires them to become legible to, and so claim a stake in, formal planning processes. The illegibility of desa-kota zones at official levels is not replicated in local populist levels. Here, desa-kota landscapes have spawned a wide range of variable representational forms, ranging from private sector street directories and real-estate maps, to NGO and community green maps, to information graphics in mass circulation newspapers and magazines. The diverse aims, mediums and methods of such localized representations mean that they cannot be subsumed into a general cartography or singular logic of legibility. But they do offer patches of local legibility that constitute nascent ways of imagining the urban landscape, and that may give rise to distinctive 'cultures of legibility'.\n\nThe summary research objectives are to:\n\n1. Investigate recent debates on 'urban legibility'\n2. Elaborate these debates in relation to specific desa-kota landscapes\n3. Document the limitations of official macro-scaled planning maps and diagnose nascent 'cultures of legibility' in these zones\n4. Examine their capacities to inform and extend the representational conventions of urban planning and design\n5. Exploit the potentials of interactive, web-based geographic information technologies for research and dissemination.\n\nThis research has the potential to enrich the visual languages and theoretical vocabularies available to planners, urban designers and architects working in desa-kota contexts. Furthermore, it will facilitate the integration of the Southeast Asian urban experience into wider international debates on emergent urban forms.

The short term impact of the HealthI (acronym; working title is Heath-I) project is the creation of a solid foundation of necessary knowledge and tools to develop locally an innovative, post-graduate education program in clinical epidemiology and big data. The long term impact of the Health-I project is the improvement of the health outcomes of the Indonesian population by building a critical mass of health researchers, particularly physicians, to generate evidence for health practice and policy.The Health-I project has the following objectives:1. Strengthen the capacity in clinical epidemiological and big data research by training the next generation of physicians and building a Community of Practice with experts in health research that are equipped to self-sustain, develop and amplify knowledge in this field of expertise;2. Enhance the capacity of teaching in (clinical) epidemiology and big data by training of trainers;3. Access to high quality education without limits of time and space by increasing the capacity to develop online education;4. Promote mutual understanding, exchange of good practices and collaborations between the partners.These objectives should be reached using the following tools:1. Developing and offering of online courses for physicians;2. Onsite training sessions with Indonesian trainers and participants in support of the online courses to guarantee indispensable social interaction among participants and staff from both Indonesia and Europe;3. Conduct of research projects supervised by European and Indonesian experts;4. Teaching of skills needed for the development of online education, including the use of technical facilities needed for developmentThe sustainability of the project is guaranteed through the train the trainer component, a business model for the online courses and continuing PhD training after the project. The results of the project will be disseminated actively via the consortium partners and their network.

This proposal is underpinned by the findings of the AHRC-funded AgeingHood research, entitled "Protecting the livelihood of vulnerable residents in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand" (AHRC reference: AH/T011599/1). AgeingHood was a 12-month research project undertaken in collaboration between University of Sheffield's (UoS) School of Architecture and Department of Architecture, Kasetsart University (KU), Bangkok, Thailand. AgeingHood project ended on 30 June 2021. AgeingHood explored the intersection between three key domains of human life: ageing, housing and livelihood for the low-income residents of Klong Toey (KT). The aim of the project was to support a low-income people-led initiative as a result of a precarious housing situation they were facing, which was also threatening their welfare, given that most residents in KT, and particularly older people, depended on their housing for their livelihood. In the context of the AgeingHood research, livelihood is a means of subsistence, in which people use their living spaces for a range of home-based enterprises, to support themselves and their families. Housing and livelihood constitute fundamental human needs; the cumulative effect of the dysfunction of these aspects of human lives have greater consequences for vulnerable groups in low- and middle-income countries. By addressing housing insecurity and livelihood problems of low-income residents of informal settlement of KT, this project responded to structural inequalities entrenched in the KT communities. These structural inequalities often manifest as poor living and poor health conditions, a lack of or dysfunctional public infrastructure and inaccessible green outdoor spaces. AgeingHood espoused a research approach that recognised that housing challenges are often multi-dimensional, involving various stakeholders, with diverse and, often, conflicting interests. Sustainable and equitable solutions were co-created which has been inclusive of all stakeholders, leading to the production and publication of the AgeingHood toolkit. The solutions proffered by AgeingHood toolkit now need to be further supported in order to achieve real-life positive impacts for these vulnerable communities, and offer opportunities for knowledge exchange. This follow-on funding project will implement the AgeingHood toolkit, through impact creation, knowledge exchange and capacity building. The AgeingHood toolkit proposes inclusive solutions to address unintended consequences of urban resettlement of low-income older residents in Klong Toey. This includes housing typologies and recommendations for advocacy for low-income people, and alternatives to eviction. Through participatory methods, such as spatial observation, post-occupancy evaluation and co-design workshops, the AgeingHood toolkit created three housing typologies for the people of KT, based on their occupational needs, household size and personal circumstances. Three distinct activities will be undertaken to achieve the project objectives. This include two focus groups, an international knowledge exchange symposium, and a sandpit workshop. All these activities will take place in Bangkok.

Indonesia is one of the 153 countries to have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities and adopted through national legislation no. 19, 2011. People with disabilities experience significant structural and cultural barriers to participate in the society, this is particularly true when it comes to accessing higher education in Indonesia, the level of enrolment of people with disabilities is less than 1%. In the current situation where HE is closely connected with the country’s economic development, and where an university degree is essential for qualified employment, underrepresentation of persons with disabilities in HE leads to continued marginalization in economic and social life. In 2012, the Indonesia Ministry of Education passed the Ministerial Decree number 46, 2012 on the inclusion for people with disabilities in HE. The bill mandates universities to provide accessibility in all educational aspects. Its been two years since its promulgation but the decree remains unknown by the majority of higher education communities, and consequently, persons with disabilities continue to experience barriers that hinder their participation. The INDOEDUC4ALL project proposal “Ensuring Access and Quality Education for Students with Disabilities in Indonesian Universities” will help universities to develop the capacity of its members: leaders, professors, and administrative staff in addressing the educational need of students with disabilities. Modern disability support centres will be created and equipped with assistive technologies, ensuring the accessibility of the teaching-learning processes while including students with disabilities in the process and empowering them. A network will be created to exchange good practices and speak in a common voice at national level. Univerisities will opening up to high schools to widen the access to HE and to the labor market.