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Gideon Hutapea, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, AustraliaAbstract
After many unsuccessful national plans, steps towards systemic thinking and new leadership to improve the Indonesian comic ecosystem have emerged. The research investigates comic artists' leadership capability in improving the ecosystem by understanding it as a systemic problem. Artists are regarded as creative agents capable of designing (“designers”) their ecosystems in addition to excelling in their material culture. The research aims to shift away from government reliance and put artists and the community of practice who were previously unrecognized to lead the effort. It will reveal creative communities' inventive skills and become theoretical prototypes of community-led ecosystem transformation. The proposal will be investigated through systemic design methodology, operating through participatory design in social innovation to empower all inhabitants as “designers” in defining and achieving goals and devising enabling systems. In conclusion, this new understanding presents political and ethical power shifts, the intriguing possibility of system transformation through social innovation, and creative methodologies.
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Conference: ACAH2025Stream: Social
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Hutapea G. (2025) Proposing Indonesian Comic Ecosystem-Making Through Systemic Design: Social Innovation by Co-design ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2025 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 63-79) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2025.6
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2025.6
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