Empowering Resilience in a Sinking City
This project started in 2024, funded by the British Academy ODA Interdisciplinary Research Project.
As a team of multidisciplinary experts, we are committed to collaborating with communities, data scientists, social scientists, and artists to produce impactful outcomes. Through a combination of research, art, and technological innovation, we aim to elevate community voices, strengthen disaster analysis, and build resilience in the face of environmental threats.
Zahratu Shabrina, PhD
Principal Investigator
Zara is a lecturer in Spatial Data Science at King's College London. Her research utilises computational approaches for understanding complex urban problems relevant to planning and policy development. She brings extensive expertise in urban simulation and predictive modelling, contributing valuable insights to creating innovative approaches to addressing flood risk.
Meet Our Team
Emma Colven, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator
Emma is a Lecturer in Risk, Environment, and Society at King's College London. Emma is an urban geographer and political ecologist whose research explores themes of flood risk, climate adaptation, environmental expertise and knowledge production, climate and financial risk, and urban water politics. Emma explores the role of the arts in contributing to the understanding of flood experience.
Ramanditya Wimbadi, PhD
Co-Investigator
Ramanditya is a research fellow at Resilience Development Initiative. His area of expertise is community resilience to disaster and climate change. In this project, he brings his experience and knowledge in the field to capture how the community can cope with the effects of climate change and land subsidence in the sinking urban kampung in North Jakarta.
Jin Rui, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Spatial Analytics and Machine Learning
Jin leverages advanced spatial analytics and data science techniques to extract actionable insights from complex datasets, contributing to the development of our Flood models. His involvements ensures the implementation of rigorous models with both explanatory and predictive powers.
Dekka Dhirgantara Putra
Research Assistant - Spatial Data Science
Dekka provides invaluable support in the overall project management, data collection and analysis utilising various remote sensing and data science techniques, playing a key role in the implementation of our research projects.
Muhammad Asa
Research Assistant - AI and Data Science
Asa's dedication to detail and thorough research methodologies in computation, AI and data science significantly contribute to the success of our projects. His proficiency in handling spatial data from various sources, coupled with his understanding of the use of AI is key to the project's success.
Ulima Nabila Adinta
Research Assistant - Anthropology
Nabila provides her knowledge of cultural anthropology to assist the team in primary data collection to understand communities' perspectives towards flooding.
A.B. Darmawan
Research Assistant - Anthropology
AB contributes to the ethnographic research component in the project, utilising his knowledge and experience in anthropology with focus on the youth coastal community.
Meet Our Advisory Boards
Professor Katherine Brickell
Professor of Urban Studies at Department of Geography, King's College London
Katherine's crosscuts research on urban, social, political, development, and legal geography, along with her decades of experience in the Global South research, has provided the team with invaluable guidance and input regarding the community's inclusive involvement in the sinking city project.
Saut Sagala, PhD
Chair of Disaster & Climate Resilience, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI)
Saut's expertise in policy analysis and integration of disaster risk reduction is key in driving the success of our project. His extensive network, expert knowledge and decades of experience in studies related to climate change adaptation have opened up many opportunities in implementing our project.
Yudhistira Nugraha, PhD
Head of Centre for Data and Information Technology at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia
Yudhistira's extensive experience as a technocrat and professional in smart cities, data science, and cybersecurity has been instrumental in supporting the development of the Decision Support System for flood modeling in Jakarta.
Adiwan Fahlan Aritenang, PhD
Associate Professor in Regional and Digital Economics, ITB
Adiwan's expertise in planning and policy development is highly relevant to the project's goal of creating a tool for evidence-based policymaking in response to Jakarta's sinking crisis. His dedication to regional planning and extensive networks have been instrumental in ensuring the project's success.
Agantaranansa
Juanda
Program Manager at the Open Society Foundation
Agantaranansa's experience in leading climate justice strategies and interventions in the Global South and his expertise in the intersection of human rights, climate justice, socio-economic justice and progressive policy reforms build a strong foundation on his advisory role towards the rights of marginalised communities in sinking Jakarta.
Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett
Interdisciplinary Artist Duo
The artist duo's tactical, interventionist approach as a response to living in a megacity of 15 million people and amid large-scale contemporary political power struggles is the foundation for their art for the sinking city project. Tita & Irwan brings a unique and critical perspective in terms of utilising arts to bring about sharp social commentaries on urgent issues concerning urban development, ecological catastrophes, political repression, colonial legacies, and the exploitation of human and ecological resources related to the sinking city phenomena.