ITB is one of the best universities in Indonesia and Asia with a strong academic reputation and research atmosphere, with a number of top scientists who are globally recognized, in the fields of natural and human sciences, engineering, art and design, and business and management.

Both inbound full semester and short-term programs designed in preparing its students for international career in built environment. Tutors are coming from professional practices with involvement in international-scaled projects.

International inbound programs offer academic programs combined with a unique mix of cultures and geographies of Indonesia, particularly the city of Bandung. With the challenges faced, you are welcome to explore the future of technology and humanity with ITB.

A full semester student exchange with added value.
SAPPK as a part of ITB’s International Inbound Programs organizes an international inbound semester exchange program that offers academic programs combined with a unique mix of cultures and geographies of Indonesia, particularly the city of Bandung. With the challenges faced, you are welcome to explore the future of technology and humanity with ITB.

The Course Packages are:

1. Ecological Design (Bachelor/Master)
2. Tropical Green and Sustainable Architecture of Indonesia (Master)
3. Sustainable Infrastructure (Advanced Bachelor/ Master)
4. Planning and Designing Cities in the Global South (Final Year Bachelor)

This is a collaborative initiative between SAPPK ITB and the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne School of Design. The program highlights common issues and cases using placemaking approaches. Participants will conduct a social experiment in Semarang by mapping housing areas, and a case study will be analyzed to propose community engagement strategies based on placemaking concepts. This program will include online lecture sessions, a field trip and social experiment, a design studio session, and a design charrette at the Architecture Department at ITB Bandung. Participants within a group must complete a design report on the Placemaking and Social Experiment project and present it to the appointed reviewers or stakeholders before the conclusion of the activity.

This program is being funded through the “Chancellery International Global Classrooms Seed Grants 2022” at the University of Melbourne supporting the internationalizing of the curriculum, which highlights how the use of technology and in collaboration with international partners, will help enhance student learning and access to unique global experiences.

Schedule and Period: 10 July – 28 July (Online);1 – 6 August (Field Trip); 8-12 August 2023 (Offline)

Program Location: Bandung, West Java and Semarang, Central Java 

Equivalent Course(s):

Bachelor Level

1. AR4215 Placemaking and Social Experiment (2 Credits)
2. AR4059 Participatory Design (2 Credits)

Master Level

1. AR5211 Facility Programming (2 Credits)
2. AR6054 Placemaking Approach in Architectural Design (2 Credits)

Prerequisite(s): Open for all Bachelor and Master students

Applicable Level: Master and Final Year Bachelor Students

Quota: 6 international students

Coordinator: Widiyani, Ph.D & Dr. Christina Gantini

SAPPD Global Studio is an annual international event led by Urban Regional Planning Program of School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development (SAPPD) ITB since 2015 and aiming at providing essential knowledge and professional skills for future planners and designers to plan and design urban development projects in the Global South. Since 2015, SAPPD Global Studio has welcomed hundreds of students from global partner universities and receiving several international awards including World Urban Solutions by World Urban Campaign 2016 and Student Award Special Mention in ISOCARP World Congress 2020. SAPPD Global Studio links strongly research to practice. Innovation produced by studio work has been implemented at local levels, including by the West Java Provincial Government.

Schedule and Period:

•  17 – 28 July 2023 (offline)
•  29 July – 20 August 2023 (hybrid)

Program Location: Bandung and Cirebon City (Offline Session)

Equivalent Course(s):

1. PL 6009 International Studio on Planning and Design in the Global South (4 Credit Points).

Prerequisite(s): Open for all Bachelor and Master students

Applicable Level: Master and Final Year Bachelor Students

Quota: 30 international students

Coordinator: Dr. Ninik Suhartini, Dr Luke Hespanol-Sydney University 

Register via: https://admission.itb.ac.id/registration/nonreguler

International Workshop on Wooden Architecture (IWWA) is a series of workshops on wooden architecture 2023 that will focus on Tenkiyang Barn wooden building (BWB) in Lahat Regency, South Sumatera. This is a collaborative program of SAPPK ITB, Department of Architecture Universitas Islam Indonesia, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sriwijaya, with support from local government. Participants will work in teams and with a local carpenter to build a full-scale structure. The aim of this program is to introduce Basemah wooden Building (Umbung Padi), work with the folk, and learn from the local master builder. The program will consist of an online session for the lecture series, followed by an in-person session on-site. By the end of the program, participants are required to produce measured drawings and modeling and report.

Schedule and Period: 14-24 August 2023 Online; 26 August – 2 September Offline

Program Location: Bangke Village , Lahat, South Sumatra (offline session)

Equivalent Course(s):

Bachelor Level

1. AR4062 Involvement in Professional Project/Research/Humanitarian (4 Credits)

Master Level

1. AR5023 Sustainable Architecture Material (3 Credits)

Prerequisite(s): Architecture, Landscape Architecture

Applicable Level: Master and Third and Final Year Bachelor Students

Quota: 10 international students

Coordinator: Aswin Indraprastha, Ph.D

Gili Island is located in northwest of Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. These islands have become a popular destination for Western tourists looking for a remote island experience. Gili Trawangan is the largest and most popular of the three islands (Gili Memo, Gili Air, and Gili Trawangan) but these areas are still disaster-prone areas. Activity that will be held in Lombok includes: finding out the infrastructure support for the island’s remote areas; visiting a nearby rural area that has great potency; finding out the facilities of communication, transportation, and tourism support existing. Participants will encourage to suggest some measures to improve upon the existing services and facilities, keeping in mind tourism management in disasters; Proposing solutions to improve the environment, local economy, and local community quality of life. This “Winter School” activity will be partnering with local university, Poltekpar Lombok, and Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Schedule and Period:  September 2023 Offline

Program Location: Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB)

Equivalent Course(s):

Bachelor Level

1. PL3001 Disaster Aspect in Planning
2. PL3101 Social Aspect and Community Development
3. PL4001 Introduction to Tourism Planning
4. PL4002 Coastal Area Development

Master Level

1. PL5151 Disaster Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation
2. PL6253 Community-Based Disaster Adaptation and Mitigation
3. PL6252 Climate Change Policy and Adaptation
4. PK5103 Tourism Development Planning
5. PK5202 Tourism Impact
6. PK5203 Community Based Tourism
7. PK6003 Disaster in Tourism Planning

Prerequisite(s): Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Urban & regional Planning, Tourism Planning, Development Studies.

Applicable Level: Master and Final Year Bachelor Students

Quota: 10 international students

Coordinator: Alhilal Furqan, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D, Bagas Dwipantara Putra, S.T, M.T, Ph.D

Paradigm that hampers development of bamboo is its paradigm as the material for traditional housing. This paradigm needs to be change. Proper construction and finishing could make bamboo to not loose in durability, strength and aesthetic aspects. Various type of bamboo construction is being developed to increase its usability for building construction. As the profession that covers many aspects of building and communicates with builder and user, architect’s role could not be separated in developing material itself. Socialization about bamboo as a building material could not be separated from educational institutions, especially university, as the place of science and technology development. Knowledge about bamboo construction by practice or even theory in lectures will be an asset for architecture students. In the end, this knowledge could be applied directly in academic environment and also society. So, this activity focuses on learning by doing in workshop on advanced Bamboo  Tensegrity.  There will be also lecturers about theory and practices from architects and lecturers about the advantages of bamboo as building material.

The objectives of this workshop are to inspire the participants on advanced possible application of bamboo in a kind of hands-on workshop and to give the society an example of advanced bamboo structures in ITB Ganesha campus as its products.

Schedule and Period: 6-10 March 2023 (online) and 13-17 March 2023 (offline)

Program Location: Architecture Study Program, School of Architecture Planning and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung

Equivalent Course(s):

Bachelor Level

1. AR4054 Special Topic (2 credits)

Master Level

1. AR6054 Special Topic (2 credits)
2. AR6221 Bamboo Building Technology (2 credits)

Prerequisite(s): Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design

Applicable Level: Master and Final Year Bachelor Students

Quota: 10 international students

Coordinator: Dr.-Ing. Andry Widyowijatnoko

Ecological Design will be jointly managed by the Architecture and landscape Architecture study programs which is a course package. There are 4 courses from SAPPK ITB plus one course from Product Design, namely landscape ecology, bamboo building technology, green building, then history and tradition of Indonesian architecture which is a course from architecture and landscape architecture, then design thinking from product design.
In addition to lectures, there will be a field survey planned at Gunung Geulis, as well as cultural trips to Naga and Baduy villages related to the history and region of Indonesia architecture course,  so the participants at the end of the semester will be given a package/trip around West Java.

Schedule: January – May 2023.

This program will cover courses of:

• Landscape Ecology (3 Credits)
• Bamboo Building Technology (2 Credits)
• Green Architecture (2 Credits)
• History and Tradition of Indonesian Architecture (2 Credits)
• Design Thinking (2 Credits)

Planning and Designing Cities in the Global South addresses the needs for contextual and adaptive planning and design interventions in dealing with urban issues and complexities, including urban informality. This program is a joint studio between the Urban and Regional Planning Programs of School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development and our partners university including: the University of Aveiro in Portugal, the University of Sydney, CEPT University in India, the German University in Cairo, and also Monash University in Australia.

Schedule: September- December 2023.

This program will cover courses of:

• Planning and Designing Cities in The Global South (4 Credits)
• Passion and Mitigation (2 Credits)
• Regional Urbanism (2 Credits)
• Land and Housing Development (2 Credits)

Sustainable Infrastructure is designed to provides students with skills and capacity in preparing infrastructure plans and design to achieve sustainable development goals. The program offers diversity of methods and approaches in dealing with urban and regional infrastructure in the context of Global South and comparative with those in the Global North.

Schedule: January – May 2023.

This program will cover courses of:

• Infrastructure Planning (2 Credits)
• Infrastructure and Transportation Economics (2 Credits)
• Urban and Regional Innovation System (2 Credits)
• Transportation Governance (2 Credits)

This program will be interesting since what is offered is typical issues and cases in Indonesia, Bandung and West Java. The highlight of our program is, at first place, apart from them getting a deeper understanding, unique knowledge related to the local context, also a cultural experience of course that is unique once again in a tropical context. In this program there are special skills, namely bamboo material. In addition to lecture activities, there will be a field trip to Jatiluhur. Field trips were carried out to architectural works using bamboo, then to several areas around West Java. This program focuses on the development of tropical technology which is applied to architectural objects or architectural works. So what this program offers is the development of architecture in Indonesia that applies the principles of green building and sustainability. This activity will end with a workshop located at ITB or a bamboo processing site.

Schedule: January – May 2023.

This program will cover courses of:

• Local Culture on Architectural Design (2 Credits)
• Bamboo Building Technology (2 Credits)
• Architectural Material Technology (2 Credits)
• Special Topic on Green Building in the Tropical Area (2 Credits)