Dr Etienne Turpin

Brief description

Etienne Turpin is Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the SMART Infrastructure Facility, Faculty of Engineering & Information Sciences, and Associate Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, both at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Etienne co-directs PetaJakarta.org, with Tomas Holderness, and studies the social consequences of infrastructure transformation necessitated by rapid urban development and climate change. Through community strategy, institutional ethnography, and novel approaches to social media platforms, data gathering, and designed engagement, Etienne’s research develops new tools, techniques, and methods to help democratize processes of urban transformation by meaningfully engaging the concerns and capacities of the urban poor. Etienne is also the founder and director of anexact office, a design research practice committed to multidisciplinary interventive urbanism, artistic and curatorial experimentation, and applied philosophical inquiry, based in Jakarta, Indonesia