1. Research on Identity Politics and Built Environments in Indonesia: Encountering Multiple Agencies and Emerging social practices Amanda Achmadi Lecturer in Asian Architecture and Urbanism Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning The University of Melbourne PhD (Asian Studies and Architecture, Melb) BArch (UNPAR)

2. RESEARCH INTERESTS Analysing built environments as the stone books of imagined communities in Indonesia Analysing multiple agencies and emerging social practices within the space of everyday life: Physical manifestation of modernity, citizenship, and identity (dwelling, public space, cities) Analysing urban environments as the context of social and political transformation in Indonesia, Indonesia as one of the centres of Asia’s rapid urbanisation in the 21st century Key Methods: Fieldwork, visual observation, social mapping, archival research (Courtesy of Dave Tacon: 2011)

3. RESEARCH PROJECT AND FINDINGSThe Architecture Of Balinization:Writings on Architecture, the Villages and the Construction of Balinese Cultural Identity in the 20th Century Key finding: Built environments as traces of identity formation, contestation and reinvention by different local communities in 20th century Bali (Achmadi 2004)

4. RESEARCH PROJECT AND FINDINGS Exploring Bali’s Hidden Cities: Built Environment, Identity Politics, and the Marginalisation of Cosmopolitan Urban Middle Class This research is funded by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning’s ECR Grant and Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellowship from IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies) and KITLV (Leiden, the Netherlands) (Achmadi, 2009)