The "Nava Sajiva" pre-event series was successfully held at Maranatha Christian University campus, Bandung, 21-23 January 2025. The highlight of the event will be held on 12-16 February 2025, presenting the first "Experience Space" in Bandung.
For three consecutive days, hundreds of participants, including high school students, students from campuses around Bandung, design practitioners and architects, and the general public, took part in a series of Nava Sajiva pre-events filled with workshops, competitions, and discussions.
One of the sessions filled with participants was the "Modular Furniture" workshop with TACO on the second day (22/1/2025). Around two hundred participants experienced firsthand the practice of assembling and finishing dozens of nightstands.
The day before, Roman held a workshop on "Public Space Material for Interior and Exterior" (21/1/2025). The participants immediately practised installing ceramic materials into an aesthetic and functional design collage.
The activity continued with the workshop "Back to Nature with Terrarium" with Zwasty Paskahlia Ramma, S.P., M.Ars., IAILI, a landscape architect.
The "Interior Trend 2025 & Styling" workshop with Ruqayyah Cetta, S.Ds., Visual Merchandiser Moiehaus, was held on the last day
(23/1/2025). This workshop session became more lively because it continued with a competition to win a prize in the form of a Panton Chair.
The "Flower Arrangement for Your Home" workshop with Della Octa, S.Sn., interior & floral designer and Deputy Chair of the Flower Arranging and Flora Design Competency Certification Institute (LSK SMBDF) was no less interesting.
Closing the third day, the Bachelor Program in Interior Design Maranatha, as the organizer, held a Design Talks 13 discussion in collaboration with the Indonesian Interior Designers Association (HDII), raising the topic "Legal Protection for Interior Designers".
Meanwhile, throughout the three days of the pre-event, the Maranatha Exhibition Hall was filled with hundreds of works exhibited in a joint exhibition. One of them is an exhibition tour of four countries (Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia) entitled "Runes in Sustainable Blessing, Multicultural Flow Pray and Bless Project".
First in Bandung, Nava Sajiva "Experience Space" 2025
After successfully holding a pre-event, Maranatha Christian University will make the next breakthrough, namely, having a main event on a larger scale. The peak of the Nava Sajiva event will be held on February 12-16, 2025 at 23 Paskal Shopping Center, the first time in Bandung presenting a unique and innovative "Experience Space".
Yudita Royandi, S.T., S.Ds., M.Ds., HDII, Deputy Chairperson of the Nava Sajiva 2025 Committee, said that the Nava Sajiva experience space will provide a special experience for visitors.
"This experience space was built to provide visual, audial, tactile, and other experiences, which can be felt directly at that time and can even bring back memories to the past," she explained.
Nava Sajiva's "Experience Space" 2025 will present this experience through a unique design collaboration of four Indonesian interior designers.
"The four of them represent the world of academics, practitioners, professionals and professional associations, including designers whose works are known to be unique and have been recognized nationally and internationally," said Yudita.
Multi-Party Collaboration
The Nava Sajiva series of events results from collaboration between interior design academics and other scientific fields with industry, practitioners, and professional associations.
Dr. Krismanto Kusbiantoro, S.T., M.T., CIQaR, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Creative Industries, Maranatha Christian University, emphasized the importance of cross-field and cross-party collaboration built early on during college.
"Collaboration with many parties is the advantage of design education at Maranatha Christian University," said Krismanto when delivering his opening remarks at the pre-event series on the Maranatha campus (1/21/2025).
Nava Sajiva is a collaborative project that facilitates multi-parties and multi-fields to work together in a creative event. Students can come into direct contact with the industrial world, experience working with many parties, and meet experts and professional practitioners.
The importance of collaboration is also felt by industry and practitioners who are partners or sponsors. Nava Sajiva is expected to encourage the creation of stronger innovation and collaboration so that the Indonesian design world can grow even further.
