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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Setiadi, David Hutama

Titel

Migration of domestic space

Ist Teil von

• Building Practice in the Dutch East Indies, 2023, Vol.1, p.135-177

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Chapter 5 discusses how hygiene became a crucial factor in establishing a new spatial typology in the Dutch East Indies. Triggered by the recurring pandemics in many major cities in Europe, India, and Southeast Asia in the early-20th century, namely the Spanish Flu that swept the world in 1918-1919, a connection was born between all these places in terms of debate and activism about the health of ordinary citizens. The first part of the chapter analyses the health campaign led by Hendrik Freerk Tillema, a pharmacist and entrepreneur based in Semarang, Central Java; Tillema's concerns about the poor condition of town planning and residential building standard in the Dutch East Indies, especially Semarang. The second part highlights the role of Dutch women in shaping the typical colonial house as part of their role in a domestic space to provide a hygienic environment. The exhibition 'Ons Huis in Indie' (Our House in the Indies), which took place in the Netherlands in 1913, and the women's household handbook written by J. M. J. Catenius Van der Meiden in 1904, of the same name, demonstrated the significant agency of women in shaping ideas about domestic space in the Dutch East Indies.