who we are

(roughly means: Floating Tech-Lab) is an artistic research collective that aims to amplify the unheard voices and unseen actions of nonhumans who live alongside and together with humans, and participate in maintaining planetary sustainabilities. The members are Endira F. Julianda (art producer/artist), Gusmiati (water, sanitation and hygiene engineer), Indrawan Prabaharyaka (anthropologist), Kamil Muhammad (architect), and Novita Anggraini (chemist and environmental analyst). To make the knowledge public, the collective co-produces texts as well as more than textual artifacts.

method

Inspired by Michel Serres’ conceptualisation of parasite, the collective operates with an awareness of parasitic relations it is part of. Such awareness is to make a case against cynical reason: since one is inevitably parasiting another, it does not mean that there is no hope at all. Instead the collective strives to cultivate alternative spaces of hope–another meaning of para-site, located in the in between–and experiment with quasi-objects.

Novita Anggraini studied chemistry and environmental science and has developed her professional path as an environmental consultant. As co-founder of Labtek Apung, she engages chemical and infrastructural systems through research-oriented practice on governance and more-than-human relations, combining regulatory analysis, technical assessment, historical inquiry, and field-based methods to trace how substances shape urban and coastal ecologies, particularly in relation to water–waste management systems and public health risks.

Labtek Apung team, L-R

Indrawan Prabaharyaka studied European Ethnology at Humboldt University of Berlin for his doctoral degree. He then worked as a researcher in the research consortium SFB-1265 Re-Figuration of Spaces. He has ethnographic fieldwork experiences in Indonesia and Germany, in which he has studied conflicts in the making of sanitation infrastructures and climate urbanism in Jakarta and Stuttgart respectively. His latest publication is Planning Miseducation (co-authored with Ignacio Farías, Mennatullah Hendawy and Jörg Stollman, published by dpr-Barcelona).

Endira F. Julianda holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication Design and a Master’s degree in Visual Art Practice from the Bandung Institute of Technology. She expands her artistic practice through a participatory, transdisciplinary approach by co-founding and running the arts and culture non-profit Rakarsa Foundation, and serving as a sessional lecturer at Sekolah Tinggi Desain Indonesia. Her individual and collective art projects have been exhibited across Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan, Germany, Brazil, and Sweden.

Gusmiati earned her master's degree from the Global Sanitation Graduate School (GSGS), a collaborative program between ITB and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a researcher at Sustainable Waste Indonesia, where her work centers on waste management systems and the circular economy for plastic recycling, domestic waste, and industrial waste. Her career is built on extensive fieldwork and engineering experience across Indonesia, including the implementation of WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) infrastructure for emergency response with Mercy Corps Indonesia. She is an alumna of the 2024 CCP Fellowship in Germany.

Muhammad Insan Kamil is a Jakarta-based architect and director of design/research studiopppooolll and co-founder of Architecture Sans Frontieres-Indonesia. His practice has been awarded internationally including Lafarge Holcim Asia Pacific Award (2017), ASF-International Award (2017), Museum for Climate Action (2021), and Perhutana Collective Forest Competition (2023). Kamil’s last preoccupation is leading the design for the pioneering cooperative housing prototype Kampung Susun Kunir in Jakarta. Outside of practice, Kamil regularly delivers public lecture relating to architecture.

exhibition

On Water, Humboldt Lab, Berlin, Germany (2025-2027)

The Long Night of Science 2025, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2025)

The Pidada Intimacy, Equator Hub, Bandung, Indonesia (2025)

ICAD 14: UNEXPECTED 2024, Jakarta, Indonesia (2024)

'Planetary Design: Reclaiming Futures', Spore Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2024)

Confluences, Floating University, Berlin, Germany (2024)

conference/symposium/workshop/talk

Speaker - Kerabat Bersahabat: Making Friends with Interspecies Kin, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2026)

Speaker - Susur Baur, Bandung (2025)

Presenter - Multimodal Anthropology Session (with Floating University), Berlin, Germany (2024)

Presenter - Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany (2024)

Speaker - Towards an International of Water Bodies, IRI-THESys, Berlin, Germany (2024)

Speaker - Sustainablue, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (2024)

Speaker - Co-Production Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany (2024)

Speaker - A Tapestry of Ebb and Flow, Calcutta, India (2024)

Participant - Multispecies Field School, Thailand (2024)

Speaker - Multispecies Ethnography Session, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2023)

Panelist - Reading The Sediments Symposium, São Paulo, Brazil (2023)

Facilitator - Citizen science workshop, São Paulo, Brazil (2023)

Collaborator - Reading The Saracura Workshop, São Paulo, Brazil (2023)

Panelist - Blue Urban Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia (2023)

Panelist - The 7th Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, Daejeon, South Korea (2023)

Speaker - BangunKota, Bekasi, Indonesia (2023)

Workshop facilitator - Urban Social Forum 6, Solo, Indonesia (2018)

self-initiated activities

Flying Lungs experiment, Bandung, Indonesia (2025)

Solar Still prototyping, Jakarta & Muara Gembong, Indonesia (2023-2024)

Joint primate observation, Ciwidey & Muara Gembong, Indonesia (2023-2024)

Mangrove Forest journaling, Muaragembong (2023-2024)

Salt print experiment, Bandung & Muara Gembong, Indonesia (2023)

Water pollution testing, Muara Gembong, Indonesia (2023-2024)

Kerabat Lama immersion workshop, Muara Gembong, Bekasi, Indonesia (2023)

Citizen environmental journalism workshop with Kelas Jurnalis Cilik IV, Cilincing, Jakarta, Indonesia (2021)

Citizen science workshop, Ciliwung River, Tanah Rendah, Jakarta, Indonesia (2018)

appearances