Sustainable Tourism Development in Rote Ndao

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Campbell Drake
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4447-8404
William Kelly

Abstract

Located in the eastern province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (West Timor), Rote Ndao is an island of 120,000 residents that can be accessed via ferry from the West Timorese capital of Kupang. Prior to East Timorese independence in 2002, Kupung saw direct international flights from Australia, since redirected through Bali and Jakarta. Rote Ndao is traditionally focused on subsistence farming and the harvesting of the Lontar Palm; however, recent years have seen an influx of foreign interest as domestic and international investors buy up large tracks of beach front property. White sand beaches and world class surfing, Rote is a quintessential island paradise and many are predicting that this remote part of eastern Indonesia will become the new Bali of the 21st century. 

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Curated Works: Designing Futures in Indonesia
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Campbell Drake, University of Technology Sydney

Campbell Drake Biography 

 

Campbell Drake is an architect and a lecturer of Interior and Spatial Design at the University of Technology Sydney. His research is focused on the relations between spectatorship, action and spatial contexts.  Often working with salvaged pianos, his practice employs piano as a performative device to renegotiate situations, subjects and environments. Carried out through a series of site responsive performances staged within sites of historical significance, the origins of the research are architectural and explore spatial agency and the politics of space by re-appropriating iconic spaces of architecture and landscape through performance.  Recent projects include piano performances staged within Melbourne’s dilapidated Flinders Street Station ballroom (2012), The Princess Theatre Inversion (2014), Temporal Formal in the foyer of Sydney tower; Grosvenor Place (2014) and Instrumental at Culpra Station in rural New South Wales (2015). 

William Kelly, University of Technology Sydney

A graduate of Interior and Spatial Design at the University of Technology Sydney, William Kelly is currently completing his honours in Spatial Design. Questioning new modes of exchange, Williams practice explores the disruptive potential of spatial design to reveal normative social structures. With extensive travel across Asia and Europe, William has a developed interest in photography and how it can express modalities of inhabiting the built environment. Travelling to regional and remote parts of Indonesia between 2014-16, William has been motivated to understand and map tourism development and in doing so seeks to identify social and environmental impact of foreign investment against localised growth.