Sandra Saffira


... is a designer and writer interested in how design can be used as both a research tool and a medium to give voice to important and underrepresented communities and issues. She works in the intersection of  cultural heritage, disaster mitigation, graphic design, spatial design, and object materiality. Her outputs encompass creative writing, illustration, interior architecture, publication design, and  textile design.

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The River Speaks in Dreams


... explores the possibility of resuscitating lost stories of the Betawi people and creating new contemporary folklore through fiction and storytelling. This process involves examining archives, traditional folkloric tales, and drawing comparisons across similar contexts from the past and present.

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2025

Creative writing, installation design, storytelling.





Embodied Nostalgia: Dance, Memory, and the Colonial Past


...  examines how Indonesian traditional dances serve as mediums for colonial nostalgia among first-generation Indisch (Indo) people in the Netherlands.

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2024-2025

Master’s thesis. Editorial design.





A Crocodile Wedding


... explores roti buaya, or crocodile bread, a traditional Betawi cultural symbol from Jakarta, Indonesia, often presented at weddings to represent loyalty, endurance, and the hope for a lasting marriage.

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2024

Ceramics, installation design, product design.





Hilirisasi


... is an artistic research into the effects of bauxite & nickel mining in Indonesia & the government’s efforts to downstream the process under the guise of reclaiming the sovereignity over natural resources. .

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2024

Textile design.