ABSTRACT
Nowadays, culture plays an important role in the design field. In the social context, adding cultural value to a product can accelerate society's adaptation to the innovative product. This study highlights the problems in the implementation of health protocols in public spaces. The protocols still require supervision from humans because there are often violations such as crowds. In addition, wearing masks and keeping a distance seems to have made social interactions more tenuous between communities. While, on the other hand, there is a culture from Mempawah City named Robo-robo that has the purpose of “protection” as in health protocols but carries several social values with it. This study aims to identify Robo-robo by using “Three Layers of Culture and Design Features” method and trying to initiate a design concept for public space based on the results of these identifications. The result of this research is the design concept of a protection system at City Park based on Robo-robo's kinship value. This study shows that traditional values can be used as design concepts in public spaces because they have the same social context. However, this concept needs further research especially in implementing it as a real prototype.
