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Central Java Transformation and Cross-Culture

Richard Rogers, famous English city building architect said, a city or a town existence is very important to civilization development. It’s a place where various social elements meet each other. So from that place a culture will be born. A city should be seen as a living space for it’s people, not just merely a place filled with roads and traffics. At the point, it should provide an environment that civilizing its people, a place where people’s life can develop, so finally they can proudly say “My Home Own.” What about our beloved Central Java?

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FLOWERS (in Javanese People & Traditions)

In Javanese Tradition, flower symbolizes respect and worship to ancestors. In many Javanese rituals, flower conveys transcendental relation, to the omnipotent controlling life. The connections between human and God in simple way and a believe in something invisible but exist. The ancestor and the unseen, a metaphor of communication among material world. Flowers represent something invisible but exist by it scent. We can recognize flower by it sense without seeing the flower itself.

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