Empowering Inclusive Design Education in the Pensil Kertas Community Through a Text-based Prototype and Digital Approach

Muhamad Nugraha (Telkom University)
Ranti Rachmawanti (Telkom University)
Lira Anindita Utami (Telkom University)

Edcomtech: Jurnal Kajian Teknologi Pendidikan
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2025)

Since 2009, Pensil Kertas Community has lived in Bandung city, This community supports inclusive education in design with training programs, visual, and collective drawing activities from elementary to out-of-college learners. Major challenges when they hiatus from 2019 to 2024. This paper explores the gap challenges from traditional communities, process of the finding digital journey through a text-based prototype and digital solutions to help the creative ecosystem in this community. Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) point 4 (quality education) and 11(sustainable cities), this study adopts a participatory design approach as its design process. enhance interactivity through digital media.