Desain Kursi Berbahan Baku Rotan dari Masa ke Masa

Furniture is one of space-formed element that has a role, functions and needs in a room. Manufacture of furniture could use a variety of existing raw materials, one of which is rattan. Rattan is a natural raw materials that has a distinctive and unique characteristics in terms of webbing, flexibility, and construction, all of which it becomes the aesthetic elements of rattan furniture. Rattan chairs have been known since ancient times and nowadays there are lots of rattan chairs with a variety of designs. Today rattan furniture can be adapted to a modern design, while still showing a natural feel as it unique characteristic, so the rattan chairs can be placed in accordance with the desired theme and style

SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF TRI HITA KARANA IN BATUR GEOPARK MUSEUM

Tri Hita Karana is the philosophy of life from Hindu (Majapahit) people in Bali taking three angle points of harmony life concept. It has meaning to keep the harmony as well as balance between human-to-God, human-to-human and human-to-environment. This concept raised in the Museum of Geopark Batur exhibition, especially in cultural-diversity exhibition area which presents the diversity of the form of cultural expression of society in Batur Geopark region based on Tri Hita Karana concept. This concept in exhibition needs to be interpreted from museum collections and artefacts and transformed into signs that can be read and understood by various museum visitors, so that its values and meanings can be lived and run in the context of modern society today. This paper describes the process of semiosis to prove that Tri Hita Karana's concept symbolically has been represented in the museum exhibition. This research is a descriptive research with qualitative approach focusing Tri Hita Karana’s semiosis process inside the setra ari-ari (placenta graveyard) of Bayung Gede traditional village diorama which was examined using Charles Sanders Peirce's modern semiotics theory in pragmatism viewpoint. In this research, the researcher positioned itself as a distant interpretant with indigenous village of Bayung Gede, therefore the research was done from ethical point of view. Data collection was done by observation, documentation and study of literature. The signs inside the setra ari-ari diorama are collected and grouped into three, namely sign-sign, sign-object and sign-interpretan as they mentioned in the Peirce’s semiotics triadic model. These data are then analyzed by using ten interpretation signs alternative according to Peirce’s. The results showed that Tri Hita Karana’s concept inside the setra ari-ari of Bayung Gede traditional village diorama is a cosmological representation of God, man and nature as a part of form of cultural expression of Geopark Batur society. Keywords: Symbolic; Representation; Tri Hita Karana; Museum Geopark Batur