About Us

The Fountain Stories (TFS) is a research group of lecturers in Universitas Brawijaya Indonesia that has delved in collecting water stories and developed them into children storybook, videos, and teaching media/materials for the past 3 years. The research group consists of Alies Poetri Lintangsari, M.Li (Inclusive Education expertise), Irene Nany Kusumawardani, M.Li (Literature and Metaphor), Dian Novita Dewi, M.Li (Language pedagogy). Our researches have been funded by the research foundation of Universitas Brawijaya (LPPM) as our affiliation. we initiated a research to revive the stories of water from the ones considered as sacred by the locals (pethirtaan). The location of our research project is in Singhasari district in Malang Regency (East Java). The water sources that have become our object of research are Petirtaan Sumber Nagan, Sumber Biru, Sumber Awan, and Sumber Watu Gede (Petirtaan Ken Dedes). The research aims to act as an effort to preserve the remaining water fountains who manage to thrive through excavating myth and stories hold by the locals. We found that when the water sources manage to preserve their stories, they are likely to thrive, as they are experienced as living things by the people around and part of their life/family as well. Hence, we come up with the idea to revive the water stories everywhere they are needed. we are envisioned to do collaboration with other countries for the action toward water scarcity has been global responsibilities. To respond to this issue, an immediate revival amongst society towards sustainability is needed.

Our Values

“The resolution of the ecological crisis might heavily depend on how we manage to restore the life-giving metaphors into our communal life.” (Richard Underwood, Toward a Poetics of Ecology) The Fountain Stories (TFS) is a research group of lecturers in Universitas Brawijaya Indonesia that has delved in collecting water stories and developed them into children storybook, videos, and teaching media since 2018. The research was initiated as an effort to preserve the remaining water fountains who manage to maintain their purity and resource, through excavating myth and stories hold by the locals.