Lilianny Sigit Arifin is a Professor at the Architecture Department, Petra Christian University. Having close to 40 years of experience in academia, her main research interests are the challenges and opportunities that Kampung in cities face with accelerating social change, focusing on the social dimension of sustainable communities. Her research expertise lies in Housing and Human Settlements and design for social sustainability involving community based, participatory approach. She got research grants from the government three years continually 2013-2015, to determine the original characteristics of Kampungs as a spontaneous settlement in Surabaya. She is also interested in hermeneutic phenomenology approach to analyze the people’s experience in Kampungs and develops courses about Housing and Psychology with service-learning methods as a learning experience for students.