LOCAL WISDOM, 15 (1): 12-24 , 2023 Local Wisdom Scientific Online Journal ISSN: 2086-3764 Morphology of Settlement of the Dayak Kenyah Tribe, Budaya Pampang Village, Samarinda City in a Socio-Cultural Context Siela Mara Nabela 1 *, Ema Yunita Titisari 2 , and Sri Utami 2 1,2 Department of Architecture, Brawijaya University, Indonesia Corresponding Author: sielamaran@student.ub.ac.id Abstract Keywords: Morphology; settlement, Socio- culture; Budaya Pampang Village The Dayak Kenyah community is a dynamic tribe influenced by its socio-cultural context. Socio-cultural changes will affect the form of settlement. This journal focuses on the influence of the socio-cultural context on the settlement morphology of the Dayak Kenyah tribe in the Budaya Pampang Village to get meaning in forming their settlements. This study uses Levi-Strauss structuralism to see the meaning behind the relationship between the spatial morphology of settlements and socio-culture from data collection results such as physical evidence, interviews, and questionnaires. The results of this study found the meaning of defense, togetherness and kinship, spirituality, harmony with nature, and adaptation in the spatial formation of Dayak Kenyah settlements. Article History Received Accepted Published : : : Jun 10, 2022 Jan 8, 2023 Jan 15, 2023 ©2023 The Authors. Published by University of Merdeka Malang, Indonesia. 1. Introduction The Dayak Kenyah tribe is a tribe that lives in the Budaya Pampang Village, North Samarinda. The Dayak Kenyah of the Budaya Pampang Village comes from Apokayan, North Kalimantan (Pergitawati et al., 2014; Putri et al., 2019). This Village has been specified as a "Cultural Village" since 1991 by the East Kalimantan Government, which means that regional development will be carried out through the tourism sector (Harsanto, 2018). The potential of Dayak Kenyah cultural tourism in the Budaya Pampang Village is a potential asset in increasing the regional economic value (Widiastuti et al., 2020). Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan Province, develops and utilizes the potential of the Budaya Pampang Village to become a community cultural tourism owned as a tourist object and attraction (Ratnasari et al., 2020). One of the most significant factors driving socio-cultural changes in the Kenyah Dayak community is the negative stigma of the word "Dayak" Dayak is considered a backward group of people who like to hunt for heads and destroy the environment. So this has triggered much progress in education, the economy, socio-politics, and culture (Billa, 2005). On the other hand, the Dayak Kenyah community in the Budaya Pampang Village has experienced a socio-cultural shift due to modernization (Harsanto, 2018), so [12]