International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) [Vol-7, Issue-11, Nov- 2020] https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.711.11 ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) www.ijaers.com Page | 80 Social Interaction and the use of Space in the traditional activities of Kampung Naga Aulia Astary Agusta 1* , Wara Indira Rukmi 2 , Syavana Fairuzahira 3 , Wulan Dwi Purnamasari 4 Urban and Regional Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering, Brawijaya University, Mayjen Haryono Street, no.167, Malang, Indonesia *Corresponding Author Received: 20 Oct 2020; Received in revised form: 10 Nov 2020; Accepted: 13 Nov 2020; Available online: 15 Nov 2020 ©2020 The Author(s). Published by AI Publications. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Abstract— Indonesia has a diversity of landscapes and communities. This creates a diversity of lifestyles that reflect the identity of the area or a place. This identity is also reflected in the form and how people carry out the traditions that have been existed from generation to generation. Kampung Naga, as one of Indonesian traditional village has its own uniqueness characteristics. This can be seen from the culture, traditions, interactions and spaces created by these traditional activities. Therefore, research is needed that has the aim of finding out how the traditional activities of the Kampung Naga produce social interactions in certain spaces. By using descriptive explorative methods and descriptive analysis and assisted by behavior mapping, will explain the interactions and spaces in traditional activities. The output of this study is to determine the interactions that occur in every traditional activity in Kampung Naga. Keywords— Activities, Social interaction, space, tradition. I. INTRODUCTION According to Amos Rapoport in his book entitled "House Form and Culture" (1969), space is not only the result of physical strength or a single causal factor but is a consequence of all the socio-cultural factors seen in a broad view. There are three forms of culture, and one of them is a form of culture in the form of an activity or patterns of human action, which can also be called a social system (Koentjaraningrat, 1979: 186-187). Culture is a complex collection of knowledge, art, beliefs, morals, laws, traditions (customs), and any other abilities or habits acquired by humans as members of a society (Kroeber and Kluckhohn,1952). Koentjaraningrat (1987: 187) states that tradition is the same as customs, concepts, and rules that are solid and strongly integrated into a cultural systemin a culture that regulates human action in the socio-cultural field. Therefore, it can also be seen that traditional ceremonies are a form of an activity carried out in the traditions of a society. The activity itself contains four main things, namely the actor, a group of people who carry out an activity; kinds of activities, namely the activities of a group of people; place, where the activity takes place; and the time the activity took place, when the activity took place (Bechtel and Zeisel, 1967). In the use of space in traditional activities, the use of space by the community can be grouped into three, namely the micro space scale where the space formed by the relationship between space in the house, the meso space scale that is formed by the relationship between activities in the house and activities that occur within the house, yards, and macro space schemes are formed by the existence of links between activities in the yard and public places in the village (Haryadi &Setiawan, 1995). Social interaction is a general form that results from social processes because social interaction is the main condition for the occurrence of social activities. Social interactions the starting point of social events, and social interactions have a specific purpose (Sumarti, 2015). In achieving these goals people will act and react with others. In social interaction, there are humans, communicate in the form of language, symbols that are meaningful in a time dimension to achieve certain goals. In traditional societies, relationships or forms of social interaction do not only occur among humans. Where people believe that social groups are