The Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022 opens on November 11 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022 kicked off in the capital city’s pedestrians space around Hoan Kiem Lake on November 11, aiming to promote the city’s creative and cultural resources.
Themed "Design and Technology," the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022 comprises nearly 50 activities such as exhibitions, talks, seminars, and cultural and artistic performances with 21 creative artistic spaces, gathering about 350 artists and nearly 30 speakers.
The activities are taking place in Ly Thai To Monument Flower Garden, Dong Kinh Nghaa Thuc Square, the Arts and Culture Center at 22 Hang Buom street, the Ho Guom Cultural Information Centre at No. 2 Le Thai To street, Exhibition Hall at 45 Trang Tien street, Exhibition Information Centre at 93 Dinh Tien Hoang street, and the entire surrounding walking street space of Hoan Kiem Lake.
The highlights of the festival, with a message of connecting tradition with modernity, are unique and iconic design works such as the Creative Gate, the Integration Space, and the Traditional Space. These are both places for exhibitions and performances, as well as places for residents and visitors to interact and form a new perspective on the creative capital of Hanoi.
The event is also an opportunity for organisations, experts, and local and international businesses to connect and expand cooperation, strengthening awareness of businesses and community about the field of creative design and developing cultural industries.
According to Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports Do Dinh Hong, the event is an annual activity to realise Hanoi’s commitment to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) after joining the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. It contributes to raising awareness of businesses and social community on creativeness in the development of cultural industries, he said.
He underlined the city’s high determination in implementing a resolution on the development of the cultural industry in the capital for the period 2021-2025, with an orientation to 2030 and a vision to 2045, which is one of two important thematic resolutions of the city Party Committee in order to comply with the international commitment roadmap when Hanoi becomes the "Creative City" of UNESCO in association with promoting the creative tradition of Thang Long - Hanoi people and the development of new cultural values.
He said that the city has full advantages and potential to become an incubator and a venue for the promotion of cultural creativity, creating high quality cultural products and services with high competitiveness in the country, region and the world. The event aims to optimise the city’s advantages and potential, while raising public awareness of the designing sector and cultural industry, and expanding cooperation among organisations, experts, businesses in the field.
Christian Manhart, UNESCO Representative in Vietnam, affirmed that since becoming a member of UNESCO's Network of Creative Cities in the field of design in 2019, Hanoi has constantly expanded its vision to become a Creative Capital and build a dynamic cultural industry through inclusive initiatives and public-private partnership. That's why UNESCO is happy to join hands with Hanoi's leaders to organise the Creative Design Festival, a platform for talents from all over the world to come together to collaborate and develop, he said. The festival is also a way to contribute to the sustainable development of the city, said Manhart who emphasised that creative individuals in Vietnam are once again showing their innovative spirit that they can contribute to the construction of a city for the benefit of each citizen here.
The Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022 is an opportunity to honour and promote the creative and cultural resources of the capital. Through this event, the Hanoi called on all local residents to join hands for the city’s advance from the City for Peace to the Creative City of UNESCO./.
