Hanoi to host largest Creative Design Festival

The Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022, the largest to date, will take place from November 11 to 18, aiming to honour and promote creative design resources in the capital city.
Hanoi to host largest Creative Design Festival ảnh 1A visitor looks at works at Phuc Tan Art Street - a community creative space. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi Creative Design Festival2022, the largest to date, will take place from November 11 to 18, aiming to honour and promotecreative design resources in the capital city.

Themed “Design and Technology”, the event is jointlyorganised by the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, the Architecture Magazineand relevant agencies.

A range of activities will be held within the framework ofthe festival, including exhibitions and seminars with innovative features.

The event’s organising board will launch some creativedesign contests for young people to encourage them to get involved in the constructionof the city space in the future, including the Dream House contest and a photocontest for youth "Hanoi from a perspective view".

During the festival, the city will honour the winners ofHanoi’s public art design contest and another to seek new and unique ideas increative spaces, designs and products for Hanoi which were launched in Augustthis year.

According to Do Dinh Hong, director of the Hanoi Department ofCulture and Sports, the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022 continues to affirmHanoi's creative resources by connecting artists, creative designers andexperts in different fields as well as creating a highlight for Hanoi at thenational and regional levels.

The event is also an annual activity to realise Hanoi’s commitmentto United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) after joining the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, he said, adding that itcontributes to raising awareness of businesses and social community oncreativeness in the development of cultural industries./.

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