This is the 4th year of the Hanoi Creative Design Festival, this year will continue to focus on 3 main pillars: Design, Community and Creativity. This is also the first time that the "Creative Crossroads" has been piloted along 7 typical historical heritage works of Hanoi with more than 100 exciting creative activities in 12 fields of cultural industry, typically including architecture, design, fine arts, performance, cinema, advertising...
The creative activities organized will be a dialogue between existing works, linking community memories with new creative ideas to emphasize the role of young people in continuing and promoting national values in developing the creative industry, promoting the Capital to truly develop to be worthy of being the creative center of the whole country...
Accordingly, the spirit of creativity is also spread throughout cultural heritage spaces, creative spaces, and traditional craft villages on all streets, districts, and towns of the Capital.
The Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2024 is organized by the Hanoi People's Committee - Vietnam Association of Architects in coordination with the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, UNESCO Office in Hanoi, VPBank and a number of units.
According to the organizers, this year's festival has been heavily invested in with the main area being the August Revolution Square, connecting the "Heritage Essence" axis (Ly Thai To - Le Thanh Tong street) and the "Creative Economy" axis (Bac Co slope - Trang Tien street) with outstanding architectural works such as: Hanoi Children's Palace, Government Guest House (Bac Bo Phu), Opera House, National Museum of History, University of Natural Sciences (former General University)... and 5 flower gardens Ly Thai To, Dien Hong, Co Tan, 19/8, Tao Dan on the route.
Within the framework of the festival, there will be about 20 seminars and talks in fields such as: Design, Art, Cinema, Photography, Fashion, Technology, Publishing and other fields along with creative startup activities.
The highlight of the festival will be creative tours in which travel agencies actively participate to form cultural and creative tours. This combination is aimed at bringing domestic and foreign tourists closer to the heritage, introducing cultural, historical and architectural values.
Ms. Tran Thi Van Anh - Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that this year's Hanoi Creative Design Festival continues to make a breakthrough, bringing many new interesting things, which will further arouse the creative spirit in each person, especially the young generation, about new initiatives and creative ideas, promoting the development of the city's creative economy, connecting traditional cultural values in the development of the Creative Cultural Industry, with the position of the Capital - the creative center of the whole country.
The festival continues to promote the development of a network of young creative designers, support creative spaces and the launch of the Hanoi Creative Activities Coordination Center at the Hanoi Museum in November 2024.
