Workshop: Crafting Vietnamese Digital Heritage
Sun, 01 Dec 2024
09 am – 12 pm, Workshop 01: Creative Collage Workshop
01:30 pm – 04:30 pm, Workshop 02: Reimagining Street Vendors in Our Cities & Crafting AR Street Vendors
Alpha Art Station
200 Lý Tự Trọng, D.1, TP HCM
Registration link
Language: English and Vietnamese
From Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design:
The workshop is part of Bui Quynh Nhu’s PhD research project exploring how 3D digital technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR), can be leveraged to preserve and share both the tangible and intangible aspects of Vietnam’s cultural heritage, like street vendors and their practices, while sparking conversations about managing heritage in the face of urbanisation and globalisation.
The workshop provides a space for community perspectives and discussions around issues such as cultural displacement, urbanisation and social inequality, along with other complexities in heritage management in cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Analysis from the workshop will help the researcher gather in-depth qualitative data from the community, which will help inform the next iteration of the creative works and research direction.
Workshop 01: Creative Collage Workshop
This workshop invites participants to engage in a creative collage activity to reimagine street vendors in the rapidly evolving urban landscapes of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Using materials such as traditional and modern textures, graphics, newspapers, and found objects, participants will express their thoughts on cultural hybridity, displacement, and their hopes and dreams for the future of Vietnamese street culture. The focus is on contextualising their perspectives on urban change, street vendor culture, and how these elements intersect with cultural identity and heritage.
Workshop 02: Reimagining Street Vendors in Our Cities & Crafting AR Street Vendors
In this session, participants will engage in hands-on digital making, creating an Augmented Reality (AR) street vendor that reflects their personal connections to Vietnamese street food culture. They will learn the basics of photogrammetry to digitise their favourite food or cultural object using Polycam, and then incorporate these digitised objects into a shared AR street vendor environment. The end result will be a speculative XR “casual economy” version of street vendors, where participants’ vendors will coexist in a digitally crafted space.
Facilitator: PhD candidate Bui Quynh Nhu
PhD candidate Bui Quynh Nhu is a digital designer specialising in AR/VR, UX&UI design, as well as Communication & Graphic Design, Filmmaking and Motion Graphics. As a practice-based researcher, she is passionate about exploring the relationships between cultures and 3D creative activities, cultural heritage digitisation and games in AR applications to enhance learning and cultural interaction. She is currently a lecturer in the Master’s program in Animation, Games, and Interactivity at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
*Note: This workshop consists of separate sessions – participants can choose to attend either one of the events, or both if they wish!
Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design 2024 is organised by RMIT University Vietnam in collaboration with Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS). Hexagon and Viral Town serve as event partners, alongside a diverse array of individuals, groups, organisations, enterprises in the creative industries, with Behalf by Pencil as the creative partner and Hanoi Grapevine as the media partner.
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