Main development opportunities and challenges facing the city- using creativity as a driver for action
The focus of Hanoi is to put creativity, especially from a design perspective at the center of city’s development towards sustainable, with a broad vision to become the creative Capital of Southeast Asia. To accomplish the ambition, Hanoi fully converges development opportunities:
Hanoi has a history of thousand years , with a great treasure of cultural heritage, a place of centre of talents of the whole country. This is the “golden key” in receiving and disseminating new knowledge, education and technology. Hanoi will use these cultural assets as a driving force for the development of creative design fields. With the advantage of being a major cultural exchange hub of the country and an international exchange center, Ha Noi promotes international cooperation with other cities. Ha Noi’s leaders have high determination towards innovation and creativity. In the spirit of “Cooperation, investment and mutual development”, Hanoi will become incubator for the dream of start-up business in creative field especialy design.
While flourishing economically, Hanoi faces environmental and social challenges such as overpopulation and strained infrastructure.
The capital will address these issues by focusing on using human-centred design to build a technology-led city – with a booming creative infrastructure of educational and research institutions that specialise in design and technology. Using this development model, Hanoi will embrace a young, entrepreneurial population that features an increasing number of trained creative professionals.
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Hanoi will create a design-led environment that overcomes social challenges by improving productivity and urban liveability. Likewise, the introduction of a circular economy, formulated by way of design thinking, can solve environmental challenges as articulated by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Hanoi’s commitment to design will also help promote Hanoi’s cultural industries by establishing a citywide ethos of design – casting a contemporary lens on Hanoi’s cultural heritage including its craft villages – as well as putting the spotlight on emerging creative talents and community-led creative initiatives such as co-working design hubs.
