MAKE-A-THON 2022 – PHASE 02: CIRCULAR LIFE DESIGN CHALLENGE
On 10 and 11/09, the contest “Make-a-thon – Phase 02: Circular Life Design Challenge” jointly organized by Fab City Foundation and FabLab USTH and Maker Viet took place with great success. The program is implemented in partnership with three UN agencies – UNESCO, UNIDO, UN-Habitat, and is part of the Hanoi Rethink Project – Component to promote the creative and digital industries in Hanoi.
A growing Hanoi raises concerns about a sustainable circular life – sparking the creative journey of individuals and especially the teams of Make-a-thon 2022: The challenge of designing a circular life. After 02 days of being directly present at the 8th floor hall, USTH building – the teams had the opportunity to exchange and finish with an impressive presentation and product demo.
Launched from 11/07 to 15/08/2022, the Make-a-thon challenge aims to promote the creative and digital industries in Hanoi; towards the goal of finding new ideas to develop the values and heritage of the city in the cultural and creative economy.
To welcome the candidates, there is a technical workshop to orient and support the application of technology to complete sample products. Through the workshop, the candidates have found for themselves the necessary solutions and equipment to perfect sample products such as 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC technology – creating a premise for the further development of future projects.
Accompanying the teams are also domestic and international mentors – from technical support to sharing on creative communication; In particular, Make-a-thon is also honored to welcome Cynthia Mann from Future Traditions with her story of sustainable fashion. With skillful hands, Cynthia has transformed secondhand fashion products into unique, extending the product life cycle with impressive combination between modern and traditions, old and modern beauty as the name Future Traditions. Through the sharing from the speakers, a creative direction in the way of communication is also promoted, supporting the teams with new methods to promote products effectively.
Cynthia Mann from Future Traditions shares her story of sustainable fashion
The end of the event was a presentation and demo of products from the teams, attracting a lot of attention from the Organizers as well as the participating teams. Duy Anh – “Mỳ tôm xanh” team shared: “The most basic difference of make-a-thon lies in the fact that this is a playground for contestants to freely exchange and improve knowledge without placing more emphasis on competitiveness. From that orientation, the Organizers invited many experts from different fields to participate in the program so that they could share experiences and perspectives from many aspects, contribute to expanding the contestants’ vision. In addition to the advice from the mentor, we also have the opportunity to realize the idea together to learn and receive very real sharing from different teammates.”
The presentation of the “Mỳ tôm xanh” team
Not only 02 days of information and ideas, the contestants and the Organizers as well as FabLab USTH also enjoyed the mid-autumn festival with delicious handmade moon cakes, light songs and typical images of a warm full moon night.
Experiencing emotional moments, FabLab USTH hopes that each team has had a great time to show their abilities and improve their ideas – conquer their passion, take the first step on the creative journey and go further in the competition.
Let’s take a look back at the impressive moments of Make-a-thon 2022 – Phase 02: Circular Life Design Challenge:
About Hanoi Rethink Project – Component Promoting creative industries and digital manufacturing in Hanoi
UNIDO, the UN specialized agency promoting industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability, has partnered with UNESCO and UN Habitat to support Hanoi’s status as Viet Nam’s Creative Capital. The three UN agencies have established partnerships under the Joint Programme entitled Mobilizing Cultural Resources and Youth Participation for the Creative Capital of Hanoi. As part of the Program, Hanoi Rethink aims to promote the creative and digital industries in Hanoi, starting from 6/2022 to 3/2023.
Under this collaborative project, UNIDO will map experimental production laboratories (FabLab – abbreviated from Fabrication Laboratory) and creative hubs in Hanoi, provide a training program in industrial design and technology 4.0 for creative industries and organize a design competition to support the development of innovative solutions in the creative industries sector, collaborate with local laboratories, companies and other organizations/universities. UNIDO is partnering with the Fab City Foundation to carry out the activities of the program.
