Creative Lab by Up is based in Luong Yen street in Hanoi inside the creative city building. The Creative Lab by Up was born from a cooperation of the two main stakeholders, Up co-Working Space and Hanoi Creative City. As most of the others Lab, this one offers a stimulus platform where visitors, can learn, invent, and create.

The additional value of the Creative Lab by Up is it activities field. Father of Up is Mr. Do Hoai Nam, after researching and investing in many business models supporting Start-up, he found that the main reason why so many Start-ups have been gone, especially the young Start-ups is because of extremely high sunk cost. Therefore, Up provides not only a common workspace at UP offices but also all conditions to work, learn, expand relationships, raising capital and being consulted with the best price in the current market. Indeed, the Lab provides classes and workshops about creative art and fashion. Some equipment’s, machineries and spaces are available to ensure experiments for visitors who sharing similar interest.

Writers:

Nguyen Pham Thuy Duong – 05

Robin Bucau – 24

Thi khanh linh VU

In an ever-changing global landscape, creative hubs add a sustainable value to the growth of creative economy. A Creative Hub can be defined as a space that induce Creative Thinking, which is a combination of creativity, curiosity and communication. A place, real or virtual, where designers meet ordinary people to bring creative influences and creative acts. The aims of the creative hubs are to provoke people’s mind, thoughts to show their creativity and push people to realize that creativity is inside each and every one of them.

There are currently at least 40 creative hubs in Vietnam, making art and culture more accessible and providing spaces for homegrown creative enterprises to thrive. One of the outstanding creative hubs in Hanoi related to Arts and Culture scene in Vietnam is Heritage Space which is located in Dolphin Plaza, No. 6 Nguyen Hoang Street, My Dinh 2, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi. The purpose of this art space is to develop Contemporary Art, Connect Art creators and a resource to develop art activities. Their activities are including but not limited to: Art Exhibition, Lecture, Music performance,  Workshop, Cinema; for example: “UPTOPIA LAND” Exibition, “On the Endless Road” Film Screening, BEYOND SOUND, Photo Project Workshop with Zhuang Wubin, Exibition “Dreams- Dancing Between Two World”, Release new book “Greening Asia”, etc.

As per Heritage Space representative’s opinion, the definition of “innovation” in art field is different with in other fields. Heritage Space defined innovation as “New creations or use in concept, method, practice, media, materials. ‘Innovation’ is trying something news in order to discover both the world outside and inner world of individuals.” Therefore, Heritage Space’s willing to be platform for new creations in arts. They host contemporary arts exhibition revealing new works of artists that not having opportunity to showcase in Vietnam.

Heritage Space also implement annual art project called ‘Month of Art practice‘ (MAP) to bring international artists with different ideas, mindsets and cultures coming to work with local young creators. They change the topic of MAP every year to give new factors and motivations to artists, as well as exploiting new bodies of arts for local audience.

Besides that, ‘Innovation’ is changing. Heritage believe that learning and exchange giving new energies and ideas, so they keep doing exchange programs, activities by holding a lot of talks presenting by artists, lecturers, researcher, writer. They had learned so much by those lecturers, as well as giving opportunities for public to meet and have dialogue with authors in many hard topics in different fields.

Heritage Space strongly believed that there were some of competencies to become a good innovator such as: Being open for new things that never ever happened in mind; Endure the difficulties; Adaptive capacity; Trusting the way we chose and have strategies.

Base on the above, Heritage Space set their own missions as following and wish to keep working on these things in the future:

• Develop Contemporary Art: A space to develop Contemporary Arts in Vietnam by creating opportunities for practicing, exchange and exhibition to introduce the latest artists and artworks.
• Art Connection: A space to create opportunities and promote the connection between different creative sectors/ fields.
• Creative Resource: A space to support the creative development by Library resource and a variety of activities related to Education, Exchange and Innovation nurturing.
• Art HUB: being a HUB connecting world art and local art by and collaborative activities, exchange between domestic and foreign creative individuals/ groups.

Overall, the creative hubs like Heritage Space are playing a very important role in supporting and encouraging the innovative ideas and representing creative communities in Hanoi nowadays. However, in order to develop Hanoi Creative Hubs on both quality and quantity, we need to find solutions to settle problems on financial as well as human resources.

Reference:

http://heritagespace.com/

https://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/blog/15/08/14/vietnam-launches-first-research-creative-hubs/

https://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/projects/hubs/

Writer:

Le Ngoc Anh (No. 03)

Nguyen Hong Hanh (No. 07)                

Kao Quynh Huong (No. 10)

Thi khanh linh VU

Co-working space is a model, a common working space which formed by two main components: utility/ services and people/community. Comes with utilities such as kitchen, printer, office reception service, meeting room, associated services may be more diversified depending on the site and the cost of the investment.

However, if only to provide the above-mentioned services, no matter how advanced it is not called a common workspace. Community is a vital part of a co-working space. The operator must be able to select the participants, promote interaction and thereby encourage cooperative opportunities.

For example, Toong is a really innovative co-working space in Hanoi with many tools to support different work. Toong aims to become a house of invention where business leaders and entrepreneurs can work, collaborate and socialize. Toong wants to provide guidance on how to develop proposals by offering courses, workshops and flexible workspaces, Toong has many beautiful open spaces designed to support seminars, events. Community events are also being introduced at Toong.

For instance, in 2015, Workshop “The soft power of brands” was held at Toong with the participation of 2 speakers, Dr. Géraldine Michel và Mr. Nguyen Duc Son, who both have so much experiences about brands. The workshop brought to people the knowledge about the brand and innovation in business.

Source: Toong Fanpage Facebook

“https://www.facebook.com/toongcoworking/posts/1031113830256096”

In addition, Toong also has gaming rooms, so members can relax after hours of stressful tiring. Another advantage is that with two locations, members may have different work options depending on their schedule and time. That is an advantage that make Toong is different and innovative in Hanoi.

Source: http://toong.com.vn/

Writers:

No. 12 – Vu Thi Khanh Linh

No. 17 – Nguyen Manh Tung

Thi khanh linh VU

Hanoi is known as an ancient city however, nowadays Hanoi has been developing many innovative activities and organizations. From economic development view, Hanoi is considered as a young city, which results to change to working way and enviroment. Following that the rise of entrepreneurship is based on the creative working method. This is one of the most innovative ideas for Hanoi.

For instance, Hanoi has more and more accelerators, incubators, co-working space, innovation lab and creative hubs. Lets take “TOONG” as an example. It is not only a co-working space in Hanoi but also aims to become a house of invention where business leaders and entrepreneurs can work, collaborate and socilize.

Another example is Creative Lab Project in Inovation Labin Hanoi city. It was opened on June 25, 2017. In this space, customers can use all the mordern equiment and machinery, share their ideas, develop new products, as well as build a relationship with potential partners.

That is the way that Hanoi is creating the innovative value for the development not only for human but also for society.

Team member:

Phu Duc Anh                          01

Ngo Minh Anh                        02

Vu Thi Khanh Linh                 12

Nguyen Manh Tung                17

Tran Thi Thu Trang                 19

Duc anh PHU

In our opinion, Hanoi is definitely an innovative city and has great potential to become more and more innovative in the future. We can easily find the innovation in many fields. In terms of innovation companies, we have around over 200 start-ups in different sectors such as: Foody (Food & Beverage), Topica (Education), MoMo (Individual Finance), etc. We have incubators like FIIS, HubIT, 5Desire. We have creative co-working space as Hanoi Hub, Vuon. Moreover, in education, we also have innovative universities and projects like: USTH, MPIE, etc. However, Hanoi still has many things that can be changed to be more innovative. We can have better innovative environment with the good guidance and control from government. All the start-ups and entrepreneurs can have more support in finance with investment from banks and venture capitalist inside Hanoi, not just from foreign investment. We can consider Ha Noi as an innovative city but it is just at the beginning of the innovation process. We still need to invest more both in finance and human resource to push up all the innovative projects and ideas in the future. Therefore, all the stakeholders need to be involved and together to make Hanoi become more innovative.

Group 3:

Team member:

Nguyen Hoang Nam: No 14

Hoang Thi Thai Ngan: No 15

Le Thi Quynh Anh: No: 04

Nguyen Hong Hanh: No 07

Nguyen Mai Huong: No 09

Nguyen Thu Ha: No 06

Nguyen Hoang Long: No 13

Thi quynh anh LE

Hanoi is changing. From an unknown city, Hanoi is flipping to another period of time with more development. 2 years ago, Hoan Kiem lake was not crowded, people came here for taking pictures but now it is changing to a very different lake. Management team of this lake decided to build walking street around lake in every weekend. In these days, there are a lot of interesting activities were held. Beside the rule that no bike, no car moving on this road, people also rebuild many traditional games that remind young people about Vietnamese history. Luckily, tourists seem really like those activities. This is a good way to connect people with many different ages.

This picture proposes one typically example. That kids enjoy playing “Ô ăn Quan”. This is a very familier game when I was young. Even now when I go back to my hometown, there are very few kids know how to play this game.
I was so supprised when I saw those kids, who living in big cities, can play together with a very exciting attitude.
I hope this kind of street can open more in other cities such as Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh, Hue… where people can enjoy culture space.
Ha Noi 06/02/2018
Nguyen Que Huu

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