Outcomes

 

By targeting a broad audience, the final outcome aims to reach intellectuals, practitioners, stakeholders and decision makers in order to convince people of the importance of industrial heritages and its preservation through multiple lenses. To do things right, we must understand it first. The outcome will be a collection of critical writing pieces, reliable databases and finest architectural drawings, which will serve as a strong foundation for further research and developments

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Urban investigation, recording and response

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• Conducting an anthropological investigation into the current conditions of factories of interest. 

• Narrating these factories’ conditions and their surroundings using architectural drawings, diagrams, montage and collage. 

• Developing a position regarding the post-occupant of these factories of interest

• Understanding the context of these buildings through analysing its dialectic relationship and material presence within its neighbouring habitants, and project a potential response to these sites. 

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Urban anthropological drawings​

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A series of axonometric drawings in large format to illustrate the building of interests as accurately as possible. The series will be accompanied with photographic documentations to serve as a long-term research archive. Each investigated building will be represented by one of these drawings, with the angles determined onsite to show the most prominent features of the building. The drawings will be drawn in Axonometric format, providing the objectivity and rational characteristics of architecture during the early modernist period. The drawings also contain only a single lineweight, flattening out the perception, freezing the building at the moment of record and further emphasising its ‘objectiveness’. For each factory of interest, The drawings situate the building of interest in its urban context, everyday life and the narrative of Vietnamese people. Each drawing repositions from an objective to subjective point of view, gradually allowing the views to empathise and submerge themselves into the life of these so-called ruins.

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"Close read" Stories​

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The gathering information will be processed, analyzed and synthesized. By examining multiple agents from the dossier, we will narrow down our interests into the most significant aspect that set light on the reciprocal relationship between the factories and their contexts. Through a series of "close read", the audience will perceive different narrations with different voices, approaches, and point of view, from societal impacts, political ideologies to the transformation of the urbanscape through industrial urbanities... These puzzles will eventually engender the holistic industrial landscape of the city and reveal how industrialization has fostered urbanization.  ​​

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Design Provocation

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Apart from pure gathering information and collecting data, through discussion within the teams, design provocations are developed to establish different positions towards the lives of these factories and sites. Unlike a detailed architectural proposal, this quick design provocation will serve as conceptual/ practical/ critical/ projective platforms for future possibilities and open up a conversation, contributing directly to the architectural knowledge production in Vietnam. This phase can be under the form of an open competition to get involved the community into the creation process. 

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Ad hoc talks

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In cooperation with local institutions, UN agencies, core team members are encouraged to pair up with an external guest and have a dialogue on their theoretical positions for the research taking into consideration the factories’ context and urban conditions. Reading materials can be provided to help reach out to the research’s wider audience.

In addition, specialists’ talks will be held to discuss significant case studies projects in Vietnam, to facilitate knowledge exchange between international and local researchers and to encourage future collaboration.