In collaboration with
Elise LUONG // Undecided Productions / Artistic Consultant
Hanoi Ad Hoc 1.0
Elise Luong was born in Australia and has been based in Hanoi since 2016. After graduating from a BFA in Photography and Video Arts in Belgium, she worked in a diverse range of Contemporary Art fields, engaging in project management and the curation of wildly unique spaces in Brussels, Berlin, and Montreal, showcasing visual, street art & new media. She currently works in the fields not only of contemporary art but also architecture and journalism, as a writer, editor, events manager, program curator and communication designer. As an artist manager, she is concerned with the development of production and dissemination opportunities for young creators. For the Hanoi Ad Hoc project, she will contribute with a reflection on art as an industry and labour as a product.
Francesco MONTRESOR // Architect Francesco is a Hanoi-based architect with focus interests being space, body, and territory. Having first arrived in Vietnam in 2004, Francesco worked as a Senior Architect at G8A Architects where he was employed since 2017. In parallel to his work as a designer, he has contributed and led research teams focusing on public housing problematics in Southeast Asia in general, and Hanoi in particular. Having graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (Switzerland, 2016) with the thesis entitled “Red River Delta; A Two Speed Productive Territory”. He studied the mechanisms of industrialisation and urbanisation in the Red River Delta (Vietnam), later developing it into an urban vision for the development of Hanoi and its surroundings. Francesco nourishes his professional experience by participating in workshops, residencies, training and MOOCs on topics often related to urban conditions in Southeast Asia.
PHAM Hong Viet & BUI Phuong Ngoc // GA6 Workshop, National University of Civil Engineering, VN Viet graduated from Politecnico di Milano (Italy, 2017) in urban planning and policy design. After coming back to Vietnam in 2017, he has been involved in urban planning and design consulting at architectural firms such as AVANT, 1+1>2. His recent focuses are on urban design, human ecology systems in planning and architecture as well as interconnected spaces in which people are the central nucleus. Before completing the Master of Science program in Architecture and Preservation at Politecnico di Milano - Italy, Ngoc has participated in both practice and research in Vietnam, Italy and the US. Her architectural practice and research focus on high-density urban design and preservation design towards a sustainable future. She craves to rediscover how humans understand their existence from heritage and deal with the environment we inhabit through built spaces. Currently, both Viet and Ngoc are working at the National University of Civil Engineering as a lecturer and a specialist; and co-founded the GA6 Workshop with other partners in 2020.
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