Preserving community
Revitalisation with the goals of preserving cultural and communal identity
Alternative urban design
Revitalisation embedded with alternative design concepts to address the current trend of urbanisation and building high rises that remove or reduce cultural and communal properties
Heritage
Revitalisation effort with new technologies to preserve and promote the heritage of several centuries old design features, livelihood and community bondings.
Living with the river
Emphasis on maintaining the river ecology by bringing elements of ecosystem services to the public park, or shared benefits between river front business with other communities located deep in the alleys, which lack access to the street and riverfront.
Tourism VR/AR
Revitalisation embedded with new livelihood to promote culture and way of life through advanced technology and cultural – technological tourism, bringing in more social equity; preserve ways of being and old and new livelihoods based on sustainable tourism development. Assist local riverside populations in maintaining authentic ways of life while digitising and preserving unique ways of life for the enjoyment of future generations.
School / university curriculum
Revitalisation through embedding findings, research methods and river city sustainability elements into curriculum and teaching, including service learning and community-university partnerships for action-based learning, techniques which are under-developed in Vietnam currently.
