Giao in "giao thoa" and "giao nhau", means meeting and also streets crossing each other. The project brings out image of the meeting between modern people and buildings of the past, all of that happening on every crossing street in the Old Quarter.
Giao is a project to show tourists and the young generation the history of alleys in Hanoi Old Quarter through an interactive exhibition and give a different point of view about life in tiny alleys, behind what is often considered the uniqueness of Hanoi, raise awareness about the problem of local people with low quality living conditions, therefore can look for a solution to preserve culture in the Old Quarter without giving people inconvenience.
The museum does its best in collecting, preserving and displaying artefacts of history. However, to attract the younger generation, there are some needed new ways of engaging. Therefore, instead of just exhibiting the alleys, the Giao project wants visitors to be able to actually go inside a place with multiple feelings of the alley.
The museum is also known as a symbol of telling the story of the past. This project aim to show what has not been shown at this place: image of the current days.
The young, future generation are born in great living conditions and do not know about the traditional or old lifestyle of the old generation. Therefore they have no idea of how that life works, how difficulty that lifestyle is or the cultural stories behind those alleys. The exhibition want to look into that area and let them explore life of the local.
Those alleys and the whole Old Quarter have lived through more than 1000 years of changing and developing. Those old buildings still remain to serve the life of modern people. The Giao project aims to show how time has passed on those crossing streets and alleys.
The target audience are people who does not have much chance or not chosing to explore life in the alleys, which are the young generation, tourists and foreigners.
Inspired by the messy electric wires hanging on almost every wall in the Old Quarter, the concept model take shape of tangeled strings. Those bring out the feeling of road crossing each other and the fustration people feel finding ways in the Old Quarter
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