“OFF” is an event that focuses on the stories of college/ university students. The stories collected from college/ university students will be presented online as an online exhibition. Meanwhile, a manifesto poster of the stories will be mounted at the Ben Thanh bus station to encourage physical interactions including tearing, writing, drawing, etc. By doing so, the participants will have a new experience and freely express their unfiltered emotions about not only the stories but also how they feel about Ho Chi Minh city.
Through visual and physical interactions, the event offers the comfort that the young generation needs. Furthermore, the event is a chance to reconnect Ho Chi Minh city’s people with the museum of Ho Chi Minh city.
- Nguyễn Vũ Thiên Kim
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
“In what ways can this museum develop new forms of cooperation and exchange with the different communities that, together today, form the evolving face of Ho Chi Minh City?”
The work exhibited at the museum responds, creatively and speculatively, to that question. 26 students at RMIT University developed their answers in the fall and winter of 2020, during a three-month “Capstone Studio”, part of the final year of the Design Studies program.
A TRUSTED COLLABORATION
The current show is the continuation of a collaboration that began in 2019 with a student proposal for the modernization of an important museum exhibition space. The museum offers our students exceptional and meaningful design opportunities. Our collaboration is an important part of the continuing commitment, in Design Studies, to engage in rich conversations about design in Vietnam with leading local, regional and national partners.
- Andrew Stiff / Kenneth Rabin
Lecturers in Design
