Impromptu conservation: Symbiosis between tangible and intangible heritage.

Phi Nguyen, PhD Student, HEAD – Genève, Switzerland

The case of Thua Thiên Hue, Viet Nam: Huế and its surrounding villages as an on-going bottom-up collective project and process of inhabitation and non-deliberate preservation

This lecture was offered as part of the symposium From the Page to the Screen: Entanglements between Heritage and Media, organized by MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève.

Phi Nguyen is an architect. She is currently working on her PhD at EPFL, in LabU, at the School of Architecture and Science of the City (EDAR). Phi holds a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD, 2016) and a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from Berea College, USA (2011). Phi has experiences working in both
art/ design practice and research from design firms and institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums (Boston, U.S.A), Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, U.S.A.)...