Travel in Vietnam

Personnal project - Six weeks

When I started to travel alone, I found an incredible sense of freedom and a wide source of inspiration for my design profession. Now I want to make the trip, no an hobbie but a way of life and I wish my profession become an integral part of that. I like seeking to understand other cultures, different ways of thinking and analyze the social report in some population to understand the world.
I am passionate about human nature that I shall never cease to seek to understand.
For my first solitary trip, I chose to spend two months roaming Vietnam. I am part of the Zellidja traveller network, which regroups solitary travellers with a research subject.

During this trip, I chose to study traditional bamboo craftsmanship, a promising material. I travelled Vietnam looking for different creative techniques which I then tried to understand and learn: bamboo treatment, fiber extraction, cutting, drilling, weaving and other manipulations. I have visited factories, furniture workshop and artists’ studios which all used bamboo in order to grasp this material’s place in Vietnamese culture. I had the chance to observe the fabrication of bamboo kites, elements of furniture, ships, to learn how to make paper from its fiber, build a scaffold. I gathered all of my recollections in an illustrated book.