Nguyen Vu Hai graduated from Hanoi University of Architecture in 2015. Hai lives in Hanoi, tells stories and searches for relationships between individuals and places through walking, writing and mapping.
Starting with the walking tour River’s trace-City’s Soul (2017), Hai traced the area of the To Lich River that had been filled in by using compiled documents and spatial observations, imagining lifestyles and how we think about urban areas before and during the colonial period. He considers it a journey to re-learn about the land where he was born.
In his other projects, Hai searches for people's personal experiences with the land where they live, writes about migrants, walks with disabled people, turns the city into a playground, creates personal maps.
Hà Yến Chi is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California Riverside (UCR). She holds an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from UCR (2022) and a BA in International Studies/Cultural Psychology from Trinity College, Connecticut (2016). With a focus on Southeast Asia and Vietnam in particular, her research interests include indigeneity and ethnicity, materiality and politics of textiles and fashion, creative economy, posthumanism, new materialisms, political ecology, political ontology, and indigenous people/ethnic minority movements. She has also been working as a consultant for NGOs and civil organizations related to ethnic minority issues in Vietnam.
Nguyễn Trương Quý was born in 1977 in Hanoi. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in the architecture and a Master of the Media and Communications Management. After many years working for some newspapers and the Tre Publishing House, he now becomes a freelance writer and painter. Trương Quý was nominated for the prize “Bùi Xuân Phái – Vì tình yêu Hà Nội” (For the love of Hanoi).
His books include: Tự nhiên người Hà Nội (Be yourself as Hanoian people, please, 2004), Ăn phở rất khó thấy ngon (Very difficult to find pho delicious, 2008), Hà Nội là Hà Nội (Hanoi is Hanoi, 2010), Xe máy tiếu ngạo (The wandering motorcycle, 2011), Còn ai hát về Hà Nội (Does anyone else sing about Hanoi? 2013), Dưới cột đèn rót một ấm trà (Under the lampost, pouring a teapot, 2013), Mỗi góc phố một người đang sống (Each street corner a person is living, 2015), Lê la quà vặt (Hanoi eat around, with Đặng Hồng Quân, 2017), Ăn quà xuyên Việt (Vietnam eat around, with Đặng Hồng Quân, 2017), Một thời Hà Nội hát – Tim cũng không ngờ làm nên lời ca (A nostalgic singing time in Hanoi - The heart also did not expect to make lyrics, 2018).
