The creative craftsmanship within the floating cultures: A case study of the Yuan-Ai workshop in TaiDong, Taiwan
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Huang (Panay na Siko), Man-li
Abstract
The concept of Cultural and Creative Industries contains two elements with "culture" and "creative". Through the intellectual property protection, the Cultural and Creative Industries not only creates wealth and employment opportunities but also creates protection of cultural continuity. Through the Cultural and Creative Industries, "Workshop" has taken shape to create the medium of space, which staggered cultural creativity with people. Through this "Workshop", product has been forming and assembled, and then, the cultural creativity can be specific. Therefore, the role "Workshop" cannot be ignored in the tribe. A "Workshop", such in the remote tribal region, may become a unit of cultural continuity and create output value. "Yuan-Ai Workshop" is composed with "Cloth Workshop" and "Wood Workshop" ,and each with a different theme for creation. "Yuan-Ai Workshop" as a space of production also covered with the media of people and cultural exchanges. "Cloth Workshop" use the Paiwan culture for the theme of cross-stitch, and the "Wood Workshop" use the theme of driftwood , both were showing Paiwan culture, and also expressed how indigenous integrated with natural.
If we explore the Field relationship between indigenous culture and the cultural and creative industries, that will inevitably involve different issues. Indigenous people who invests in craft and participate in cultural and creative industries, in essence, that represents a special cultural Field, which will be distinct to market and cultural consequential. Therefore, this thesis regards "Yuan-Ai Workshop" as a case to pursuit the development in indigenous cultural and creative industries, exploring how they operate and survive in the two Fields of "Yuan-Ai Workshop" and the cultural and creative industries. Also attempting to sketch up the appearance of indigenous cultural and creative industries policy in contemporary.
This study used "participant observation" and "depth interview" as the main research methods, and by the literature to review the past policy development related to arts and culture, and indigenous Workshop appearance in process of the drift. Also use "Culture Field" theory discussesed by Bourdieu to highlight the unique and significance meaning of indigenous develop in context of cultural and creative industries. The study finds some conclusions. First, "Yuan-Ai Workshop" through the power of the school set up an incoporated associations. And second, use handcraft with creative, to make used of the cultural codes in cultural commodities. And third, seizing what the perception of nature in cultural workers owned, to make those products have different desire and imagination to the people who live in metropolis.
In the sales point of view, "Yuan-Ai Workshop" is cooperated with "Lovely Taiwan Shop" which located in metropolitan area, and with a key person who has cross-cultural ability in organization to concentrate on participation in government programs and brings "Yuan-Ai Workshop" into a community center, with Cultural and Creative Industries of (NATURE plus CULTURE) and base on the "HEART".
Subjects
Taiwan Indigenous
Cultural and Creative Iindustry
Field Theory
Workshop
Cultural Workers
Handicraft
Driftwood.
Type
thesis
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