On the role of the key person in the intervention of craft into community empowerment

Abstract

In recent years, the policy of the Ministry of Culture in community development is aiming at industrial development or district development, especially in the rise of the culture and creative industry, the transformation of the industry through “culture and design” is expected to lead the way. The value of the industry is elevated through the innovative design, and this study is founded on National Community Process Technology Research and Development Center in Taiwan and local cultural resources, also taking the project of the development of local industry and the promotion of community crafts as an example to probe the endeavor of those key makers in the development of local community as well as the role they play in driving the development of industry in community. By using case by case study in order to find out the matter and conditions which the key person of the community should be aware of in negotiation.