Ecomuseum Strategy Applied to Community Development A Case Study of Jinntour Community in Miaoli County,Taiwan

• Main Authors: Tony Ong, 王龍德
• Other Authors: Chih-Cheng Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ud53fy

碩士 === 國立虎尾科技大學 === 休閒遊憩研究所 === 100 === Community is the region in which people live and interact. In the process of community development and integrated community development in Taiwan, there have been limitations and changes to the pattern how the people in a community originally live and interact. The government enforces integrated community development in order to increase local residents’ awareness towards the particular area where they live and further motivate them to take notice of community growth and revive cultural industry. However, a mispresented policy could make a simple and peaceful community turn into a bustling and noisy tourist site. After the concept of ecomuseum was introduced, related theories were suggested to encourage public participation and cultural preservation, to build local identity as well as ensuring that human beings and their surroundings develop in harmony with ecology. Moreover, instead of developing the community and preserving its resources by promoting tourism or marketing industry, theories of ecomuseum emphasize that it is more important for people in the community to form attachment to one another. Ecomuseum is the idea based on New Museology, and the idea can be applied to the community development that was initiated in recent years. Developing community not only improves living qualities, it also involves local residents in community activities. By applying ecomuseum to community development, the characteristics of both human environment and cultural properties of local communities can be strengthen and in addition issues arose from the process of community development can be solved accordingly. In Taiwan, Jinntour Community in Miaoli County has been developing for more than a decade, and during the process local residents have gained a sense of community. Moreover, no major changes or constructions have been made to the area and therefore it is able to stay the same as it was before community development was facilitated. In order to foster future development of Jinntour Community, ideas and concepts of ecomuseum had been adopted in this study. Through in-depth interviews and case studies, Jinntour Community was investigated to see if it possesses the potential for ecomuseum. In-depth interviews with experienced experts and scholars in different communities were developed to address issues which concerns the relationship between the community and ecomuseum and the suggestions and perspectives which were indicated or proposed by the experts and scholars were then integrated. Case studies of ecomuseums and community development in Taiwan and other countries were also compared in this study. Ecomuseum was concluded as a strategy of community development. It was found that the reason why a community possesses potential to become an ecomuseum is because of both the pivotal idea which was put forward ever since the community was constructed and the participation of local residents. Experts and scholars also agreed on applying ecomuseum to developing the potential Jinntour Community. Therefore, according to the present situation of Jinntour Community, review of case studies and in-depth interviews, development strategies and further suggestions were provided in this study in order to apply ecomuseum to the future development of Jinntour Community.