Sanxia Placemaking Service Center Officially Launched in 2019

On 17 September 2019, the inauguration of the "Placemaking Service Center” in Sanxia, New Taipei City was held at Sanxia HAKSIP Village to declare its official launch. 

The Can Culture Art and Nature, as the resources matching platform in the villages, focuses on accumulating local operating energy and integration force, connects Sanxia’s core culture department with tens of traditional craftsmen, youth returning home as the start-up partner, local academic research university, and cares for the joint of the community, to build a placemaking industrial alliance with multiple aspects for the community.

We adopted the “international tourism innovative service for village cultures,” “urban-rural brand culture connecting to the international standards," "innovation and application of hungered-year craftsmanship in Sanxia" to better the local start-up ecology, which also provides appropriate assistance to start-up teams, and in turns support their development. 

The "Placemaking Service Center" established a Sanxia Village AI Guiding Service system. With the usage of mobile phones, people may learn more about village cultures by way of traveling and challenges. Meanwhile, it improves the interactions between tourists and stores, allowing tourists to bathe in the kindness of local Taiwanese and also allow stores to provide premium local goods and crafts experiences to tourists. Also, with the integration of e-Commerce, the entrance website "Can Sanxia” that introduces the urban-rural brands was established. E-commerce was introduced to the market to bring the premium local products, crafts, and souvenirs to the global market.

Industrial Placement exerts the under-forest economy to provide added value to Sanxia’s century-old industries, including indigo dye and tea production. Sanxia has the indigo dye industry for over a century; it also has an inherited geographical environment that is suitable for growing the raw materials for indigo dye (the "mayflower glory berry" or "Storobilanthes flaccidifolius Ness.”). The dye produced in Sanxia has a premium quality that companies in Japan and Hong Kong all compete for procurement, while local artisans for indigo dye are often facing the challenges of having no raw materials to use. Therefore, Sanxia Farmers’ Association helped guide bamboo farmers to plant mayflower glory berry under the bamboo forest; this way, people may jointly resume the growing of mayflower glory berry and exert the under-forest economy. Furthermore, through the matching of industry-university technical transfer by the center, the fellow farmer may learn the techniques to produce "indigo mud," the raw materials for indigo dye, creating the local industrial economy. In the last step, the center would assist in the design and packaging for indigo mud products, market the indigo dye produced locally in Sanxia to foreign markets, and inject the creative power to the local agriculture and artisan culture.

According to LIN, JUN-CEHNG, the CEO of Can Culture Art and Nature, ever since returning home, he has always been connecting the local industries through cross-field methods. Also, with the introduction of design aesthetics, the developed innovative products according to local culture and promoted cultural experiences regarding the features of the urban-rural area. This year, the “Placemaking Service Center” was established. It is hoped that the center may provide in-depth guidance to the local minority industries for transformation, create cross-industry value, and provide resources for cultivation in time for connecting with the locals, allowing hometown industries to have sustainable operations.