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This research takes Guanxi's "Beginner's Market" as the main research object. Through participant observation, interviews with market organizers, vendors,and consumers, the research attemptss to understand the background and purposesof the Beginner's Market and analyze the brand management of the Beginner's Market. Specifically,it looks at the spatial arrangement,the selection of vendors,locations, and promotional approaches, of the market to understand how it branded its dictinctive features .
In today's society, consumer culture attaches great importance to lifestyle, symbols and aesthetics. Experience consumption and creative markets grow popular under this consumer trend. In addition, in recent years, there have been many programs to redevelop local communities in Taiwan, from the integrated community development project to place-making and return to hometown programs. Combining current consumer trend with the idea of making place, the creative market has become a medium and method to construct local identity and revitalize local places.
Examining the creative market within the context of modern consumer culture and community development, this study takes Guanxi's "Beginner's Market" as the main research object. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this thesis begins by looking at the revitalization of Guanxi’s Shidianzi Old Street and the way the town construct itself as a distinctive community by organizing cultural and art events. It follows by exploring how the Beginners’Market promotes Guanxi, how the Beginners’Market face the dilemma of promotion and what it means to the development of the town. And finally, it attempts to understand challenges faced by the Market and interrogates its future possibilities.
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