Forwarded｜National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute Hosts "2026 Taiwan Craft Academy - Summer Youth Craft Talent Training Camp"

This year's courses are themed "Flow Fashion - Flowing Happiness, Living Freely, Beautiful Life, All in Craft," focusing on the interdisciplinary connection between crafts and contemporary life aesthetics. The course content combines craft techniques and digital technology, starting from the concept of "fashion," and through cross-disciplinary learning, develops creative and market-potential craft works. The courses cover diverse craft fields such as lacquer art, metalwork, ceramics, woodworking, bamboo art, and fibers. In response to digital era trends, multiple digital media AI courses, including ChatGPT, Canva, and Notion, are planned. These courses use technology to assist in creative thinking and design application, expanding the diverse imagination of the younger generation towards craft creation. The Craft Center states that this course emphasizes not only skill learning and creative practice but also the cultivation of interdisciplinary integration and innovative thinking abilities. It aims to guide students from being "I-shaped talents" with single professional skills to gradually developing into "T-shaped talents" with integrated application and cross-disciplinary thinking, ultimately nurturing "M-shaped craft talents" with cross-domain vision and leadership capabilities to respond to future craft development trends.

The registration deadline for each region is June 7, 115. Please refer to the admission brochure for details.

[ Northern Region ]

Wearable Scenery - Porcelain Jewelry Experimental Project

The Porcelain Jewelry Experimental Project focuses on cultivating college students' ability to transform craft materials across domains and redefining the narrative of contemporary jewelry in daily life. The primary goal is to guide students to collect colors and textures of everyday landscapes, triggering new possibilities through sensory perception and learning how to materialize abstract experiences into tangible objects. The workshop aims to inspire students to break through the framework of wearing behavior and wearing position. By placing the finished products on different parts of the body for sensory experiments, students are further guided in cross-material experiments to learn ceramic forming techniques and mold-making skills, porcelain painting techniques, and decorative narratives, hoping that students will complete a series of wearable works through repeated trial and error and playful material collisions.

Course Dates: July 1 to July 29, 115
Location: Department of Craft Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, Room 204 Metalwork Classroom, Ceramics Classroom
Tuition and Fees: 2,856 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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From Algorithm to Kiln Fire - Cross-domain Practice of Digital Craft Manufacturing

This project centers on the concept of "From Algorithm to Kiln Fire," constructing a craft creation path from digital generation to material practice. The course content combines handmade process techniques of ceramics and glass crafts and introduces digital manufacturing methods such as 3D modeling, generative design, slurry 3D printing, and traditional plaster mold-making, enabling learners to transform digital shapes into tangible works with craft material characteristics. It cultivates students' ability to integrate between digital tools and material operation, thereby expanding the diverse possibilities of contemporary craft creation in design application and artistic expression.

Course Dates: July 2 to August 4, 115
Location: Department of Art and Design, National Tsing Hua University, Ceramics Classroom, Glass Workshop, Computer Classroom at the Computer and Communications Center.
Tuition and Fees: 2,520 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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Cloud Rising and Object Formation: Cross-material Project of Metalwork and Craft Restoration

This project focuses on metalwork crafts, extending to craft restoration and cross-domain material integration, constructing a teaching framework that integrates traditional techniques and contemporary technology. The course content combines metalwork (kintsugi), lacquer art (kintsugi) restoration, and glass material application, allowing students to understand the restoration logic and regeneration concepts of different materials. Further, in the interdisciplinary integration stage, digital technology applications are introduced, including 3D modeling and 3D printing as shape-assisting tools, and AI-generated design assistance, creating new creative bridges between traditional craft handwork and contemporary technology, expanding the possibilities of craft expression.

Course Dates: July 1 to July 23, 115
Location: Department of Buddhist Art, Huafan University, Metalwork Classroom
Tuition and Fees: 2,352 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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[ Central Region ]

Fashion Fusion ╳ AI Cross-domain Fashion Boutique Creation Project

This course centers on "AI × Fashion Design," combining fiber color experiments, heterogeneous material integration, and 3D modeling technology to cultivate students' cross-domain creative abilities in contemporary fashion design. Through a systematic course, it establishes a complete foundation from material operation, structural design to digital tool application (AI generation and 3D modeling), and strengthens design ideation and practical production capabilities. The course also introduces fashion aesthetics and cultural translation, cultivating students' ability to transform creativity into concrete works, developing serialized designs, enhancing the display value and market potential of works, and ultimately completing personal project creations and conducting results presentations.

Course Dates: July 6 to July 29, 115
Location: Creative Design College Building, Asia University (Administrative Building A, 2nd Floor) - Fashion Department A203 Classroom
Tuition and Fees: 2,520 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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AI Era Bamboo Fashion Design

Using bamboo as a medium, combined with design thinking and craft techniques, supplemented by AI image generation as a design ideation tool, the course guides students from concept ideation and material understanding to develop the application ability of wearable design through the concept of "material translation."

Course Dates: July 1 to August 6, 115
Location: Creative Design College Building, Asia University (Administrative Building A, 1st Floor) - Creative Product Design Department A103 Classroom
Tuition and Fees: 2,688 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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Obey Wood - Logic X Technology X Creation Polyhedral Wood Product Making

"Obey" means to comply or submit, and in this course, it specifically refers to Plato's classification of polyhedrons into five types, connecting them to the universe and four elements (fire, earth, air, water) in nature, applying scientific logic to nature, creating rules with objective meaning. Starting from geometric structure rules, it integrates "repetition" and "symmetry" in classical logic concepts and principles of beauty into the characteristics of wood's non-uniform materials, maintaining change and the creator's unique personality, creating objects that conform to contemporary aesthetics with wood elements and composite materials.

Course Dates: July 1 to August 6, 115
Location: Creative Design College Building, Asia University (Administrative Building A, B1 Floor) - Creative Product Design Department A002 Classroom.
Tuition and Fees: 2,688 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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Face Shadow Ceramic Light - Ceramic 3D Printing and Composite Material Creation

This course focuses on "mask" making, using multiple craft materials such as ceramics, leather, and metal parts, combined with 3D printing, laser engraving, milling machines, scanning modeling, and other digital crafts for creation, creating a craft piece that is fashionable and serves as a decorative art. By combining ceramics and composite materials, it breaks the impression of ceramic vessels, introducing crafts into fashion, cultivating professional talents in contemporary craft design and aesthetics, and establishing emerging craft creation.

Course Dates: July 1 to August 6, 115
Location: Creative Design College Building, Asia University (Administrative Building A, B1 Floor) - Creative Product Design Department A004 Classroom
Tuition and Fees: 2,520 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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Love Lacquer Art Fashion Hanging Decoration Creation Camp

Centered on traditional lacquer art techniques X composite material experiments, reinterpreting the new look of Taiwanese lacquerware.

Course Dates: July 1 to August 6, 115
Location: Asia University 
Tuition and Fees: 2,604 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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The Body as a Field: Fiber Composite Material Jewelry Creation

This course takes "jewelry" as the core of creation, viewing the "body" as the field of work performance and perception, exploring the interaction between objects and the body. Through the combination of diverse fiber materials and metal wires, students will learn to use felting techniques and heterogeneous material composite expression, including the interweaving and transformation of fiber, metal, and other elements, developing a variety of shape languages in practice. The course emphasizes understanding the characteristics of materials and the flexible use of creative techniques, guiding students to integrate from touch, structure to form, ultimately completing contemporary jewelry works with both aesthetic appeal and personal style, showcasing the unique dialogue between body and object.

Course Dates: July 1 to August 6, 115
Location: Creative Design College Building, Asia University (Administrative Building A, 2nd Floor) - Fashion Design Department A201 Classroom
Tuition and Fees: 2,520 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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Token - Metalwork Weaving and Composite Material Jewelry Creation

Contemporary jewelry has become an important part of high fashion and avant-garde art. Through the use of composite materials and exaggerated or microscopic scale changes, the originally personalized "token" is transformed into a "contemporary wearable object" with runway tension and fashion discourse.

Course Dates: July 1 to July 31, 115
Location: Creative Design College Building, Asia University (Administrative Building A, 2nd Floor) - Fashion Design Department A204 Classroom
Tuition and Fees: 2,520 TWD per person, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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[ Southern Region ]

Golden Thread Realm: Body Object Experimental Creation

This course is a cross-material experiment of fiber and metalwork, observing daily life and the body, emphasizing the extension and perception of the body. Through material processing, three-dimensional modeling, and structural construction, it explores contrasting relationships such as soft and hard, inside and outside, three-dimensional and flat, deepening the understanding and response to the body. Students will gradually establish a creative method from conception to implementation, and develop the ability to express personal viewpoints through material language and craft techniques.

Course Dates: July 6 to July 30, 115
Location: Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts
Tuition and Fees: 2,688 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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[ Eastern Region ]

Breath of the Forest ~ Handmade Life Woodcraft

Using domestic wood as a creative material, understanding the local material processes of stone, wood, and weaving, and developing craft objects that meet the aesthetics of modern life.

Course Dates: July 1 to July 21, 115
Location: Department of Art and Design, National Dong Hwa University - Art Workshop 109 Wood Workshop
Tuition and Fees: 2,016 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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Five Senses of Woodcraft - Music Box Design and Production Workshop Plan

"Craft is not limited to handicrafts (or hand-made), and design is not just a facade" is the purpose of planning this workshop training camp. With the advancement and diffusion of digital technology, various industries are eager to explore ways to boost competitive energy in the wave of progress to avoid being submerged in industrial competition, and the craft industry is no exception. Professional deep cultivation and interdisciplinary integration are the main themes of this project's course planning and the training goals of the workshop activities. The workshop content includes understanding material characteristics, woodworking skills and processing production experience, knowledge theory application, and practical design and production of woodcraft works (such as music boxes), hoping to guide students to comprehend the spirit of crafts and make good use of modern resources to enhance craft value.

Course Dates: July 1 to July 16, 115
Location: National Taitung Junior College/Comprehensive Workshop, A Shui Workshop (East Sugar Cultural and Creative Park)
Tuition and Fees: 1,680 TWD, Deposit: 2,000 TWD.
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