Dr. Min-Chin Kay Chiang is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Architecture and Cultural Heritage and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning in Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Traditional Crafts of the Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (2016- ) and was the Acting Director of Taipei County Gold Museum (Gold Ecological Park). She co-founded the FuturePast Lab of the Center for Traditional Arts, TNUA in 2015 for involving the young generation and exploring the role of traditional arts in contemporary society. Her research interests lie in craft, intangible heritage, and heritage dynamics in relation to community, institutions and colonialism.