Development of Creative Economy Products from Network of Temple museums and Communities in Lampang Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research article were 1) to study the knowledge and product development process; 2) to design and create product prototypes; 3) to develop creative economy products from the museum network; and 4) to create a marketing network for the creative economy products from the network of temple and community museums in Lampang Province. The population used in this research was 30 persons involved in each museum in Lampang Province. An in-depth interview was done with 24 key informants selected by purposive sampling as well as focus group. It was a document research and participatory action research. It was found that 1) it resulted in knowledge gained from the development process arising from collaborative learning, encouraged people in the community to be able to learn continuously throughout their lives, distributed learning opportunities, created learning resources that benefited the community, developed their potential according to their way of life and beliefs that had been passed down from generation to generation; 2) the effect of creative economic product design resulted in knowledge from local social and cultural capital that had used resources in the community such as coconut graters or buffalo bell then presented through an exhibition to exchange knowledge with the Lampang community museum network that still required an integrated drive with other network groups; 3) product development resulted in a product development process in the creative economy and getting products such as key chains,  buffalo bell, flags, picture frames of Buddha images; 4) having created a marketing network among community museums and having received cooperation from various agencies through the process of participating in the development of a variety of product models, resulted in the development of communities to have higher performance resulting from participation in the management process to contribute to the development of the country creatively.