Education
Peking University. 2016 - 2018
MA in Archaeology and Museology.
MA Thesis: Study in the Conservation and Management of the Prehistoric Archaeological Caves in Guian New Area, Guizhou Province.
UCL. 2011 - 2012
Graduate Diploma in Archaeology, focused on the archaeology theory and methodology.
NCTU. 2007 - 2011
BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, focusing on linguistics and phonetics.
Work Experience
Academia Sinica，2021 / September - present
Project Manager, National Biological Research Park Public (NBRP) Art Project,
responsibilities including:
- Contact foreign artists and art agents like American artist Anthony Howe, Spanish artist Juanjo Novella and Juame Plensa, Israel artist Dani Karavan.
- Communicate closely for clarifying needs and wished about the art project with four governmental institutions residence in the park.
- Keeping track of the project progress and budget control; reporting weekly reports.
江常沛建築師事務所，2021 / January - September
Architectural Draftsman:
- Project: 臺北科技大學歷史建築一大川堂修復與再利用工程
Academia Sinica，2019 / September - present
Project Manager, National Biological Research Park Public (NBRP) Art Project, responsibilities including:
- contacting for persuading the participation of foreign artists, communicating with foreign agents; artists such as Spanish artist Juanjo Novella, and Israel artist Dani Karavan.
- managing budgets and monthly KPI reports, tracking the progress of each construction work in the park.
- proposing governmental procurement for the artwork restoration of the Taichi series by Ju Ming.
新北市立十三行博物館，2019 / May - 2019 / August
National Archaeological site Guardian, responsibilities including:
- proposing exhibitions and educational programme contents, budget quotations, borrowing and managing artefacts from contributors and museums.
- managing budget and weekly KPI reports regarding the archaeological site maintenance, and educational programmes.
- quarterly reports on the Bureau of Cultural Heritage, organizing, writing and submitting quarterly reports.
- conducting daily patrolling of the site and the Waziwei Pillbox.
台南市文化資產管理處，2018 / July - 2019 / Febuary
Project Coordinator, responsibilities including:
- Supervising the reconstruction and restoration progress on the site.
- weekly progress reports and KPI reports.
- managing budget expanses.
- revising construction reports and administration works.
Academia Sinica，2013 / January - 2016 / June
Research assistant, Institute of Linguistics, responsibilities including:
- Editing of language data collection.
- Editing and proofs of linguistic references on Formosan languages.
- Administrative help with various conferences and/or workshops organised by Elizabeth Zeitoun, among other 13-ICAL (2015/7/18-23).
- Composing brief English introductions on 13-ICAL conference excursions to Tainan Science Park Archaeological museum (please see the appendix for reference).
- 10 days of fieldwork in Namasia, Kaushiung (Dec. 2013).
Skills
English Proficiency
Research
Research project management
Collecting data and paper writing
Space design
Personal Statement
My name is Hsieh Yi Yi, I graduated from the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University. My research topics focused on archaeological in-situ preservation and heritage studies. Relevant fieldwork experiences including archaeological caves preservation evaluation in Guizhou, City archaeology in Jinan, Shandong, and South-Silk Road Investigation in Yunnan Province.
From the academical training, I am capable of working in a high-pressure and detail-driven working environment and competent in communicating and negotiating among different interest groups. During the field investigation, our team managed to investigate 50 different prehistoric caves (with average height 200m above the sea level) within one month, conducting evaluations including the surrounding landscape, cave geomorphology, and its GIS coordinator and orientation. While in Yunan south silk-road fieldwork, our team accomplished connecting dots from documentation at least 5k ancient trading route, showcasing the result by recording each GIS coordinator and map it onto Google Earth Satellite map.
Outside the academic environment, I acquire the ability to analyze and prioritize the project goals, managing the time as well as the quality of the outcome. As a project coordinator in Tainan Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage, my main responsibility is to negotiate with different interest groups such as the Bureau of Culture Affairs, the property owners, and the architects to maximize the renovation work that fulfills the policy and the ability to reuse. The experience in the museum allowed me to learn the organization of educational activity and the organizing procedure for an exhibition; I've organized 2 educational summer camps for high school students, and one exhibition presenting the Indonesian culture. My current responsibility take control of the mass project of public art installation in NBRP, Academia Sinica. The project is further divided into eight missions that require the collaboration between four governmental institutions, 8 groups of artists, and the public around the neighborhood.
It is from the experience in the museum that I come to realize the space design and the power it can bring to an event or an exhibition. It is also the experience that reminds me although I know how to find the right topic and content for an exhibition, I still need to know how to empower my ideas and impress the audience through the space design. Since then I've been training myself with the ability to draw and understand construction drawing.
The interdisciplinary working experiences provided me with multi-layered idea and food for thoughts, about what is possible out there to devise engaging ways between the public and the arts and culture. Diverse methodologies is necessary to accompany the fast-changing world; the fast-changing technology inevitably at the same time changed the way of perceiving, but may not necessarily replacing the hands-on experience-learning phase of human intuition. The future plan is to further explore this dimension and to apply the possibilities onto museum experience.
Museum educational activities planning
Based on archaeological knowledge and general conduct, the programmes were designed to provide prospects a glimpse of what and how we do in both the archaeology and the museology.
Conservation Hand-on Camp
Museum summer camp for high school students to taste the work of archaeology, museology and conservation work.
Museum Guide Training
Participants acquired the not only basic archaeological knowledge in bilingual manner, but also the the understanding that is essential to conduct a good research. Professional archaeologists from Academia Sinica are invited to give lectures on topics across the archaeological disciplines.
Projects
Tang Te-Chang Memorial Park Public Art Project.
The project had been suspended for a year when I took over the responsibility of this project; the main reason lied in the manufacturing and quality issues. After 6 months of intense communication and on-site checking, the artwork finally stands on its feet in the center of the park.
Fa-Hua Temple Urgent Roof Restoration.
The roof broke after the heavy rain caused by the typhoon. Foreseeable danger required the immediate restoration, so we applied the governmental emergency budget and got it done within 3 weeks.
Chen Chin-Xing House Re-Adaptive Restoration Project.
Complex propriety rights and fragile structures, in addition to the rigorous heritage policies, the work required intensive communications with the architects, the owners, and our team members.