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AYAKA
YAMASHITA

Researcher 
Producer

Co-founder of EDAYA
Harvard GSD DDes’25 
Lecturer at Univ. Nagano

EDAYA
Since 2012 ++ selected work
  1. Bamboo Instruments
  2. Bamboo Jewelry
  3. Exhibition
  4. Bamboo Glocal Village
  5. Textbook/Book

Harvard GSD
Since 2019 ++  
  1. MDes Thesis
  2. Harvard Gazette
  3. Community Service Fellow
  4. Class projects at GSD 
  5. Class project at MIT 
Since 2021 ++ CLL
  1. Cape Ann Fieldwork

Int'l Development Work
Since 2014 ++




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2. Bamboo Jewelry



Pulchus Collection / Social Products Award 2016 in Japan

“Intangible to Tangible”
Our design inspiration came from the traditional bamboo musical instruments of Kalinga, the indigenous population in Northern Philippines. Those instruments used to be integral to the Kalinga culture because many of their rituals and practices take place with the accompaniment of bamboo musical instruments. However, since their way of living has changed, only very few remaining can make those instruments.

Process of making jewelry >> Video
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