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AYAKA
YAMASHITA

Researcher
Educator 
Cultural 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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5. Textbook/Book




Textbook
EDAYA's activities and Ayaka’s story have been featured in one chapter at sustainable development section of Japanese nationwide textbook "New Morality" (published by Tokyo Shoseki) since 2021. Morality/ Ethics is a compulsory subject for junior high school students in Japan. 



Book
Ayaka published her first book “Redesigning the Self and Society” （「わたし」と「社会」のリ・デザイン）in 2017. 203pages, ISBN：978-4-9909443-0-8
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