EDAYA is a creative bamboo multi-disciplinary collective working in design/art, education, and community development to accelerate social innovation and promote the rediscovery of the value of local Asian traditions in a global context. After working to preserve the indigenous bamboo musical instruments of Kalinga in the Philippines for 8 years, we started to develop a campus site for EDAYA indigenous crafts and design school in 2020. During the pandemic, we made our first building (the head office building for the school). The header photo and below video are from the making of this first building. 

For our next step, we want to develop the Community Center for Indigenous music/ environment described in this challenge. It aims to provide space for both locals and visitors to get welcomed by Cordillera Bamboo music and is oriented by the role of musical instruments in nature to face the climate crisis. The center's facility will include a small building for introducing local nature and music cultures through exhibitions and an open-air amphitheater-like space for performances and workshops. We have started cleaning the space, gathering materials, and making an idea sketch. However, detailed design making and construction have yet begun.  

To align the concept, we want to develop a design of the building and open space with sustainable materials such as bamboo, suitable for exhibiting musical instruments and for locals and guests to interact.

The center will serve as an example of a sustainable space for sustainable education for locals and visitors. Not only the content of the programming but also the space's physical structure will enhance our advocacy of rethinking the human-nature relationship through bamboo music. By working with locals from the Twin Peaks community (a population of 1,127 as of 2010) for construction and designing together its sustainable use and management, we also aim to impact local economical sustainability. 

EDAYA was co-founded in 2012 by Edgar Banasan and Ayaka Yamashita.

Edgar is a native of the Kalinga Indigenous community in the Philippines and a master bamboo craftsman recognized as one of the few remaining experts in bamboo musical instruments. He released three albums to introduce bamboo music. As an educator, he has been actively conducting bamboo crafts and music workshops both in the Philippines and the world. His crafts encompass not only instruments but also jewelry, furniture, installation, and self-build homes. He was a Training Fellow at Kanazawa College of Art in Japan in 2016. He is also the president of the Tuba Arts Guild, engaging the community where EDAYA locates through arts.
https://edgarbanasan.mystrikingly.com/

Ayaka is a Japanese design researcher and producer. Her interest lies at the intersection of design anthropology and landscape ecology. Having trained and worked in the fields of design/art, environmental science, and international development, she facilitates transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration to face complex global risks. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Nagano as well as a doctoral student at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She holds a Bachelor of Agriculture (International Sustainable Agriculture Development) and a Master of Health Sciences (Human Ecology) from the University of Tokyo. She also graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design (Master in Design Studies: Risk and Resilience) as a Fulbright scholar.