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Toy design with bamboo in China



01/23/13

Last summer, toy design students visited the environmentally conscious Hape facility in China to develop ideas for toys made from sustainable bamboo. Along with students from China Academy of the Arts and Bauhaus University, Weimar, they took a 29-day journey through bamboo forests in Zhejiang Province, exchanged ideas with local craftspeople, manufacturers and educators, and tested their prototypes on local children. Their designs ranged from role-player games for toddlers to nested drums.
See the video of the process.

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