Press Highlights
Growing biodesign ecosystems: Community exchange spaces advance biotechnology innovation, Research Directions: Biotechnology Design, Cambridge University Press.
Through our work, we have found that community-based biodesign spaces (informal learning spaces) can empower multidirectional and multigenerational knowledge exchange and advance a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative biodesign enterprise.
Reflections from our 2022 Creative Resident, Ginkgo Bioworks
A new kind of conversation space; Takara reflects on her 2022 residency, the importance of play in dreaming biological futures, and on what’s next for multidirectional science knowledge sharing spaces.
Introducing our 2022 Creative Resident, Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks blog announcing Takara’s Creative Residency and planned project.
ISSUES in Science and Technology Bioengineering Everywhere, for Everyone
A California community of scientists, artists, and youth sees bioengineering as a collaborative, creative process. A California community of scientists, artists, and youth sees bioengineering as a collaborative, creative process.
More than a number, A response to: What does ownership look like in the future? Ancient Future Technology @ MIT Media Lab
A few generations ago, my family members living on the Paia Maui Sugar Cane Plantation were identified literally by numbers on tags. This brass and aluminum disc tagging system, originally used for dogs and trees, was the Hawaii plantation system’s way of identifying immigrant workers. This is an essay reflection on the need for discussions on the future of sustainable US agricultural systems to including the voices of current field labors, past and present, whose voices are not currently included in conoversations of innovation design.
Corinne Okada Takara-STEAM Educator Content Magazine Podcast
A mixed-media artist and one of the artists selected for City of San Jose's the first Creative License Ambassador in the program’s pilot year, Corinne Okada Takara composes technology-integrated projects and crafts sculptural work out of elegant yet mundane materials, like silk, food wrappers, newspapers, and plastic produce netting. “The sculptures explore the pulling apart and reassembling of modern-day artifacts,” she explains on her website, Okada Design. “I am fascinated by the resulting textures and colliding and merging stories.” Increasingly, this creative has found her art extending beyond self-expression and toward interactive engagement. Her workshops for museums, libraries, and classrooms act as a bridge ushering others into the realm of creativity. She describes her job as “giving people a canvas to work on,” adding that it equips them with “confidence in their own creative voices.”
Of Carved Radishes, Recipes and Rituals/Gratitude as Co-Voyagers, A response to: What does Ancient Future Technology mean to you? Ancient Future Technology @ MIT Media Lab
As we move rapidly into a time of climate change, how might we knit knowledge and perspectives across generations, cultures and species to imagine a sustainable future for all earthlings? How might we elevate the wisdom and perspectives of ancestral cultures to form new tools, solutions, and frameworks to reshape our view of our place in this world and beyond? The framing of Ancient Future Technology raises these questions and creates a space to center the voices of global ancestors and living Indigenous cultures who have been pushed to the edges of the conversations of what is considered innovation and technology.
SynbioBeta Is California’s Salad Bowl the next Silicon Valley? January, 2020. Highlights Opentrons workshops designed by Xinampa in collaboration with Takara.
MAKE: Makezine
Corinne Okada Takara: Bringing Biology and Sustainable Materials Into Youth Makerspaces (March 20,2019)
Content Magazine
(Jan/Feb 2019 Issue, pages 54-56)
Creative License Ambassadors article.
Unraveling the Knot Workshops at Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland: https://youtu.be/QEwa7UB0v6A
What Did You Make Today? Exploring Equity in Making
An article about equity and access to making in K-12 education.
Pop-Up Mobile Makerspace, A public Urban Design Experiment, a Blurb book documenting the Knight Foundation funded project designed by Takara and conducted in collaboration with the San Jose Public Library. The project invited the public to re-imagine how we might shape Downtown San Jose Public Spaces to serve community needs. http://www.blurb.com/books/6768006-pop-up-mobile-makerspace-a-public-urban-design-exp
Silicon Valley Rotary eClub interview about 3D printing in K-12 education. October, 2015.
Crosswalk patterns nod at history
Page B3, June 23rd, 2015
Where Are We? Who Are We? Finding Our Roots & Identity in Public Art
TEDx Livermore, CA, 2014
3D Printing Technology-Integrated Art Projects Engage the Community
September 22, 2014
Maker Faire Educators Meetup 2014 Wrapup
May 16, 2014
Inexpensive CNC Machines Turn Students Into Manufacturers
August 19, 2013 /Time mark: 2:03 - 2:50
Seeking Shelter
March 2013 / page 42
Art and Tech Synergy: Corinne Takara
June 1, 2011
Art project highlights Silicon Valley culture
May 20, 2010
Peabody Essex Museum Connections article
November / December 2005
Scratch paper
February 26, 2004
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World
This is fully illustrated catalogue of the newly-established Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts breaks new ground in scholarship on women artists since the 1920s.
This volume documents and celebrates the unprecedented gift of Linda Lee Alter to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts of a collection of some 400 works-- including paintings, photographs, drawings, watercolors, pastels, collage, prints, fabric pieces, ceramics, bronze, wood, and sculpture in other media.
Created on the occasion of the debut exhibition of the collection at PAFA (through April 14, 2013), the catalogue features ten new essays that use the broad themes and wide array of artists represented in the collection as a starting point for reflections on the history of the feminist movement, individual artists, and regional identities. Artists from the collection have a strong voice here, through interviews, writings, and the incorporation of archival materials.