PRESS/PUBLICATIONS

​Play and Pilina: Reimagining Play Design Through Material Kinship and Cultural Practice, 
​DRS Biennial Conference Series DRS2026: Edinburgh. Paper in Play Strand. Playful encounters at the intersection of familiar consumer materials and place-based natural matter are fertile terrain for speculative play world-building. This paper introduces bio-collaborative play, a design paradigm where materials and organisms are recognized as active collaborators and kin. 2026​
Meet the Maker: Corinne Takara: Story-Telling Outside of the Box Blog spotlight on my work. This was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on my creative journeys at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Across all the materials and themes I explore, my work aims to spark community-centered conversations that honor the knowledge rooted in place and people. 2025
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Cultivating Biodesigners: Integrating Local Biology, Culture, and Place-Based Design in Education, Research Directions: Biotechnology Design, ​Cambridge University Press, 2024.  This abstract is a response to a research question in Biotechnology Design: "How do we grow a Biodesigner?" 
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​Growing biodesign ecosystems: Community exchange spaces advance biotechnology innovation Research Directions: Biotechnology Design, ​Cambridge University Press, 2023.

​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. 2022
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. 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 ​
BioDesign Challenge Fireside Chat Corinne Takara with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture + Design of MoMA, New York City. BioDesign Challenge 5th Year Anniversary Celebration, 2020.
What Biodesign Means to Me, Biodesigned Magazine, September 2020. 
SynbioBeta Is California’s Salad Bowl the next Silicon Valley? January, 2020. Highlights Opentrons workshops designed by Xinampa in collaboration with Takara.

Ecovative Blog 8/27/18:  ecovativedesign.com/blog/187