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Katherine Moriwaki is an artist, designer, and educator. She is the director of the M.F.A. Design + Technology Program at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Moriwaki's work focuses on the intersection of art and interaction. As an educator, Moriwaki pushes her students to engage a broad range of creative methodologies to realize new possibilities in interactive media. Katherine is also currently completing a Ph.D. in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin.

Moriwaki's work has been presented in festivals and conferences worldwide including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou, Futuresonic, Break 2.2, SIGGRAPH, eculture fair, Transmediale, ISEA, Ars Electronica, WIRED Nextfest, and Maker Faire. Working within a broad range of areas, Katherine’s work spans disciplines and communities of practice. She has taught at a wide variety of institutions and departments, such as Trinity College Dublin, Rhode Island School of Design, and Parsons School of Design.

Workshops
Moriwaki has lead workshops on interaction design and the creative re-use of electronic objects around the globe.

Scrapyard Challenge is her most extensive line of workshops on interaction design using recycled electronic waste co-lead with Jonah Brucker-Cohen. The Scrapyard Challenges have been taught worldwide in in fourteen countries across five continents. At these workshops, participants build electronic interactive objects out of found materials and junk. The workshops include different themes such as MIDI Scrapyard Challenge where participants build simple musical controllers, DIY Wearable Challenge with an emphasis on wearable technology, and the DIY Urban Challenge with a focus on public space interventions.

Moriwaki lead Wearable Technology and Fashion workshop with Aneta Genova from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China where the two introduced students from Tsinghua University and Parsons the New School for Design to the intersection between fashion and wearable technology through project-based, hands-on creative production during the summer of 2012.

Moriwaki served as the workshop organizer and leader of Build Your Own Bioreactor with Angelo Vermeulen. Participants designed and built green algae bioreactors using simple, and mainly recycled and re-used materials such as aeration systems, lights and glassware. Topics covered included basic plant biochemistry, photosynthesis, and the use of algae as biofuel and food source.

Funded by a $50,000 CAD grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada under the Image, Text, and Sound Scheme, Moriwaki was the workshop organizer and leader with Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Susan Kennard for the Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence, Practicing Sustainability (R.I.P) Summit and Workshop. The Banff Centre of the Arts, in partnership with the Town of Banff and Parks Canda, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Eighteen international artists, technologists, and thinkers were invited to explore new ways of working with municipal waste management facilities to reclaim “good garbage” during the summer of 2011.