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Satoko Muratake
Public art / Urban and land design / Research
"... in order to have full integration of proposed bike infrastructure with existing bus, vehicular and green systems, a successful Bicycle Plan must include several different approaches that not only consider potential physical changes in the landscape (mapping out possible routes or suggesting bikeway designs), but that also include effort and consideration of the invitation we make to potential users of the system ...
How do we encourage more people to comfortably choose to use bike amenities? How do we conduct marketing efforts that work to make bicycling a natural option when people think about getting from point A to point B?
Public art, artful design and placement of ancillary elements, and community marketing and programming will help us engage the wider community into adopting biking as part of their daily life."
Satoko Muratake is a Community Design Group public art and landscape design associate.
A practicing visual artist and landscape designer, Satoko is an expert in the emerging field of arts-based community development. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence and Project Coordinator at Juxtaposition Arts, a youth-focused visual arts and community development organization in North Minneapolis, where she coordinates community collaborations, studio arts workshops, public mural programs and special festivals and art exhibitions.
Satoko has extensive experience in urban and residential landscape design, public art development, and community workshop facilitation. She is also an accomplished spatial analyst with expertise in land use, demographic, physiological, and environmental pattern assessment.
Satoko has worked on major urban commercial corridors, rural clustered housing design, railroad transit station area development, and historical and cultural study of neighborhoods and regions. Among the values guiding her work is her deeply-held belief that aesthetics and social amenities improve people's quality of life, and that citizen expression is the key to true community vision.
Select Project Experience
- Urban Designer, Biko Associates, Minneapolis
- Artist and Project Coordinator, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis
- Intern, Department of Planning, City of Mishima, Japan
Education
- Fellow, Intermedia Arts Institute for Community Cultural Development (ICCD), Minneapolis, 2007
- Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2003
- Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Design, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2001