Marika Shioiri-Clark
Marika Shioiri-Clark is a multidisciplinary designer and a leader in the field of public interest design and the public realm. Her focus is on using design to build resilient and creative communities, pursue social justice, and support healthy, thriving families.
Marika trained as an architect and urban designer, and co-founded the architectural nonprofit MASS Design Group during graduate school at Harvard Design School. She lived in Rwanda designing and overseeing construction of the Butaro District Hospital in collaboration with Partners In Health. She went on to be a global design fellow at design nonprofit IDEO.org, where she designed an early childhood development platform with the Bezos Family Foundation and a sanitation social enterprise in Ghana. Since IDEO.org, Marika has worked extensively with the Nike Foundation to rethink safe spaces for adolescent girls in Nigeria and Ethiopia, and led a year-long project with the International Rescue Committee’s Research & Development Lab to design new early learning programs for refugee families in the Syrian Response Region.
Marika works on neighborhood development and creative placemaking in Cleveland, where she has been the owner and design lead on projects ranging from historic renovations to mixed-use new construction work. Marika has also been heavily involved in public space work, including the design of a new park for Cleveland’s Asiatown neighborhood, launching a neighborhood-scale mural program in Ohio City, and designing and fabricating a 40’ outdoor living wall. She spends her days in a historic firehouse that still has three poles.
Past examples of Marika’s work include:
TAF Entrance Gate: Aluminum, Vinyl
Asiatown Red Benches: Wood, paint
