Civic Creative Base Tokyo’s Future Ideations Camp is a series of intensive workshops bringing different kinds of people together to work collaboratively and creatively with art and digital technologies. Twenty selected participants take part in several days of lectures to acquire new ways of thinking, workshops for building skill sets, and collaborative group activities. During the camps, the general public are also able to attend talks and presentations of the results. Along with learning about the challenges related to each edition’s theme, participants employ creative approaches to engage with social issues and undertake collaborative group work with the aim of proposing new ideas for the future.

“Future Ideations Camp Vol.2 | setup(): Making New Rules with Blockchains”
Dates: July 14(Fri) - July 30(Sun), 2023
Results Exhibition: August 31 (Thu) - September 3 (Sun), 2023
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] (Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

In programming, the setup() Function is called whenever you first run your program to determine the environment setup.
For “Future Ideations Camp vol.2 | setup(),” our objective was to create an environment where like-minded people gather to explore and provide solutions to social issues and re-generate new rules using blockchain, the new form of technology used in cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DAOs.

Among many other tools, the smart contract is one that stands out due to its inherent autonomy and transparency, but it is also useful as a medium that allows individuals’ and communities to save and implement their aspirations and objectives in code. The discussions that filled the 5-day camp surely shed new light on the social issues we experience today, allowing a more comprehensive and thorough understanding on the problems and the means to tackle them.

In “setup(),” we tried to develop an innovative and tenable program where the participants, lecturers, and facilitators can become the connecting points in generating a new movement in the field of blockchain technology in Tokyo. I have high hopes for this Camp to stimulate the growth of new forms of practices and communities that push forward ideas from the framework of imagination to their actualization.

Takawo Shunsuke (Artist, Chairman of the Japan Generative Art Foundation)