Making Tokyo better through the intersection of creativity and technology

Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] is a hub where members of the public can explore socially engaged creativity at the intersection of art and digital technology. As an open lab for experimentation and creation, CCBT develops a wide range of programming to drive the transformation of Tokyo into a better city through creativity and tech.

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Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] is a laboratory as well as an open space, environment, and team where different perspectives and expertise come together to carry out creative activities through experimentation and verification.
As a co-creative platform that harnesses the stores of know-how and technology in the city, CCBT works with others to build a society where each individual’s creativity is unleashed.

An Engine for Civic Creativity That Triggers Pilot Experiments in Tokyo

Facing all manner of challenges arising from globalization, we must now search for alternative futures through technology and creativity. In an age when choice diversifies and possible futures intersect, CCBT aspires to bring together both members of the public as well creatives, corporations, and universities from around the world to think about a new Tokyo landscape. With its expertise and scholarly rigorous approach to art, design, and technology, CCBT undertakes a wide range of experiments and projects for enabling the public to harness their creativity socially.

CCBT functions as a lab for creatively partnering with various “players”—Japanese and international artists, creatives, designers, researchers, technicians, engineers, corporations, cultural institutions, and members of the public participating in its workshops—and proposing new values. Across different fields and specialties, and cultivating production-led functionality and a network of talent, CCBT is a platform for utilizing the know-how and techniques that accumulate in a city. And by striving to make the ideas, tools, and more collaboratively developed and created through its projects accessible to the general public, CCBT also serves as an engine for civic creativity, triggering both creative practices and forward-looking actions.

Four Missions for Engaging Civic Creativity