About

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.

During the five-day camp, participants attempt to capture ecosystems as data and express them as information through the observation of microbial communities, plants and animals using DNA analysis, sensors and cameras. The exhibition presents scenes from the workshops and the results of the artworks and prototypes made by the participants.

Concept

What do you imagine when you think about ecosystems? Many of you may picture natural environments such as lush woodlands and rivers, or the ocean where countless organisms exist. However, we must not forget that we, too, exist in relation to all other living beings including microorganisms and viruses, in our respective environments; urban cities, where many of us spend our days, can also be considered a part of a larger ecosystem. This notion suggests there is much room for improving and deepening our understanding of what constitutes an ecosystem and new insights present significant value for us to revisit our pre-existing understandings.

Adopting the idea of “perceiving and articulating ecosystems as data,” this Camp is designed to do exactly that: to offer participants the occasion to actively engage in the ecosystem that would encourage a more comprehensive, multispecies understanding of the term. 

Participants observed a wide range of life forms—from the micro (microorganisms) to the macro (plants and animals)—and, throughout the Camp, learned methods of sampling, interpreting, and articulating collected data. The participants also worked in groups to plan and present their prototypes materialized from their discussions on ecosystems. We do hope that they will continue to be aware of the ecosystem in which they live and carry on with their projects however they may evolve.

In the exhibit, we have showcased the participants’ output from their experiences in the Camp. We trust that they will each resonate with you and offer a different light as you make your way out from CCBT and back to your own ecosystems.

Enomoto Teruya (scientist, researcher)
Tsuda Kazutoshi (researcher)

Results Exhibition

参加者

講師・ファシリテーター

プログラムディレクター

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