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Opening Talk

Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] Phase 2: Triggering Social Experiments in Tokyo

2025.12.13(Sat)
LIFORK HARAJUKU (WITH HARAJUKU 3F, 1-14-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Date & Time
December 13 (Sat) 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm (Open 1:55 p.m.)
Venue
LIFORK HARAJUKU (WITH HARAJUKU 3F, 1-14-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Capacity
80
Admission
Free
Registration
Required (available on a first come, first served basis)
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Speaker: Tsugawa Eri (architect,director / ALTEMY), Nohara Kayoko, Miyasaka Manabu (vice Governor of Tokyo, CCBT Supervisor)
Moderator: Ogawa Hideaki (creative director of CCBT)

Key figures involved with CCBT discuss its direction from their respective perspectives. They consider future possibilities for the second phase of CCBT that begins with its new location.

For CCBT, a lab is an open space, environment, and team where diverse perspectives and expertise converge to engage in creative activities through repeated experimentation and verification, in order to unleash the creativity of each individual in society.

As the second phase of CCBT begins in Harajuku, this talk features a multifaceted discussion on CCBT’s vision and goals.
Miyasaka Manabu is Vice-Governor of Tokyo and also serves as supervisor of CCBT. From his position in the metropolitan administration, he has promoted CCBT’s approach since its inception. The architect Tsugawa Eri has served as an artist fellow mentor and director of the sixth edition of the Future Ideations Camp, which explored the CCBT 2025 theme of Future Commons. Nohara Kayoko is a professor at Tokyo University of Science and a member of CCBT’s steering committee. She researches translation studies, working across the fields of art and science. These three key figures closely involved with CCBT join CCBT Creative Director Ogawa Hideaki to consider the future potential of CCBT.

Access

LIFORK HARAJUKU (WITH HARAJUKU 3F, 1-14-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

1 minutes’ walk from Harajuku Station (JR Yamanote Line)
1 minutes’ walk from Meiji-jingumae <Harajuku> Station (Tokyo Metro Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines)

Tsugawa Eri

Architect, Director / ALTEMY

Tsugawa Eri completed graduate studies at Waseda University in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, she worked at an architecture firm. In 2018 and 2019, she worked at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York on a fellowship given by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. She returned to Japan to claim top prize at the Sannomiya Station Plaza Contest run by the city of Kobe in 2019, and established her own firm, ALTEMY. Tsugawa also teaches at Tokyo University of Science, Waseda University, Tokyo Denki University’s graduate school, and Japan Women’s University. Her past projects include the Spectra-Pass lobby at the Pola Museum of Art (2021), Sankita Square in front of Hankyu Kobe-sannomiya Station (2021), the exhibition Incomplete Niwa Archives (2021) at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, and Machi-no-Hoikuen Community School Minami-Aoyama (2024). Her prizes include the Urban Landscape Award Special Prize given by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Civil Engineering Design Prize (Excellence Prize), Tokyo University of the Arts Emerald Award, and Kukan Design Award.

https://www.alt-emy.com

Miyasaka Manabu

Vice Governor of Tokyo, CCBT Supervisor

MIYASAKA Manabu started his carrier at Yahoo Japan Corporation in 1997 before served as Yahoo Japan’s CEO in 2012, later to become the Chairman of the Board in 2018.
After leaving the company, he was appointed Counsellor to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in July 2019, became Vice Governor in September 2019 and was reappointed in September 2023, where he is promoting digitalisation of Tokyo Metropolitan Government as CIO.
He leads the GovTech Tokyo, which has started its projects from September 2023, as the Representative Director. A believer in the power to accelerate progress of Tokyo to be the startup-friendliest city in the world, MIYASAKA directs SusHi Tech Tokyo, a global startup conference as the Executive Committee Chairman.

Photo: Erika Kusumi

Ogawa Hideaki

Creative Director of CCBT/ Artistic Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2007, he has been based in Linz, Austria, working as an artist. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the R&D division of Ars Electronica, and the Artistic Director of the Sapporo International Art Festival 2027. He has been involved in numerous international and interdisciplinary projects, including innovative initiatives that use art as a catalyst for prototyping the future, as well as projects that aim to create communities through public participation and to implement next-generation cultural and educational programs. About Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica is a creative hub for art and advanced technology founded by the city of Linz, Austria, and has hosted the annual Ars Electronica Festival, the world’s largest media art festival, for over 40 years. It established the Ars Electronica Futurelab to research the future of art and technology in collaboration with companies, government, cultural, educational and research institutions. In addition, the group runs the Ars Electronica Center, known for promoting museums and schools of the future, as well as holding the Prix Ars Electronica, the world’s longest-running international media art competition.

Production
Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Organizer
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] (Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)