The final phase of 2025 artist fellow Doi Itsuki’s Weather project is an exhibition held in Sendagi, Tokyo. Through a framework of microclimates (minute environmental changes such as wind, temperature, and light intensity), the exhibition re-examines how what we call weather in our daily lives is observed, shared, and experienced.
Doi Itsuki is one of CCBT’s 2025 artist fellows and currently developing a project called Weather, focusing on the microclimates that constantly surround us but of which we are rarely aware. The project has to date involved the design and development of an original weather-sensing device to observe minute environmental changes not captured in wide-area data from the Japan Meteorological Agency and other sources, as well as holding workshops to observe and share individual, small weather events.
While the weather is publicly shared in the form of forecasts and data in accordance with certain standards, it is also something experienced individually as per each person’s physical conditions and mood on that day. It is heteronomous phenomena closely intertwined with our daily lives, yet beyond our control.
Based on the real-time micrometeorological data collected during the earlier phases of the project, this exhibition creates a space for exploring how weather might have been called and measured in ways other than is conventional, for thinking about what weather could have been. Come into contact with weather that manifests in forms neither numerical nor verbal, and the traces of meteorological measurements and imagination, and experience a freer and richer “another weather” rooted in our perception and cognition.
Related talks are scheduled to be held during the exhibition from 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 22 and Sunday, March 1, 2026. Details will be announced soon.
Weather
By collaboratively creating sensors capable of measuring subtle environmental changes like wind, temperature, and light, and then installing these around the city, the project collects information on microclimates not captured by the wide area data gathered by conventional meteorological agencies, and then makes it publicly available. The project also develops a system for converting the data to a perceptual experience of sound, light, and wind, and utilizes that experience for an art installation. The project attempts to regain knowledge of other species that is rooted in human modes of physicality in digital society, skewed as it is toward language and image.
Outline
Doi Itsuki: Another Weather
Dates: February 20 – March 1, 2026 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm (last entry: 6:30 pm)
Closed: February 24, 2026
Venue: 3-35-12, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Admission: Free
※The exhibition is held on the first (ground) and second floors of the building. The structure of the building means there is no elevator and visitors need to use the stairs. If you use a wheelchair or have concerns about climbing stairs, please contact us via the email address below at least two days before your visit. We will be happy to discuss the support we can provide.
contact@ccbt-art-incubation.jp
Related Talk: From the rooftop
Dates: February 22, March 1, 2026 2:00 pm –
Venue: 3-35-12, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Speakers:
＜February 22＞Shimonishi Kazeto (philosopher), Watanabe Shiori(artist), Wakui Tomohito(visual artist, music artist, director and curator / WHITEHOUSE), Doi Itsuki
＜March 1,＞Murai Kotone(researcher), evala, Ikegami Takashi(DSc in Physics, Professor / Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)*Pre-recorded, Doi Itsuki
Admission: Free *No reservation needed
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3-35-12, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Weather Project Development
1. Design and Development of a Weather Sensor
The project designed and developed an original weather-sensing device capable of observing minute environmental changes, including temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind direction, and wind speed not captured by conventional wide-area data from the Japan Meteorological Agency and other sources.
2. Workshop: Making Weather
The project recruited participants by asking people to install the device developed in the first phase on their balcony at home or near a window at work, and then observe and share the weather in each location. In the workshops, participants assembled the sensor themselves, and listened to a lecture by Doi about weather.
3. Release of Web App Refuge
The data collected by members of the project was shared through an original web app called Refuge. Small weather events as perceived by each individual were gradually connected.
4. Exhibition: Another Weather
Using the real-time micrometeorological data collected over the course of the second and third phases of the project as a starting point, the team next created a space for thinking about what “weather” might have been, how it could have been described and measured in alternative ways.
Credits
Project Direction, Artist: Doi Itsuki
Co-production: Doi Ima、Alternative Machine
Technical Direction: Murakawa Ryuji(arsaffix), Namikawa Kosaku(7ild3)
Technical: Ito Yuya (arsaffix), Komaki Takahiro, Ishige Kenta, Tsukuda Yuga, Ueda Sen(CCBT), Ito Takayuki(CCBT)
Art Direction: Wakui Tomohito(WHITEHOUSE)
Project Management：Kanamori Chihiro(infans.), Kenmoku Haruka(oar press)
Graphic Design: Kase Toru Kase
Image Production Support: Esak Urot
Video Archive: Shintsubo Kenshu
Still Archive: Dayung Hsueh
Operations: TASKO
CCBT Art Incubation Program
One of CCBT’s core programs, the Art Incubation Program provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration, and action that change our city for the better. Selected through an open call, five artist fellows will act as CCBT partners, developing their projects, making the creative process public, exhibiting the results, and holding workshops and talks.
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