Fiction co-created by technology and the imagination over a four-day reinterpretation of theater and society.
Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) ’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. Around 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.
Exploring the theme of theater and technology, the ninth Future Ideations Camp follows last year’s seventh edition in partnering with the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo held annually in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The playwright and Autumn Meteorite Tokyo artistic director Okada Toshiki serves as the camp director, joined by a wide-ranging team of instructors and facilitators including practitioners from the technology sector, all working closely with the participants.
The camp treats theater as a simulation device that conjures up an alternative reality (fiction) through the audience’s imagination, enabling us temporarily to share and test situations and relationships that do not yet exist.
Once we regard digital technology and other modern technologies as tools for expanding the human imagination, what are the implications for our understanding of the nature of theater and society? And what new possibilities can we then conceive? The camp and its participants explore practice-based approaches to this inquiry.
Concept
Theater is a very old medium, practiced for thousands of years. However, new technologies that did not exist millennia ago can naturally become the elements, perhaps even essential elements, that constitute theater.
How can we incorporate modern technology (digital technology, for instance) into theater to bring about its essential innovation? How can theater utilize technology in new, previously not possible ways without compromising, and rather even enhancing, its essential qualities?
This camp focuses on theater as a medium that excels at producing fiction through the heavy involvement of the audience’s imagination.
Can the theatrical imagination enhanced by current technology have greater potential to perceive, creatively critique, and transform contemporary society? Sure it can!
Simply utilizing new technology does not make a new form of theater. To reveal, through new technologies, the potential of theater that people thousands of years ago could never have imagined, yet doubtlessly sensed vaguely. Therein lies the ambition of this camp.
The theatrical imagination is intertwined with society. This is something powerfully realized through new technology. As such, it is indeed a new form of theater: with the dream of witnessing that nascent moment of theater, this camp is once again held as a collaboration between CCBT and Autumn Meteorite Tokyo.
Okada Toshiki
Program Director
– Okada Toshiki (Artistic Director, Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo)
Lecturer / Facilitators
– Kakehi Yasuaki (Researcher, Artist / Professor, University of Tokyo)
– Konno Keina (Experience Designer, Program Coordinator)
– Nagamatsu Ayumu (Programmer, CG Artist)
– Sato Tomoko (Artist)
– Usami Nao (Artist)
Outline
Dates: October 10 (Sat) – 13 (Tue), 2026 *Scheduled time: Approximately 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
Results Exhibition: October 15 (Thu) – 18 (Sun), 2026
Venues: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Gallery 2 (5F)
1-8-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0021
Program & Curriculum (TBU)
Day1– October 10 (Sat)
Introduction
Participant self-introductions
Lecture & workshop (Lecturers: Okada Toshiki, Kakehi Yasuaki)
Co-creating in groups (Facilitators: Konno Keina, Nagamatsu Ayumu, Sato Tomoko, Usami Nao)
Day2– October 11 (Sun)
World cafe
Workshop
Co-creating in groups
Public Event: Keynote lecture *TBA
Day3– October 12 (Mon)
Co-creating in groups
Midterm presentation
Day4– October 13 (Tue)
Co-creating in groups
Final presentations
October 15 (Thu) – 18 (Sun)
Public event: Results Exhibition
Application Guidlines
Application Period: August 1 (Sat) – 31 (Mon), 2026
Participant Numbers: Around 20
All ages
Participation Requirements
– Able to participate in the entire curriculum from October 10 to October 13, 2026
– Have a proven track record of research or creative activities
– Be able to apply the content of the workshop to their own future activities
Example Participants
– People who want to create collaboratively
– Artists and creatives from theater, music, design, technology, and other fields
– People involved in creative practices who want to use technology in their work
– People who want to try creating a work in the new field of the performing arts
– People who want to use theater to think about the future of human relationships and society.
– Researchers and students with interests in new forms of expression and experimental practices that transcend conventional disciplinary boundaries
– People no longer involved in creative practices due to parenting, illness, caregiving, or other reasons, and who want to restart their activities
. . . And more
Selection Criteria
In case of too many applications, selection will be made based on the application.
Result Notification
The result will be notified through email on September 6 (Sun), 2026. (subject to change)
Application Process
Please apply via the application form.
Alternatively, please send an email (ccbt@rekibun.or.jp) including the following items with “Future Ideations Camp vol.9 Application” in the subject line.
– Full Name
– Age
– Gender
– City of Residence
– Email Address
– Phone Number
– Occupation / Affiliation
– Areas of expertise
(Art, Theater, Design, Engineering, Fashion, Music, Education, Natural science, Religious Studies, Humanities, Environmental Studies, Philosophy, Others)
– Please tell us what interests you about the Camp and about the new things you want to try. (max. 300 characters)
– Please tell us where you heard about the Camp.
– Please indicate if you need any accessibility support. (Examples: Sign language interpretation, Text-based support)
– State the link, if you have a portfolio, video materials, websites, or GitHub that introduces your initiatives.
Staff
Program Direction
Ito Takayuki (CCBT)
Program Management
Doi Miyuu (CCBT), Inada Shunpei (CCBT), Ito Haruka (CCBT), Otsuka Yuko (Autumn Meteorite)
Technical Leader
Kimura Yusuke (arsaffix)
Design
Sasaki Shun (AYOND)
Operation
Hayashi Keiichi (onocoro), Kanmuri Nanana (onocoro) , Okumura Keijirou (onocoro)
Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite 2026 Tokyo
Autumn Meteorite is a performing arts festival centered around the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro, Toshima-city. The festival’s Artistic Director is playwright and novelist Toshiki Okada, who has also taken up the position of Artistic Director, Performing Arts of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre this fiscal year 2026.
The festival’s core missions are:
- To foster the creation of new artistic work
- To promote international exchange
- To develop the next generation of performing arts professionals
The festival aims to create opportunities for audiences to experience the “here and now” of the Japanese and global performing arts scenes through a diverse range of programs—making them more accessible, encouraging direct, personal connection and resonance, inviting discoveries of various realities, and opening new perspectives from which to reconsider the world we inhabit. For the 2026 Edition, Autumn Meteorite Tokyo once again returns with three main categories: the “Performance Program,” comprising 13 diverse works of performing art from Japan and abroad; the “Non-Performance Program,” consisting of lectures, workshops, and other events; and the “Hello and Welcome (Attendee Support)” program, which provides support throughout the festival.
https://autumnmeteorite.jp/en
Organized by Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Co-organized by Toshima City
Supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan｜Japan Arts Council
Gold Sponsor: Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.
Silver Sponsor: TOBU RAILWAY CO.,LTD. / Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.
Bronze Sponsor: eplus inc. / Lawson Entertainment, Inc.
Media Partner: Tokyo Art Beat
