Daily tous les jours×CCBT “Enchanted Moments as Resistance: Dance on It”

Voices transform into lights, and footsteps become dance. Before you know it, find yourself singing and dancing alongside total strangers!

Founded in 2010, the Montreal-based art and design studio Daily tous les jours creates chance encounters within public space. In such environments defined by the presence of strangers, the studio fosters fleeting moments that spark new connections with others. While featuring both aesthetic beauty and appeal as well as an inclusive character open to all, at the core of the studio’s practice is a keen, critical engagement with contemporary society, where human relationships are increasingly tenuous.

This exhibition unfolds across the Harajuku area at CCBT and a small plaza located along Cat Street (Old Shibuya River Promenade). Following its relocation there in December 2025, CCBT has come to know Harajuku better, in particular its unique topography, the local community that has emerged alongside it, and the special waterway that lies at its core. Culverted in the lead-up to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the waterway facilitated serendipitous encounters and discoveries in a city once famed for its canals and rivers.

Inspired by the human relationship with topography, the exhibition temporarily installs infrastructure at these two sites linked by a waterway running under the ground. Such soft infrastructure is an example of what Daily tous les jours calls the “infrastructure for the human spirit,” encouraging us to pause, engage, and interact. By installing two artworks in Harajuku, the exhibition spurs chance encounters and contact between strangers, and explores the potential for new connections in public space.

Venue Access

** We recommend walking the fifteen-minute route from CCBT to the Old Shibuya River Promenade. **

①Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] B1 STUDIO

*2 minute walk from Harajuku Station (JR Yamanote Line)
*4 minute walk from Meiji-jingumae Station (Tokyo Metro Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines)

②Old Shibuya River Promenade (Cat Street) (plaza at 5-29 Jingumae)

*15-minute walk from CCBT
*5-minute walk from Shibuya Station Exit B1

Daily tous les jours

Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat are the co-founders of Daily tous les jours, an award-winning Montreal-based studio leading an emergent field of practice that combines interactive art, storytelling, performance, and urban design to reinvent living together in the 21st century. Since 2010, the studio has created projects in more than 70 cities around the world. Mouna and Melissa’s recently published book, Strangers Need Strange Moments Together, shares their experiments in creating infrastructure for the human spirit.

Collaborators

Both Daily tous les jours and CCBT have long engaged in creative projects through collaborations with various partners. Driven by a spirit of inquiry for the potential that emerges when working across disciplines, approaches, and mediums, they invited talented creatives to contribute to this exhibition from the planning stages.