Making Tokyo better through the intersection of creativity and technology

Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) is a hub for developing your creativity in ways that meaningfully engage with society through art and digital technology. Equipped with creative spaces and studios, CCBT organizes a wide-ranging program of events and projects to serve as a driving force for making Tokyo better through creativity and technology.

An Engine for Civic Creativity That Triggers Pilot Experiments in Tokyo

Facing all manner of challenges arising from globalization, we must now search for alternative futures through technology and creativity. In an age when choice diversifies and possible futures intersect, CCBT aspires to bring together both members of the public as well creatives, corporations, and universities from around the world to think about a new Tokyo landscape. With its expertise and scholarly rigorous approach to art, design, and technology, CCBT undertakes a wide range of experiments and projects for enabling the public to harness their creativity socially.

CCBT functions as a lab for creatively partnering with various “players”—Japanese and international artists, creatives, designers, researchers, technicians, engineers, corporations, cultural institutions, and members of the public participating in its workshops—and proposing new values. Across different fields and specialties, and cultivating production-led functionality and a network of talent, CCBT is a platform for utilizing the know-how and techniques that accumulate in a city. And by striving to make the ideas, tools, and more collaboratively developed and created through its projects accessible to the general public, CCBT also serves as an engine for civic creativity, triggering both creative practices and forward-looking actions.

Four Missions for Engaging Civic Creativity