Future Ideations Camp Vol.6 見えないルールの中で都市を取り戻す

About

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. 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.

The sixth edition of Future Ideations Camp takes inspiration from the CCBT’s overall 2025 theme of the future commons to explore strategies for individual intervention in the commons as well as the new relationships that emerge from that.

Concept

Reclaiming the City Beneath Unseen Rules

Our city is permeated by many invisible rules. These include legal regulations such as the Road Traffic Act, City Planning Act, and Fire Service Act. They also encompass practical rules like trash disposal methods, prohibitions against leaving bicycles in certain places, and bans on smoking in public streets. Beyond these, moreover, there are various implicit rules related to morals and codes of conduct, such as behaving quietly in public and leaving one side clear when riding an escalator. Today, urban spaces are increasingly defined and constrained by these layers of social order.

In this edition of Future Ideations Camp, participants ventured onto Shibuya Koen-dori—the street facing CCBT—to conduct fieldwork and create triggers that valorize public space as a commons. Whenever we use public spaces—streets, plazas, parks, train stations, and so on—we are always navigating a complex web of rules.

During the camp, individuals devised strategies for intervening in the commons that is Shibuya Koen-dori, exploring the threshold between the individual and urban rules as they searched for the values that emerge from a new relationship with the commons: interventions such as those that create a sense of co-existence with the urban environment. Before you know it, you may find yourself intertwined with the city—not merely walking its streets, but feeling a profound sense of connectedness with the environment. Perhaps these moments, when the city breathes with us, is when we quietly acknowledge each other’s presence.

What is a city that’s no longer restricted by rules, but instead shaped by the natural involvement of citizens?

With others boasting all manner of expertise, I wish to continue creating ways for us to engage with these kinds of ever-evolving commons.

Tsugawa Eri ( architect / director, ALTEMY )

Results Exhibition

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