【Public Event】Future Ideations Camp Vol.9: Fiction←Technology→Imagination Results Exhibition

2026.10.15(Thu)–18(Sun)

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Gallery 2 (5F)

Dates: October 15 (Thu) – October 18 (Sun), 2026
Hours: 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Until 5:00 pm on the final day)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Gallery 2 (5F)
Admission: Free

Imagination and technology bring fiction to life. Future Ideations Camp Vol.9: Fiction←Technology→Imagination reinterprets the relationship between theater and society. This exhibition showcases the workshop featuring fifty participants, and its results.

Civic Creative Base Tokyo is hosting another edition of the Future Ideations Camp, its series of short-term intensive workshops bringing together different individuals to engage in creative activities through art and digital technology.

The ninth Future Ideations Camp follows last year’s seventh edition in partnering with the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo. Can technology boost the imaginative power of theater to bring a fictional world to life? Taking this question posed by director Okada Toshiki as its starting point, the participants in Future Ideations Camp Vol.9: Fiction←Technology→Imagination have reflected on the nature of theater itself while re-examining reality through the lens of fiction, and envisioning alternative possibilities for the cities and societies in which we live.

This exhibition showcases the activities that took place over the four-day camp involving approximately fifty participants, instructors, and facilitators, as well as the ideas and prototypes that emerged from their dialogue and experimentation. Discover those processes and outcomes by witnessing what the participants envisioned and how their ideas took shape at the intersection of theater, technology, and the imagination.

Photos of past project showcases
（Future Ideations Camp Vol.8 : Future Ideations Camp Vol. 8: Visions of Fashion, 30 Years Hence）

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Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Gallery 2 (5F)
1-8-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0021
2-minute walk from West Exit of Ikebukuro Station on JR lines, Tokyo Metro lines, Tobu Tojo Line, and Seibu Ikebukuro Line
*Directly accessible from Exit 2b of Ikebukuro Station underground passage
Details: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Participants

・Inagaki Yusuke (graduate student)
・On (media artist, creative technologist)
・Kaigaishi Nami (dancer)
・Kansai Takako (engineer, entrepreneur)
・Koki Sakakihara (artist, a solo tennis musical)
・Sato Hirotaro (technical director)
・Xue Tianle (graduate research student)
・J.uuu.N (artist, creative producer)
・Sugawara Yukihiro (artist)
・Takaguchi Seina (graduate student)
・Takemura Chisato (university student)
・Tanaka Yukari (artist)
・CHI Yizhou (stage designer, media artist)
・Tsujimura Alexis Ken (graduate student)
・Nagata Risa (graduate student)
・Hashizume Akari (director, actor)
・Furukawa Michi (actor)
・Miyoshi Shuji (university student)
・Yagi Isaki (university student)
・Yatsu Genki (major in art studies, researcher)
・Yamamoto Kirie (graduate student)
・Yoshida Keigo (artist)
・Lin Wenxuan (curator)
・watakou (stage video designer)

Program Director

・Okada Toshiki (artistic director, Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo)

Lecturers / Facilitators

・Kakehi Yasuaki (researcher, artist / Professor at The University of Tokyo)
・Usami Nao (artist)
・Konno Keina (experience designer, program coordinator)
・Sato Tomoko (artist)
・Nagamatsu Ayumu (programmer, CG artist)
・Fujikura Asako (artist)

photo: Usuyama Kikuko

Okada Toshiki

Artistic Director, Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo

Okada Toshiki is a playwright, novelist, and the director of the theater company chelfitsch. In 2005, he received the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for Five Days in March. In 2007, he participated in the Kunstenfestivaldesarts with his work Five Days in March. Since this debut of his work overseas, he has continued to present works not only domestically but also internationally, putting on performances in over 90 cities across Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Since 2016, he has also consistently created and directed works in a repertory program at a renowned public theater in Germany. In 2020, his work The Vacuum Cleaner (Münchner Kammerspiele) and in 2022, Doughnuts (Thalia Theater, Hamburg) were selected as part of the Berliner Theatertreffen’s “10 Remarkable Productions.” As a novelist, he published The End of the Moment We Had (2007, Shinchōsha), Broccoli Revolution (2022, Shinchōsha). He was appointed as the Artistic Director of the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo in 2025 and the Artistic Director of Performing Arts at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in 2026.

Kakehi Yasuaki

Researcher, Artist / Professor at The University of Tokyo

Born in Kyoto in 1979, Kakehi Yasuaki is an interactive media researcher and artist. After periods at Keio University and MIT, he joined the University of Tokyo’s Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies in 2018, where he researches, creates, and teaches. He holds a PhD in interdisciplinary information studies. Kakehi develops interactive media that combine physical materials and phenomena with digital technology, expanding experiences through objects, the body, and space. His work spans the fields of engineering, art, and design, with exhibitions at Setouchi Triennale 2025, Ars Electronica Festival, YCAM, and ICC, among others. He has received numerous awards across various fields, including an Honorable Mention at the STARTS PRIZE 2022, the Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, the Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2017, and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology’s Young Scientist Award in 2014.

Usami Nao

Artist

Usami Nao’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project I stitch my skin to the ground received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.

Konno Keina

Experience Designer, Program Coordinator

Konno Keina studied human-computer interaction at the Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies. Alongside her studies, she formed the group Otome Dengeibu with her peers and held numerous workshops and events creating the various kinds of things they wanted to make. From April 2013 to September 2024, she worked at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media as a video and device engineer as well as overseeing program and experience design. She is involved in producing exhibits and planning public programs. Konno is interested in communication and how media serves as an interface for that.

photo by Ryusuke Ohno

Sato Tomoko

Artist

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1990, Sato Tomoko completed graduate studies in film and new media at Tokyo University of the Arts. In her practice, she constructs narratives out of extensive research, and creates works centered on lectures and storytelling. Her recent work and exhibitions include Index for Obake Tokyo (2021–, Theater Commons), the 14th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (2022, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum), Plastic Utopia: Our New Ecosystem (2025, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art), and The NAM Collection in Dialogue: Reflections and Extensions (2026, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum). Sato conducted research in Taiwan and South Korea on a 2023 overseas study grant from the Pola Art Foundation.

https://tomokosato.info/

photo by Yamaguchi Ioto

Nagamatsu Ayumu

Programmer, CG Artist

Nagamatsu Ayumu produces moving image, develops directorial approaches, and provides performance support, all while referencing the styles and spontaneous concepts of generative art and visual music. He focuses on both the aesthetic and technical aspects of procedural modeling, computer graphics algorithms, and data expression, and is also an artist and educator. In recent years, he has created several permanent artworks in semi-public spaces.

https://ayumu-nagamatsu.com/

photo: Kono Yurika

Fujikura Asako

Artist

Born in 1992, Fujikura Asako is an artist whose practice primarily uses 3D computer animation to examine urban and suburban infrastructure and the spatial depths of their landscapes. She has recently developed a spatial practice with a focus on the logistical dynamism unfolding daily on reclaimed land and on emergent gardens in urban environments. Her recent exhibitions include MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art (2025, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), Layers of Accumulated Time: Depicting the world we live in (2025, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa), and the Japan Pavilion exhibition In-Between: Generative AI and the Future at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Organizer: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] (Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)]

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