A symposium will be held as a related event for Future Ideations Camp Vol. 6: Reclaiming the City beneath Unseen Rules, which searches for strategies for individuals to intervene in the commons and explores the new forms of relationships that then arise. Five speakers from different fields, including a design practitioner, researcher, and lawyer, will talk at the symposium on the theme of urban intervention. The event is open to all.
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. The sixth edition in the Future Ideations Camp series focuses on Shibuya Koen-dori, a sloped street in central Shibuya, and searches for the threshold between individuals and urban rules, and conceives strategies for individuals to intervene in the commons.
Held on the first day of the camp, the symposium features five speakers from various fields, including a design practitioner, researcher, and lawyer, exploring the theme of urban intervention.
The first half of the symposium has contributions from the speakers: the architect Tsugawa Eri, winner of the top prize at the Shibuya Park Ave. 2040 Design Competition, and program director of Future Ideations Camp Vol. 6; the sociologist Nango Yoshikazu, who specializes in urban theory and conducts practice-based research on urban spaces and places where people spend time alone; the lawyer Mizuno Tasuku, who delves into the structure of urban rules and systems, and creatively interprets cities through legal design; the “urban journalist” Tanigashira Kazuki, the author of Why Is Shibuya Disliked? who analyzes the relationship between cities, consumption, and culture through research on places like Don Quijote and Niseko; and Kawashima Masashi, the vice president of Niantic Spatial who has worked on such hit games as Ingress and Pokémon GO, which have spurred people to rediscover urban space.
How have individuals, groups, and communities engaged with cities from their respective positions? What issues have they been aware of during this? The symposium introduces practices and points of inquiry along with specific case studies.
The second half of the event features a discussion starting from such questions as: What makes cities more interesting? How can we create environments in which diverse players can hack cities? It will deepen the debate about new perspectives on our engagement with cities and about the truly creative cities we can envision from that.
All are welcome to attend.
Timeline
7:00 pm-7:05 pm Introduction: About “Future Ideations Camp Vol.6: Reclaiming the City beneath Unseen Rules?”
7:05 pm-7:55 pm Presentation
Presenters:
Tsugawa Eri (architect, director / ALTEMY)
Nango Yoshikazu (sociologist / professor, faculty of engineering and design, Hosei University)
Mizuno Tasuku (lawyer, attorney)
Tanigashira Kazuki (urban journalist, chain store researcher)
Kawashima Masashi (vice president, Niantic Spatial, Inc.)
8:00 pm-8:45 pm Crosstalk
8:45 pm-9:00 pm Q&A
