Civic Creative Base Tokyo’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. Along with learning about the challenges related to each edition’s theme, participants employ creative approaches to engage with social issues and undertake collaborative group work with the aim of proposing new ideas for the future.
The Future Ideations Camp Vol. 2 focuses on blockchain technologies, a means of synchronizing and recording information like transaction data that combines decentralized networks and encryption technology. Though the implications of blockchains for governance, finance, healthcare, and marketing are being examined, they are also attracting attention in the field of arts and culture as a technology that can permanently preserve important information about an artwork, and help protect and pass them on to subsequent generations. Blockchains form a central component of Web3, a nascent iteration of the Web in which new ecosystems and modes of creativity for art are emerging through decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
In the second half of the camp curriculum, the participants collaborate in groups to use blockchain technologies to envision new forms of currency, NFTs, and DAOs, and then make proposals aimed at future society.
These exhibits feature the results of the endeavors by the forty participants, instructors, facilitators, including each group’s ideas and proposals, and highlights from the five-day workshop. Along with their process of co-creation, explore the remarkable visions of the future and exciting new tools utilizing blockchains that emerge from the camp.
Participants：
・Torajiro Aida（Software developer, Artist）
・ava（CG Generalist）
・Yiping Wu（Community design, User experience design/Gaudiy Inc.）
・Umeda Masato
・Okubo Toshiyuki（Space designer）
・Ogi Kumiko（Artist）
・Kajino Kentaro（Artist）
・Kumagai Akira（Director/GREENING co.,ltd.）
・Sakamura Kusuke（Generative Artist, Tokyo Metropolitan University Student）
・Samuel YAN（Creative Coder）
・sawako（sound artist）
・Shono Yusuke（Editor, Designer）
・Suzuki Yushin（Technical Director）
・Takahashi Ryuta（ALU）
・Tajima Takumi（DesignEngineer）
・Tanaka Takumi（Designer, Founder）
・TAMAFREEDOM（Web3 Producer）
・teshnakamura（Generative Artist）
・Terae Keiichiro（Artist）
・Toma Tomoaki（Engineer）
・Habu Kazuhito（Art coordinator, IP advisor）
・Mori Tatsuya（Graduate Student/The University of Tokyo）
・Yuiko Ráyka（Contemporary artist）
Lecturers / Facilitators:
– Erick Calderon (Founder and CEO / Art Blocks) *Pre-lecture before the camp
– Aida Daiya (Museum Educator)
– eziraros (Artist)
– Jo-Lin Hsieh (Contributor of Volume DAO, Co-founder of Sandwishes Studio)
– Shih-Tung LO（Volume DAO member, Artist, Curator）
– Tanaka Kaoru (Generative Artist)
– Suganuma Kiyoshi (Social Co-Creation Director, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])
– Takase Toshiaki (Founder and CEO / TART K.K.)
– 0xhaiku (Artist)
– Fujihata Masaki（New media artist）
– Matsuhashi Tomomi (Public Policy Mercari Inc.,, Arts and Law）
– Mizuno Tasuku (Lawyer, Attorney)
– You-Sheng Zhang (co-founder of Volume DAO)
– wildmouse (Blockchain engineer)
Program Director:
– Takawo Shunsuke (Artist, Chairman of the Japan Generative Art Foundation)
