CCBT 2025 artist fellow Doi Itsuki will hold a workshop for participants to learn about microclimates and make sensors for measuring them. Participate in Doi’s Weather project by creating, experiencing, and sharing the various forms of weather around you through data. The workshop on December 14 also includes a talk by artist Funakawa Shoji.
Use data to make, feel, and share the “weather” around you
Doi Itsuki is one of CCBT’s 2025 artist fellows and currently developing Weather, a project focused on microclimates. In the project, members of the public observe things that cannot be captured by conventional wide-area data from the Japan Meteorological Agency—such as minute environmental changes like wind patterns, temperature, and light levels—and share that data and the act of observation itself as a commons. The collected information is then mapped and converted into pre-linguistic perceptual experiences of sound, light, and touch.
In this workshop, participants will build an original sensor kit to observe the microclimates always all around us, assembling the senor to make a mini weather station. They will then try operating the weather station, observing such data as temperature, humidity, and wind, and experimentally exploring the characteristics of such data. After the workshop, the participants will take their sensor home, use it in their respective locations, and share the various forms of weather they observe, thus becoming part of and contributing to the project.
Participants should bring a slightly large bag for carrying their sensor home afterwards. Participation also requires access to a balcony, veranda, or garden at home or their workplace for installing the sensor (measuring approximately 20 × 20 × 40 centimeters and weighing 2 kilograms), along with a Wi-Fi connection.
After the second workshop session on December 14, the artist Funakawa Shoji will join online from Scotland to discuss ideas and creative expression related to weather. Funakawa’s practice examines the relationship between people and the environment, and the nature of perception, through phenomena and information like light, sound, and weather. His talk explores sensations and ideas about weather through observation and artistic creation. What do we feel from the transient phenomena like wind and light that surround us, and how do we translate those feelings into words and concrete forms? Funakawa discusses what it means to “make” the weather, loosening the conventional frameworks surrounding the sensations and perceptions we know. Audiences are welcome to join the session only for the talk.
Take part in this attempt to make, feel, and share the weather around us through data.
Event Details
Doi Itsuki「Making Weather」
Date & Time: December 6, 2025 (Sat) 14:00-16:00 | Workshop only, December 14, 2025 (Sun) 14:00-17:30 | Workshop + Talk *Participation in talk only is also possible (from 16:00)
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum studio(Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku Tokyo)
Capacity: 20 people per workshop session, 40 people for the talk (December 14 only)(both require advance registration on a first-come, first-served basis)
Target Audience: Workshop participants should have access to Wi-Fi at home and a place to install the sensor outside, such as on a balcony or in a garden; the talk is suitable for anyone
Admission: Free
Workshop Structure
1. Introduction to Basic Meteorology
In this lecture, Doi introduces the basics of meteorology, including the differences between weather, atmospheric phenomena, and climate, the insights we can gain from traditional forms of weather observation, and how modern weather sensors quantify atmospheric shifts.
2. Making a Mini Weather Station
Each participant assembles a sensor kit to build a mini weather station. The kits are easy to assemble, with no knowledge of electronic arts and crafts required. Participants then use their sensor to observe data for such things as temperature, humidity, and wind, and experimentally explore the characteristics of that data.
3. Making and Sharing the Weather
Participants install their completed sensors at home or another location, and then use them to observe the daily changes in microclimates. The collected data is made available online, loosely connecting each participant’s small-scale monitoring of weather. Through observing and perceiving their own environment and sharing those changes with others, participants consider how our ideas about “weather” are constructed.
(Participants are required to submit information on the day of the workshop, including the postal code of the location where the sensor is installed. This information will not be made public.)
Access
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku Tokyo)
Approximately 7 minutes on foot from the East Exit of JR Ebisu Station
Approximately 10 minutes on foot from Ebisu Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line
CCBT Art Incubation Program
One of CCBT’s core programs, the Art Incubation Program provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration, and action that change our city for the better. Selected through an open call, five artist fellows will act as CCBT partners, developing their projects, making the creative process public, exhibiting the results, and holding workshops and talks.
Itsuki Doi
「Weather」
