Future Tokyo Sports Day
Inukai Hiroshi and Developlayers
Sport-art co-creation is something that the game designer and esports producer Inukai Hiroshi launched in 2014. The “developlayers” fostered by the project to date will come together to hold a special opening event called the Future Tokyo Sports Day.
Year Selected
2022
Project
Civic Creative Base Tokyo Opening Event: Future Tokyo Undokai (Sports Day)
Summary
“Future Tokyo Undokai (Sports Day)” was held from August to October 2022 as CCBT’s opening event. Two hundred people of all ages co-created new types of sports competitions, tools, and game rules that proactively incorporated technology, culminating in a unique kind of sports day event in Tokyo. A documentary closely followed the project from the initial talk event through to the final day when the results were presented to the public. The finished documentary premiered at CCBT.
Presentation
Civic Creative Base Tokyo Opening Event: Future Tokyo Undokai (Sports Day) Competitions
Date：2022.10.23(Sun)
Venue：Shibuya Jinnan Elementary School Gymnasium
Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Civic Creative Base Tokyo Opening Event: Future Tokyo Undokai (Sports Day) Undokai (Sports Day) Hackathon
Date：2022.10.22(Sat)–23(Sun)
Venue：Shibuya Cultural Center Owada Multipurpose Arena, Shibuya Jinnan Elementary School Gymnasium
Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Profile
Inukai Hiroshi
e-Sports Producer, Game Director, Sports-play Expert
Inukai Hiroshi studied under film director Yamamoto Masashi, and launched his career initially as a film director and Tekken player. He later worked as a developer for fighting games. A pioneer of esports in Japan, he has represented his country at the World Cyber Games, Cyberathlete Professional League, and Electronic Sports World Convention. Inukai’s accolades include awards at the Japan Media Arts Festival and Ars Electronica for such projects as the spatial information science–themed Songs of ANAGURA: Missing Researchers and Their Remaining Devices (2011) and Sports Time Machine (2013). He is one of the driving forces behind the sport co-creation event Future Tokyo Sports Day. His research on games and different forms of play has led Inukai to dub activities that transcend the conventional boundaries of art and sports as “sports-play.” He is a board director of the Undokai Association.
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.
Details: CCBT Art Incubation Program
