{"id":49058,"date":"2026-07-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccbt.rekibun.or.jp\/?post_type=event&p=49058"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:26:57","slug":"future-ideations-camp-vol9","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/ccbt.rekibun.or.jp\/en\/events\/future-ideations-camp-vol9","title":{"rendered":"Future Ideations Camp Vol.9: Fiction\u2190Technology\u2192Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fiction co-created by technology and the imagination over a four-day reinterpretation of theater and society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) \u2019s 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. Around 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.

Exploring the theme of theater and technology, the ninth Future Ideations Camp follows last year\u2019s seventh edition<\/a> in partnering with the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo<\/a> held annually in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The playwright and Autumn Meteorite Tokyo artistic director Okada Toshiki serves as the camp director, joined by a wide-ranging team of instructors and facilitators including practitioners from the technology sector, all working closely with the participants.
The camp treats theater as a simulation device that conjures up an alternative reality (fiction) through the audience\u2019s imagination, enabling us temporarily to share and test situations and relationships that do not yet exist.
Once we regard digital technology and other modern technologies as tools for expanding the human imagination, what are the implications for our understanding of the nature of theater and society? And what new possibilities can we then conceive? The camp and its participants explore practice-based approaches to this inquiry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reference: Future Ideations Camp Vol.7\uff5cSuper Sober Shamanism : Exploring Synchronization, Co-presence, and Mimesis through Theatre and Technology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Reference: Future Ideations Camp Vol.7\uff5cSuper Sober Shamanism : Exploring Synchronization, Co-presence, and Mimesis through Theatre and Technology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Con<\/strong>cept<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Theater is a very old medium, practiced for thousands of years. However, new technologies that did not exist millennia ago can naturally become the elements, perhaps even essential elements, that constitute theater.<\/em>

How can we incorporate modern technology (digital technology, for instance) into theater to bring about its essential innovation? How can theater utilize technology in new, previously not possible ways without compromising, and rather even enhancing, its essential qualities?<\/em>

This camp focuses on theater as a medium that excels at producing fiction through the heavy involvement of the audience\u2019s imagination.<\/em>
Can the theatrical imagination enhanced by current technology have greater potential to perceive, creatively critique, and transform contemporary society? Sure it can!<\/em>

Simply utilizing new technology does not make a new form of theater. To reveal, through new technologies, the potential of theater that people thousands of years ago could never have imagined, yet doubtlessly sensed vaguely. Therein lies the ambition of this camp.
The theatrical imagination is intertwined with society. This is something powerfully realized through new technology. As such, it is indeed a new form of theater: with the dream of witnessing that nascent moment of theater, this camp is once again held as a collaboration between CCBT and Autumn Meteorite Tokyo.<\/em>

Okada Toshiki<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Program Director<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/strong> Okada Toshiki (Artistic Director, Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecturer \/ Facilitators<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/strong> Kakehi Yasuaki (Researcher, Artist \/ Professor, University of Tokyo)
\u2013<\/strong> Konno Keina (Experience Designer, Program Coordinator)
\u2013<\/strong> Nagamatsu Ayumu (Programmer, CG Artist)
\u2013<\/strong> Sato Tomoko (Artist)
\u2013<\/strong> Usami Nao (Artist)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outline<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dates: October 10 (Sat) \u2013 13 (Tue), 2026 *Scheduled time: Approximately 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
Results Exhibition: October 15 (Thu) \u2013 18 (Sun), 2026
Venues: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre<\/a> Gallery 2 (5F)
1-8-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Program & Curriculum (TBU)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Day1\u2013 October 10 (Sat)<\/strong> <\/strong>
Introduction
Participant self-introductions
Lecture & workshop (Lecturers: Okada Toshiki, Kakehi Yasuaki)
Co-creating in groups (Facilitators: Konno Keina, Nagamatsu Ayumu, Sato Tomoko, Usami Nao)

Day2\u2013 October 11 (Sun)<\/strong> <\/strong>
<\/strong>World cafe
Workshop
Co-creating in groups
Public Event<\/strong>: Keynote lecture *TBA

Day3\u2013 October 12 (Mon)<\/strong> <\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong>
Co-creating in groups
Midterm presentation

Day4\u2013 October 13 (Tue)<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>
Co-creating in groups
Final presentations

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October 15 (Thu) \u2013 18 (Sun)<\/strong>
Public event<\/strong>: Results Exhibition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reference: Future Ideations Camp Vol.6: Reclaiming the City beneath Unseen Rules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Reference\uff1aFuture Ideations Camp Vol.5\uff1aCan AI Become Life?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reference: Future Ideations Camp Vol.4\uff5cUnderstanding and Creatively Expressing Ecosystems as Data
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Application Guidlines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Application Period: August 1 (Sat) \u2013 31 (Mon), 2026
Participant Numbers: Around 20
All ages

Participation Requirements<\/strong>
\u2013<\/strong> Able to participate in the entire curriculum from October 10 to October 13, 2026
\u2013 Have a proven track record of research or creative activities 
\u2013 Be able to apply the content of the workshop to their own future activities

Example Participants<\/strong>
<\/strong>\u2013 People who want to create collaboratively
\u2013 Artists and creatives from theater, music, design, technology, and other fields
\u2013 People involved in creative practices who want to use technology in their work
\u2013 People who want to try creating a work in the new field of the performing arts
\u2013 People who want to use theater to think about the future of human relationships and society.
\u2013 Researchers and students with interests in new forms of expression and experimental practices that transcend conventional disciplinary boundaries
\u2013 People no longer involved in creative practices due to parenting, illness, caregiving, or other reasons, and who want to restart their activities
. . . And more

Selection Criteria<\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>In case of too many applications, selection will be made based on the application.

Result Notification
<\/strong>The result will be notified through email on September 6 (Sun), 2026. (subject to change)

Application Process<\/strong><\/strong>
Please apply via the application form.
Alternatively, please send an email (ccbt@rekibun.or.jp) including the following items with \u201cFuture Ideations Camp vol.9 Application\u201d in the subject line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2013 Full Name
\u2013 Age
\u2013 Gender
\u2013 City \u200b\u200bof Residence
\u2013 Email Address
\u2013 Phone Number
\u2013 Occupation \/ Affiliation
\u2013 Areas of expertise
(Art, Theater, Design, Engineering, Fashion, Music, Education,  Natural science, Religious Studies, Humanities, Environmental Studies, Philosophy, Others)
\u2013 Please tell us what interests you about the Camp and about the new things you want to try. (max. 300 characters)
\u2013 Please tell us where you heard about the Camp.
\u2013 Please indicate if you need any accessibility support. (Examples: Sign language interpretation, Text-based support)
\u2013 State the link, if you have a portfolio, video materials, websites, or GitHub that introduces your initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff<\/strong><\/strong>

Program Direction<\/strong>
Ito Takayuki (CCBT)
Program Management<\/strong>
Doi Miyuu (CCBT), Inada Shunpei (CCBT), Ito Haruka (CCBT), Otsuka Yuko (Autumn Meteorite)
Technical Leader<\/strong>
Kimura Yusuke (arsaffix)
Design<\/strong>
Sasaki Shun (AYOND)
Operation<\/strong>
Hayashi Keiichi (onocoro), Kanmuri Nanana (onocoro) , Okumura Keijirou (onocoro)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite 2026 Tokyo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Autumn Meteorite is a performing arts festival centered around the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro, Toshima-city. The festival\u2019s Artistic Director is playwright and novelist Toshiki Okada, who has also taken up the position of Artistic Director, Performing Arts of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre this fiscal year 2026.
The festival\u2019s core missions are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n