Meet Up
Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] Phase 2: Triggering Social Experiments in Tokyo
Overview
Speaker: Tsugawa Eri (architect,director / ALTEMY), Nohara Kayoko, Miyasaka Manabu (vice Governor of Tokyo, CCBT Supervisor) Moderator: Ogawa Hideaki (creative director of CCBT)
For CCBT, a lab is an open space, environment, and team where diverse perspectives and expertise converge to engage in creative activities through repeated experimentation and verification, in order to unleash the creativity of each individual in society. As the second phase of CCBT begins in Harajuku, this talk features a multifaceted discussion on CCBT’s vision and goals. Miyasaka Manabu is Vice-Governor of Tokyo and also serves as supervisor of CCBT. From his position in the metropolitan administration, he has promoted CCBT’s approach since its inception. The architect Tsugawa Eri has served as an artist fellow mentor and director of the sixth edition of the Future Ideations Camp, which explored the CCBT 2025 theme of Future Commons. Nohara Kayoko is a professor at Tokyo University of Science and a member of CCBT’s steering committee. She researches translation studies, working across the fields of art and science. These three key figures closely involved with CCBT join CCBT Creative Director Ogawa Hideaki to consider the future potential of CCBT.
Access
LIFORK HARAJUKU (WITH HARAJUKU 3F, 1-14-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
1 minutes’ walk from Harajuku Station (JR Yamanote Line), 1 minutes’ walk from Meiji-jingumae ＜Harajuku＞ Station (Tokyo Metro Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines)
Players
津川恵理
Tsugawa Eri
Architect, Director / ALTEMY
Tsugawa Eri completed graduate studies at Waseda University in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, she worked at an architecture firm. In 2018 and 2019, she worked at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York on a fellowship given by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. She returned to Japan to claim top prize at the Sannomiya Station Plaza Contest run by the city of Kobe in 2019, and established her own firm, ALTEMY. Tsugawa also teaches at Tokyo University of Science, Waseda University, Tokyo Denki University’s graduate school, and Japan Women’s University. Her past projects include the Spectra-Pass lobby at the Pola Museum of Art (2021), Sankita Square in front of Hankyu Kobe-sannomiya Station (2021), the exhibition Incomplete Niwa Archives (2021) at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, and Machi-no-Hoikuen Community School Minami-Aoyama (2024). Her prizes include the Urban Landscape Award Special Prize given by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Civil Engineering Design Prize (Excellence Prize), Tokyo University of the Arts Emerald Award, and Kukan Design Award.
野原佳代子
Nohara Kayoko
東京科学大学 環境・社会理工学院 副学院長・教授
東京科学大学（旧・東工大）環境・社会理工学院教授、専門は翻訳学、言語学、科学技術コミュニケーション。オックスフォード大学マートンカレッジにて修士号（近代史学）、同大学クイーンズカレッジにて博士号（翻訳学）。ロンドン芸術大学CSMとの合同プロジェクトSTADHIならびに産学協働プログラム「未来を創るHybrid Innovation」を主宰し科学技術とアート／デザイン間の記号間翻訳と融合に挑む。著書に『ディスカッションから学ぶ翻訳学 トランスレーション・スタディーズ入門』（2014年、三省堂）など多数。
宮坂学
Miyasaka Manabu
Vice Governor of Tokyo, CCBT Supervisor
MIYASAKA Manabu started his carrier at Yahoo Japan Corporation in 1997 before served as Yahoo Japan’s CEO in 2012, later to become the Chairman of the Board in 2018. After leaving the company, he was appointed Counsellor to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in July 2019, became Vice Governor in September 2019 and was reappointed in September 2023, where he is promoting digitalisation of Tokyo Metropolitan Government as CIO.He leads the GovTech Tokyo, which has started its projects from September 2023, as the Representative Director. A believer in the power to accelerate progress of Tokyo to be the startup-friendliest city in the world, MIYASAKA directs SusHi Tech Tokyo, a global startup conference as the Executive Committee Chairman.
小川秀明
Ogawa Hideaki
Creative Director of CCBT/ Artistic Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab
Born in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2007, he has been based in Linz, Austria, working as an artist. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the R&D division of Ars Electronica, and the Artistic Director of the Sapporo International Art Festival 2027. He has been involved in numerous international and interdisciplinary projects, including innovative initiatives that use art as a catalyst for prototyping the future, as well as projects that aim to create communities through public participation and to implement next-generation cultural and educational programs. About Ars ElectronicaArs Electronica is a creative hub for art and advanced technology founded by the city of Linz, Austria, and has hosted the annual Ars Electronica Festival, the world’s largest media art festival, for over 40 years. It established the Ars Electronica Futurelab to research the future of art and technology in collaboration with companies, government, cultural, educational and research institutions. In addition, the group runs the Ars Electronica Center, known for promoting museums and schools of the future, as well as holding the Prix Ars Electronica, the world’s longest-running international media art competition.