Exploring communication methods and developing them as tools

Since launching in 2009, Tokyo Artpoint Project has implemented a wide-ranging program of art projects co-organized with Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo, and various NPOs, cultivating creative activity hubs and communities in local areas. At the same time, Tokyo Artpoint Project nurtures future art project leaders and establishes an infrastructure for their activities. It does this through the creation of learning platforms helping people face up to an ever-changing society, publishing/posting books, videos and other materials put together during art projects, and researching and developing project management methods with a view to documenting and evaluating projects.

Tokyo Artpoint Project offers a range of support and initiatives which are designed to help projects take root in the community, and which are based on frontline views and comments generated through project practices. We also put time into nurturing projects and organizations using a process-oriented approach. We believe that creating a　loosely connected network by widely publicizing our project framework in Japan and overseas could generate new projects and become a springboard for connections.

In this program, we will create tools in English, translate materials, and make them publicly available. The program’s aim is to widely disseminate information in Japan and overseas on project frameworks and methods, as well as information on current project activities generated under these.