Playable City Tokyo 2018
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- JKD Collective Co., Ltd.
- subsidy category
- Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY 2017 Tokyo Culture Program Grant: Support for Future Proposing Projects
Business Overview
Playable City Tokyo 2018 is a program to research the creative appeal of Tokyo as it changes toward the future from an international perspective, and to create ideas for new relationships between people and cities in future cities. Two creatives from the UK will be invited to two residencies in Tokyo. Through interaction with Japanese artists and technologists, and through exposure to Tokyo's city, history, culture, and advanced Japanese technologies, we will materialize playful ideas that enrich people's experiences in Tokyo's public spaces. The results of the residency will be presented at Making the City Playable 2018, a creative international conference considering the future of cities with the keyword "Play" to be held in Tokyo in September 2018. In collaboration with the global creative producer development program run by Watershed, UK, we will hold a one-day networking forum for creative producers working in various fields in Japan. In addition to exploring the ideal form of creative producers that are needed in the world today, the conference aims to build a network among participants, and provides a forum for exchanging opinions with creative producers active in various fields around the world.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - Sunday, September 30
- Venues
- 3331 Arts Chiyoda Station Conference Manseibashi
Profile
[Watershed]
A media centre based in Bristol, one of the UK's most creative cities. It connects various art forms across the board and promotes the sharing and development of new ideas. It houses a Pervasive Media Studio that brings together more than 120 artists, creative companies, technologists, and researchers, and focuses on collaboration between creative practices, cutting-edge research, and the latest technologies.
【 Sophie Sampson 】
Sophie Sampson is a creator, writer, and creative producer who creates creative works incorporating games and play in public spaces. In particular, I am interested in projects that make use of the characteristics of play that guide physical movement to create changes in the relationship between people and space, and projects that are deeply connected to specific places, histories, and records. In 2015, he founded the creative unit Matheson Marcault with Holly Gramaggio.
Tom Metcalfe
Thomas Buchanan, creative director and founder. Based in Bristol, England, he works in Korea, China, India, the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. It features a people-focused, critical-thinking approach to designing new experiences for people through the things, environments, and spaces they create. He also has a keen interest in nurturing the next generation and is a unit director at the Centre for Innovation at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.