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Playable City Tokyo 2018

  • Organization : JKD Collective Inc.
  • Section : Support for Projects Offering Visions for the Future
  • Type of Grant Program : Single

Outline

Playable City Tokyo 2018 is a programme to creatively research and develop ideas that respond to Tokyo’s public spaces and start a new kind of city conversation through play. Two UK creatives will be selected though a public open-call to participate in a two-stage residency in Tokyo. They will experience first-hand the city and its history, traditions, culture, new technologies that give the city its unique character, as well as meeting with Japanese artists and technologists, to collaboratively develop playful ideas at the intersection of art, technology, society that innovate around public space in Tokyo. Outcomes of the programme will be shared with the public at the Making the City Playable 2018 conference taking place in Tokyo in September 2018.

Furthermore, in partnership with Watershed’s global talent development programme, Creative Producers International, there will be an intensive one-day workshop that offers the creative producers of Tokyo an opportunity to explore the role of the creative producer with Japanese and international peers. Facilitated by Watershed, the workshop will support personal and professional development through networking and knowledge exchange.

Profile

【Watershed】
Watershed is a leading film culture and digital media centre based in Bristol, a city recognised as one of the most creative cities in the UK. Watershed seeks to produce open collaborations and create opportunities which bridge expertise, imaginations and boundaries to promote new ideas and inclusive experiences. Attached to the Watershed is the Pervasive Media Studio, a city-centre research space, which brings together a network of over 120 artists, technologists and academics to explore the future of mobile and wireless media.

【Sophie Sampson】
Sophie Sampson is a writer and creative producer, working mainly in the field of games and play for public spaces. She has a particular interest in the physicality of play and projects deeply rooted in place, history and archives. Since 2015 she has been making work as part of Matheson Marcault with Holly Gramazio, in particular developing a practice around observation-led physical installations, seeking to understand the impulse to play in public more closely.

【Tom Metcalfe】
Tom is a designer. He has worked across a wide range of industries and sectors. His practice is characterised by its focus on people and its critical approach to designing new experiences with objects, environment, and space. Based in Bristol, UK, Tom has worked around the world including Korea, China, India, USA, and across Europe. He is Creative Director at Thomas Buchanan and Unit Director at The Centre for Innovation, University of Bristol. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Contact

Nanami Akimoto
Projects Manager (Arts)
British Council
1-2 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0825
TEL: +81-(0)3-3235-1852
FAX: +81-(0)3-3235-8031
E-mail: nanami.akimoto@britishcouncil.or.jp

Venues

3331 Arts Chiyoda
Station Conference Manseibashi