In this project, an “Artpoint” represents a crossover point where people, towns, and activities meet and connect through art.
There are a lot of fascinating areas in Tokyo, including the traditional culture preserved from the Edo period, the old neighborhood atmosphere of the Showa period, and the latest trend of today.
There are lifestyles and culture that are unique to each of those areas, and extremely wide variety of activities take place in each area. On the other hand, however, it is also true that people in Tokyo are forced to live a consumptive, fluid lifestyle, which is a typical problem of a big city.
People become less involved in their communities, and they are concerned about their identities.
The Tokyo Artpoint Project is designed to connect unique people, towns, and activities in Tokyo, and provide people with opportunities to be involved in their community voluntarily, so that they can revitalize their community and towns as “their own”, and create and spread new culture from Tokyo.
Interaction of 3 action programs
- Art Programs
Art programs are designed to create and spread new culture from Tokyo by connecting various local resources: people, towns, and activities. - Interdisciplinary Programs
Interdisciplinary programs are designed to promote various initiatives for residents and provide them with the opportunity to discover new aspects of Tokyo by combining the efforts in fields such as education, disaster prevention, business, environment, and welfare. - Human Resourses Programs
Human resources programs are designed to focus on nurturing people who can discover and create multifaceted local culture, and connect people, towns and activities through art.
This project is intended to create a number of small “artpoints” in Tokyo by having these 3 programs interact with each other, and gather the surge created at those artpoints to generate enormous cultural power.
