CCBTx SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026
Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] will be exhibiting at a booth, holding talk sessions, and conducting workshops at “SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026,” Asia’s largest global innovation conference, which will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from Monday, April 27 to Wednesday, April 29, 2026.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 overview
Date
April 27, 2026 (Monday) - April 29, 2026 (Wednesday/Holiday)
Business Days | April 27 (Mon) & 28 (Tue), 2026, 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM
Public Day | April 29 (Wed, National Holiday), 2026, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
*Tickets are required for entry on "Business Days." Entry is free on "Public Days."
Venue
Tokyo Big Sight West Hall 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. (3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo)
For event details and ticket applications, please check the official “SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026” website.
CCBT Booth Exhibit
Co-Creative Transformation of Tokyo
Making Tokyo better through the intersection of creativity and technology
With a mission to inspire, co-create, incubate, and network, CCBT organizes events across five core programs that foster a cycle of literacy, inspiration, proposal, and action.One of these core programs is Art Incubation, which selects artist fellows annually through an open call to serve as CCBT’s partners. By providing creatives with new creative opportunities and opening up their creative processes to the public, CCBT aspires to cultivate artistic expression, inquiry, and action that can make Tokyo a better city.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 This booth showcases Weather by Doi Itsuki, one of the five artist fellows selected for 2025. The project involves public participation and straddles art and science.
2025 CCBT Artist Fellow: Doi Itsuki「Weather」
photo: Kenshu Shintsubo
Inspired by our highly individual experiences of weather and exploring the weather that might have been, this project focuses on the microclimates that always surround us, yet of which we are rarely aware.
The project focuses what is not captured by conventional wide-area data from the Japan Meteorological Agency: microclimates, which are minute environmental changes like wind patterns, temperature, and humidity. It attempts to make microclimate data and the act of observation itself available as a commons by developing original weather sensor devices, conducting public workshops for participants to observe and share the weather in their respective locations, and deploying a web application for presenting this data. An exhibition held in Sendagi from February to March 2026 cultivated a space for exploring alternative forms of weather beyond the numerical and verbal, using the collected real-time microclimate data as a starting point.
The sensor design and software are open source, liberating the micro-level movements of the city as a public commons.
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight West Hall 1, 2(1F) All Japan Ecosystem Area
Date: Business Days | April 27 (Mon) & 28 (Tue), 2026, 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM
Public Day | April 29 (Wed, National Holiday), 2026, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
*Tickets are required for entry on “Business Days.” Entry is free on “Public Days.” For event details and ticket applications, please check the official “SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026” website.
Talk session
Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) is a creative hub dedicated to harnessing the creativity of citizens through art and digital technology and bringing it into society.
This session features Ogawa Hideaki, Creative Director of CCBT and Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, together with Ling Tan, London-based artist and co-founder of architecture & design studio HAQUE TAN.
Drawing on their respective practices, the speakers will explore how the intersection of art and technology can generate new forms of social innovation. The conversation will also consider the potential of citizen participation in shaping new pathways for social transformation.
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight West Hall 1, 2(1F) Atrium Stage
Date: April 27 (Mon) , 2026, 14:30 PM – 15:15 PM
*A ticket is required to participate. For event details and ticket applications, please check the official “SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026” website.
Speakers
Ogawa Hideaki（Creative Director of CCBT/ Artistic Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab）
Ling Tan（Co-founder HAQUE TAN, Artist, Architect）
Ogawa Hideaki
Creative Director of CCBT／Artistic Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab
Hideaki Ogawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, and has been based in Linz, Austria, since 2007. Currently, he is the Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the organization’s research and development division. He also holds the roles of Artistic Director for the Sapporo International Art Festival 2027 and Creative Director of Civic Creative Base Tokyo.
Ling Tan
Co-founder HAQUE TAN／Artist, Architect
Ling Tan is an award-winning artist, designer & creative technologist whose work explores how people can collectively reshape the urban systems and structures they inhabit, using culture, participation & technology as catalysts for dialogue &
action. Trained as an architect, she creates work ranging from permanent public art to large-scale participatory events. Her recent projects include Harvesting Climate Action, Wild Imaginarium at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Playing Democracy 2.0, winner of STRP ACT Award 2024. She co-founded design studio HAQUE TAN and is a UK Design Council Expert.
・Ling Tan – official website
・HAQUE TAN – official website
・ Umbrellium – official website
Workshop
（No advance registration required; first-come, first-served basis.）
Doi Itsuki Workshop: Making Invisible Weather Visible
In this workshop, participants make a hygrometer out of everyday materials to monitor changes in the weather in their immediate surroundings. Discover how the weather in distant places around the world that you normally experience only through forecasts is actually connected to the meteorological conditions in your own location.
Date: April 29, 2026 (Wednesday, National Holiday)
Start Times: 11:00~, 13:00~, 14:00~, 15:00~, 16:00~, 17:00~
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight, West Halls 3,4 (4th Floor)
Instructor: Doi Itsuki (CCBT Artist Fellow, 2025)
Capacity: 15 people per session (No advance registration required, first-come, first-served) *Registration begins 15 minutes before each session in front of the venue. However, registration will close once the capacity is reached.
Participation Fee: Free
*Conducted in Japanese
Details: https://ccbt.rekibun.or.jp/?p=47665&post_type=event&preview=1&_ppp=c6ac2e27da
*The photos show workshops and exhibitions conducted by workshop instructor Doi Itsuki during his time as a CCBT Artist Fellow in 2025. Please note that these photos do not reflect the content of this workshop.
Doi Itsuki
Complex systems researcher, artist; Senior Researcher, Alternative Machine Inc.
Born in 1989 in Hyogo and based in Tokyo, Doi Itsuki completed a doctoral program at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Engaged in research on artificial life and artificial intelligence, he also pursues a practice exploring externality and distance through primarily sound-based mediums. His major recent exhibitions include Another Weather (2026, Tokyo), Harsh Listening (2025, LESSAYA, Tokyo), MONAURALS (2023, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo), I Forgot How to Look at the Ocean (2022, JINNAN HOUSE, Tokyo), and ALTERNATIVE MACHINE (2021, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo). His music releases include Peeling Blue (CD, 2017).
ACCESS
Tokyo Big Sight
〒135-0063 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
West Hall 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
Access from various modes of transportation
https://sushitech-startup.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/access/
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Organizer：
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Executive Committee
ABOUT US
Based on the Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] mission “Co-Creative Transformation of Tokyo,” “CCBTx” is a program for implementing projects in collaboration with diverse partners across fields both in Japan and overseas with the aim of embodying the concepts of “Inspire,” “Co-Create,” “Incubate,” and “Network,” and proposing a creative social model.
Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] opened its doors in October 2022 in Shibuya, Tokyo as a hub for the public to explore their “civic-creative” imaginations through art and digital technology. As a lab to realize and popularize this “civic creativity,” CCBT hosts projects and events in tandem with its experts and collaborators in the fields of art, design, and technology. Through its five core programs–Meetup, Workshop, Art Incubation, Camp, and Showcase–CCBT aims to become the driving force of innovation that is generated from Tokyo.
