- Opening Session
- 10:00-12:00Venue: Tower Hall
- Welcome Address "City Brainstorming"(10:00-10:30)
- Heizo Takenaka (Professor, Keio University / Chairman, Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation / Director, Academyhills)
- Keynote Address 1 "The Future of Tokyo"(10:30-11:00)
- Naoki Inose (Governor of Tokyo) Mr. Naoki Inose has cancelled his participation.
- Keynote Address 2 "Environment, Architecture and Lifestyle"(11:00-11:30)
- Kazuyo Sejima (Architect)
- Keynote Address 3 "Towards a Material Ecology"(11:30-12:00)
- Neri Oxman (Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab)
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- Leading-edge Technologies Session
- 13:00-15:00Venue: Tower Hall
- "Leading-edge Technologies and the Future of Society"
- Elizabeth Diller (Founding Principal, Diller Scofidio + Renfro)
Fiorenzo Omenetto (Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University)
Sebastian Seung (Professor, Computational Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences Dept. and Media Lab, MIT)
Moderator: Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab)
- We live in an environment that is changing exponentially faster and faster. It is no longer rare for us to see some of our constructs for thinking about and dealing with the world collapse before our eyes, and in order for us to keep up pace with the challenges we now face—or soon will—it is important to apply creative thought that is not bound up in the constructs of the past.
This session will consider the powerful creativity through which we must shape our future and the underlying ways of thought, melding consideration of problem-solving that stresses the practicality of the designer's works with examination of the search for an embodiment of beauty that draws on artists' and scientists' inspiration from nature and mathematics.
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- Leading-edge Technologies Session Workshop A
- 16:00-18:00Venue: Auditorium
- "Technologies Interfacing with Nature"
- Neri Oxman (Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab)
Fiorenzo Omenetto (Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University)
- The latest result of Neri Oxman’s research is the Silk Pavilion, a structure created on a digitally designed framework through the collaboration of 6,500 silkworms. This construct demonstrates that Oxman is both artist and designer who at the same time fully qualifies as scientist and engineer.
Fiorenzo Omenetto is a researcher noted for taking inspiration from the ancient material silk and reinventing it as a new material platform for electronics, optics, and medical applications. What Oxman and Omenetto have in common is the great diversity of the fields in which they are active—physical science and technology, art, and scientific pursuits. They seem to move at will between seemingly widely separated fields, creating new values. Here, examples of their approaches will be introduced for interactive analysis by participants.
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- Leading-edge Technologies Session Workshop B
- 16:00-18:00Venue: Sky Studio
- "Playing Games to Map the Brain"
- Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab)
Sebastian Seung (Professor, Computational Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences Dept. and Media Lab, MIT)
- Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung is the world's leading figure in analysis of neural circuits, or connectomes. The human brain comprises a hundred billion neurons and thousands of times as many possible connections in a neural network whose analysis is virtually impossible even given today's advanced scientific techniques. Seung has continued to challenge this “impossibility,” at the same time calling on elements of gamification to create a platform that will permit even children to participate in the process of drawing a connectome map. Seung and Joichi Ito will engage in a dialog to introduce the latest potential applications of Playing Games to Map the Brain.
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- Urban Management, Policy and Strategy Session
- 16:00-18:00Venue: Tower Hall
- The Strategy for Creating Urban Centers
— Strengthening urban center to revitalize a city
- Choe, Sang-Chuel (Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University)
Liu Thai-Ker (Director, RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd / Chairman of Advisory Board, Centre for Liveable Cities)
Shingo Tsuji (President & CEO, Mori Building Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: Hiroo Ichikawa (Dean, Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University / Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation)
- With the enlargement of the city, the creation of future urban centers becomes an important issue for mega cities all over the world. What will invigorate city centers in the future from the perspectives of government, business, and academia?
We invite leading experts from Asia who has been engaged in revitalization of urban center and explore the key points to strengthen urban center to revitalize a city by introducing the role of urban center and also approach by private sector.
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- Culture and Creativity Session 1
- 10:00-12:00Venue: Tower Hall
- Cities of Beautiful Lifestyles
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- Mari Elka Pangestu(Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Republic of Indonesia)
Aaron Y.L.Lee (CEO of JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture / Managing Director, JUT Group)
Victor Lo Chung-wing (Chairman of board of directors of Hong Kong Design Centre)
Muneaki Masuda (Representative Director President and CEO, Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- How should culture be incorporated into urban design in the years ahead? How should urban design grow in step with culture? The panelists will present projects that they have led using their own approaches to answering these questions, and will talk about their strategies and visions for the future.Ms. Mari Elka Pangestu has cancelled her participation.
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- Urban Land Institute Session 1
- 10:00-12:00Venue: Auditorium
- Olympics & City Planning
- Yasushi Aoyama Professor, Meiji University Graduate School of Governance (Former Vice Governor of Tokyo)
Bill Kistler (Managing Partner, at Kistler & Company)
Adam G. Williams (Practice Leader, Design + Planning / Builldings + Places AECOM)
- Major global events like the Olympics are often used as a proactive, enlightened means to drive urban planning and modernize cities.
Adam G. Williams leads a multi-disciplinary team on the design and development of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Legacy Park Masterplans
and was previously involved in the project for the London 2012 Olympic. Williams and two other panelists --- former ULI EMEA President Bill Kistler
and Meiji University Graduate School of Governance Professor and former Vice Governor of Tokyo Yasushi Aoyama --- will present London's approach,
discuss approaches in Rio and use these as a benchmark for viewing and the derivative urban planning.
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- Culture and Creativity Session 2
- 13:00-15:00Venue: Tower Hall
- "Aesthetics in the Future, as Defined by Innovation"
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Francois Bancon (Division General Manager, Product Planning Dept., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.)
Tim Brown (CEO and President of IDEO)
Kenya Hara (Designer)
Kohei Nawa (Sculptor)
Moderator: Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- As innovation continues to evolve in all corners of our lives, what sort of aesthetics and lifestyles can we expect to emerge in our future society? Trendsetters at the front lines of technology and creation will share their predictions and dreams for the future.
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- Urban Land Institute Session 2
- 13:00-15:00Venue: Auditorium
- Use of ICT for future Workstyle Innovation and Urban Development
- Kazuhiro Suzuki two other panelists from Cisco Systems
- To realize its vision of "Changing the way we work, live, play, and learn," Cisco Systems continues to strive in practicing the next generation “Workstyle” and “Workplace.”
In coming decade, various previously unconnected people, things, data and processes around our world will be connected to the Internet. And, we will be entering the era of “The Internet of Everything (IoE)” bringing new capabilities, new values and unprecedented opportunities in businesses through network connections. Looking ahead to the future, Cisco Systems is driving projects that propose how new ICT infrastructures can be applied to buildings and cities in a place where people work, and moreover, against a place to live and play including shopping centers and stadiums.
In this session, presenters will discuss how we are trending toward the future of “workplace” and “workstyle” with case studies, including the changes in places where we live and play such as shopping centers and stadiums.
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- GPCI (Global Power City Index) Session (by The Mori Memorial Foundation)
- 16:00-18:00Venue: Tower Hall
- Global Power City Index 2013: Discuss what will be new urban values
- Yoshiaki Fujimori (President and CEO,LIXIL Corporation)
Mark Norbom (President & CEO, GE Japan Corporation / Vice President, GE)
Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University)
Karen Tang (Executive Director The Better Hong Kong Foundation)
Moderator: Hiroo Ichikawa (Dean, Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University / Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation)
- Global Power City Index 2013 (GPCI 2013) ranks global cities based on over 70 metrics. We expect that in 20 years, cities will place more importance on metrics impacting people's senses such as accurate and speedy urban management, cleanliness, security and safety in addition to efficiency. This sort of soft power will be a critical factor for the competitive edge of future cities.
This session enables panelists to explain their vision on what constitutes the new urban values of a future megalopolis.
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- Culture and Creativity Session 3
- 16:00-18:00Venue: Auditorium
- Art Emerges All Around Us
- Huang Sheng-Yuan (Founder and Principal Architect, Fieldoffice Architects)
Hideki Kasai (Proposal Department, Obayashi Corporation)
Jun'ya Yamaide (Executive Director of NPO "BEPPU PROJECT" / Artist)
Moderator: Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- Leaders of creation in Asia will talk about their efforts to turn cities into creative, inspiring places through art and culture, and offer their visions of the meaning that culture has for urban design.
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- The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE Session
- 19:00-21:00Venue: Tower Hall
- "The Future, Seen from Tokyo"
- Mika Ninagawa (Photographer / Film Director)
Michael S.Molasky (Professor, Faculty of International Research and Education, Waseda University)
Yoshiaki Koga (KODANSHA Senior Deputy Director (International business Division) India Project Director)
Moderator: Toshiaki Miura (Editor-in-Chief, The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE)
- Tokyo—a booming metropolis once again in the global spotlight for its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics—is endowed with many appealing features that even many Japanese people have yet to recognize. What, though, is the value of the Tokyo Brand that is attracting so much attention worldwide? In this session we will explore this question in light of Tokyo's new business possibilities and its world-leading technological, social and cultural assets, with insight from people like photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa, and Kodansha's India Project Director Yoshiaki Koga, who produced the Indian version of Kyojin no Hoshi (Star of the Giants). Serving as moderator will be Toshiaki Miura, a former commentator for TV Asahi's "Hodo Station" and the current Editor in Chief of The Asahi Shimbun Globe.
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- Mori Art Museum Session 1 & 2
- 10:00-11:30Venue: Tower Hall
- "The History of Art Foretells the Future"
- Manuel J. Borja-Villel (Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid)
David Elliott (Founding Director, Mori Art Museum)
Shuji Takashina (Director, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki)
Moderator: Mami Kataoka (Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum)
- In today's world of dramatically changing politics, economy, society and technology, what sort of inspiration can art provide to our lifestyles? How have artists been involved in the massive changes that have transformed the human environment over the centuries? In this session, we look back on the history of art to get a glimpse of our future.
- 11:30-13:00Venue: Tower Hall
- "What's Happening in Asia Now"
- Chung Hyung-Min (Director, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea)
Lars Nittve (Executive Director M+, Hong Kong)
Eugene Tan (Director, The National Art Gallery, Singapore / Programme Director, Singapore Economic Development Board)
Moderator: Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- New art museums are popping up all across Asia today. Leaders behind this boom will report on its progress, and examine the qualities of these uniquely Asian art museums and their potential for growth—as they ponder upon the future direction of art in Asia and how it will relate to new lifestyles.
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- Mori Art Museum Session 3 & Closing Session
- 14:00-15:30Venue: Tower Hall
- "Creative Cities and Life in the Future"
- Kiyoshi Kurokawa (Academic Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
Glenn D. Lowry (Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Nicholas Serota (Director, Tate, London)
Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab)
Moderator: Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
- Without question, art museums have a major influence on the evolution of cities and regions. And, the creative industry that they represent exerts an innovative impact on many aspects of our culture, lifestyles and thinking. Experts from various genres will discuss from their diverse perspectives the new possibilities that art museums and creative industries have to offer to lifestyles in the future.
- 15:30-16:30Venue: Tower Hall
- Closing Session
- Heizo Takenaka (Professor, Keio University / Chairman, Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation / Director, Academyhills)
Hiroo Ichikawa (Dean, Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University / Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation)
Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)
Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab)
- Experts in each area summarize the 3-day forum on cities, creativity, and innovation, as well as suggest future directions.