What should the cities of the future be like? What should we eat and how should we live?

We are facing various issues such as climate crisis and biodiversity, and it is well known that our lifestyles in the city will have a great impact on the solutions to these issues. Under such circumstances, Tokyo Urban Farming (TUF), which aims to promote a regenerative urban lifestyle under the slogan "Let's make Tokyo a forest where people can eat," will hold "TOKYO ART FARM" to nurture the "future of food and agriculture in Tokyo" through art and the five senses in the Yaesu and Kyobashi areas of Tokyo Station with various producers, artists, and citizens who met through the book Urban Farming Life.

About 150 years have passed since the Edo period, known as a recycling-oriented society. We aim to create a chic agricultural lifestyle culture from modern Tokyo.

Activities

Aiming to create new connections and "circulation" between people and nature, agriculture and food, producers and consumers,
The event will include edible art experiences, art performances, workshops, marche, Tokyo Vegetable Tea Party, and talk programs at "MOBILE FARM," which utilizes unwanted suitcases, and "LONG TABLE," which is created with thinned wood from the Tokyo Metropolitan area's water source forests.

Schedule

Organizer: UNIVERSITY of CREATIVITY, Tokyo Urban Farming
Co-Organizer: General Non-Profit Incorporated Organization Tokyo Biennale
Endorsement: "Vitality.Swiss" Embassy of Switzerland in Japan
Support: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council
Collaborative Partners: East Japan Railway Company, Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store (Future Stadard Laboratory, Daimaru Tokyo), Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd., Future Food Institute, S&B FOODS INC., Toranomon Distillery, Local Food Cycling, HOTEL NIWA TOKYO, Boden Co., Protoleaf, SHIBAURA HOUSE
TUF Organizers: Hidenori Kondo, Katsuhiko Ono, Yumiko Kosugi, Reiko Miyamura (UoC)
Planning and Producing：
TUF Ambassadors: Remi Fujii, Keiko Togashi, Yuri Yamaguchi, Ai Kuga, Akira Hoshiba, Mao Abe, Akihiko Koseki, and others.

Artists

Shogo Iwakiri, Norika Ishida, Hiroshi Koike, Ayako Suwa (food creation), Rick　Shinmi, Rua SODA, TODO (Takakuni Kawahara, Tomomi Shibakusa), Tokyo University of Science Nishida Laboratory, N High School, Hideki Nishizawa (Exit Film), Ryo Yamamoto (Spicy Architects), Aiko Yamamoto, EER (Extended Environmental Record), Marcus Maeder, Veronica Mockler

FUTURE FOOD TALK

Kyoko Gendatsu, Mao Sakaguchi, Kosuke Ono, Yasuko Tsuji, Alice Waters, Kentaro Ichiki, Katsuhiko Ono, Hidenori Kondo, Tatsuya Noda, Mako Miyatake, Koichiro Matsuo, Yohei Funayama, NESS, Mizuguchi Riru, Maho Arakawa

FOOD & ART MARCHE,/WORKSHOP

QINO project, toranomon distillery, kiki craft, bibibi_woodworking, Meguriya, Mokume Books, Little Tree Co. Ltd., Forest Tribes, Bio Cresson, atelier Hanabusa, Bee farm Doshi, BeeSlow, TWO VIRGINS, Shimokita Engeibu, Honey Project, elab, MIRAITEIBAN KENKYU-JYO, LFC Compost, circulus, Megurasu, Chavipelto, general store、Mitsurudo、Yuruvegi-bu＠Team Youga, Boden, Mottainai BAR＠Skima Design Lab., warmerwarmer