We are delighted to announce an open call for a Playable City Tokyo Residency. Watershed is working in partnership with the British Council to offer an exciting opportunity for two artists to travel to Tokyo for the 2018 Residency.

The Playable City Tokyo Residency is an opportunity to collaboratively research and develop playful ideas at the intersection of art, technology, society that innovate around public space in Tokyo. We are offering two places for creative people from any discipline who believe we can start a new kind of city conversation through play.

Building on the work of an ongoing Playable City Tokyo programme, the Tokyo Residency will support, inspire and challenge participants to develop playful interventions using creative technology to respond to public space in and around central Tokyo.

Playable City Tokyo launched in 2015 to develop new ideas for urban spaces and to engage communities in thinking about the future of Tokyo (particularly in the run up to Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Games). Since 2016, a multiannual programme of creative labs including the Playful Welcome, and presentations have created a thriving local network of creatives, producers and supporters including Rhizomatiks.

Residency participants will create and deliver prototype experiences for the public and attendees of the Making the City Playable Conference on 28-29 September. Artists, designers, architects, urbanists, magicians, interaction designers, technologists or other kinds of professional creative practitioners can apply by Wed 16 May.

We'd love to hear from anyone who can demonstrate a history of delivering high quality, innovative professional practice in public - find out how to apply.

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