After a period of rapid economic growth, Tokyo grew quickly and became a huge metropolis. However, we are now in a period of stagnating growth and facing various problems. We now need to think about how to ‘regenerate’ Tokyo.

Our second URBAN×ICT workshop offered an opportunity for students to develop integrative urban regeneration programs for Tokyo using their diverse academic backgrounds. This workshop allowed the students to recognize the differences and similarities regarding their understandings of Tokyo. The workshop began with a lecture called ‘Tokyo Community Development Planning and Workshop: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives’ by Professor Hideki Koizumi. Following that, students worked in groups of seven people to deliver Tokyo 2025 regeneration proposals related to everyday life. The process of the group work was as follows:

1. Self-introduction: students shared their name, major, the theme of their thesis

and what they liked about Tokyo.

2. Discussion of problems in Tokyo: their ideas were written on blue Post-it notes.

3. Discussion of resources in relation to these problems: their ideas — focussed

on people, technology, culture and nature — were written on pink Post-it notes.

4. Design of urban regeneration programs for the Tokyo of 2025.

5. Write a ‘day in the life’ story set in 2025.

Although we did not have sufficient time for discussion within the groups, the students came up with unique stories through their collaborative work. The titles of the stories were as follows:

– A New System for Decreasing Garbage Using Convenience Stores

– United Community: Shared House & Shared Sento

– Green Rich Tokyo: Bonsai Park

– Sento Revival: Public Baths as a Community Space