Futurelab partners with the Creative Futurists Initiative (CFI), a collaboration between the University of Tokyo and Sony, that aims to cultivate “creative futurists”—individuals who can transcend various boundaries to create new value for the future.
The discourse in our Art Thinking workshops and lectures reflects on “Bias in Technology,” specifically how artists deal with the entanglements between technology and socially biased factors such as gender, disability, and imbalance of power. In collaboration with project teams of students and Sony employees from diverse backgrounds, we explored artistic strategies such as exposing bias, making inclusive datasets, and engaging in activist confrontation—demonstrating the value of artistic thinking in enriching the initiative’s aims to combine research and practice across diverse disciplines.
