[demoexpo General Incorporated Association] [Six months before the opening of the Expo] Started demonstration project “demo!tape” to propose new ways to play in the city
general incorporated association demoexpo Press release: October 7, 2024 [Six months before the opening of the Expo] Launch of demonstration experiment project “demo!tape” to propose new ways to play in the city Use “tape” to create giant chess and 3D comics to create fun in the city
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Prefecture/Representative Director: Hanaoka, hereinafter referred to as demo!expo), announced on October 13, 2024, six months before the Expo, that the 2025 In preparation for the Osaka/Kansai Expo, we will begin a demonstration experiment project “demo!tape” that proposes new ways to enjoy the city. The concept is “Even a single tape can make a city more interesting.” The 3D Gag Manga uses “tape” not to regulate the city, but to loosen it, and plays traditional games such as giant chess and the ◯× game, as well as “THE 3D Gag Manga,” an
experimental manga that creates a gag space in the city. will be installed. This project began with the desire to preserve the emotional culture of a functional and convenient city. The first part of this project will be held on October 13th at the Expo
momentum-building events “HH EXPO,” “EKI EXPO,” and “EXPO OPEN STREET.” Tape is used not to regulate the city, but to loosen it. Cities are now bound by various regulations and rules, making it difficult to create play. One item that symbolizes these regulations is “tape,” which has been used to enforce boundaries and rules, such as “KEEP OUT” and “social distancing.” However, tape originally has many positive roles, such as connecting things, repairing things, and decorating things. This project paradoxically uses tape, which has been increasingly used for regulatory purposes over the past few years, to “relax city rules and social conventions and expand ways to enjoy and spend time in the city.” The idea was “why not use it for this purpose?” demo!tape project held at an event half a year before the opening of the Expo
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-049c1443b10f1e98fa0b191b280c88b6-1080×1080.jpg KEEP OUT? An experiment that celebrates the courage to take on challenges. An “occasional phone call,” a “mysterious letter,” and a “mysterious box” surrounded by “KEEP OUT” tape. For those who can overcome the trespassing restrictions and pick up each item, we will deliver a mechanism that will expand the way you see and play Umeda town. [Period] October 13th (Sunday), 14th (Monday/holiday), 2024 [Location] JR Osaka Station North Gate Building 2nd floor Atrium Square
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-6fe0d92059b97470a7bec4263b10c854-1080×1080.jpg THE 3D gag manga An experimental manga that creates a gag space in the city. The frames separated by lines are connected by “place” and “time,” but by releasing the frames from the two-dimensional world to the three-dimensional world, the space around them also becomes the world of the manga. We will conduct an experiment involving [Period] October 13th (Sunday) to October 20th (Sunday), 2024 [Location] JR Osaka Station South Gate Building 1st floor Departure Plaza
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-609cc0a43b5f3c6008479eda4e04cd84-1704×1444.jpg The world’s easiest toilet An experiment to make it a little easier to feel like, “Sorry to keep you waiting,” when you see someone waiting for their next turn in the restroom. Those waiting can choose a kind message written on the floor and stand there, enjoying silent communication with the person coming out of the restroom. [Period] October 13th (Sunday) to November 4th (Monday/holiday), 2024 [Location] JR Osaka Station Osaka Station City 5th floor Toki no Hiroba
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-9d61086f62b34a148a57c40ebb5f9b25-404×404.jpg A game reincarnated into another world in Umeda!? Real RPG “Tape Fantasy” An experiment where you can enjoy the world of RPG games in the real world. Various mini-games will be held in the RPG game “Tape Fantasy” that suddenly appeared at Hankyu Sun Square. A new type of rally-type immersive experience. [Period] Sunday, October 13, 2024 [Location] Hankyu Sun Square
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-efa43408a24f061366f3aa2886721731-404×404.jpg Eight games appear in the city Tape Game Quest The nostalgic game you played when you were a child has now become huge. A demonstration experiment in which a corner of Umeda is filled with games such as giant ◯ × game, giant dice, and giant chess. [Period] Sunday, October 13, 2024 [Location] Hankyu Sun Square
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-3aacf1ab96f538b4c840c5407af9fd72-1010×937.jpg Caught up in a giant chess game!? ISCHES An experiment in which a rest area in the city is turned into a chessboard. You can sit on a chair as a piece on a giant 5m x 5m chessboard made of tape, and enjoy participating as a player or as a spectator. [Period] Sunday, October 13, 2024 [Location] Hankyu Sun Square
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-40fcf511c1c770e7d7056d5c979efc3f-557×557.jpg What lies ahead of the troubled YES/NO chart…? Umeda Maigo Road We have experimentally installed a “giant flowchart” that allows you to learn about your own values by answering questions. There is also a trick that may relieve your “worries” when you reach the end. [Period] October 12, 2024 (Sat) to October 20, 2024 (Sun) [Location] HEP FIVE wall, Esto Street Demonstration experiments began in Umeda on October 13, six months before the opening of the Expo The first installment of “demo!tape” will begin with the events “HH EXPO,” “EKI EXPO,” and “EXPO OPEN STREET,” which will be held on October 13, six months before the Expo, to build momentum for the Expo. October 13, 2024 is six months before the Osaka/Kansai Expo 2025. On that day, we will transform the Umeda area, which can be called the gateway to Osaka and the Kansai region, into a testing site*.This will be a step toward enlivening the city and leaving value in the city, rather than allowing the great opportunity of the Expo to end within the venue itself. I will connect it to. Creating a mechanism that allows people to use the city more freely is one of demo!expo’s answers to the Expo’s theme of “Designing a future society that shines with life.” *The concept of Osaka/Kansai Expo 2025 is “a testing ground for future society” I want to preserve the cultural and emotional richness of Umeda Over the past ten years, new facilities have been popping up in Umeda one after another, and the options for how to spend and enjoy the city seem to be expanding. However, this is an option to encourage “consumption” and “economic activity,” and city regulations are becoming stronger than ever. In order to value not only rational and functional value but also cultural and emotional richness, we use tape to create “play” in the city and use it as an opportunity to loosen regulations that have become too strict. I would like to create. “demo!tape” event details Your city is also a pavilion. “HH EXPO”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-d6f16cc3c1dd5229a2815b8b48bf06b6-1666×909.jpg We will create “playgrounds” all over the place where everyone can freely enjoy themselves in their own way, and make the Expo more exciting from the city’s perspective. For example, a city where everyone’s singing voices can be heard all day long. This is a city where not only children but also adults can be harassed. A city where the entire city becomes an RPG stage… Maybe this is what it means to have everyone laugh, play, have fun, and have “life shine”? Would you like to work together to create a place where you can experience such joy with your whole body? [Event Overview] [Venue] Osaka Umeda area (around Hankyu Sun Square) / Around Hankyu Osaka Umeda Station along the Hankyu Hanshin Line [Duration] October 13th (Sunday) to November 23rd (Saturday), 2024 [Sponsor] Hankyu Corporation [Co-sponsored by] Demoexpo General Incorporated Association [Sponsored by] Toshiba Data Corporation, Suntory Corporation, Okamura Corporation, Kikusui Tape Corporation [Cooperation] graf, Kansai University Expo Department This station opens new encounters and the future. “EKI EXPO”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-16776c7761f8521f8d79ef9548fb8b73-1929×1052.jpg Osaka Station is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. “We will continue to inherit the culture that has been cultivated through history and continue to create new value that will be born in the future.” We are building on this desire by creating momentum six months before the Osaka-Kansai Expo, as well as holding various demonstrations that will be enjoyed by those who gather. will be carried out. Osaka Station/Osaka Station City aims to be a “town where tomorrow expands” for everyone, where new encounters are born and a new future opens up from this station. [Event Overview] [Venue] Osaka Station City [Period] October 13th (Sunday) to November 4th (Monday/holiday), 2024 [Sponsor] JR West Station City Co., Ltd., JR West Osaka Development Co., Ltd. [Co-sponsored by] Demoexpo General Incorporated Association [Sponsored by] Toshiba Data Corporation, Suntory Corporation, Okamura Corporation, Kikusui Tape Corporation [Cooperation] JR West Japan SC Development Co., Ltd., graf, Kansai University Expo Department [Produced] General incorporated association demoexp Newly Opening Our efforts to open up the city begin at the entrance to Osaka. “EXPO OPEN STREET”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-f0ff2690171f9fe4ff6c7bb91c73bfbc-1920×1080.jpg In preparation for the Osaka/Kansai Expo, which will be held in six months, we will communicate the appeal of Osaka’s city and culture by creating a space where people, entertainment, and music can be enjoyed. We will be holding a ribbon cutting jointly with the people of the town to express our attitude of welcoming customers from Japan and abroad and our hopes for the future. [Event Overview] [Venue] South sidewalk in front of JR Osaka Station [Date] October 13, 2024 (Sunday) [Sponsor] Osaka Umeda Area Management General Incorporated Association [Co-host] Osaka City [Sponsored by] Toshiba Data Corporation, Suntory Corporation, Okamura Corporation, Kikusui Tape Corporation [Cooperation] JR West SC Development Co., Ltd., Nomura Kogeisha Co., Ltd., Yamada Tatami Store, graf, Kansai University Expo Department [Produced] Demoexpo General Incorporated Association [Venue MAP]
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-7a5f5c83f541aeca3c3b728de8da2ee4-1363×852.png Reference material: demo!expo’s past activities “EXPO Bar Project” to create a base where people who want to enjoy the Expo from all over Japan can gather without permission A project to hold “EXPO Bars” events across the country where people interested in the Osaka/Kansai Expo and people who want to start something new in the region can gather and talk. A variety of projects have been born from this site, which serves as a place for exchange between Expo officials and the general public to exchange opinions without discrimination. It will begin in the spring of 2022, and will be held simultaneously in four prefectures in the Kansai region on July 18, 2022, 1,000 days before the Expo. Currently, the event has been held approximately 60 times, mainly in Osaka and Kansai, but also from Aomori to Kagoshima, with a total of over 5,000 visitors. In the future, we aim to build momentum from Kansai to the rest of the country and the world by opening more locations and creating scenes that can become more exciting at the same time. https://demoexpo.jp
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-652515d0c0f40d5fdafa8d1228c8a85d-3900×1260.jpg New Osaka souvenir plan by Osakae YOKAN In order to create new “souvenir sweets” that will become the face of Osaka, this is a project in which Japanese sweets makers in the Kansai region will work together to create a “genre” of Osaka souvenirs and make them take root in Osaka’s culture. Project details EXPO University This is an event where ideas are brainstormed in a workshop format to think about how Kansai universities should be involved in the Osaka-Kansai Expo. (“EXPO University Kandai Campus” will be held in April 2023) Project details
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-4fca9ed27f91fd3b648af0e8a3ec1062-1576×533.png EXPO TRAIN A chartered train event where stores, companies, and artists along the line appear as pavilions on the train, showcasing the charm of the region in its entirety. (“EXPO TRAIN Kintetsu” will be held in July 2023 and “EXPO TRAIN Hankyu” will be held in April 2024) EXPO TRAIN Kintetsu Event Report EXPO TRAIN Hankyu Event Report Yayakoshi-so’s undelivered gifts by Panasonic An experiential workshop that brings out children’s imagination and creativity under the theme of “Experiences that let children unleash themselves,” which is the theme of the Panasonic Group Pavilion “Nomo no Kuni”. Press release Event report Another World Expo created from the city demo!expo is working toward 2025 with the goal of “creating an Expo from the city, with the people of the city as the main characters.” As a culmination of these efforts, we aim to create another World Expo from the city, “Machigoto Expo.”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-5e6f74dba49d3ab2cab76491a1cf1e67-1830×680.jpg “EXPO TEAM CAMP 2022” will be held 3 years before the opening demo!expo was formed in September 2021, and in March 2022 of the following year, the organization’s first event “EXPO TEAM CAMP 2022” will be held in Yumeshima, the first event of the Expo. People related to the Expo, promising startups, and students thinking about their future careers gathered together. We created a talk session and a place for participants to talk about their dreams and challenges. Press release Event report “EXPO Bar” will be held at 6 locations in 2 prefectures and 4 prefectures of Kansai at the same time 1000 days before the opening On July 18, 2022, 1000 days ago, we will hold the event “1000 Days Ago! EXPO Bar” where everyone who is interested in the Expo will gather without any barriers to promote the future Osaka/Kansai Expo. Held simultaneously in the prefecture. We held a prototype presentation for the “New Osaka Souvenir Project” and launched “1000 Nichima Ale,” a craft ale that is aged for 1000 days and is delicious to drink. Press release
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/139145/8/139145-8-41bc94fcae0983186ec73c4f6ada5756-2382×568.jpg “Machigoto Expo 2023” held two years before opening On April 13, 2023, two years before the opening of the event, under the title “Machigoto Expo 2023,” various activities were held in Osaka for about a month to create various initiatives in the city. Press release Event report “Machigoto Expo Carnival” held 500 days before the opening On November 30, 2023, 500 days before the opening, we will announce the
“Machigoto Expo,” a project that will turn the entire city into an Expo, and we will hold an event to experiment with Osaka’s new night culture for the remaining 500 days at “Namba Carnival Mall.” It was held at “. Press release Event report “Machigoto Expo Bus Tour” and “Machigoto Expo Platform” announced one year before opening On April 12, 2024, one year before the opening, we announced the implementation of the “Machigoto Expo Bus Tour,” a bus tour full of charm that is different from the usual Osaka streets, and the “Machigoto Expo Platform.” Event report Inquiries regarding this press release Email: info@demoexpo.jp ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー [Contact information for inquiries regarding this matter from the press] general incorporated association demoexpo TEL: 06-6445-1040 Email: info@demoexpo.jp