YouFab Global Creative Award 2019 Exhibition and Awards Ceremony

With roots in the narrative of “Fab” initiated by Loftwork and FabCafe, YouFab Global Creative Awards aim to foster a global network of creators unlimited by genre. In the 2019’s 8th edition, 20 winners were selected from record highest 285 works from 43 countries.

The Overview of YouFab2019 Winning Works
https://www.youfab.info/2019/winners.html

In December 2019, a panel of judges gathered to select the winning works. After a strict and fair examination of the entries with this year’s topic, “Conviviality”, in mind, a diverse group of judges have made their choice. Rather than focusing on the use of technology and level of completion, they awarded works that valued process and approach without fixating on the goal, works that realized the openness of variability. This year’s lineup of works showed a number of new ways to interpret Fab, ranging from such intangible concepts as creating a space for conversation or a Make-a-thon, to a poetic robotics research and exhibits discussing the problem of military bases in Okinawa.

A comment from YouFab Global Creative Award 2019 Chief Judge, Kei Wakabayashi:
“We had to set Fab free from the concept of ‘making things’ and try extending our thoughts to the ‘way of creating’ new places, systems, relationships between people. Once we adopted this point of view, the division between the digital and the physical or the burden of having to value the technology itself simply disappeared. I feel that the works awarded at YouFab will assume great significance as they symbolically express how society will develop in the 2020s.”

YouFab Global Creative Award 2019 Winning Works

Grand Prize

First Prize

Next STEAM Prize（Panasonic Special Prize）

General Prize

Student Prize

Finalist

Winning Works Exhibition

Media Ambition Tokyo 2020

Time: February 28^th 2020 (Friday) – March 8^th 2020 (Sunday)
Place: SHIBUYA QWS (2-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Scramble Square (East wing) 15th floor)
＊ For the overview of Media Ambition Tokyo 2020, please visit the following website: http://mediaambitiontokyo.jp

Artists participating in YouFab2019

• Collective Hysteria（Indonesia）
• Amir Zobel and Itay Blumenthal（Israel）
• Suzy Salaiman（Malaysia）
• Camila De Ezkauriatza（Mexico）
• Witaya Junma（Thailand）
• Tadasu Takamine (Japan）
• Sonoko Hayashi (ICT Rehabilitation Research Lab)
• Naoki Hamanaka (FabLab Shinagawa) （Japan）*only hosting WS

YouFab 2019 Award Ceremony & Events

We will be organizing an award ceremony and a talk session with the judges and winners.

Time: February 29^th 2020（Saturday）4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m./ Award ceremony and talk
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m./ Afterparty (the exhibition can be visited until 8:00 p.m.)
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Place: SHIBUYA QWS SCRAMBLE HALL
（2-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Scramble Square (East wing) 15th floor）
Speakers:
・Judges / Kei Wakabayashi, Keiichiro Matsumura, Chiaki Hayashi, Leonhard Bartolomeus
・YouFab Award Chairman Toshiya Fukuda（representative of 777CreativeStrategies）
・Winners / Collective Hysteria, Suzy Salaiman, Witaya Junma, Tadasu Takamine, Naoki Hamanaka (FabLab Shimagawa)

How to apply: Peatix Sign up page

Artist Talk with YouFab2019 Winners
‘A CONVIVIAL DIALOGUE’

Presentation of the works and a cross talk with YouFab2019 winners
*a consecutive interpreter will be present

Time: March 1st (Sunday) 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Place: SHIBUYA QWS SCRAMBLE HALL
（2-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Scramble Square (East wing) 15th floor）
Capacity: 100 participants
Speakers: Collective Hysteria（Grand Prize winner）, Suzy Salaiman（artist), Tadasu Takamine（artist）
Moderator: Leonhard Bartolomeus（Curator）

How to apply: through the official YouFab 2019 website

Workshops with the Grand Prize Winner
Let’s create a zine we would like to read at Shibuya in 2040

A workshop with the Grand Prize winner, members of the Hysteria art collective based in Semarang, Indonesia. The objective of this event is to discover Shibuya taking advantage of this year being the one of the Olympics, imagine the next 20 years and create a zine. During the workshop the winning residents of suburban Indonesia, which can be said to currently experience rapid economic growth, will offer their unique point of view and their specialty, skills in facilitating dialogue, to help the participants envision Shibuya 20 years from now on.

Time: March 1st (Sunday) 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Place: SHIBUYA QWS SCRAMBLE HALL
（2-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Scramble Square (East wing) 15th floor）

Recommended Age: from 12 years old（Japanese-English consecutive interpreter will be present）
Capacity: 15 participants（prior registration required, if the number of applicants exceeds the limit participants will be chosen by a draw）
Facilitators: Collective Hysteria（Grand Prize winner), Leonhard Bartolomeus（curator）

How to apply: Peatix page

YouFab2019 Sponsors

Planning: Loftwork　Organization: FabCafe Global