Speculative Futures
November 17, Soho House Tokyo
Speculative Futures
A forum for consequential imagination
One day.
A shared room.
Where futures are tested, not imagined.
Speculative Futures brings builders across disciplines into closer proximity to examine what comes next through Ground Truth, The Human Layer, What Moves Culture First, and Physical Proof.
Not prediction.
Consequence.
Agenda
Speculative Futures unfolds through a series of conversations moving from the systems shaping daily life to the intelligence, culture, and physical forms through which the future becomes real.
Opening: Building the Future
A conversation about experimentation, invention, and the creative technologies shaping what comes next.
Ground Truth
How do environments, cities, infrastructures, and atmospheres shape how people live, gather, move, and imagine?
The Human Layer
As intelligence becomes more capable and embedded, what happens to human agency, trust, emotion, and decision-making?
What Moves Culture First
Before futures become mainstream, they often appear as signals—in aesthetics, media, subculture, taste, desire, and creative practice.
Physical Proof
The future becomes believable when it becomes tangible: through objects, tools, materials, machines, bodies, homes, and designed systems.
Closing Reflection
A final synthesis on consequence, responsibility, and what is worth building.
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Speculative Futures Passport
US$990 including 10% Japan Consumption Tax
US$900 before tax
For practitioners working across architecture, design, technology, science, culture, cities, business, research, and public life, and for those building, questioning, and testing what comes next.
Your Passport includes
Full access on November 17
General seating and access to the complete Speculative Futures program at Soho House Tokyo.
Conversations and curated throughlines
A cross-disciplinary forum examining environments, intelligence, culture, design, science, society, and the consequences of what we choose to build.
The Bento
A seasonal lunch curated by Nourish chefs. Dietary requirements can be shared during checkout.
Light hospitality
Thoughtful hospitality throughout the day, supporting a continuous rhythm of listening, exchange, and reflection.
Included
Kit
A bespoke, curated offering created specifically for those in the room.
Commons
Your Speculative Futures badge opens more than the venue. It welcomes you into Tokyo Commons, our growing network of restaurants, cafés, galleries, bookshops, hotels, listening rooms, and independent businesses.
Because the gathering does not end when the program does. It simply finds a new table.
Basecamp
A home for the curious. WPÜ Shinjuku, our Official Community Hotel Partner, is the everyday living room of Tokyo Salone.
Passport holders will receive a private community room rate and booking details after purchasing their ticket. Rooms are subject to availability, so we recommend booking early.
Gather over coffee, music, and conversation. Drop in, meet someone new, or simply make yourself at home. Some of the best conversations begin here.
Explore
Tokyo Salone and Speculative Futures are only the beginning.
Together with Kammui, our Official Japan Experience Partner, discover a deeper Japan through thoughtfully curated journeys, regional explorations, local introductions, and unforgettable side quests.
Experience Japan through the people, places, and stories that rarely appear on a map.
The Speculative Futures Passport is more than entry. It is an invitation to examine what is emerging, challenge what feels inevitable, and take part in deciding what is worth building.
Not simply a seat in the audience.
A place within the inquiry.
Ground truth. Human agency. Physical proof.
Come ready to question, contribute, and engage.
Invoices are available for workplace reimbursement upon request.
Venue
Soho House Tokyo
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global community grounded in culture and connection.
From its home in Aoyama, Soho House Tokyo offers an environment where dialogue unfolds naturally and relationships deepen over time.
Not a stage.
A room where velocity becomes conversation.
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Intentionally limited.
A place in the room has been held for you.
We’ll meet you in Tokyo.
Constellation
Speculative Futures is part of Tokyo Salone, a constellation unfolding across restaurants, galleries, studios, workshops, cafés, gardens, listening rooms, hotels, kitchens, cultural institutions, and unexpected spaces throughout Tokyo and Kyoto.
Every place shapes the conversations it hosts. Together, the cities become our campus.
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Tokyo Salone is built for the long term. Rather than sponsoring a single event, our partners become part of an evolving cultural institution connecting global creative communities with Japan.