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How Can a Future Where Individual and Collective Well-Being Overlap Be Realized? This program explores visions of a harmonious future enabled by technology, drawing from research in future society design—including investigations conducted under the Moonshot Research and Development Program, as well as collaborative studies by Osaka University’s Social Solution Initiative and JST’s RISTEX (Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society). It also highlights international research such as the Meta-Sapiens Project, which examines how the digital and the real will merge in future societies shaped by technology. Furthermore, the program engages in dialogues on the conditions necessary for sustainable communities—even in a future where human lifespans may extend to 200 years—and on the transformative power of art that integrates science and technology, offering multigenerational and cross-disciplinary perspectives on how such a future might take shape.

【Reflection】
The session “My and Our Harmonious Future: Communities Beyond 2050” examined how to redesign the relationship between the individual and the community by combining technological and cultural approaches to make harmony actionable. The moderator noted the possibility of using sensing to capture an individual’s state and AI agent–like systems that approximate “what I would think,” suggesting that such technologies could help support mediation between “I” and “we.”

Tatsuki Hayama illustrated how mathematics and visual media can translate abstract ideas into felt experiences, enabling participants to embody notions such as the One and communal bonds. A filmic presentation demonstrated how immersion can catalyze understanding. Niko Fukushima redefined harmony as a condition where “my happiness” and “our happiness” are mutually acknowledged within the harm principle, using the metaphor of the sea to compare social expression styles. She proposed a two-step approach: raise quality of life first, then cultivate self- and other-understanding, while reflecting on agency under algorithmic recommendation and the balance between artificial and natural harmony.

Naoya Makinodan outlined a way of living that traverses real and digital boundaries, arguing that expanded empathy and shared experience can reconfigure community design. His future scenarios imagine porous boundaries between self and other, where perceptions and affects circulate and new forms of collaboration emerge. A video message from musician tohen described a practice that unites mathematical graphics and music so that audiences resonate with breathing, stellar motion, and ocean swells, awakening sensitivity to harmony and renewing imagination. Akihiko Shimoyama spoke about cities and art from a long-term perspective and proposed symbols and venues that future generations can inherit.

The discussion closed by reaffirming that experience sits at the center even when technology mediates relations; plastic uses of AI must be guided by ethics, and creativity embedded in play and ritual remains crucial. Four requirements for 2050 emerged: translating abstractions into experience through art and science; building self- and other-understanding on a baseline of quality of life; using AI agents and participatory tools for mediated decision-making; and renewing institutions and ethics to balance personal freedom with communal norms.

【Post EXPO Initiatives】
The speakers highlighted the following as key perspectives for their respective research and business development after the conference:

(1) Continuously expanding and enhancing programs that utilize cross-disciplinary expressions such as mathematics, visuals, and music to facilitate experiential engagement with abstract themes
(2) Designing consensus-building processes accessible to diverse stakeholders, including youth, and enhancing the quality of mediation and dialogue between “I” and “we” through participatory tools like AI agents and live Q&A sessions
(3) Building on improved quality of life (QOL), developing educational curricula and workshops fostering self-understanding and understanding of others in schools, communities, and online, thereby increasing pathways for empathy rooted in experience
(4) Establish collaborative communities for production and research involving artists, researchers, and practitioners. Expand the “sensitivity to harmony” through work presentations, public critiques, and community-based exhibitions.

Through these efforts, we will promote the creation of a societal foundation that does not fix the relationship between the individual and the community, but rather flexibly reweaves it according to circumstances..

*Part or all of this report was generated by AI.