A Forum for Consequential Imagination
November 14, Tokyo American Club
A cross-disciplinary forum convening designers, technologists, policymakers, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners to examine the systems shaping what comes next. Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
BECOME A partner
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A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR CONSEQUENCE AND POSSIBILITY
Speculative Futures is rigorous, future-facing, and grounded in responsibility.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
It is a forum where designers, engineers, policymakers, scientists, founders, artists, and strategists gather to examine the forces reshaping society.
We believe imagination carries weight.
Participants do not gather here to predict trends. They gather to test assumptions, prototype possibilities, and confront the second- and third-order consequences of emerging systems.
These sessions are designed for depth, structured for consequence, and built to move beyond inspiration toward applied thinking.
THE ROLE OF SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Within the Tokyo Salone cultural infrastructure, Speculative Futures serves as the platform’s forward laboratory.
Where Tokyo Salone convenes global cultural leaders, and Nourish explores the elemental systems of food and care, Speculative Futures examines the technological, environmental, and civic systems shaping the decades ahead.
The forum focuses on questions emerging from:
- artificial intelligence and automation
- climate adaptation and regenerative systems
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, ethics, and responsibility
- education, labor, and cultural economies.
The conversations are grounded in lived global complexity. Participants examine what it means to build, design responsibly, within an automated, climate-impacted, and rapidly evolving world.
WHO GATHERS
Speculative Futures convenes practitioners across:
- climate science and regenerative systems
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, policy, and ethics
- design strategy and speculative practice
- education, labor, and creative economies
- narrative futures and science fiction
Each gathering is intentionally composed to bring unlikely disciplines into direct exchange.
Scientists meet designers. Policymakers meet founders. Cultural practitioners meet engineers.
The aim is not consensus. It is clarity.
Designed FOR CONSEQUENCE
Applied Speculation
Speculation is treated as a working method. Participants prototype scenarios, map systemic impact, and interrogate assumptions.
Cross-Sector Dialogue
Industry leaders, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners meet as peers in rigorous exchange.
Future Labs
Select sessions extend into structured working labs designed to translate foresight into strategic direction.
Continuity Across the Platform
Insights developed here inform conversations across the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, shaping future programming, research, and collaboration.
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo — November 19
An invitation-led salon where a smaller circle reconvenes after Speculative Futures to reflect, challenge, and carry the conversation forward in candid exchange.
In a private setting at Soho House Tokyo, participants revisit the ideas shared through conversation and shared reflection.
Here, speculation meets lived practice.
venue
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Speculative Futures it becomes a forum for examining the forces shaping the next decades of technological, civic, and cultural life.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design district, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem it hosts Thirdspace Thirdweeks and selected program gatherings, serving as a year-round site for cultural exchange among members and invited guests.
PART OF THE TOKYO SALONE CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Speculative Futures is one element within the wider Tokyo Salone platform.
Across the year and throughout the November gathering, the infrastructure connects conversations across disciplines:
Tokyo Salone — Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownSpeculative FuturesNourishFriends Of exhibitions
Future Of research publication
Moments salon gatherings
Thirdspace Thirdweeks with Soho House Tokyo
Together these programs form a living cultural system connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Speculative Futures is a separately ticketed event within Tokyo Salone month.
Participation is curated to maintain depth of discussion and meaningful exchange across disciplines.
Subscribers receive first notice of:
speaker announcements
program updates
ticket releases
Further details will be announced in Spring 2026.
Subscribe for updates.
subscribe for updates
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SPECULATIVE FUTURES
A Forum for Consequential Imagination
Seasonal Gatherings Soho House, Tokyo
Seasonal forums. Cross-disciplinary inquiry. Applied speculation in practice. Future labs and working sessions. An evolving network of practitioners.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR CONSEQUENCE AND POSSIBILITY
Speculative Futures is rigorous, future-facing, and grounded in responsibility.
A cross-disciplinary forum convening designers, technologists, policymakers, researchers, founders, artists, strategists, and cultural leaders to examine the systems shaping what comes next.
We believe imagination carries weight. Here, participants do not gather to predict trends. They gather to test assumptions, prototype possibilities, and confront the second- and third-order effects of the choices we make today.
These sessions are designed for depth. Structured for consequence. Built to move beyond inspiration into applied thinking.
THE ROLE OF SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Within the Tokyo Salone cultural infrastructure, Speculative Futures serves as the platform’s forward laboratory.
Where Tokyo Salone convenes global cultural leaders, and Nourish explores the elemental systems of food and care, Speculative Futures examines the technological, environmental, and civic systems shaping the decades ahead.
The forum focuses on questions emerging from:
- artificial intelligence and automation
- climate adaptation and regenerative systems
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, ethics, and responsibility
- education, labor, and cultural economies.
The conversations are grounded in lived global complexity. Participants examine what it means to build, design responsibly, within an automated, climate-impacted, and rapidly evolving world.
WHO GATHERS
Speculative Futures convenes practitioners across:
- climate science and regenerative systems
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, policy, and ethics
- design strategy and speculative practice
- education, labor, and creative economies
- narrative futures and science fiction
Each gathering is intentionally composed to bring unlikely disciplines into direct exchange.
Scientists meet designers. Policymakers meet founders. Cultural practitioners meet engineers.
The aim is not consensus. It is clarity.
Designed FOR CONSEQUENCE
Cross-Disciplinary by Design
Tokyo Salone intentionally brings distinct disciplines into conversation, spanning design and technology, gastronomy and mobility, and anime and architecture. Programming prioritises informed exchange over parallel discussion
Global x Domestic Exchange
Tokyo Salone brings internationally recognised leaders, many engaging directly with Japan for the first time, into dialogue with emerging Japanese talent, with an emphasis on learning, mentorship, and professional connection.
Future Labs
Select sessions extend into structured working labs designed to translate foresight into strategic direction.
An Ongoing Inquiry
Speculative Futures builds continuity across seasons, informing Tokyo Salone’s annual gathering and shaping broader ecosystem dialogue.
AFTER THE FLAME
On November 19, following Speculative Futures, Nourish reconvenes in an intimate evening gathering at Soho House Tokyo.This is not a summary. It is a reckoning.
After a day examining climate, AI, urban systems, and embodied consequence, we return to the elemental. Food as infrastructure. Hospitality as systems design. Regeneration as practice.
In a smaller circle, we distill what was learned.What does climate urgency mean inside a kitchen.How does AI reshape supply chains and sourcing.What does responsibility look like when translated into menu, material, and labor.How does care scale without losing intimacy.Participants leave not with inspiration alone, but with integration.A clearer understanding of food as cultural leverage.A renewed commitment to regenerative practice.A sharper lens on consequence across land, sea, and city.A network of peers prepared to act.This is where insight becomes application.Where speculation meets stewardship.Where nourishment becomes responsibility.
venue
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Tokyo Salone it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum for global and domestic voices to meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design district, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem it hosts Thirdspace Thirdweeks and selected program gatherings, serving as a year-round site for cultural exchange among members and invited guests.
PART OF THE TOKYO SALONE CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Speculative Futures is one element within the wider Tokyo Salone platform.
Across the year and throughout the November gathering, the infrastructure connects conversations across disciplines:
Tokyo Salone — Flagship Conversations
Nightshift Shakedown
Nourish
Friends Of exhibitions
Future Of research publication
Moments salon gatherings
Thirdspace Thirdweeks with Soho House Tokyo
Together these programs form a living cultural infrastructure connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is seeking a small group of founding partners to help shape Japan’s first global, design-led cultural platform. Partnerships are structured as long-term collaborations focused on co-authorship, category leadership, and measurable cultural impact.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway. To explore partnership alignment, please contact:
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Speculative Futures is a separately ticketed event within Tokyo Salone month.
Participation is curated to maintain depth of discussion and meaningful exchange across disciplines.
Subscribers receive first notice of:
speaker announcements
program updates
ticket releases
Further details will be announced in Spring 2026.
Subscribe for updates.
subscribe for updates
constellations
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
COLLECTIVE
yes,
Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
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© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
A Forum for Consequential Imagination
November 14, Tokyo American Club
A cross-disciplinary forum convening designers, technologists, policymakers, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners to examine the systems shaping what comes next. Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR CONSEQUENCE AND POSSIBILITY
Speculative Futures is rigorous, future-facing, and grounded in responsibility.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
It is a forum where designers, engineers, policymakers, scientists, founders, artists, and strategists gather to examine the forces reshaping society.
We believe imagination carries weight.
Participants do not gather here to predict trends. They gather to test assumptions, prototype possibilities, and confront the second- and third-order consequences of emerging systems.
These sessions are designed for depth, structured for consequence, and built to move beyond inspiration toward applied thinking.
THE ROLE OF SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Within the Tokyo Salone cultural infrastructure, Speculative Futures serves as the platform’s forward laboratory.
Where Tokyo Salone convenes global cultural leaders, and Nourish explores the elemental systems of food and care, Speculative Futures examines the technological, environmental, and civic systems shaping the decades ahead.
The forum focuses on questions emerging from:
- artificial intelligence and automation
- climate adaptation and regenerative systems
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, ethics, and responsibility
- education, labor, and cultural economies.
The conversations are grounded in lived global complexity. Participants examine what it means to build, design responsibly, within an automated, climate-impacted, and rapidly evolving world.
WHO GATHERS
Speculative Futures convenes practitioners across:
- climate science and regenerative systems
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, policy, and ethics
- design strategy and speculative practice
- education, labor, and creative economies
- narrative futures and science fiction
Each gathering is intentionally composed to bring unlikely disciplines into direct exchange.
Scientists meet designers. Policymakers meet founders. Cultural practitioners meet engineers.
The aim is not consensus. It is clarity.
Designed FOR CONSEQUENCE
Applied Speculation
Speculation is treated as a working method. Participants prototype scenarios, map systemic impact, and interrogate assumptions.
Cross-Sector Dialogue
Industry leaders, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners meet as peers in rigorous exchange.
Future Labs
Select sessions extend into structured working labs designed to translate foresight into strategic direction.
Continuity Across the Platform
Insights developed here inform conversations across the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, shaping future programming, research, and collaboration.
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo — November 19
An invitation-led salon where a smaller circle reconvenes after Speculative Futures to reflect, challenge, and carry the conversation forward in candid exchange.
In a private setting at Soho House Tokyo, participants revisit the ideas shared through conversation and shared reflection.
Here, speculation meets lived practice.
venue
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Speculative Futures it becomes a forum for examining the forces shaping the next decades of technological, civic, and cultural life.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design district, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem it hosts Thirdspace Thirdweeks and selected program gatherings, serving as a year-round site for cultural exchange among members and invited guests.
PART OF THE TOKYO SALONE CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Speculative Futures is one element within the wider Tokyo Salone platform.
Across the year and throughout the November gathering, the infrastructure connects conversations across disciplines:
Tokyo Salone — Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownSpeculative FuturesNourishFriends Of exhibitions
Future Of research publication
Moments salon gatherings
Thirdspace Thirdweeks with Soho House Tokyo
Together these programs form a living cultural system connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Speculative Futures is a separately ticketed event within Tokyo Salone month.
Participation is curated to maintain depth of discussion and meaningful exchange across disciplines.
Subscribers receive first notice of:
speaker announcements
program updates
ticket releases
Further details will be announced in Spring 2026.
Subscribe for updates.
subscribe for updates
constellations
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
COLLECTIVE
yes,
Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
subscribe
© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
A Forum for Consequential Imagination
November 14, Tokyo American Club
A cross-disciplinary forum convening designers, technologists, policymakers, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners to examine the systems shaping what comes next. Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR CONSEQUENCE AND POSSIBILITY
Speculative Futures is rigorous, future-facing, and grounded in responsibility.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
It is a forum where designers, engineers, policymakers, scientists, founders, artists, and strategists gather to examine the forces reshaping society.
We believe imagination carries weight.
Participants do not gather here to predict trends. They gather to test assumptions, prototype possibilities, and confront the second- and third-order consequences of emerging systems.
These sessions are designed for depth, structured for consequence, and built to move beyond inspiration toward applied thinking.
THE ROLE OF SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Within the Tokyo Salone cultural infrastructure, Speculative Futures serves as the platform’s forward laboratory.
Where Tokyo Salone convenes global cultural leaders, and Nourish explores the elemental systems of food and care, Speculative Futures examines the technological, environmental, and civic systems shaping the decades ahead.
The forum focuses on questions emerging from:
- artificial intelligence and automation
- climate adaptation and regenerative systems
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, ethics, and responsibility
- education, labor, and cultural economies.
The conversations are grounded in lived global complexity. Participants examine what it means to build, design responsibly, within an automated, climate-impacted, and rapidly evolving world.
WHO GATHERS
Speculative Futures convenes practitioners across:
- climate science and regenerative systems
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, policy, and ethics
- design strategy and speculative practice
- education, labor, and creative economies
- narrative futures and science fiction
Each gathering is intentionally composed to bring unlikely disciplines into direct exchange.
Scientists meet designers. Policymakers meet founders. Cultural practitioners meet engineers.
The aim is not consensus. It is clarity.
Designed FOR CONSEQUENCE
Applied Speculation
Speculation is treated as a working method. Participants prototype scenarios, map systemic impact, and interrogate assumptions.
Cross-Sector Dialogue
Industry leaders, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners meet as peers in rigorous exchange.
Future Labs
Select sessions extend into structured working labs designed to translate foresight into strategic direction.
Continuity Across the Platform
Insights developed here inform conversations across the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, shaping future programming, research, and collaboration.
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo — November 19
An invitation-led salon where a smaller circle reconvenes after Speculative Futures to reflect, challenge, and carry the conversation forward in candid exchange.
In a private setting at Soho House Tokyo, participants revisit the ideas shared through conversation and shared reflection.
Here, speculation meets lived practice.
venue
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Speculative Futures it becomes a forum for examining the forces shaping the next decades of technological, civic, and cultural life.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design district, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem it hosts Thirdspace Thirdweeks and selected program gatherings, serving as a year-round site for cultural exchange among members and invited guests.
PART OF THE TOKYO SALONE CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Speculative Futures is one element within the wider Tokyo Salone platform.
Across the year and throughout the November gathering, the infrastructure connects conversations across disciplines:
Tokyo Salone — Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownSpeculative FuturesNourishFriends Of exhibitions
Future Of research publication
Moments salon gatherings
Thirdspace Thirdweeks with Soho House Tokyo
Together these programs form a living cultural system connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Speculative Futures is a separately ticketed event within Tokyo Salone month.
Participation is curated to maintain depth of discussion and meaningful exchange across disciplines.
Subscribers receive first notice of:
speaker announcements
program updates
ticket releases
Further details will be announced in Spring 2026.
Subscribe for updates.
subscribe for updates
constellations
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
COLLECTIVE
yes,
Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
subscribe
© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
A Forum for Consequential Imagination
November 14, Tokyo American Club
A cross-disciplinary forum convening designers, technologists, policymakers, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners to examine the systems shaping what comes next. Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR CONSEQUENCE AND POSSIBILITY
Speculative Futures is rigorous, future-facing, and grounded in responsibility.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Speculative Futures gathers those working at the intersection of technology, climate, cities, and culture to explore the consequences of the choices we make today.
It is a forum where designers, engineers, policymakers, scientists, founders, artists, and strategists gather to examine the forces reshaping society.
We believe imagination carries weight.
Participants do not gather here to predict trends. They gather to test assumptions, prototype possibilities, and confront the second- and third-order consequences of emerging systems.
These sessions are designed for depth, structured for consequence, and built to move beyond inspiration toward applied thinking.
THE ROLE OF SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Within the Tokyo Salone cultural infrastructure, Speculative Futures serves as the platform’s forward laboratory.
Where Tokyo Salone convenes global cultural leaders, and Nourish explores the elemental systems of food and care, Speculative Futures examines the technological, environmental, and civic systems shaping the decades ahead.
The forum focuses on questions emerging from:
- artificial intelligence and automation
- climate adaptation and regenerative systems
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, ethics, and responsibility
- education, labor, and cultural economies.
The conversations are grounded in lived global complexity. Participants examine what it means to build, design responsibly, within an automated, climate-impacted, and rapidly evolving world.
WHO GATHERS
Speculative Futures convenes practitioners across:
- climate science and regenerative systems
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- urban infrastructure and mobility
- governance, policy, and ethics
- design strategy and speculative practice
- education, labor, and creative economies
- narrative futures and science fiction
Each gathering is intentionally composed to bring unlikely disciplines into direct exchange.
Scientists meet designers. Policymakers meet founders. Cultural practitioners meet engineers.
The aim is not consensus. It is clarity.
Designed FOR CONSEQUENCE
Applied Speculation
Speculation is treated as a working method. Participants prototype scenarios, map systemic impact, and interrogate assumptions.
Cross-Sector Dialogue
Industry leaders, researchers, founders, and cultural practitioners meet as peers in rigorous exchange.
Future Labs
Select sessions extend into structured working labs designed to translate foresight into strategic direction.
Continuity Across the Platform
Insights developed here inform conversations across the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, shaping future programming, research, and collaboration.
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo — November 19
An invitation-led salon where a smaller circle reconvenes after Speculative Futures to reflect, challenge, and carry the conversation forward in candid exchange.
In a private setting at Soho House Tokyo, participants revisit the ideas shared through conversation and shared reflection.
Here, speculation meets lived practice.
venue
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Speculative Futures it becomes a forum for examining the forces shaping the next decades of technological, civic, and cultural life.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design district, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem it hosts Thirdspace Thirdweeks and selected program gatherings, serving as a year-round site for cultural exchange among members and invited guests.
PART OF THE TOKYO SALONE CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Speculative Futures is one element within the wider Tokyo Salone platform.
Across the year and throughout the November gathering, the infrastructure connects conversations across disciplines:
Tokyo Salone — Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownSpeculative FuturesNourishFriends Of exhibitions
Future Of research publication
Moments salon gatherings
Thirdspace Thirdweeks with Soho House Tokyo
Together these programs form a living cultural system connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Speculative Futures is a separately ticketed event within Tokyo Salone month.
Participation is curated to maintain depth of discussion and meaningful exchange across disciplines.
Subscribers receive first notice of:
speaker announcements
program updates
ticket releases
Further details will be announced in Spring 2026.
Subscribe for updates.
subscribe for updates
constellations
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
COLLECTIVE
yes,
Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
subscribe
© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE