timespace’s “SHIBUYA | ZINE 2027” Selected for DIG SHIBUYA 2027
A photograph taken by someone on the streets of Shibuya in the morning becomes a magazine article that same day. Someone else selects it, connects it with other discoveries, and brings those perspectives together in a magazine that goes back into the city.
timespace Inc. has been selected for the Co-Creation Project at DIG SHIBUYA 2027, taking place in February 2027. Its project, “SHIBUYA | ZINE 2027,” is one of 12 selected from 66 applications submitted from Japan and around the world.
Over three days during the festival, timespace will turn Shibuya into a live experiment in urban editing, bringing together AI and human perspectives. The project plans to publish one edition per day, for a total of three editions.
The World Is Waiting to Be Edited.
Even when we walk through the same city, we see entirely different worlds.
A mysterious door tucked away in an alley. Traces of someone’s presence on a wall. A forgotten history hidden inside a familiar building. What appears ordinary to one person may be an extraordinary discovery to another.
timespace ZINE begins with these individual moments of noticing.
When someone photographs something that catches their attention, AI explores the history, culture, and hidden connections surrounding that place, transforming the discovery into a magazine article.
But that is only the beginning.
People select, arrange, and connect photographs and articles discovered by others. Through these unexpected combinations, new stories and meanings emerge—stories that no single person could have discovered alone.
In Shibuya, we aim to open this editorial process to everyone.
We are not asking AI to create a finished magazine on its own. We are using AI to help people read and interpret the world, so that humans themselves can edit what it means.
From Austin to Linz, San Francisco, and Now Shibuya.
In March 2026, at SXSW in Austin, Texas, timespace began experimenting with a new way of reading cities. Simply photographing a streetscape could generate a magazine article revealing the context of that place.
In September, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, we established an editorial studio in the heart of the city. Articles created from local discoveries were curated, edited, printed, and distributed as physical magazines.
In October, we brought “SF / ZINE” to San Francisco, focusing on SoMa, the neighborhood where timespace founder Takahito Iguchi had lived for many years as a startup entrepreneur. Through conversations with residents and collaboration with local organizations, we explored how a city’s own media could grow from within its community.
“SoMa is where I spent some of the best and hardest years of my life as a startup founder. I remember the feeling of riding my single-speed bicycle through the streets, the atmosphere of the cafés, and the conversations with friends over beer or coffee. I wanted to share that sense of place with the people of SoMa, and create something together—a medium that could only emerge from this particular neighborhood.” — Takahito Iguchi
And now, Shibuya in February 2027.
Until now, our editorial teams have brought together stories discovered throughout a city and assembled them into magazines. In Shibuya, we want to open up the act of editing itself to the people who are there. Choosing someone else’s discovery. Connecting it with another person’s perspective. Finding a way of seeing a familiar city that has never existed before.
Rather than presenting Shibuya through the perspective of a single editor, we want many different versions of Shibuya to emerge from the collective perceptions and editorial choices of its people.
In the Age of AI, Why Print a Magazine?
ZINE culture has its roots in the DIY spirit of paper, scissors, and glue—people cutting, assembling, and publishing their own interpretations of the world.
What timespace is pursuing is not automated publishing by AI.
It is the possibility for anyone to begin with their own curiosity and discoveries, edit the world from their own perspective, and share that interpretation with others.
People select and combine digitally generated articles, then turn them into a physical magazine.
The city as it existed on that particular day—seen through the eyes of its people—becomes something tangible. Something you can hold, read, pass along, and return to the city itself.
Comment from Takahito Iguchi, Founder and CEO of timespace (Draft)
“AI has made it possible to access information from almost anywhere in the world. Yet we still know remarkably little about the places where we stand, or what the people right next to us are seeing. What we want to build is not a service where AI explains the world to us, but a medium through which everyone can discover, interpret, and edit the world for themselves. After Austin, Linz, and San Francisco, Shibuya is where we want to take the next step—opening up the creative act of editing to the people of the city.”
Event Details
SHIBUYA | ZINE 2027
- Selected Program: DIG SHIBUYA 2027 Co-Creation Project
- Festival Dates: February 11 (Thursday, National Holiday) – February 14 (Sunday), 2027
- Project Duration: Three days during the festival
- Publication Plan: One edition per day, three editions in total
- Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- Organized and Produced by: timespace Inc.
Specific dates, venues, participation details, and print quantities will be announced as they are finalized.
DIG SHIBUYA Official Website: https://digshibuya.com/
About timespace Inc.
timespace is developing an AI MEDIA PLATFORM that enables people to discover, interpret, edit, and share the physical world through an unlimited diversity of human perspectives.
Through its product, timespace ZINE, the company transforms observations of real-world places into AI-generated magazine articles, bringing human perspectives together through collaborative editing to reveal new narratives of cities.
timespace is expanding this new approach to urban media across cities in Japan and internationally.
