This exhibition presents a curated showcase of urban learning tools developed by for Cities over the past five years, exhibited at Anteroom in Kyoto. The project brings together a series of experimental “urban learning kits” that have emerged from workshops, research projects, and field-based practices conducted across Japan.

Each tool explores a different way of sensing, understanding, and engaging with the city—moving beyond conventional urban analysis to foreground embodied experience, sensory perception, and everyday observation. Developed collaboratively with participants ranging from designers and architects to students and local citizens, these kits function both as educational instruments and as prompts for collective inquiry into urban life.

Alongside this retrospective selection, the exhibition also introduces a newly developed learning tool created specifically for Kyoto. Responding to the city’s unique spatial, cultural, and environmental conditions, this new work extends for Cities’ inquiry into how urban learning tools can be adapted to local contexts while remaining open-ended and participatory.