Akira Takayama

Akira Takayama is a theater director and artist who founded the theater unit Port B in Tokyo in 2002.

He produces a wide range of projects that include sightseeing tours, video installations, social experiments, and temporary schools across the world. His work aims to update the ‘architecture of theatre’ by expanding the audience participation in society and the urban space. In recent years he has been interacting with various fields, including visual arts, tourism, urban planning and education, using theatrical ideas to cultivate new possibilities across a variety of media and genres.

His most current works are "Heterotopia Project," “McDonald’s Radio University," and "Wagner Project."