Vision

Future Creatives

abovoは、環境・社会問題や国際理解をテーマにした仕事を中心にすえ、それらの課題に対しクリエイティビティを最大限に発揮し回答していくというクリエイティブ集団です。

様々な価値観がこれほどまでに並列に存在する世界は、この地球上で未だかつてなかったのではないでしょうか。私たちは、今、さらなる未知の世界へと足を踏み入れようとしています。いわゆる「正しい回答」というものはどんどん無くなってきています。多様な生き方や在り方が示されている中で、それらを多くの矛盾や葛藤を抱えながらもまとめあげ、持続可能で出来るだけ公平な社会作りをしていかなければならない。私たちは、なんという難問の前に立たされていることでしょうか。

しかし、このような時にこそ「想像力」と「創造力」が大いに必要なのだと、私は強く思っています。

現在、環境・社会・国際平和に働きかけている個人・団体・企業は、その事業内容が社会活性化や地域作り・人間形成などに繋がるなど、素晴らしいものであるにも関わらず、メディア力などが弱いために社会的認知をされていないものが多数存在します。それらの存在や活動を、コンサルティングやディレクションそして最終的には制作物という形を通じて世に広く知らしめ、さらなるより良い未来を一緒に創っていきたいと強く思っています。

abovoは、ポジティブな未来の世界を目指す方々と一緒に歩む、クリエイティブ・プロダクションを目指しています。

2015年1月5日
代表取締役
三上雄己

Future Creatives

abovo is a creative production team that focuses on global, environmental, and social issues as its main themes. Aiming to acquire a more international understanding, abovo deals with these contemporary issues through film, multi-media, installation, and other creative ideas and methods.

Currently, we are seeing the world intertwined with various values and virtues, unprecedented in our history. We are now stepping into the world of the unknown.
The so-called “right answer” is quickly disappearing. We are often overwhelmed with so many ways and choices of living and being, that even while dealing with the dilemmas and contradictions, we are still required to make our societies more sustainable and equal.
We are facing such a conundrum.

However, it is in these times, that “creativity” and “imagination” are most necessary. Those who are working in environmental, social, or world peace activities, for example, are often not socially recognized due to their weak media contents or a lack of creativity, though their actions and messages are remarkable and noteworthy.

We consult and direct entities such as these, to produce a final product to achieve more recognition, and to spread the word to a wider audience. We strongly believe that we can create a better future together.

abovo hopes to become a creative production company to walk with you towards a more positive and bright future.

Youki Mikami
Founder and Managing Director

Born in Tokyo in 1970, Youki was brought up in Japan, France, and Britain. When he was sixteen, 
he attended the two-year International Baccalaureate Program at the United World College of 
the Atlantic (UWC) in Wales with　students from all over the world. This experience consequently 
got him interested in social issues and later led him into environmental issues. Having been trained 
as a practicing fine artist at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, he worked and experienced 
various forms of art such as music, installation, films, and club events. Youki shifted himself into 
the environmental and social fields in the mid 2000’s and started creating the media milieu to act 
upon. Currently running his own creative production abovo, and partnering with various teams of NGOs, 
he hopes to solve contemporary problems and to help create a better and more sustainable future.