Picnic is a celebration of our conviviality. It was started by 'Pic-Nic Club' in London, in 1802 when the city became too crowded and its environment got degraded. It became popular with the invention of parks, holidays and railways in the urbanization of middle 19th century. So we can say that picnic is the urban culture to utilize the public spaces, to make up for the deficiencies of our city life. We hardly invite friends to our narrow houses in comfortable manners. Therefore, we expect public spaces to be the place for gathering. We hardly own private gardens with delightful flowers and trees. Therefore, we want to cherish urban nature as our shared gifts.

So Tokyo Picnic Club insists the "Picnic Right", as the basic human right of the urban dwellers. We just want the places to have our picnic. We need neither benches nor worthless waterworks. We simply want the spacious lawn. If the "Green Fields" such as beautiful parks are open to us, picnic becomes the art of encounter in our urban lifestyles. If the "Brown Fields" such as ex-industrial sites or abandoned harbors are open to our picnic, we can develop meals, tools, manners and conversations to fit in the new atmosphere of modern cityscape.

We want to pursue the possibility of picnic, 200 years after its birthday, here in developed Tokyo. To seek for the frontier of cityscapes, the richness of modern feast, and the splendid encounters.