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This subject is complementary to other existing courses that tackle issues related to design. Thus students across all three faculties and the graduate schools will find this course applicable to them. Since SFC aims to prepare students to engage all kind of issues related to the society, Ergonomics will be a good addition to the knowledge of the graduates.

Mission: In Search of Future of Organizations
Organizations increasingly rely on technologies to operate, organize, and innovate in this AI/big data era. We collectively explore the future of organizations, which is a frontier of management studies and practice. Topics include future of work, new forms of organizing, people analytics, machine intelligence and management, collective intelligence and open innovation. We approach these themes from various perspectives and methods including (but not limited to) case studies, computational social science approaches, and project works with business partners in the real world.

Since the end of the 20th century, the trend of mobile computing and ubiquitous computing has led to faster, larger, smaller, and more wireless computers, which have become widely used in our daily lives by optimizing them for each individual. However, the explosive amount of information produced by ICT/AI systems, for example, can lead to information overload in our daily lives, and the provision of individually optimized information (e.g., AI-based personal optimization of news articles provided on social networking sites) can distort the information we come into contact with and affect our thinking. It is also true that there are many problems created by the current architecture of typical information systems, such as the fragmentation of communities.
In this research, we will conduct research and development on a new information system architecture that is different from the typical individual-oriented architecture of "sensing personal big data, analyzing big data, and providing information optimized for the individual," always looking more than 10 years into the future.

With the trend of mobile computing and ubiquitous computing since the end of the 20th century for the wellbeing of people and groups, computers have become faster, larger, smaller, and more wireless, and have widely penetrated into our daily lives. In this research, we are constantly looking into the future, more than 10 years into the future, to define the mental, physical, and social wellbeing of our lives (in both physical and cyber space) in the future, and to research and develop ICT/AI and other technologies to realize it.

Since the end of the 20th century, the trend of mobile computing and ubiquitous computing has led to faster, larger, smaller, and more wireless computers, which have become widely used in our daily lives by optimizing them for each individual. However, the explosive amount of information produced by ICT/AI systems, for example, can lead to information overload in our daily lives, and the provision of individually optimized information (e.g., AI-based personal optimization of news articles provided on social networking sites) can distort the information we come into contact with and affect our thinking. It is also true that there are many problems created by the current architecture of typical information systems, such as the fragmentation of communities.
In this research, we will conduct research and development on a new information system architecture that is different from the typical individual-oriented architecture of "sensing personal big data, analyzing big data, and providing information optimized for the individual," always looking more than 10 years into the future.

With the trend of mobile computing and ubiquitous computing since the end of the 20th century for the wellbeing of people and groups, computers have become faster, larger, smaller, and more wireless, and have widely penetrated into our daily lives. In this research, we are constantly looking into the future, more than 10 years into the future, to define the mental, physical, and social wellbeing of our lives (in both physical and cyber space) in the future, and to research and develop ICT/AI and other technologies to realize it.

What we are pursuing：‘Participatory Architecture, Urban and Community Design’

Kobayashi laboratory, koblab, pursues to revitalize and enforce communities and to create new value in the environment involved in communication-based social, cultural, and spatial design stemming from the micro-culture of an area and the traits that compose its rich sense of place in local society.

Architecture and urban design has clear impacts on the community, so we strive to comprehend how form affects people’s lives. If communities are not well understood, formal interventions will not respond to the needs of the people and, therefore, they will not complement the area. We try to understand what notions of people and culture create an effective design methodology and what kinds of form create positive outcomes. We try to visualize the invisible character of communities and translate that character into form through our various projects.

We execute a broad range of projects that goes beyond traditional architectural design and construction to pursue design-build methods based on the tectonics of architecture and an understanding of the social role of architecture. We explore effective ways to contribute to society and create new social capital by shaping the form and plan of communities and planning for the future of their living environment.

In each project we visit the actual site at the right moment and closely observe the place and its people, accept actual problems agilely, and respond to the situation at the site by using a positive, analytical and creative design methodology. This process makes students commit to the problems of the community and embody them by themselves, which feeds them for the next challenge of solving the problems.

We keep on executing real projects in society and acting with responsibility to be able to commit to the actual problems of the society closely and realistically.

We are accepting application to join Hiroto Kobayashi Lab, for the academic year of 2021 spring semester according to the following conditions.

One must understand the stated goals of the lab and check the prerequisites necessary to be accepted in to the application process. Please send your essay and portfolio to the interview session. Based on this process, we will evaluate in totality and decide the participating members that will collaborate throughout the year.

If you would like to join the collaboration for the activities in the year 2021, please follow the instruction above.

Please send email to Hiroto Kobayashi and Nobuhiro Shimizu [hiroto@sfc.keio.ac.jp],[shimnov@gmail.com] to make an appointment.

Although Hiroto is supposed to study abroad and take a sabbatical in spring and fall of 2021, koblab will keep working as usual.

For either semester, please register to Prof. Shigeru Ban's laboratory.

We will conduct our laboratory activity under Professor Ban’s lab for both semesters.

This research group focuses on modeling, simulation, and visualization of natural phenomena.

The class aims to provide the basic understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean. By omitting equations as much as possible, the history of the atmosphere and ocean, mechanism on wind and rain, will be introduced. Using the basic understanding, environmental issues such as global warming, air pollution, and heat island will be discussed in the class.

Imagine you have an ant in your hand. The ant does not know you are moving forward, nor you can crush it anytime. The ant is us human beings living on the Earth's surface. This course provides an introduction to learning how the Earth's dynamics works from the point of view of solid earth science. You will briefly learn the history of the Earth and its creations, and the consequent change in the environment. You will also learn the mechanism of an earthquake, a tsunami, and a volcanic eruption. You will feel the difference between time and space scales from your everyday life. (You can learn about fluid earth science in the class "Earth System B" held by Dr. Y. Miyamoto.)

This subject is a descriptive one. Explains in photos, animation and drawings the basics of both mechanical and materials engineering. No mathematical complications will be included. This subject is beneficial to all students especially those who are studying issues not related to engineering but will work in future in an Engineering Firm be it a maker or sellers of machinery or materials. Even those who may not work in such an environment, this subject will be helpful for them in their daily life when dealing with machines and materials.

Tabletop! Advanced Discussion using Role-Playing Games (Online)

This class will engage students in Role-Playing (i.e., Tabletop Role-playing games (RPGs)) to learn about and experience different kinds of advanced interactions in English. This class is designed to create a rich, task-based approach to language learning where students must use their reading, speaking, and listening skills to (a) negotiate and cooperate with their fellow players to complete specific tasks in story-based games, (b) explore the role of language and identity, and (c) critically evaluate strategies necessary for the completion of those tasks.


This class is designed for improving fluency/pragmatic skills, and requires a high degree of conversation, listening, and creativity.

This class will be held entirely online, though if conditions permit we may hold occasional classes on campus.

This course is designed for those who are in the lower intermediate level of Japanese or who have completed the Japanese Intensive Elementary 2.
Students will practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking while studying grammar, vocabulary, and kanji. They will also study to be able to use Japanese well by making presentations, writing essays, and reviewing grammar.

In the era of data-driven economy, AI technology has been deployed in practice over the world including by large-scale digital platformers such as Google and Amazon. Other industries and applied areas will also practically take advantage of the AI in the near futures.

In order to utilize full potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) including AI for promoting economic growth and addressing various social issues, we need to make human and society to be ready to use the technology, in addition to development of technology itself. Policy intervention is necessary as these goals are hard to accomplish, if solely relying on market competition. Understanding such policies required to support technology will be helpful to predict and take advantage of social dynamics related to new digital products and services that are emerging now and will emerge in the coming future.

This course will provide explanation on relationships between the technologies (AI and data collection and analyses) and society/economy, as well as necessity of policy interventions. The course will also introduce basic knowledges to understand policy backgrounds.

Then we will follow policy case studies in the areas of privacy, safety, open data, competition enhancement, fairness/ethics, promotion of usage, etc., focusing on each policy's necessity, purposes, features and further challenges, with viewpoints of international comparison or international competition.

This Project English is about strengthening the ability to do research and report about. Language components of the course are reading and speaking. Students work on these target skills by researching and discussing issues that have impacted lives in a remarkable way.
The course will use a hybrid system of both face-to-face and online sessions. For sessions on campus, students are encouraged to take measures for preventing the spread of Covid-19. The sessions will still be streamed through Zoom for those outside of the campus. For online sessions, students who happen to be on campus can use the appointed classroom for attending the class.

Students on this course study a range of public policy issues, develop the ability to analyze these issues, provide solutions, hold extended discussions with classmates, and make academic presentations. We will widen students’ content knowledge in English on these issues while also working on the skill of openly exchanging ideas and opinions.

庄内平野には美しい農村⾵景が広がり、⽇本海の磯浜・砂浜、雪深い出⽻⼭地、各所に湧き出る温泉など変化に富んだ⾃然環境に囲まれ、酒、⼭菜、海産物などの⼀次産品は、多彩で⾼度な質を備えた⾷⽂化を⽣み出しています。 また、鶴岡市街地は城下町の都市構造を現代に残し、明治の洋⾵建築物はじめ数多くの歴史的な遺産が残されています。学問、⽂学などを尊ぶ江⼾時代以来の城下町⽂化を中⼼に、出⽻三⼭・⽻⿊修験などの⼭岳信仰、⿊川能などの⺠俗⽂化、農⼭漁村⽂化など、多様で重層的な⽂化構造を鶴岡に⾒ることができます。 本授業では、このような鶴岡市と庄内地域の恵まれた環境を素材に、⾃然に育まれた⽂化の楽しみ⽅を、体験を通して学びながら、理想的な⽣活環境のあり⽅と⽣き⽅を考えます。

Telecommunications networks in particular the Internet are becoming more and more necessary and indispensable for social and economic activities in the era of digitalization.

Taking advantage of the teacher's experiences of policy practices in the Japanese government (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - MIC) and the OECD secretariats, this course provides overview and case studies of Japanese telecommunications policy in the areas of infrastructure development, competition enhancement, consumer protection and international communications, etc., with focusing on each policy's backgrounds, purposes and further challenges.

In order to fully understand policy backgrounds and make policy discussion meaningful, the first section of the course will be dedicated to learning and discussing necessity of policy intervention, with introduction of related basic economics concepts.

Note: In this course "policy" also means regulation unless otherwise indicated.

Japan is currently facing the problem of a shrinking society characterised by the low birthrate, the ageing, the declining population and the change of household structures. The new challenges arising from the climate change cannot be also overlooked. In this lecture, we will focus on Germany, which faces similar challenges to Japan. In contrast to the UK and France, where there was a concentration of urbanisation in London and Paris, the urbanisation has been progressed in Germany by maintaining a polycentric structure, and the cities are now developing an urban planning programme in collaboration with the federal and state governments in order to ensure the future development potential of the city. The aim of this lecture is to clarify the characteristics of German cities using this programme as a guide, and to gain implications for regional revitalisation in Japan.

It is common to all societies that the family is the basic unit of society, but its form and the role of each member vary greatly according to history and culture. In Japan, the situation surrounding the family is currently undergoing remarkable change and diversification. In this class, we will focus on the family in contemporary Japan to understand the dynamics of society from a variety of angles, including history, law, labour and welfare, and to consider the future of the family.

The class will be basically conducted in a lecture style, but students are also asked to join the group work to analyze the data relating the theme of this class. It is desirable to be active in the class.

Arabic skills course aims at further development of knowledge learned in intensive course and establishment of practical Arabic skills. Every semester, Skill 1 to Skill 4 are offered. Please note that contents and levels of each class are different. This course can be taken repeatedly. This class is Skill 1. It is designed to improve reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills in a well-balanced manner, using texts that provide information about Arab society and culture. It is recommended that students take Skill 2 at the same time.
*Different materials are used in the spring and fall semesters. After completing two terms of Skill 1, students are encouraged to move on to Skill 3.