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This class aims at providing students with basic understanding on startup business, such as idea generation, business modeling, prototype creation, commercialization, and incorporation. The feature of this class is:
Firstly, interactions with the guest speakers from different industries and countries enable students to understand the know-how to be a successful entrepreneur. The guest speakers in 2020 were:
• Dr. David Farber, The internet hall of fame
• Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass, Founder of Mlabs, Malaysia
• Mr. Hiroki Mashita, CEO of V-CUBE, Japan[Startups from Keio University]
Secondly, to empower design-thinking skills and decision-making experiences, students participate in-class exercises, using design thinking methodology and case method study in line with IoT & Energy and distance learning. For example, case study discussions help the students have a capability of finding and solving the problem in daily management of a business by place students in the role of the decision-maker.
In 2007, the United Nations estimated that, for the first time, more than half of the world’s population lived in cities. The ongoing urbanization of the human population represents an enormous change for our environmental, economic, social, and cultural practices. The creation and operation of cities is a leading contributor to climate change, and the way we manage architecture, infrastructure, and landscape must change if we are to avoid its worst effects. Designing sustainable cities has become an imperative. At the same time, the city is a cultural landscape. From its origins in antiquity, the city has been a place for the exchange of goods and ideas and place for us to congregate and share in the riches of a public realm. Cities are, perhaps, our greatest artistic achievement as a species.
The central question asked by this course is: how do we balance the ecological and social imperatives of our time with the cultural and aesthetic functions of the city? There is no easy answer to this question, but in our pursuit of one we will investigate theories, technologies, and practices of city making in broad terms. Historical episodes in the development of architecture, infrastructure, and urban planning will be examined to provide context for our analysis of the contemporary city as a complex system. Throughout the course, both Japanese and global examples will be considered. Key topics covered include aesthetics, demographic change, design, energy use, economics, and social patterns insofar as these influence the processes and outcomes of urbanization. Students are encouraged to be critical of the concepts presented and to form and express their own opinions.
Efforts to preserve the global environment are one of the greatest challenges of the present age. Thus, it is inevitable to have a considerable involvement in environmental issues, irrespective of the area of specialization. The field of environment is extremely broad. It involves a wide range of stages from the earth to life to human society. For this reason, subjects related to the environment are currently being segmented and specialized.
With this context, this course helps the students to learn specialized knowledge in the field of extremely wide sectors related to environment in order to have a solid foundation of this diverse topic. A comprehensive review of a wide range of environmental fields from a unified viewpoint of science and technology is provided. This helps in deepening knowledge while viewing the entire environmental field, even if the student advances to one specific areas for his/her research or profession. In each lesson, we will take up specific cases, that can easily be understood with view point of science and technology application in the field of environmental management.
It is true that the products of science and its applications are of significance to our lives, but at the same time there are still many social problems which cannot be solved by current science and technology, or they themselves even generate new risks to the society. This lecture course provides you an opportunity to consider how to face these problems.
There are many classes about environment at SFC, but there is no class about nature except this class. In this class we deeply discuss about nature, environment and natural environment. Students should consider a future society based on natural environment through the discussion. Students have to read documents or books and watch movies which are shown in this syllabus before a class. In a class students discuss about a theme.
Natural environment as a composition of ecosystems provides a variety of ecosystem services to human beings. however, Its capacity to accommodate human need is limited. When the pressure exceed the capacity, ecosystems may change irreversibly and enter to a unstable and unsustainable state. This sounds self-evident to every one but on paper only, no real experience. This course interpret high resolution images and calculate the land price, agricultural products, and CO2 absorptions through simple exercise. Through the processes we will learn the procedure of ecosystem assessment, the knowledge to understand the status and functions, and services of environment. By putting the results on the frame of stock and flow we will rethink the role of land capital, industrial capital and natural capital in modern society, and clarify the precondition of sustainability.
“The Limits to Growth” (by The Club of Rome), published in 1972, noted that "the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100." However, the Ecological Footprint*, an indicator of the impact of human activities on the global environment, has doubled since the 1970s, reaching 1.7 times the global supply of ecosystem services (biocapacity) that the Earth can produce and absorb. In particular, in our country, the production and consumption are separated, and the cost of cleaning up the resulting pollution is not sufficiently taken into account (the environmental burden is passed on to other regions and future generations). As a result, environmental problems in developing countries are becoming more serious, and the effects of climate change are gradually becoming a reality in the world.
In this course, through group works, we will try to set the boundaries of the environment and manage natural resources. After defining the scale of the environment to be managed, students will belong to a community that uses the environment, and each student will play a role within the community and try to "design" a way to make the limited natural resources sustainable.
Since the class requires a lot of basic information as a basis for discussion, the tasks assigned in preparation for the class are mainly to collect materials and organize data.
*Ecological Footprint: The amount of demand for ecosystem services needed to produce the resources we consume and to absorb the CO2 generated by socioeconomic activities, expressed in terms of the area of the earth.
この講義では、環境リスクの重要な要素である災害リスクに焦点を当て、住宅、保健、水、教育、災害復旧の分野におけるさまざまなイノベーションの事例に関するケーススタディ、特に、アジアの開発途上国の例を紹介します。
Learn remote sensing of satellites and how to use a software for GIS, QGIS.
This course focuses on computer-specific acoustic expression methods such as digital signal processing and synthesis through the production of works. Students will acquire basic knowledge of sound processing and sound synthesis using Ableton Live, a music production software, and Max for Live, a device creation environment for it, and generate various music structures and synthesize / process sounds. By learning these techniques, it is expected that students will be able to experience the possibilities and attractions of computer music. In addition, since the content of this course can be applied to the production of various works using acoustic expressions such as media art and audiovisual works, students who are interested in these fields are also welcomed. It is desirable that students of this course have already taken "Computer Music 1" or have acquired the corresponding knowledge of digital sound.
Ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms to each other and their surroundings. Landscape ecology integrates biophysical and analytical approaches with humanistic and holistic perspectives across the natural sciences and social sciences. Landscapes are spatially heterogeneous geographic areas characterized by various interacting patches or ecosystems, ranging from relatively natural terrestrial and aquatic systems such as forests, grasslands, and lakes to human-dominated environments including agricultural and urban settings. You will learn the fundamental theories and methods of landscape ecology and the application to nature conservation and restoration.
The goal of this class is to learn the basic skills of computer music production and to understand the system. In addition to creating sound effects, background music, and tracks, this class will also provide an introduction and basic skills for more advanced classes (i.e., it is not a DTM class).
Students will not only learn how to use the software, but will also understand the basic workflow of production, and experience the conceptual work, handling of various production situations, performance, and instrument production that are essential during production. These are accomplished by workshop format. In the second half of the course, students will be asked to work in groups and evaluate each other's work. In the latter half of the course, students will also experience mutual evaluation and collaboration in groups.
The aim of the class is to improve the design skills and deepen the understanding of the meaning and value of design in our society.
It is advisable for students who are willing to join any laboratory in the design area or advance into the design field, either in a digital or analog way, to take this class.
Courses of the design field in SFC is planned based on a concept called "Design Language." It is based on the design as a tool for problem finding and problem-solving, similar to artificial language (programming) and natural language (foreign language). Furthermore, the name "Design Language" also includes the meaning of literacy; that is, one ability that can be mastered by training. The design usually presupposes "sense," but as long as it is based on a certain logic, learning that logic will improve the sense at the same time. So the design language focuses on the process.
Therefore, this lecture consists of tasks to train the process from consideration to creation through actual work creation. Students are expected to understand the value and significance of new designs in society, develop future learning, production, and research plans, and create opportunities for them to leap forward through the class.
In this lecture, we deal with many future issues in the Internet technology, philosophy, regulation and rule, and market value based on our experience at SFC. Our campus, SFC has been charged with the very important role in Japanese Internet. It was a big challenge that SFC adopted the Internet as a campus platform at the beginning, thus our experiment became a big contribution for current information environment in society. Up to the present, the Internet has supported our live. The Internet connected every thing, every service by global scale. Also, an individual can show the message easily to the world by the Internet. The Internet is a global infrastructure designed to solve many issues by simply making good use of it. For the future, we have the mission making the better Internet with better knowledge of technologies, better methods for decision-making, unfettered idea and strong spirit. We wish to meet next generation Internet frontier with strong soul in this lecture.
This course trains students in the ’novel fabrication’ way of thinking by means of deconstructive analysis of system software and teaching them the basic steps involved in disassembling devices.
It may come as a surprise to learn that both personality and life span are inherited, but the latest research shows that they are indeed governed at least in part by genes. The recent rapid advances in genomics have enabled personal genetic information to be analyzed speedily at low cost, and research on utilizing such genetic information to treat and prevent disease is also making big strides. In addition to genetic diagnosis and gene therapy, various biotechnologies such as iPS cell-based organ regeneration, animal cloning, and the genetic modification of crops are now being put to practical use. The impact of such technologies on society and related ethical issues need to be debated, and a sound understanding of the way genes work is vital to ensuring that such debate is not dominated by merely emotional arguments. In this course, together we will learn the basics of biological phenomena at the genetic and molecular levels, and ponder aging, cancer, and other mysteries of life.
This is a lecture to learn the outline of the architectural history as well as the outline of the history of the city.
The purpose of this course is to look at “Multilingual Society and Communication” from various angles and illustrate the various linguistic phenomena that can be observed. The course will focus especially on the examination of Japan as a multilingual society. It is also the goal of this course to develop sensitivity for the diversity of languages. Following issues are to be discussed:
- language policy and language planning
- language rights
- language spread
- language education
- language contact
- maintenance, loss and revitalization of minority languages
- linguistic imperialism and monolingual hegemony
- bilingualism, multilingualism and diglossia
- code switching
- pidgin and creole languages
- History of Japanese language education
The class is the introduction to issues concerning sports business. I will be asking various experts from different topics to share with you their experience and point of view. What I want you to do is to find out interesting areas, feel from the guest speakers' stories. and then try and experience yourself to learn.
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Legal mind is one of the indispensable knowledge in the actual policy making and institutional design. After understanding the basic contents of law, the goal is to acquire a legal mind based on various real legal problems.
This course presents a theoretical analysis of Japan’s public finance covering expenditure and revenue analysis. Japan’s local public finance is linked to the national finance, so we analyze the relationship between central and local governments. The course equips students to analyze the Japanese economy comprehensively from various viewpoints.
This class is intended for students who aim to become specialists in environmental design, focusing on architectural design, urban design, and landscape design, and is positioned as the first course such students should take. The core of SFC's architectural design, urban design, and landscape design is the design practice classes such as "Design Studio". In principle, only students who have already taken "Basic Digital Design" or "Basic Design Studio" are eligible to take the three "Design Studio" advanced courses. Therefore, it is advisable to take this class as early as possible in the school year, as the knowledge and skills acquired in this class will be essential for students to take more specialized environmental design classes in the future. It is also recommended that students who wish to learn digital skills such as architectural 3D modeling, drawing and perspective creation in more detail take "Basics of Architectural Computer-Aided Design(CAD)" at the same time.
Subject
In this class, we will design a chair using the 3D modeling software "Rhinoceros" and create a chair using digital fabrication machine "Shopbot". The material constraint will be one wood plywood of thickness 9mm, width 910mm, and height 1820mm.
Objectives
The purpose of this class is the following two points.
(1) Learn a basic design language.
(2) To be able to move freely between digital and analog
The purpose of this course is to examine the diversity of language and culture through Chinese. China has a large population, vast territory and abundant cultures. Every region has its own cultural background and linguistic habits. PUTONGHUA is only one of the many aspects present in the Chinese language. In order to make you learn about the internal diversity of Chinese, I will introduce dialects, especially the form spoken in Taiwan. And then, through the contrast between Chinese and other languages, you can develop your understanding of Chinese while familiarizing yourself with the differences of the cultures behind those languages.