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Design has changed and expanded its roles over time. The role of architectonics and aesthetics in providing function, form and colour. Research, prototyping, and other roles to improve communication and processes. The role of strategy, business model building and vision definition......
These changes and expansions of roles have generally been developed as techniques by design professionals. On the other hand, as some people say "design is too important to be kept only for designers", nowadays design has also started to be used as a tool open to the general public and applied to creating and improving government services, social movements and the construction of autonomous ecosystems.
Until now, design has mainly played a problem-solving role in order to create what society needs. But can't design be used to create small things that have meaning for an individual, even if they are not necessarily needed by society at the moment?
We are all born with much creativity. However, as we grow up, many of us put invisible shackles on it, thinking that it is a talent of a few. What can design do to help us break these shackles and reclaim our inherit ability?
Context design is an approach to design that focuses on "narratives" or "weak contexts" of individuals and their interpretations. It allows each individual who comes into contact with the design to create his or her own "story". In other words, it is a creative activity and a method of "weaving together" in which the writer intends for the reader's independent involvement and multiple interpretations to emerge. The result is a creative activity in which the writer intends for the reader to become a writer and the consumer to become an expressionist.
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Facing drastic technological changes in communication, we need to gain editorial skills in compiling and understanding social knowledge in the context of historical and multi-dimensional settings. During nearly 30 years experience, lecturer has worked on numerous social/business/academic topics, interviewed world-class prominent scholars, and developed print/online new media at traditional mass media companies. In this course, lecturer will give you basics of the art of knowledge compilation in the economy and business.
Students will submit reports before or after the lecture. Highly recommend to read books and articles in reading lists.
Excellent students in performance may have a chance to publish byline articles on business media.
This course reviews economic aspects of environmental and energy policy issues. Topics include the economics of major nonrenewable and renewable energy options, energy policy evaluation, and the economic aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Following the Coronavirus pandemic, cities around the world have entered an new era in which we must fundamentally rethink methods of urban development that were once considered common sense. What kind of urban future should we envision in the VUCA (Volatile・Uncertain・Complex・Ambiguous) world?
The economy and fabric of cities transform due to various factors, as do their spatial qualities. In this course, we will explore the goals of urbanization, the conditions that shape these goals, and the factors and mechanisms of real estate development. We will investigate the cause of transformations in urban economy and space, citing specific examples of real estate and investment case studies from Japan and abroad.
In addition, we will welcome professors who teach real estate design from Harvard University and MIT in the United States to discuss the future of urban development and consider the future of Japanese cities. At the same time, we will explore the possibilities of real estate design in the post-corona era, considering local values and the rise of the sharing economy.
The main purpose of this course is to introduce to graduate students in the GR programme basic methodologies in the fields of global governance, international relations (IR) and area studies. The course is to be conducted in Japanese.
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A concept is an important tool to organize thoughts, to communicate between people from different areas, to anchor findings when doing research, and to explain the issues. Students can use concepts as tools to do research or examine a concept for their research. The course will go over a number of key concepts of Human Security, such as Poverty, Freedom, and Risk), and other concepts related to important issues in people’s life and everyday life, such as Family, Choices, Losses)
The students are required to actively engage in in-class exercises to practice their conceptual thinking and writing.
The CB course has a variety of research fields. By utilizing this advantage and communicating with professors in the CB course, we hope you to learn various methodology and viewpoints. In this class, professors provide them as omnibus lectures.
In this course, the fundamental principle, theory, methods required to pursue research in information and network field are lectured. By taking this course, students acquire the fundamental theory and technique required in the focused area.
In each week, we will invite IAB scientists, Keio Ph. D students as well as two or three guest speakers, and discuss each topic provided by the speakers. Through this class, students aim to establish their “conceptual frameworks” in modern biology: strategy and the strategic way of thinking.
The aim of this course is to learn the basics and strategies of case study research. This course is designed for those students who would like to conduct researches in the fields of Social Sciences. Students will learn by reading text books and earlier studies, discussion, group work and presentation.Preparation for the lectures and submission of reports are aquired.
The goal of the course are to learn skills of designing case study research, critical reading of research and to improve quality of one's research design.
This course will be organized by seven faculties belonging to CB program.
A main faculty, Dr. Ushiyama, coordinates the course, and seven faculties handle each two-successive classes by rotation. They will introduce research methods and philosophies in their own research fields through lectures, workshops, and group works.
This lecture will be divided into two parts:
The first part will focus on climate risk reduction. With specific examples from different tools, the lecture will focus on climate change adaptation with cases from developing countries.
This class is organized by researchers from not only inside cyber-informatics division in SFC, but also outside SFC. All the speakers are at the top class. The topics include communication, security, visualization, data, interaction.
Students in the XD program will be required to make presentations about the progress of their research. The XD faculty members participate in this class to review and discuss the direction of their research from various perspectives. Students will be required to make presentations and demonstrations about the research progress.
(Modified 15 March: the literature to be covered in this course)
In this course taught every other year, we will focus on methodology(methodologies) of qualitative research that serves any inquiry into the themes of language and culture. We will focus on ethnography and the intellectual foundations of this approaches. The course will consist of reading seminars where participating students present a summary of the readings with possible discussion topics, followed by discussion in class. Towards the second half of the term, students will also be required to experiment with a short ethnographic research in educational settings, and present their research result.
Since the 1990s, while the world has experienced the wave of globalism, it has simultaneously been haunted by the rise of regional conflicts that had erupted subsequent to the end of the Cold War. Concurrently, the international community has been facing threats emanating from the so-called failed states, mainly due to the former's inability to stabilize the situation. Furthermore, counter measures introduced by individual states to deal with challenges represented by global warming and contagious diseases like Ebola will remain less effective if not conducted comprehensively and collectively through international and/or regional institutions or forums. This class will consider a variety of issues that require multilateral mechanism of governance.
This class aims for enhancing your understanding of contemporary international political economy mainly in Northeast Asia (also expands in East Asia, Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific) through examining theories of regionalism/regional integration, policy frameworks and practices.
Region is a dynamic concept. The main objective of this course is to explore dynamic natures of the “region” through learning historical backgrounds, perspective of multi-layered stakeholders (regional organizations, states, private sectors, individuals), and through various issue areas.
Re-mapping the region is the basic approach of this class. Through examining different issue areas and case studies including: 1) trade and investment, 2) comparative politics, 3) security and military, 4) society and culture etc., the class will encourage students to explore, based on your own interests, new approaches to re-construct the region.
This course aims to learn regional studies of the former USSR/ CIS focusing on the strategic topics. Please keep in mind that this course will be mainly related to the affairs of former USSR / CIS and those with Europe. This course will be composed by lecturers, discussions, and presentations by students. Student’s active participations are required. I would like to include the student’s interests into the lectures, so the requests are always welcome.
All students must attend at the first class, because we will decide the schedule of the personal presentation and I would like hear the student’s interests. In addition, I would like to deal with the new movement in the region and the world, so the syllabus would be changed flexibly according to explain the new situations.
Students will learn about finance theory in this course, especially securities investment theory.
Each class requires the student to present an explanation of the textbook.
The theory of securities investment discusses the concept of security value, the efficiency of the market and the identification of mispricing to select stocks.
In this class, professors in charge of management, organization, and neighboring fields give omnibus-style classes.
The main aim of each course is to explain each specialized field and tell the students what kind of stance approach they are taking to research that field.
This class is suitable for a wide range of reviews of management, organization and neighboring fields.
Literature review of strategic management. participants were to pre-read the papers and participate the in-class discussion