2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Special Lecture: Introduction to the Design of Future Society
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroichi Yanase / Renge Jibu
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.T113
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The goal is to think about “desirable future society” in 2050. Imagine “daily life” and “ways of working” in the future based on the premise of scientific and technological progress. In addition to lectures, group work will be used. This year, we will especially focus on how to create a society and future without “bullying,” “harassment,” and “insecurity. The main goal of this year's project is to have students make their own proposals. In conjunction with the “Zero Bullying Project” of Institute of SCIENCE TOKYO, we will conduct a practical class in which students participate by utilizing technology. A unique feature of this class is that people working on the front lines of business will participate in every class. This is a future-oriented class in which students and business people mix.
Course description and aims
The goal of this class is to make it possible to show the ideal image of the society in 2050. It should be designed by incorporating the progress of science and technology, and social issues such as climate change ,gender gap,harassment bullying in the world. Being able to imagine how big scientific and global change affect our daily lives.
Keywords
Design of the future society, SDGs, Science&technology in the society, Diversity, Gender, Group work, Creating the media Harassment, bullying issues, difficulty in life
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The instructors will give talks. Students will be divided into several groups. Each group will research the future society, design it, and make a presentation. Business people whose employers are cooperated with D-Lab at Titech might participate in this class. For the detail, students will have information in the first class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Orientation for future society design:may be, should be, want to be. Overview of modern history about science & technology. | Collection of future forecast data |
| Class 2 | SHOULD BE:Study future image based on SDGs and group work | Preparing the contents of SDGs Refrecting the study of the SDGs |
| Class 3 | Group work using card-type sensors with Professor Yoshihiro Miyake | Group work using card-type sensors with Professor Yoshihiro Miyake |
| Class 4 | Group work using Wi-Fi sensor developed by Okiden C+C | Group work using Wi-Fi sensor developed by Okiden C+C |
| Class 5 | Presentation of group work using Professor Miyake and Okiden technology | Conduct experiments in groups to prepare for group work |
| Class 6 | Group presentation | Preparation of presentation for future newspaper |
| Class 7 | Reflecting group presentation and whole process | Reflecting group presentation, think about good and can be improved poits |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Will be assigned in classes if it is nessesary.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Watching films or reading novels describing future society or alternative history science fictions helps students to think about the class.
ex)Film "2001: A Space Odyssey"(Stanley Kubrick)
Novel" Nineteen Eighty-Four"(George Orwell)
Comic "Oooku"(Fumi Yoshinaga)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Active participation to the class（Active participation in every homework submission and every group work. To be specific, speak actively, have a role in joint work, and commit）:70% Final project and a report:30%
Related courses
- LAH.S112 ： Media Studies A
- LAH.T114 ： Studies on Future Society A
Prerequisites
This class will be conducted face to face.
Group work will be conducted in each class. Please be sure to bring your computer and smart phone with you to class. In addition to using them in class, they will also be used to check your class participation.
For this class, equipment will be lent out during “after-school time” after class, and students will be asked to conduct experiments in groups. Please understand this.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
yanase.h.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
jibu.r.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
none
Other
In the 2024 Introductory Future Society Design class, we plan to conduct a variety of group work to utilize technology and liberal arts to create a future free of bullying and harassment. We would like all students interested in this topic to come together.