近年、アカデミックでプロフェッショナルな歴史学者による歴史と、歴史学者の仕事とはときに無関係に普通の人びとにより認識され、語られ、書かれる歴史との距離や関係性への関心が高まっている。博物館や教育現場、放送メディアやインターネット空間、記念集会や記憶の場など公共空間における歴史は、専門的学知と社会と政治とが接する、緊張感あふれる交点上に立ち現れる。授業では、公共領域における過去とそれをめぐる表象、対立、議論などについて、東欧の「歴史消費大国」ポーランドを事例として考察する。

In this course, students from multidisciplinary backgrounds collaboratively develop innovative, tech-driven solutions to complex societal problems. The course provides opportunities for students to interact with expert clients who present them with a problem or challenge that needs to be addressed and to practice working effectively in a multidisciplinary team. Students are asked to make hard choices to produce a thoughtful solution, which requires careful problem identification and the assessment of alternative options.

In this course, students from multidisciplinary backgrounds collaboratively develop innovative, tech-driven solutions to complex societal problems. The course provides opportunities for students to interact with expert clients who present them with a problem or challenge that needs to be addressed and to practice working effectively in a multidisciplinary team. Students are asked to make hard choices to produce a thoughtful solution, which requires careful problem identification and the assessment of alternative options.

Media Design is an exciting and relatively new discipline within the wider context of design. In it researchers and practitioners are interested in exploring new ways to use and deploy digital media technologies to have function, communicate information or present artwork. Designers from a Media Design background often work on or with web design, e-books, data-bases, big data visualisation, smartphone applications, film, animations, digital imaging, art installations, technology products and many other artefacts and systems. Such designers create their ideas utilising digital or electronic formats and the intention is often that the work is created from scratch to be accessed on a digital platform. This course is a first step introduction to Media Design, it is not intended to be a comprehensive class but rather a short and intense introduction to some processes and skills and you may wish to continue your exploration of this discipline in other classes or studies. This is not a heavy lecture based course but rather a seminar, discussion, and hands-on practical class where you will do a lot of learning by doing. You will be working in teams a lot and each week there will be a subject to discuss, learn and try.

工学・情報の諸分野で現れる様々な問題について，「不変性」の視点から眺めて洞察するための基礎的な力を身につけることを目標とする．

This course aims to provide an overview of space governance from the perspectives of space policy and law. For this purpose, lectures are to be given by academia, practitioners and specialists in outer space activities and utilization. The course requires students to explore the possible solutions/proposals on specific themes through joining group work and writing individual report. Space governance and space policy are interrelated and the key terms in understanding how space missions need to cope with the existing regulatory framework and how to identify pressing issues/challenges that all space actors need to go through. Such knowledge is beneficial not only to traditional actors (e.g., government and national space agencies) but also to New Space actors (e.g., private entities) or new space-faring nations (e.g., UAE) who started space missions recently. With the increasing number of space actors, due to growing interest in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), various space applications both by government and private sector are flourishing to support societal needs. Considering such a crowded situation in Earth orbit and the limits of resources available in outer space, this course provides comprehensive lectures that help students to explore the possible and practical solutions necessary for pursuing further space activities. In FY 2025, before dealing with the latest topics including space traffic management (STM), space resources exploration, and space x SDGs, the course provides introductory lectures on space policy and law, governance of various space activities, the role of space actors (i.e., space agencies, industry, international organizations) and the process/forum of rule-making for sustainable space activities.

This course aims to raise awareness on the critical role of space technology in our daily lives and the important implications it has on domestic policymaking and international relations. The first part of the course, titled “Space and Society”, provides an overview of major space technologies and their applications. It then demonstrates how space assets have become a critical infrastructure on which advanced societies are over-reliant, and the hazards and threats that they are facing. The second part of course delves into political science and international relations. It addresses the various approaches to space policymaking, the structure of international relations in outer space and the major challenges ahead for the space sector. This course will be a part of the global effort to map threats and consequences for space sustainability conducted by the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research.

1990年代の文化論的転回cultural turn以降，劇的な潮流変化に晒されてきた文化地理学の立ち位置―どのように文化と空間の関係性を考えてきたか—を理解する。景観と場所をキーワードとして，講義担当者の琉球列島における調査・研究ならびに都市研究を事例に，文化地理学の概要と特徴的な視座について学習していく。また併せて関連する地理学史・方法論的な知識も身に着けていくこととする。

概要 都市や森林・海洋などの空間を、IoTデバイスや衛星データなどの多様でダイナミックな時空間データに基づき理解することができるようになってきています。本授業では、こうした時空間ビッグデータに関連する分野横断的な学術研究の最先端に触れ、社会を取り巻く課題に対して、データを軸に多角的なアプローチで検討する視点や俯瞰的な思考力を取得することを目的とします。 目的 複雑化・多様化する社会の諸事象の関係性を様々なデータを用いて分野横断的かつ俯瞰的に捉え、新たな視点での課題解決へのアプローチを導出する力が求められるようになってきます。そのために、本授業では、空間情報を用いて地球環境や都市環境をどのように捉え、また空間をめぐる様々な課題にどのようにアプローチすることができるのかを学びます。都市社会や自然環境の変動、自然災害、農業、経済、公衆衛生など多様な研究領域での最新の研究成果や社会実装の最先端に触れます。空間情報を軸とした具体的なアプローチや解決手法を学び、データ駆動型の思考法や新たな視点を取得することは、今後、環境や都市、社会基盤等の諸問題について自ら問いを立てて、またその問に対するアプローチを考える上で活きることでしょう。 目標 ・デジタル化など社会を取り巻く変化や、デジタル空間社会実現に向けた可能性、課題や複雑性について理解する ・さまざまな空間情報を収集し、それらを分析し、問いに対する答えを導くまでのアプローチを理解する ・デジタル空間社会データの可能性や限界、課題を理解した上で、データに基づいたアプローチに関する問を立てたり、その問に対するアプローチに関する自分の意見や考えを発展させることができる

This course aims to raise awareness on the critical role of space technology in our daily lives and the important implications it has on domestic policymaking and international relations. The first part of the course, titled “Space and Society”, provides an overview of major space technologies and their applications. It then demonstrates how space assets have become a critical infrastructure on which advanced societies are over-reliant, and the hazards and threats that they are facing. The second part of course delves into political science and international relations. It addresses the various approaches to space policymaking, the structure of international relations in outer space and the major challenges ahead for the space sector. This course will be a part of the global effort to map threats and consequences for space sustainability conducted by the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research.