A4: Frontiers in Smart Workplaces

About Course

Would you like to join us in creating unique and innovative ideas using your expertise to work toward the realization of Super Smart Society? Specialist lecturers from companies and organizations participating in the Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium will provide you with on-demand lectures on how to achieve a smart workplace that is being transformed through COVID-19, mixed with initiatives, challenges, and actual examples.

What is required concerning the control of the built environment and workplace building equipment to realize a super-smart society? Learn about cutting-edge initiatives, case studies, and social issues of related companies!

The evaluation of your academic achievement will be made through online discussions with other students after the lectures, which will be delivered every week.

Course Schedule

Lecture 1: Future cities from Mitsubishi Estate’s vision

Lecture 2: Center of Workplace: Office

Lecture 3: Place where work and rest coexist: House

Lecture 4: Place that is neither office nor home: Third Place

Lecture 5: Automated control to support smart workplaces

Lecture 6: Design of work styles for workers

Lecture 7: Design for student learning