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 (Oct.1)

Lecture 2: Center of Workplace: Office (Oct.8)

Lecture 3: Place where work and rest coexist: House (Oct.15)

Lecture 4: Place that is neither office nor home: Third Place (Oct.22)

Lecture 5: Automated control to support smart workplaces (Oct.29)

Lecture 6: Design of work styles for workers (Nov.5)

Lecture 7: Design for student learning (Nov.12)