Campus Emergence Laboratory

* This laboratory has been completed.

Date of establishmentNovember 1, 2015
Director
Jun Murai
Dean / Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Contact
Hiroto Kobayashi Lab. Keio University SFC
E-mail:hiroto[at]sfc.keio.ac.jp

Objectives

Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) has devised the Miraisozojuku (Institute for Designing the Future) concept, aimed at building a new campus of and for the future. The new campus plan commenced this academic year in the form of SBC (Student-Build Campus). SBC refers to activities to build a scheme where students, graduates and faculty members and staff actively take part in new and innovative residential education and research, something that SFC has been aspiring to since 2014. Based on current educational and research programs, new areas of exploration required beyond what is currently being done are being adopted. SBC is considered as a testing ground for the latest education and research within SFC, and it is highly anticipated that this will give birth to a wide range of emergent research that can be released on a global scale.

A new laboratory will be launched within SFC to conduct emergent research and drive new campus planning, such as that for the Miraisozojuku (Institute for Designing the Future) SBC. This laboratory will become the hub for both the private and public sectors to collaborate to explore unknown research fields. Many of the faculty members within SFC will become research members, and along with providing students further opportunities to come into contact with new education and research fields via collaboration both within and outside of the research group, further opportunities for research with the private and public sectors will be established, and researchers involved in education and research on the SBC and other campus plans will be nurtured. Where a design or technology developed within SBC needs to be secured as intellectual property of Keio University, this laboratory will be positioned as the parent organization of the intellectual property.

Overview of Research Activity Plan (November 1, 2015 – October 31, 2016)

  1. Research on how living in a residential research and education facility can be used and collaboration between various fields of study

    Verification of the possibilities of developing mutual understanding between researchers involved in different fields of study and exploring new fields of research, due to them living in a cooperative community for a short to medium length of time.

  2. Research on skills that can be acquired via self-building and the effect of that

    Verification of what type of skills a person can acquire via a self-designing and building process, and what additional effects this has. Consideration will also be given, based on this research, to the usefulness of self-building.

Researchers, managers and professors

Jun MuraiDirector Dean / Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Overall coordination, research proposals
Tomoyuki Furutani Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Research related to campus concepts
Hiroto Kobayashi Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
General research execution, collating and summarizing output
Fumitoshi Kato Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies Research promotion on sustainable production and consumption, cooperation with the United Nations University and the Ministry of the Environment
Yoko Hasebe Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Execution of research related to education
Takashi Iba Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Execution of research related to collaborative research
Shohei Matsukawa Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Execution of research related to construction planning
Yutaro Muraji Project Research Associate, Graduate School of Media and Governance
Execution of research related to student activities, assistance for collating and summarizing output
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