The Antidisciplinary Approach to the Modern World 現代世界への脱専門的アプローチ — DNA

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Lectures

• Why are we here? Week 1 · The SDS story, your stories, and where they meet · Joi Ito
• Systems Thinking and Antidisciplinarity Week 2 · Connecting diverse experiences through a shared antidisciplinary stance · Joi Ito
• Prejudice & Bias Week 3 · The shortcuts your brain just took — cases on what gets quietly filled in · slides by Daum Kim, co-taught with Joe Austerweil
• Ways of Knowing Complex Systems Week 4 · Two lenses on the spread of infectious disease in urban environments · generative mechanistic modeling / EpiSim (Ira Winder) + percolation theory (Hiroki Kojima)
• Utilitarianism, Kant, and AI Ethics Week 5 · Ethical frameworks and what they mean for the systems we build · Mizuki Oka & Catharina Maracke · May 29, 2026
• Synthesis Discussion Week 6 · A guided discussion across the semester · Joe Austerweil · June 5, 2026

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