Dean's Message

Greetings from the Dean

 

The Graduate School of Urban Management was established in 2018 as the successor to the Graduate School for Creative Cities of Osaka City University. It was retained without change during the transition from Osaka City University to Osaka Metropolitan University as a professional graduate school for working adults (Urban Management Program).

The Urban Management Program places special emphasis on identifying issues before attempting to solve them, based on the understanding that an issue emerges from the gap between the current state and the ideal one. However, what we regard as the current state and what we regard as the ideal state are already shaped by an invisible gaze. In the post-truth era, what counts as an issue is itself far from self-evident, which is why identifying issues must begin with recognizing the invisible gaze.

Especially now, when even the contours of reason have become difficult to discern, we value above all the shared discovery of issues through discussion and dialogue while reflecting on the public use of reason.