The Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum saw the creations of IAMAS and had discussions with us about the creation of learning materials. In response to that, this collaboration began to be planned. The full design of the course was with the aim of increasing the participants eagerness to learn by providing an environment conducive to that, and it was also run with the other objective of examining the process and effectiveness of the practical research design. In order for the elementary school and middle school students to learn and gain that personal sense of accomplishment, the designers of the museum and the graduates of our university worked together to create the learning materials to be used for the six courses. The children who took the course and handled the learning materials expressed their high expectations for the course due to the well-designed teaching materials. By writing on the sheets their insights from every class they could recognize their progress and were able to witness themselves learning. From a design process perspective, we were able to gain knowledge through the development of the course over the six sessions regarding layout changes, based on the content of each session and formats that can be edited by third parties other than the designers, such as lecturers and museum staff.

In this collaboration the role of our university was to manage the creation of the learning materials after meeting with the Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum. Concerning the certificate of completion, based on the opinions of the museum, the designers created a draft design of the certificate, then in our university we proposed and made using the facilities in the “innovation studio” such as the laser cutter, vacuum forming machine, UV printer, etc. a certificate that was more three-dimensional and a device of sorts that the children could build up.