Through the complete design of lectures with the objective of providing a learning environment that would increase the participants desire to learn, IAMAS’ design research was put into practice alongside this with the goal of examining the process and results of those lectures and learning environment.
This time too with Sorahaku, the graduate designer, and the innovation space, learning materials were created that could be used in an exploratory way for the 6 lectures in order to give students from the upper elementary to middle school levels that sense of learning and feeling of accomplishment. We received comments from students that took part in the lectures that the expertly designed learning materials heightened their expectations for the lectures. Furthermore, through the process of summarizing their insights on the worksheet after each lecture, they felt they could proactively and heuristically see what they have learned.
In designing the course completion certificate, in order to promote the children who participated in the lectures to continue learning about the field of aerospace after the workshops, we employed the “Miura Fold” conceived by the aerospace engineer Koryo Miura. The certificate was created as a moving object that opens and closes, showing the main points learned in the course and an image of a satellite on a piece of paper bound in the “Miura Fold”.