Our Work with Kochi University
An initiative connecting the experience of LIFE with artistic expression. See participants present work that gives personal form to what they felt.
Watch the artwork presentation videoHOME / LIFEEDUCATION & COMMUNITY / Learning & Co-creationImagining a community's future,
From our work with Kochi UniversityImagining a community's future,
beginning with life.
Schools, universities, local governments, businesses and residents.
With “life” as our shared theme,
we create experiences that move the heart.
01 / ROOTED IN A PLACEA wish to stay connected to this place.
Discover a community.
Feel your own life.
Create the future together.
How can we pass a community's learning, work, nature and culture on to the next generation? This is a question to share across roles and generations, rather than leaving schools or local governments to consider it alone.
Beginning with “life,” we create opportunities to encounter local nature and culture, talk with one another and express what we feel. We hope to nurture attachment and pride in a place, and a desire to remain connected to it.
The content, duration and facilitators are all shaped together through dialogue with the local community, according to the purpose of each program.
02 / CO-CREATIONBringing our knowledge and experience together.
With life at the center,
the strengths of a community
begin to connect.
Beyond one person teaching and another simply receiving.
People in different roles become partners in creating something together.
Select a group to explore how we can co-create.
With Schools & Universities
We explore opportunities for students' and children's inquiry and creativity to meet the knowledge and experience of local people.
OUR COMMON THEMELifeLife, and the community around us.
CURATED FOR YOUR COMMUNITY
Combining experiences to suit your purpose.
FEEL
Experiencing LIFE
Feel life, and reflect on yourself.
ENCOUNTER
Local Experiences
Encounter nature, culture and everyday life.
DIALOGUE
Dialogue & Inquiry
Share discoveries and questions.
EXPRESSION
Artistic Expression
Give form to what you feel.
Connecting and shaping the program: INOCHI WORLD PROJECT / Feel&Sense
03 / PRACTICE & RESEARCHWork developed with universities and schools.
Turning what you feel
into your own expression.
From experience to inquiry. From inquiry to creation.
We bring the insights of practice and research into community programs.
Earth MIRAI School
with Kyushu University
Earth MIRAI School is an initiative with Shigeki Inoue of Kyushu University, exploring what it means to live and learning through art and design.
Watch the Earth MIRAI School video
Our Work with Kobe University
“Create Your Own Star”
A STEAM art program co-developed with Ms. Teshigawara (勅使河原君江). Participants feel what is within them and give it form, each creating a star of their own.
The program was held at Osaka University as part of “TEAM EXPO FES” for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.
View the program materials (PDF) (Japanese PDF)
Collaborative Research
with Keio University
Collaborative research with Yasue Mitsukura measures brainwaves while participants experience LIFE. Alongside our educational practice, we introduce efforts to study the experience itself.
Watch the collaborative research video04 / FOR SCHOOLSFor Schools & Boards of Education
Make time to feel life,
in lessons and school events.
Adapted to your students' ages, school objectives, lessons and events.
Together, we create experiences in which each person can feel,
learn with others and express themselves.
Feel and reflect
in the classroom.
For integrated studies, moral education and other lessons. Through film, art and dialogue, we create opportunities to reflect on our own lives and the lives of others.
Express yourselves
together through song.
Share thoughts inspired by the experience through songs and words. We also welcome discussions about programs combined with school events such as cultural festivals and graduation ceremonies.
Connect inquiry
with art.
Turn feelings and questions into artworks and your own words. Drawing on practices developed through university partnerships, we design experiences of inquiry and creation.
School resources: 5-page PDF. Program content and fees can be discussed according to participant numbers, venue and objectives.
05 / EXPERIENCE & VOICESAn experience that reaches each person's heart.
Feel that you,
and others, matter.
Kagoshima Prefectural Soo High School
The school received the top award in the FY2023 National Health Promotion School Awards and was also introduced as a model school in a project promoting education on protecting life. It held a program combining LIFE INOCHI with introspection.
An educational initiative in which students feel life through art and reflect on themselves.
“90%” of children
showed an improvement in self-esteem
This figure is from the organizer's post-program report published on the former education page.
Sources for the figure and participant comments“A talk I will remember for the rest of my life.”
“When I saw the journey from the birth of the universe to our own birth, I felt how precious it is to be here now. It gave me courage to move toward the future.”
“I was deeply moved when I held my two children while watching the film. Their warmth reminded me of feelings for my children that I had forgotten.”
06 / CREATE WITH USConnecting those who want to create a program with those who want to support one.
You want to begin something in your community.
Let us begin with that wish.
Host or Co-create a Local Program
For schools, universities, local governments and community groups. A place for young people and residents to meet, learning rooted in nature and culture, or an experience that shares your community's appeal. Tell us what you have in mind, even before it becomes a plan.
Discuss education and community co-creationSupport the Work as a Business
Funding, venues, people, materials or publicity: how could you contribute to a community or the next generation's endeavors? Talk with us about becoming a partner in creating the work, as well as supporting it.
Discuss support and sponsorshipContent and facilitators are selected to suit the community's objectives and themes.
Sources for Content, Program Reports & Participant Reflections
This page has been reconstructed from the former Education & Community Co-creation page's descriptions, photographs, practical and collaborative research records, and resources for schools. Migrated and checked October 29, 2026.
The “90%” figure and three participant comments are based on program reports and personal reflections published on the official LIFE Education® page. Original page checked October 15, 2026.
The “90%” figure is from the organizer's post-program report. The number of participants and measurement method could not be confirmed on the original page. Comments are presented as each individual's experience.
Descriptions of university collaborations and research are based on the former page. Research introduction videos and program materials can be accessed from the relevant case studies.
Photographs: Former Education & Community Co-creation page / Planning & production: Feel&Sense