Join Us
image image image image image image

Emerging Futures Academy

In order to predict and prepare for the future, one has to reflect on the past, pay attention to the present and identify trends that will influence change in the future. Emerging Futures Academy is a hands-on course designed in partnership with Kyndo Education to support people from the age of 18 years to familiarize with modern approaches of thinking and doing that will enable them to excel in social innovations through learning-by-doing. It seeks to model innovation and thought leaders with capacity to identify challenges within their communities and inspire change through developing, demonstrating, testing and scaling solutions with the relevant communities through adoption of modern approaches, tools and equipment.

What will you be doing on this course?

This training is offered around three subject areas including:

  1. Innovation and Leadership
  2. Reflective Practice and Digital Storytelling
  3. Enterprise

Innovation and leadership

This module studies emerging innovation approaches that enable products and solutions to stay relevant to their intended user now and for the foreseeable future. It also identifies leadership as a key element of propelling successful endeavors including skills development processes, teamwork and even the role out of solutions and products to different communities.

It also addresses the following:

  • Design

Your design skills will help you and your clients to bring ideas to life by creating a range of visual communications.  This can be in the form of typography, photography, iconography, illustration or 3D modeling.

Using this, you can design anything from: furniture, logos, gift items, sculptures, signage, wall decors, stationery items etc. All this is done through introducing you to a wide variety of readily accessible Computer Aided Design softwares to fit your personal preference and project requirements.

 

  • Fabrication

From the use of functional hand tools to the intricate digital fabrication equipment, the course will enable you to fabricate a broad range of products using different readily available materials.

This will use modern technologies and approaches.

 

Reflective Practice And Digital Storytelling

Having knowledge and demonstrating that you have skills to match that knowledge are very different things. This module explores how you can document, present and exhibit your skills in a manner that proves your prowess in different innovation related subjects to reach a bigger audience with services and products that you can offer.

 

Enterprise

A solution in the form of product/service makes a wider impact only when it has approach to scale. This module takes you through the fundamentals of setting up an enterprise and running it successfully in order to sustain yourself and your innovative solutions.

 

All the above modules are taught in three levels of study:

  • Beginners Level
  • Intermediary Level
  • Advanced Level
How long does the course take

Each module of this training takes six weeks. The course is therefore delivered over a minimum period of 3 months.

Each session generally takes two hours, with enough guided practical time created across each week.

Who qualifies for the training

We maintain training group sizes of a maximum of 20 participants to make sure everyone gets enough one-on-one support from the tutors where necessary.

Anyone 18 years and over is able to register onto the course, enrolment sessions will be arranged to complete registration paperwork prior to the course beginning

Where does the training take place?

The training is hosted at I.O.Me005 in Lamu and I.O.Me001in Mombasa and facilitated by different experts within the relevant fields.

Testimonials

“This training has taught me to be open minded and independent. As a team leader in the training, it taught me to be patient with the people I work with and listen to other’s opinions with an open mind. What I enjoyed the most was discovering that I had a passion for design work. I also learnt a lot about persons with disability during the training and now I look forward to utilizing the skills I have to finish what we started in the training and build solutions for persons with disability. I also made made new friends”

Hanna Nyambura

“The training taught me alot about documentation and planning of my work. I also worked with a team of 6 people and learnt how to collaborate. I initially had no confidence to present my ideas before a large audience, through practice I have gained confidence to be more expressive when  presenting before people.

The experience gained in developing our project during the training including use of softwares to design will be useful for me in developing other projects in future.”

Patheneus

 

“I had not made a product by myself before. The training required that I exercise creativity and come up with a product. I can now deal with team mates much better as I have learnt that each person is special in their own way and when you give them a chance, people can really surprise you at what they are able to do.

The reflective practice has challenged me to think of more ideas and put more effort in the testing and implementation of those ideas.”

Grace Vangu

Apply Here
image image image image

Let’s Work Together

Want to Innovate and Create?

Collaborate with us