Acodemy Bootcamp
Methodology
Phase One:
Design Thinking
Delve into a popular solution-based, human-centric approach to fabricate solutions to complex challenges by understanding and designing for the human psyche.
Step 1: Empathize
Essential to a human-centered design process, this involves understanding experiences to gain deeper personal insight of issues involved.
Step 2: Define
Observes design thinkers seeking a problem statement from a human-centered perspective to identify user needs and wants.
Step 3: Ideate
Teams essentially examine and cogitate with all the possibilities of stimulating creative thinking to form a design concept.
Step 4: Prototype
Designers enter the experimentation phase. Teams will start to fabricate solutions to be examined, improved, or accepted.
Step 5: Test
Teams will implement the solution through rigorous trials to rule out options or to reiterate the design process and derive alternatives.
Phase Two:
Acodemy Labs
Democratized access to tools for prototyping solutions in the lab
Virtual Reality Lab
Combining art and science, the VR lab transcends traditional content creation and product developing, as well as making technological education accessible to all.
Design Lab
Pushing boundaries in the fields of digital design and fabrication technology by equipping creatives with design computers, laser cutters, and 3D printers.
Computer Lab
Computer lab to develop software and website to increase scalability of software.
Cloud Lab
Develop server in cloud to improve accessibility of application
Electronics Lab
Electronics are ubiquitous in our daily lives. Explore IOT, human-powered generators and alternative energy mechanisms such as solar power.
Phase Three:
Value-based Education
Infusing theory and practice to create a conducive learning environment where knowledge is shared and explored in innovative approaches relevant to the industry.
Inclusive Learning
An inclusive platform making tools, technology and skills accessible to people from all walks of life, regardless of age, gender, background or ability.
Marketable Solutions
Projects at Comdev Academy are industry-centric, making them sensitive to market needs and are pertinent to solving real-life challenges.
Agile Learning
Versatility to explore and integrate knowledge and skills from various labs to find expedite the development of solutions.
Collaboration
Using highly collaborative and immersive methods to ensure that solutions are developed with stakeholders and for stakeholders.
Sustainability
Sustainability-savvy projects for meaningful, socially conscious impacts. Solutions developed fully envelops social and environmental concerns.
Paving the way for the Changemaker Movement, physically and virtually
Develop programmes that excite changemakers and advocates alike to expedite solutions to everyday challenges. Together we can design a brighter future!
Design Thinking
Steer into daunting social challenges with the human-centred approach to your thinking process. Known as the penultimate stage in the Design Thinking process, designers delve into an iterative phase of deriving inexpensive mock-ups for potential solutions. This boot camp embraces the integral user experience and testing as the core achievements of the programme. The programme observes participants creating prototypes as a tangible product rather than abstract ideas to facilitate alternative solutions to their designs.
*Engages aspiring designers to prototype for innovation
Sustainability Thinkers
Innovation is everyone’s business – a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, federal workers, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. Design Thinking nurtures innovative thinkers and uncover creative opportunities that exist whilst asking questions and through observation from a users perspective. This boot camp contextualizes sustainability issues in relation to day-to-day life, business and organizational operations. Participants will develop, prototype, and test solutions for addressing social, environmental and economic issues.
*Engages workforces to incorporate a sustainable mindset
Design and Build for Impact
Ideal for corporate social responsibility initiatives, the programme empowers teams to collaboratively conceptualize and start building solutions – whether for their own or a sponsored community. This programme champions impact for change and community engagement while instilling the principles and practices of a circular economy, relishing the continual use of waste materials and resources. Engage your teams in projects destined for impact, from a playground to improve a lifestyle in education to sustainable bookshelves built from diesel drum!
*Engages creative youths looking to explore upcycling
