C-Academy brings real-world design thinking into schools and organisations, turning real-world challenges into powerful learning journeys. Your learners will step out of their comfort zone, build empathy, and co-create solutions that make a difference.
We will equip your students with practical tools to understand users, reframe problems and experiment with ideas. Each programme is tailored to actionable themes so that learning is relevant and inspiring. In the process, participants discover that creativity is a skill they can practise and apply far beyond the classroom.
“I see myself growing by developing my creativity, as this experience challenges me to think outside the box and generate innovative solutions.”
Student of Ngee Ann Secondary School
“I am more confident in solving a problem in a much more in-depth manner.”
“Through design thinking, I have learned to put myself in others’ shoes, allowing me to come up with solutions that are more empathetic and responsive to their needs.”
Educator of Ngee Ann Secondary School
“Through this programme, students not only strengthened their problem solving skills, but also discovered how empathy and service can give lasting purpose.”
Principal of Methodist Girls' Secondary School
“It was interesting activities our students have done and their ideas to reimagine our library, and we can see it has been a meaningful growth journey for them.”
Principal of Ngee Ann Secondary School
Our Methodology
Our programmes are built on proprietary design thinking framework, strengthened by a network of partners, and brought to life by practising consultants. This combination helps exposes your learners to real-world challenges and learn how creative problem-solving works beyond the classroom.
EDIT Design Thinking®
Our programmes are built on Creativeans’ EDIT Design Thinking® methodology. It is a practical, step-by-step approach that guides your learners from empathy to implementation so that people and organisations can solve problems easily and creatively.
Strong Network of Partners
We have a strong network of industry partners from non-profit, commercial, and industrial sectors to enrich participants’ learning and bring design thinking into real-world applications.
Practicing Consultants
Backed by years of consulting experience from our master trainers, who are the founders of award-winning consultancy Creativeans, C-Academy blends industry practice with education, making design thinking both accessible and immediately applicable.
Growing Future-Ready Learners with EDIT Design Thinking®
With EDIT Design Thinking®, your learners study how layouts, furniture, tools and digital resources influence focus, collaboration and well-being. Your students not only propose engaging, inclusive and future-ready learning environments, but also gain a transferable toolkit for improving any space or experience they encounter.
Empathise
Understand the experience of the learners by using method-like observation, interaction, and immersing your students in the experiences.
Define
Analyse the observations and synthesise them in order to define the core problems and create a clear value proposition statement.
Ideate
Process your learners’ findings and generate a large quantity of possible solutions by stepping beyond the obvious and exploring diverse ideas by prototyping.
Test
Use observations and feedback to refine the prototypes, learn more about the use, and refine your learners’ original point of view.
Trusted by Schools and Organisations
Let Out Your Creativity Programmes
Choose a real-world challenge that fits your school’s priorities. Each theme is delivered as a comprehensive, customisable learning journey, using design thinking to help your students turn ideas into meaningful action.
What We Believe
Great Learning Looks Like
Learning
by Doing
by Doing
We believe the best way to learn creativity is to apply it to real challenges.
Empathy
First
First
Great ideas begin with understanding people’s needs, motivations, and everyday experiences.
Collaboration
over Competition
over Competition
We create safe spaces where learners listen, build on each other’s ideas, and solve problems together.
Design for Positive Impact
Every project aims to improve the way we live, learn, and interact, either in schools, communities, and beyond.
