POP-UP SCHOOLS

UPCOMING SCHOOLS
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CIID Pop-Up Schools bring transformative learning to people around the globe, with empowering workshops that combine hands-on learning, prototyping and innovation. 

These week-long courses welcome professionals and students, and are led by international experts from CIID’s extraordinary global community. Everyone in our courses learns to master life-centred design processes, which build upon and expand the principles of human-centred design to address broader ecological and systemic perspectives, embrace emerging technologies, and accelerate innovation that brings real impact, and align with the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The workshops are open to all, but are specifically tailored to the needs of professionals looking to expand their creative toolkit. The diverse mix of participants - both culturally and professionally - makes for exceptionally rich discussions, new perspectives and unique networking opportunities. 
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Each workshop can accommodate a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 24 participants. In the rare event that a workshop does not take place, participants can either receive a full refund or transfer their place to a later date. We therefore strongly recommend that participants book only refundable travel and accommodation, as we cannot take responsibility for costs incurred due to course cancellation.

You can keep up to date with upcoming Pop-up Schools here on our website and on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Join us to explore creative solutions, foster innovation and contribute to a better world — one workshop at a time.
CIID Summer School Costa Rica 2019
CIID Summer School India 2018
CIID Summer School Copenhagen 2019

Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being determines how we handle anxiety and stress. It has a direct impact on how we think, feel, and behave in our personal spaces - and in public and professional contexts.

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Bergamo, Italy

Designing a service is a complicated task, especially for services that address complex challenges, such as mitigating the negative impacts of tourism. Explore innovative ideas for impactful services through co-creation, journey maps, service blueprints, and experience prototypes.

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Bergamo, Italy

In this hands on course, explore how designing and co-creating inclusive products not only improves user experience, but ultimately benefits the business and long term viability of a business.

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Location: 
Bergamo, Italy

Exploring emerging technologies, youth-focused design, and regulatory and rights frameworks, the aim is to address these challenges and develop product and service solutions that deliver maximum positive impact

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Location: 
Bergamo, Italy
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Explore how nature’s strategies inspire innovative, resilient, and regenerative design. From close observation of the living world to hands-on prototyping, you’ll learn to translate biological wisdom into creative outcomes that benefit both people and planet.

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Location: 
San José, Costa Rica

Inspired by local challenges, this course equips you to design adaptive, sustainable, and impactful services. From research in real-world contexts to hands-on prototyping, you’ll learn to create outcomes that support people, environments, and resilient futures.

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Location: 
San José, Costa Rica

Learn how to incorporate an understanding of people’s behaviours into the design process to create solutions that have measurable impact.

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Location: 
San José, Costa Rica

Interested in how ethics could shape the tomorrow’s design and in finding ways to make difficult decisions through hands-on exploration?

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Location: 
San José, Costa Rica
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San José
Costa Rica

An exploration on meaningful AI beyond the paradigm of optimisation.

This course is a design studio exploring AI as a material to build agentic tools for everyday life—focusing on how these systems can expand human agency rather than erode it.

DATES: 
13 Jul
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17 Jul
2026
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5 days
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Location: 
Pune, India

Physical Making, Interactivity, and the Future of Play.

This course bridges the gap between code and the physical world by mastering the art of rapid prototyping with Arduino, enabling participants to transform abstract ideas into tangible, sensorial, and playful experiences.

DATES: 
13 Jul
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17 Jul
2026
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5 days
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Location: 
Pune, India
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Pune
India