Makers cluB: Creativity as a Tool of Change (in Czech)

Course graduates will be able to:

• Identify and apply creative techniques to generate ideas and solve problems in both professional and personal contexts.
• Operate basic technologies in makerspaces and independently prepare materials for prototype creation.
• Use the principles of making and polytechnic education to develop digital and manual skills in themselves and their target group.
• Design future scenarios for the development of creative spaces using speculative design methods, taking into account emerging technological trends (e.g., AI).
• Implement your own creative project (final exam) from the ideation phase through the selection of suitable materials to the final output.
• Analyse and apply the principles of open workshops and community centres to your own workplace or community.
• Reflect on the benefits of manual creation for mental health, mindfulness, and maintaining attention in a digitalised environment.

Employment prospects

Graduates of the course will acquire a combination of soft skills (creativity, problem solving) and hard skills (operating technology in workshops), enabling them to find employment in a wide range of sectors:

• Education and leisure: As a lecturer, methodologist, or coordinator in informal education, youth centers, polytechnic centers, or school workshops, where the ability to combine modern technologies with manual creation is required.
• Cultural and creative industries: As a project manager, curator, or creative professional in cultural centers, galleries, and creative hubs that focus on community development and innovation.
• Public administration and librarianship: As an innovator and founder of community spaces and makerspaces, capable of strategically planning the modernization of services with regard to technological trends (AI, digitization).
• Information industry and companies: As a member of creative teams focusing on design thinking and rapid prototyping.
• Working with people and HR: As a facilitator of development programs focused on well-being, mindfulness, and burnout prevention through manual creation and creative expression.
• Graduates will be better prepared for positions requiring a high degree of adaptability, the ability to work with new technologies, and the skill to design innovative solutions in both team and independent environments.

Enrolment requirements

• Required initial education: .

• Participation: Kombinované

Lecturers