Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Human Leadership in Futuristic Cities from the Institute for Advanced Studies, Enviolo

Breaking Boundaries: How Transportation Systems Have Shaped Our Lives and What Are the Impacts on Society and the Environment. Exploring the Connections Between Transportation Innovations to Improving Quality of Life and the Development of Urban Light.

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Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Understanding of basic concepts
  • Developing technological skills
  • Problem-solving ability
  • Teamwork
  • Effective communication
  • Planning and research
  • Time management
  • Presentation skills
  • Analytical thinking
  • Practical knowledge in relevant fields

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Mobility Engineer
  • Urban planner
  • Transportation consultant
  • Sustainable expert
  • Urban project developer
  • Mobility researcher
  • Transportation Project Manager
  • Mobile user experience designer
  • Expert in technological innovation in mobility
  • Transportation Policy Manager

Internship – 3-part course series

Ready to imagine and create a human-centered mobility future? Using bicycles as a mirror for pressing mobility and sustainability issues, this 3-course specialization is about bringing possibilities to the more resilient and connected cities of tomorrow.

Courses

  • Decoding the Fashionable City

    We will use the Netherlands as a model for a bicycle-based mobility system.

  • Alternative narratives about mobility

    We invite you to reconsider our central narrative about mobility, based on engineering and economics.

  • Wise about the future of bicycles

    We will look at the role of innovation in creating lighter, safer, and more accessible mobile systems.

Hands-on Learning Project

During this internship, you will have the opportunity to take part in a series of hands-on projects that will help you reimagine your city.

  • Decoding the Fashionable City

    Apply inspirations from the Netherlands to your local context.

  • Alternative narratives about mobility

    Choose a mobility innovation and examine it from alternative and meaningful perspectives.

  • Wise about the future of bicycles

    Your responsibility will be to critically consider the benefits and potential drawbacks of technological innovation.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Narratives for alternative leadership

Course 1

  • 25 hours
  • 4.8 (29 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • We will examine the role of language and narratives in shaping our views on mobility, transportation policy, and mobility innovations.
  • You will learn about the homo-economicus hidden in our thinking about leadership and our transportation system.
  • We will present 4 alternatives to the homo-economicus model:
    • Leading as unnecessary
    • Leadership as a public asset
    • Leadership as a game
    • Leadership as interaction
  • In the final project, you will choose an innovation in the field of leadership and reflect on it critically from these alternative and meaningful perspectives.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Critical Thinking
  • Category: System Dynamics

Decoding the Bicycle City

Course 2

  • 22 hours
  • 4.9 (245 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Reimagine the street as a space for negotiation and social interaction.
  • In comparison to the riding experience, we will examine the driving and pedestrian experience.
  • To explore the historical development of cycling in the Netherlands.
  • Examine the interactions between land use and transportation and identify how cycling fits into these systems.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Urban Planning
  • Category: Bicycle Design
  • Category: Urban Design
  • Category: Qualitative Research

Be smart about the future of cycling

Course 3

  • 23 hours
  • 4.8 (10 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Critically consider several perspectives on the future of cycling.
  • Develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between cycling and infrastructure, its diverse users, and the broader transportation system.
  • To place cycling (innovations) in the context of inequality and in different countries.
  • To explore the limits of our society’s collective imagination regarding leadership and how to deal with these limitations.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Thinking about the future
  • Category: Critical Thinking
  • Category: Bicycle Design
  • Category: Novelty
  • Category: Systems Thinking