The vision is predicated on the certain knowledge that the world has entered a period of change like none previously seen in human history. We have entered an ‘age of acceleration’. The future of “work” is being transformed by advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. New jobs are emerging, but they will be filled by people with the ability to think creatively. It is alarming that the Foundation for Young Australians in it’s 2017 report, The New Work Order, predicted that only 20% of graduates will have the skills to fill the new jobs. Against this backdrop, our current education system effectively kills creativity: it conditions it out of us, taking away a part of us that makes us truly human.
In response to this vision for the future, and inspired by Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED Talk, “Do Schools Kills Creativity?”, Vivedus was birthed.
We believe that we have created a solution to the dilemma facing the world’s education systems. If schools do not adequately equip young people with the skills, dispositions and character traits that will allow them to thrive in the new era, then we will be doing them an enormous disservice.
Vivedus is an approach to teaching and learning that ensures students can master the basics, grasp complex ideas and knowledge, while also nurturing their ability to think creatively, to think like innovators and, if they so choose, to become entrepreneurs.
Vivedus is underpinned by significant academic research, including a world-leading research partnership with The University of Melbourne to develop tools to assess and report on the dispositions necessary for creative thinking.
In addition to our vision to transform education globally, we have partnered with the Blue Knot Foundation. 10% of all profits made at Vivedus are donated to support the work they do with victims of trauma, particularly victims of child sexual abuse.
Vivedus takes learning beyond: beyond the curriculum, beyond school, beyond agency, beyond collaboration and beyond creativity. It is learning for life.
