Dear students, hi! Welcome to the Agile in Social Innovation course.
This course is your gateway to bringing together everything you’ve learned in Social Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking concentration. As the final step in your concentration, it’s designed to help you apply the skills from Design Thinking, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leading Change in real-world situations. In a fast-changing world, being agile isn't just a bonus—it's a necessity. This course will empower you to tackle challenges and embrace opportunities using an agile mindset and methodologies for social innovation.
Innovation is all about solving problems that matter. Through this course, you'll dive into Agile project, product, and team management, using practical tools like Trello, Miro, and Notion. As you advance, you can also explore more complex tools like Jira, Asana, and Figma. Agile approaches such as Lean Startup, SCRUM, and Kanban will become part of your toolkit, offering you flexible, adaptive methods that go beyond traditional models.
As a social innovator, you’ll learn to identify what truly adds value at every step of your project, and you'll continuously adjust based on what you discover. Rooted in the Agile Manifesto, this course is about maximizing the value of your or team work by focusing on the most impactful tasks, embracing change, and collaborating in self-organizing teams. You'll gain the confidence to drive social innovation effectively, ensuring that the products, projects, or services you create make a real difference.
Welcome and let's start our journey!
With best regards,
Your Instructor
Elena Chigibaeva
- Teachers: Polina Cherniavskaia
- Teachers: Elena Chigibaeva
- Teachers: Nazanin Firuz Akhmad
- Teachers: Bakhtiiar Asanov
- Teachers: Taalai Mambetov
- Teachers: Polina Cherniavskaia
- Teachers: Elena Chigibaeva
- Teachers: Nazanin Firuz Akhmad
- Teachers: Daniiar Usenov
- Teachers: Ilyas Kanybek
- Teachers: Liubov Jdanova
- Teachers: Zhamilia Baiborieva
- Teachers: Liubov Jdanova
Landscape Design is a practice-oriented course focused on developing skills in designing and analyzing outdoor spaces in both urban and natural environments. The course introduces students to the fundamentals of composition, dendrology, floriculture, and ecological principles of sustainable landscaping.
A strong emphasis is placed on visual communication tools: students learn to create sketches, moodboards, plans, and 3D visualizations, and apply basic rules of perspective and composition within landscape projects.
During seminars, students complete hands-on assignments, examine real case studies, explore existing landscape solutions, and develop their own design concepts.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
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understand the principles of landscape space formation;
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use plants as expressive design elements;
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create conceptual and visual materials for landscape projects;
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develop an original landscaping project for a site or urban area.
- Teachers: Ekaterina Kosenko
- Teachers: Daniyar Karabaev
- Teachers: Aijamal Sarybaeva
- Teachers: Jildiz Nicharapova
- Teachers: Liubov Jdanova
- Teachers: Daniyar Karabaev
- Teachers: Adina Sulumbekova
- Teachers: Polina Cherniavskaia
- Teachers: Elena Chigibaeva
- Teachers: Nazanin Firuz Akhmad
- Teachers: Bakytbek Sagynaly
- Teachers: Ilyas Kanybek
- Teachers: Eleonora Proyaeva