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Amsterdam 
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CAMP OVERVIEW
Most courses give you a framework and send you home. This one takes you to Barcelona, the city where design is not a department, it is a worldview. Gaudí didn’t just build buildings. He solved human problems through form. The 22@ Innovation District doesn’t just host startups. It is a live experiment in what creativity at scale looks like.
Six days of hands-on design thinking and creative leadership, built around the IDEO framework used by Apple, Airbnb, and the world’s leading innovators. Not in a classroom. In workshops, design sprints, and applied sessions inside one of the most visually alive cities in Europe.
By the time you leave, you will have already used what you learned, on real problems, in real settings, alongside people who will challenge how you think.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
You will recognize yourself in at least one of these.
You want to solve problems in ways nobody else is thinking of
You are not short of intelligence or effort. You want a different entry point, one that starts with people, not assumptions, and produces solutions that actually land.
You want to lead creative processes with confidence
Whether you are managing a team, running a project, or trying to get people aligned around an idea, you want to facilitate creative thinking in a way that moves things forward.
You want to turn ideas into something real and testable
You have concepts that never quite make it off the page. This programme gives you the tools to prototype, test, and iterate before investing months in the wrong direction.
You want to think more originally under pressure
Deadlines, briefs, competing priorities. You want the kind of creative confidence that does not disappear when the stakes are high and the time is short.
If you are between 20 and 40 and your work involves solving problems, building things, or convincing people, this programme was built for you.
WHY BARCELONA?
Europe’s design capital Barcelona didn’t just happen to look like this, every corner was decided. From Gaudí’s unfinished cathedral to the tile patterns on the pavements, this city treats design as the highest form of problem solving.
Where creativity has a neighbourhood The Gothic Quarter, El Born, the 22@ District, each part of the city has its own energy and its own creative identity. Barcelona doesn’t put art in museums and leave the streets plain. It puts it everywhere.
A city that makes you want to make things There is something about Barcelona that gets to people. The light, the pace, the Mediterranean at the end of every boulevard. You arrive as a participant and leave feeling like a creative person, whether or not you thought of yourself that way before.
THE COURSE
The Art of Design Thinking and Creative Leadership, built around the IDEO framework used by Apple, Airbnb, and the world’s leading innovators.
This is not a traditional course. Every session is task-based, built around real activities, live challenges, and assignments that use Barcelona itself as the classroom. You will not sit and listen. You will go out, apply, and come back with something real.
- IDEO Design Thinking Framework — the global standard for human-centred problem solving
- Design Sprint Methodology — taking an idea from zero to prototype in real time
- Human-Centred Problem Solving — designing solutions that actually work for the people who use them
- Lateral Thinking — breaking out of default patterns and approaching challenges from unexpected angles
- Rapid Prototyping of Ideas — turning thinking into something tangible, fast
- Creative Confidence Building — generating and defending ideas without second-guessing yourself
THE CITY
You Didn’t Just Come to Learn. You Came to Barcelona.
Barcelona is one of the most visually and creatively alive cities in the world, a place where design shows up in the architecture, the streets, and the way people live. It is not a backdrop. It is the lesson.
Must-See in Barcelona
The waterfront runs for kilometres — cycling, running, or walking with the Mediterranean beside you. Montjuïc has climbing routes and views of the entire city laid out below.
Sagrada Família — not as a tourist, but as someone studying what total creative commitment looks like in physical form. Casa Batlló, where every surface is a decision. The Gothic Quarter, layers of Roman and medieval stone in streets narrow enough to touch both walls. The Picasso Museum tucked into a medieval palace in El Born.
La Barceloneta and the beach — yes, even in winter. El Born for dinner, one of the most concentrated collections of good restaurants in Europe in a neighbourhood that feels nothing like a tourist area. And the rooftop bars of the Eixample for anyone who wants to end the night with the city below them.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
- 6-day intensive The Art of Design Thinking and Creative Leadership programme
- 5 nights hotel accommodation, shared twin room
- Daily breakfast.
- Airport transfers on arrival and departure.
- Curated city activities
- Completion certificate
Frequently Asked & Question
This programme is designed for professionals, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers aged 25 and above who want to solve problems more originally, lead creative processes more effectively, and build ideas that actually work. No design background is required or expected.
None at all. The programme begins from foundational principles and builds progressively. Whether you have worked in a creative field before or are approaching design thinking for the first time, the sessions are designed to meet you where you are.
You will stay in a comfortable, centrally located hotel in Barcelona for 6 nights. Rooms are shared twin, two separate beds, one roommate from the programme cohort. The hotel is chosen for its proximity to programme venues and the city's key areas.
800 Arabia runs on a monthly subscription model called The Evolve Plan, at $150 per month. Once you subscribe, your wallet starts building. Barcelona becomes available after 12 months of subscriptions.
Each trip includes your full course programme, hotel with daily breakfast, city activities and experiences, and airport transfers at the destination. Flights are not included and arranged separately.
To get started, visit the 800 Arabia website or reach out to our admissions team directly on WhatsApp. Once your subscription is confirmed, you will receive a full programme pack with everything you need before you travel.
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