Academy
Institute of Creative Practice
✦ INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE PRACTICE — BAUCHI
We
We
MAKE ideas real
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Makers in the
Founding Cohort
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Connected Units in
the Ecosystem
What Are We Making
Not a school. A creative practice ecosystem.
MAKERS Institute of Creative Practice is not another design school where students learn software and collect a certificate. It is a creative practice ecosystem where people learn, make, receive critique, work on real briefs from real organisations, and build the ability to create value in the real world — combining MAKERS Academy, Studio, Agency, PrintLab, Lab, Online and the wider MAKERS Community.
2026
( Founding Year )Proof Phase · Bauchi
Inside the
Proof Phase
Call for Joining
Call for Joining
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Founding Cohort
15–25 Makers join a 4–8 week programme of structured creative education
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Real Client Briefs
Partner organisations submit paid briefs that Makers work on under mentor supervision
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MAKERS Showcase
Makers present finished work publicly to partners, families and industry professionals
The Ecosystem
Interconnected layers, one creative ecosystem
The path to scale
We don't want MAKERS to remain a small design school in Bauchi. We're building toward a creative industry platform, starting small enough to prove it and thinking big enough to scale it.
Year 1 — Prove
Year 2 — Prove
Year 3 — Institutionalise
Year 1 — Prove
Year 2 — Prove
Year 3 — Institutionalise
Partners
Proposed founding partners
BICTDE
Government & Strategic Ecosystem Partner
Prof. Iya Abubakar CRC
Community & Learning Partner
Rocket Digital Creative Agency
Mentors, Networking & Tech Exposure
Harness Printing Press
Printing, Production & Real Briefs
Founder's Position
Why we're
building this
Why we're
building this
MAKERS
I am not approaching this as someone who simply wants to open a school. I am approaching it as a creative professional who has experienced the gap between talent and professional opportunity and wants to build the infrastructure to close that gap.
MAKERS is the institution I believe can sit between education and industry — teaching people, giving them opportunities to practise, connecting them to clients and mentors, and ultimately helping them build sustainable creative careers.
I want to start small enough to prove it, build intelligently enough to sustain it, and think big enough to scale it.
