Artificial Intelligence can generate answers, write essays, create images, and solve problems in seconds. But as AI becomes increasingly capable, an important question emerges: What makes human thinking valuable?

This masterclass explores the relationship between AI and human intelligence, highlighting why creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, ethical reasoning, and original thought are becoming more important than ever. Through real-world examples and interactive activities, students will learn how to use AI as a tool while developing the uniquely human skills that machines cannot replicate.

The session will also introduce students to FLAME University's interdisciplinary approach to learning, where questioning assumptions, exploring diverse perspectives, and solving complex problems are central to the educational experience.

The wizarding world of Harry Potter has its own government, laws, courts, and institutions, existing alongside the ordinary world. But how would international law understand such a society? Through this engaging session, students will explore concepts such as statehood, sovereignty, jurisdiction, and legal authority using the wizarding world as a case study. By applying real legal principles to a fictional setting, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how international law organizes power, responsibility, and governance in an increasingly complex world.

The best designers in the world are not the most creative people—they are the most observant ones. They notice things that everyone else has stopped seeing: the door handle that always gets pushed the wrong way, the form that asks for information in the wrong order, the checkout process that loses a sale at the final step. This session teaches design thinking as a way of seeing, starting with empathy, moving through problem definition, and arriving at solutions that actually work because they start from real human experience rather than assumptions. The session is hands-on from the first minute: no theory without practice.

Sustainability is one of the most powerful marketing tools of the 21st century. Brands now advertise recycled packaging, carbon-neutral products, tree-planting campaigns, eco-friendly collections, net-zero pledges, and climate-conscious choices. But not every green claim means the same thing. Some claims reflect real changes in how a product is made, while others highlight a small positive action to distract from larger environmental harms. This session will teach students how to critically examine sustainability claims made by familiar brands. Using real examples from fashion, food, energy, and consumer goods, they will practise asking evidence-based questions to understand these sustainability claims.

Here's a question: in a room of 23 people, what are the odds that two of them share a birthday? Most people guess very low. The answer is over 50%. Our instincts about probability are deeply, consistently wrong - and that failure has real consequences in courtrooms, hospitals, financial markets, and everyday decisions. This session opens with experiments that will genuinely surprise you, before tracing probabilistic thinking across disciplines. You'll see how anchoring distorts risk perception, encounter burden of proof from law, and learn to spot when statistics are being weaponised against you.

The most powerful brands today don't advertise; they build communities. But how does a brand go from being a product to being a personality? From being something people buy to something people belong to?

This masterclass gets into the mechanics of how modern brands create identity, loyalty, and word-of-mouth, through storytelling, values, and a sharper understanding of human psychology than most people realise goes into a logo, a tagline, or a campaign. The brands you love didn't get there by accident, and the decisions behind them are far more deliberate than they appear.

Whether you want to launch a business, work in marketing, or simply understand the world you're marketed to every day, this masterclass gives you a sharper eye and tools you'll use for life.