What we do

Creative solutions, holistically applied.

Create

Create &
Recreate

This is our prime occupation. We make things happen, sometimes from nothing and other times from something. We strive to connect seemingly unrelated ideas in a bid to provide workable solutions…and still have fun!

Educate

Educate &
Research

1st we educate ourselves. Grandstanding and assumptions give way to empirical enquiry. When we share this refined knowledge, we listen to our listeners and in turn learn from them. To us education is meaningful exchange, and without research our ideas and thinking remain static.

ADR & CIA - Lagos

EvoluTivism

Evolutionary Activism, the application of intelligent thought to alter the status quo is how we affect change. We work with authorities and help iron out the creases in a system that is less than perfect.

We get better together

CIA – Lagos (Cultural Intellectual Association)

Trustees and Custodians

Complex problems, collaborative solutions

Ade Shokunbi

Custodian

James Inedu-George

Custodian

Baba Oladeji

Custodian

Koku Konu

Secretary

Biola Olorunmola

Custodian

Seun Oduwole

Custodian

Deoye Bammeke

Custodian

Ola-Dele Kuku

Custodian

Goke Osibodu

Treasurer

Theo Lawson

President

illustrations by Deoye Bammeke

20
+
Years in existence. Formed in 1999 as the Creative Intelligence Agency
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Architecture | Art | Creative Thinking | Dance | Design | Fashion | Governance | Interiors | Music | Photography | Poetry | Urbanism | Activism
100
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Active participants. Students, professionals and anyone with a smidgen of interest in Creativity and Nigeria

Iroyin, Labarai, Ozi, News

A snapshot of our current endeavours

Dr. Desalu Doodles

Oodles of doodles like noodles.  

Celebrating the Super-Ordinary

Aje'emapita zwhonyahwe (An egg can not tell the hen a story) Ebira proverb.  

Alhanislam; verse versus verse

Alhanislam speaks in measured yet impassioned tones about life in all its beauty and wretchedness.

Nafisa Bukar draws fashion

Nafisa Bukar, a Berlin-based post-graduate student of Architecture shares her fashion drawings.  

Freedom Park, Lagos

Former maximum security prison transformed into a multi-faceted place of expression Ampitheatre Sacred Geometries

Manipulated Photographs by Naimah

Being a fashion stylist isn't something I ever imagined myself doing. It never occurred to...

The Listening Sessions

Here, selected individuals narrate their thoughts and experiences in order to inform and educate. The effects...

EvoluTivism

Africa Design Radio Africa Design Radio is an audio journey that explores the world of design...

Larry Allison Studio @ Southbank University

You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a...

Ola-Dele Kuku

Agenda Setting III - 'The Running Mean' 2013 (Installation view) courtesy - 7th Flanders Design Triennial,...

Lagos Lockdown

This CIA-Lagos manoeuvre will examine how Coronavirus shapes and influences the Mechanics of Lagos. View FlipBook...

Ade Shokunbi

Drone images of Lagos Island  

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    CIA-Lagos
    Freedom Park
    1 Hospital Road
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