Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland to address real life challenges. Our network of experts are using transformational design practice to promote individuals’ capacities for change. Nurturing an innate capacity for learning by using collaborative design processes, we create new approaches. These range from the building of creativity tools to support innovation, transforming public spaces into learning landscapes, and harnessing emerging technologies to explore new learning contexts.

Our economic future will be defined by the capacity of people to be creative and to distribute and utilise knowledge. Josephine Green, Senior Director of Trends and Strategy for Philips Design and Urban Learning Space Board member sees people as the key to wealth and wellbeing:

It is people, not money and not technology, who have the imagination, the ‘know how’ and the sense of purpose to prosper and to grow. If people are our main competitive resource, and the drivers of the new economy, then the more inventive, flexible and talented they are, the better it is for all of us. Given this, the question both for society and enterprise, is how best to release and enable people's creative and imaginative potential. The answer, in part, lies with Design. Design, with its emphasis on people, its capacity to see things in a new way, and its ability to make things real, can help education foster a more creative and prosperous society.