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Edinburgh Napier University

The School of Arts & Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University develops creative innovators and award-winners in diverse fields such as design, creative advertising, journalism, music and film. Our staff are active in the industry, maintaining close links with leading organisations and employers, allowing our students to go beyond innovation and shape the world around them.

Our Design courses cover a vast range of design activities and emphasise innovation, user focus and acquiring practical skills in visualisation, prototyping, CAD, materials, fabrication, business and marketing to prepare you for a career in design and beyond.

We are excited to be part of the Daydream Believers project because we believe it’s a place where you can find the value of your imagination and build your creative skills.

Our Lessons

⚠️ Part of Creative Thinking Qualification challenges.

In this project, learners will create an interactive and mobile space for a chosen community to engage with.

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Van of Dreams

A ‘Scottish Obscurity’ could be defined as a wee piece of merchandise inspired by what Scotland has to offer, such as Oor Landmarks and beautiful surroundings. These Wee Quirks in our areas can help bring a Modern Twist to Gifts and Memories, instead of being your standard tartan and biscuit tin. During this lesson students will be asked to to create merchandise ideas for their chosen landmark.

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Creating Scotland’s Obscurities

A product designer’s job is to create products which fulfil a human need. Sometimes these needs are mostly functional, but often (more often than we realise or admit) those needs are emotional.

These two lessons will help you identify some of the tools which designers use to address those emotional needs and how to design products which embody specific feelings.

2 lesson unit

Objects of Desire

Invest in the dreamers of tomorrow

Our mission is to equip young people globally with skills that will make them resilient, adaptive problem solvers and creative thinkers prepared to face any future challenges in their lives and thrive.

If you believe in the importance of fostering creativity and encouraging the exploration of bold ideas, we invite you to join our cause by becoming a Believer. Either by contributing to our learning resources or supporting our work with a donation, your knowledge and generosity can enable us to continue crafting transformative learning resources and inspire young people to dream bigger.

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