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Community and place-based action

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Creating the future of the city

14 Jun 2023 Polly Mackenzie
Creativity can help solve some problems of city life while tackling climate change. UK Urban Futures Commissioner, Polly Mackenzie, writes the first in a series of blogs for our intervention.
Blog

Unlocking the potential of cities

12 Jun 2023 Tom Stratton FRSA
Explore how the UK Urban Futures Commission’s systemic approach provides insights that can help unlock the potential of the UK’s cities.
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Cost-of-living crisis: schools on the front line

15 May 2023 Nik Gunn
The cost-of-living crisis is forcing schools to go above and beyond as they support their communities. Using real-world teacher survey responses, RSA Researcher Nik Gunn explores the knock-on effects for youth social action.
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The power of piggybacking

27 Apr 2023 Zografia Bika, Adrian Gaskell
To enrich our world we need big government spending, but we also need to use what we already have. Zografia Bika and Adrian Gaskell explain how an army of Italian grandmothers showed the way.
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Hope for the Amazon?

5 Apr 2023 Mercedes Bustamante
A new government in Brazil is working quickly to reverse environmental losses of the Bolsonaro years
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Six perspectives towards a life-centric mindset

24 Mar 2023 Joanna Choukeir, Roberta Iley
The RSA’s Joanna Choukeir and Roberta Iley present the six Design for Life perspectives that define the life-centric approach to our mission-led work.
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Recognising reciprocity

30 Jan 2023 Al Mathers
Al Mathers, former RSA Director of Research and Learning, explores the importance of introducing reciprocity into the work of social change organisations like the RSA.
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Super-nature: shaping how cities feel

25 Jan 2023 Tamsin Hanke, Sash Scott
Super-nature was one of 10 commissions to feature in the 2022 global exploration research project, Collective Futures. Learn about the work and its outputs in this field note.