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Designing for fairer futures

15 Apr 2021
We talk to four pioneering changemakers who are working to address imbalances in our social and economic systems, innovating, testing and iterating to create meaningful change for the better.
Blog

Rethinking Fashion

25 Nov 2020 Josie Warden, Rebecca Ford
A 4-month learning journey with 12 creative ventures to accelerate the transition to a circular future for fashion.
Blog

How to break your fashion addiction

27 Dec 2019 Josie Warden
What drives us to buy fashion? And in a climate crisis, how do we tackle our consumption guilt and change our relationship with what we wear?
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From design thinking to systems change: how to invest in innovation for social impact

25 Jul 2017
Design methods have reached far beyond the traditional confines of product creation, and are now deployed to create new services, policies, business models, governance structures and more. This disruptiveness has reinvented how these sectors approach innovation – ushering in an embrace of multiple possible solutions, creative responses and human centred processes.
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Cedric Villani on the 7 Ingredients of Creativity

16 Feb 2016
What does it take to come up with a new idea? Award-winning mathematician Cédric Villani reveals the seven key ingredients that come together to create breakthrough moments in human knowledge and innovation.
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The Great Recovery Report

31 May 2013
The Great Recovery project, launched in September 2012 by the Action and Research Centre at the RSA, aims to build a cross disciplinary design community that is equipped to support the development of an economy based on resource-efficient principles.
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Jonah Lehrer on Brainstorming

22 Oct 2012
Jonah Lehrer explores whether brainstorming is a technique that extracts the best out of people or if it’s a method that suppresses creativity.