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Shortlist Announcement 2022

The RSA Student Design Awards 2022 Shortlist has been announced. Across nine briefs, 79 students are working in teams or individually that the judges cannot wait to interview in May.
29 Apr 2022
A geometric abstract design with a grid of various shapes, including squares, rectangles, and curves in turquoise, black, and white. Patterns of dots and solid colors create contrast, and curved lines intersect the composition.
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Changing fashion from the ground up

How can our places shape a different future for fashion? Introducing Leeds Fashion Futures, a partnership with Zero Waste Leeds.
19 Apr 2021 Josie Warden
A person with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a red sweater, stands indoors next to a pile of folded clothes in a wooden container. The background is slightly blurred, with a bright, open space.
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Designing for fairer futures

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.
15 Apr 2021
Two young girls examining a microscope together with focused expressions. One girl adjusts the microscope while the other looks through the lens. The image is in black and white with text overlay "#RSACHANGE Event.
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Rethinking Fashion

A 4-month learning journey with 12 creative ventures to accelerate the transition to a circular future for fashion.
25 Nov 2020 Josie Warden, Rebecca Ford
A collage of 12 people, each smiling, with their names below their images. The individuals have diverse backgrounds, and each photo features a unique setting. Names: Adam, Alice, Besma, Comet, Layla, Mat, Nat, Nina, Rob, Sara, Sophie, Trishna.
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How to break your fashion addiction

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?
27 Dec 2019 Josie Warden
Racks of colorful clothes on hangers with a prominent red "SALE" sign. The background is blurred, highlighting the garments and the sign in the foreground.
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From design thinking to systems change: how to invest in innovation for social impact

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.
25 Jul 2017
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Cedric Villani on the 7 Ingredients of Creativity

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.
16 Feb 2016
Colorful text reading "BIRTH OF AN IDEA!" is surrounded by vibrant, overlapping brushstrokes in various colors, radiating outward to create an energetic and creative atmosphere.