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Sweeping change

10 Dec 2025 Anton Howes
RSA Resident Historian Anton Howes reflects on how a competition to create a mechanical chimney cleaner helped to outlaw the use of child chimney sweeps across the rooftops of Britain.
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Creating tomorrow

10 Dec 2025 Nicholas Wroe
From memorial sculptures to planting schemes to ‘impossible’ structures, Nichola Wroe speaks to the seven newly appointed Royal Designers for Industry, each set to bring a unique perspective to the prestigious title.
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Action by design

10 Dec 2025 Sir Loyd Grossman
Chair of the RSA’s Trustee Board Sir Loyd Grossman introduces the Journal’s ‘Action’ issue, which includes interviews with the latest Royal Designers for Industry, an investigation into future-thinking by Nick Foster RDI and an ‘In Conversation’ with Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy
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Future Tense: Why we struggle to think about the future

10 Dec 2025 Nick Foster, RDI
Drawing on decades of work in technology and design, Nick Foster, RDI, FRSA identifies four common modes of futurist thinking – Could, Should, Might and Don’t – each with strengths and pitfalls.
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RDI Address 2025

27 Nov 2025
Discover how today’s leading designers are driving innovation, sustainability, and positive change at the 2025 RDI Address.

RSA Spark Where People Meet showcase

How might we reimagine and create community spaces of the future where people are connected, places are healthy, and everyone is leading a good life?

RSA Spark Urban Cool showcase

How might we support citizens and organisations to create cooler, greener and fairer cities that bring joy and health to everyone?

RSA Spark Digital Showcase 2024/25

The RSA Spark submissions demonstrate the potential of design to solve complex challenges, explore new possibilities, and unlock innovative ways to meet the needs of people, place, and planet.