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How to thrive in uncertain times

Join Margaret Heffernan and friends at the RSA for a provocative exploration of how artificial intelligence impacts creativity and our obsession with control. Discover how embracing chaos and uncertainty can drive innovation in a rapidly evolving world.
20 May 2025
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RDI Address 2024

We award the title ‘Royal Designer for Industry’ annually to designers of all disciplines who have achieved sustained design excellence, work of aesthetic value, and significant benefit to society.
28 Nov 2024
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Blog

Counting the cost of bowling alone

In his RSA CEO Lecture 2025, Andy Haldane highlights how weakened social bonds harm communities in our connected world. He calls for a rebuilding of trust and unity, addressing issues like economic growth, equity, and wellbeing. Andy’s vision offers hope to counter growing divides and create stronger, more resilient societies.
3 Feb 2025 Andy Haldane
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Public talks

The changing face of 21st century education and learning

Political economist Rachel Sylvester is joined by Lord David Blunkett and Lord Kenneth Baker to explore possibilities for radical renewal in education to support equitable economic and wellbeing outcomes for individuals and wider society.
24 Apr 2023
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Online

Small inventions that changed the world

Award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions that have changed our lives in dramatic ways.
02 Mar 2023
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Public talks

Sir Peter Bazalgette is joined by pioneering creative entrepreneurs to discuss the importance of maximising the value of the sector to wider society and the economy.
19 Apr 2023
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100 years of British broadcasting

Broadcast historian David Hendy looks back on 100 years of the BBC and reflects on how BBC broadcasting came to be such a central part of the British Christmas experience.
15 Dec 2022
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How our social connections impact our economic mobility

Harvard economist Professor Raj Chetty and Lucy Makinson, Behavioural Insights Team discuss how connectivity, social cohesion and civic engagement can play a role in shaping income equality and economic opportunity.
23 Nov 2022
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2022 RDI Address

Jo da Silva DBE RDI, global director of Sustainable Development at Arup will give this year’s RDI Address on building resilience in cities and communities to reduce vulnerability and improve social wellbeing.
17 Nov 2022
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Slouching towards utopia

One of the world’s most celebrated economists, Brad DeLong, explains just how and why the long twentieth century’s explosion of technology and prosperity has failed to deliver us a real utopia.
13 Oct 2022
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