Capabilities for life
Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.
Change starts with supporting people to learn and lead. At the heart of our Design for Life mission is the commitment to understand and unlock the confidence, capabilities and connections of children, learners and entrepreneurs of all ages. We want to help them reach their full potential in how they shape a regenerative world.
How are we achieving this?
Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.
Offering collaborative and inclusive learning experiences for children, learners and entrepreneurs helping them grow the capabilities and ideas needed for a regenerative world.
Co-creating nature-based learning spaces and activities for 3-11-year-olds in urban areas, using creativity to build strong connections with nature and community.
At the House / Fellowship events / Design for Life series
The Coffee House (RSA House) and Online via Zoom
This summer, the RSA will work with Fellows to craft a series of life-centric learning journeys rooted in our capabilities to test on the RSA’s Design for Life Awards. Jahnvi Singh (Senior Learning Designer) will share more about our vision for the learning experiences that will bring these capabilities to life.
Fellowship events
Online
Join us at our next Fellowship Townhall to hear updates on our Social Connections, Student Design Awards and Pupil Design Awards interventions.
Fellowship events / Design for Life series
The Coffee House (RSA House) and Online via Zoom
Playful Green Planet aims to transform how children foster a connection to nature and community through creative outdoor play. Join us to hear about the journey to date, and hear about examples in action from Penny Hay FRSA (Professor of Imagination at Bath Spa University), and Sam Kendall (Education Manager at the Eden Project).
News
Aoife O'Doherty
The RSA Student Design Awards 2023 shortlist has been announced. Across nine briefs, 70 students are working to bring positive social change to people, place and planet.
Blog
Rebecca Ford Alessandra Tombazzi Penny Hay
Our Playful green planet team summarises a ‘lunch and learn’ at RSA House that focused on how the influence of nature can benefit a child’s development.
Comment
Ray Coyte
Classical music is becoming a niche activity not helped by the fact that fewer and fewer state school pupils are learning to play orchestral instruments. It’s time to reassess our priorities, argues Ray Coyte.
Design for Life works across organisations, communities, industries and regions to create new ways for them to achieve regenerative impact together.
Design for Life develops and influences infrastructure at a system-wide level that people, communities and organisations need to drive regenerative change.
The RSA Fellowship is a unique global network of changemakers enabling people, places and the planet to flourish. We invite you to be part of this change.