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Design for Life
Capabilities for
Life

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?

Capabilities for Life Framework

Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.

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Playful Green Planet

Co-creating nature-based urban learning spaces and activities for children under 11 years old to foster nature and community connectedness and care through creativity.

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RSA Spark

RSA Spark helps you find your creativity, igniting ideas into action for a positive impact on the world. Through real-world missions and learning fuelled by innovation, you’ll grow life skills and lifelong connections.

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Related Capabilities for Life content

FEATURE

A century of innovation

18 Sep 2024
JOANNE CHOUKEIR

From its ‘Industrial Designs’ competition in 1924 to the Student Design Awards of 2024, the RSA has long celebrated innovative solutions to social and environmental challenges. Now enter RSA Spark.

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FEATURE

The play’s the thing

18 Sep 2024
CATHERINE PINEO EIRINI ZORMPA

Could the RSA’s Playful Green Planet intervention help create a world where every child has access to nature-based play spaces?

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READ MORE ON THE RSA BLOG

Explore our other Design for Life areas of focus

Social Infrastructure

Design for Life develops and influences infrastructure at a system-wide level that people, communities and organisations need to drive regenerative change.

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Prosperous Places

Prosperous Places are programmes that respond to the unique ambitions and challenges of places. Everyone deserves to live in a vibrant community, with opportunities to thrive in a flourishing natural environment.

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