Capabilities for Life Framework
Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.
Capabilities for Life
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?
Playful Green Planet
Co-creating nature-based urban learning spaces and activities for 3-5-year-olds to foster nature and community connectedness and care through creativity.
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.
Related Capabilities for Life content
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Pupil Design Awards 2023-24: End of Year Evaluation Report
Report
Rebecca Purton
The Pupil Design Awards 2023-24: End of Year Evaluation Report lays out the key findings from this year's RSA design awards for learners aged between 11 and 17.
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Student Design Awards 2024: meet the shortlist
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.
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Making the most of your late career
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Ann Thorpe
How do you harness your potential in the last chapter of your career? Ann Thorpe explains how the Late Career Alliance could help to craft your career narrative, impact and legacy.
Explore our other Design for Life areas of focus
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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.
Become an RSA Fellow
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.