Cities of Learning
Connecting and catalysing place-based lifelong learning to unlock opportunities for a regenerative economy.
Growing hubs
Design for Life Growing hubs
People can effect change by coming together. Design for Life supports the growth of societal hubs. The RSA works across organisations, communities, industries and regions to create new ways for them to achieve regenerative impact together.
How are we achieving this?
Creative corridors
Working with Creative PEC and Arts Council England the RSA is bringing together leaders across regions in the UK to grow the impact of the creative industries, and creativity in industry.
Regenerative capabilities coalition
Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.
UK Urban Futures Commission
Unlocking the potential of UK cities, to drive economic, social and environmental improvements for people and for the country.
Watch an event about our hubs work
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Launch of the UK Urban Futures Commission
Public talks
Online
Join us for the launch of the UK Urban Futures Commission report, hosted by RSA in partnership with Core Cities UK and Lloyds Banking Group.
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Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive
Public talks
RSA House and online via YouTube
Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership at Harvard Business School and the world’s leading expert in the science of psychological safety, offers a practical guide to ‘intelligent failure’.
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Design for Life: Cities of Learning - seeding lifelong learning ecosystems
Fellowship events / Online
The Coffee House (RSA House) and Online via Zoom
Tom Kenyon (Head of Enterprise Design) and Jahnvi Singh (Senior Learning Designer) will share learnings from Cities of Learning to date. Guest speaker Heather Walker FRSA (Tees Valley Combined Authority) will also share learnings from the last year of piloting Cities of Learning across the Tees Valley Region.
Related hubs content
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Leading for a brighter urban future
Blog
Joan Munro
UK Urban Futures Commission Leadership Researcher Joan Munro discusses how long-term government support could help council leaders and their partners move further and faster.
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Grand coalition formed to create a ‘Northern Creative Corridor’
Press release
Local leaders across the North of England alongside some of the leading figures in the creative industries, have come together to commit to developing a “Northern Creative Corridor” (NCC).
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Capability building in the age of polycrisis
Blog
Andy Thornton
Our Regenerative capabilities coalition is a key intervention of our Design for Life mission. Andy Thornton, our Head of Regenerative Design, says we need to invest in capabilities to support the transition to a regenerative economy.
Explore our other Design for Life areas of focus
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Building capabilities
Design for Life supports people to learn and lead. We're unlocking the confidence, capabilities and connections of children, learners and entrepreneurs of all ages.
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Developing infrastructure
Design for Life develops and influences infrastructure at a system-wide level that people, communities and organisations need to drive regenerative change.
Become an RSA Fellow
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