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RSA Spark Showcase

Celebrates the ideas of students that respond to real-world briefs
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23 Sep 2025 | 07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Online via YouTube
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We are hosting the private viewing of our 2025 RSA Spark Showcase.

This promises to be an unforgettable evening where we bring together our brief partners, leading educators, RSA Fellow reviewers, Royal Designers for Industry (RDI), and importantly, the students who submitted the most outstanding ideas in response to RSA Spark’s purpose-led briefs.

The evening starts in the RSA’s Great Room with a livestreamed formal welcome and a panel discussion. Guests attending online will then be invited to view student submissions via our digital showcase.

The showcase at RSA House will then open to the public 24 September to 23 October.

Chair

  • Sir Loyd Grossman, RSA Chair of Trustees

Speakers

  • Joanna Choukeir, Director of Design & Innovation, RSA  
  • Crispin Truman OBE, Director of Rayne Trust and Where People Meet RSA Spark brief partner
  • Amelie O’Sullivan, Student at Arts University Bournemouth, Submitted ‘Work Hard Play Hard’ idea in response to Where People Meet brief

More speakers will be announced soon.

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In partnership with

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Sir Loyd Grossman

RSA Chair of Trustees

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Joanna Choukeir

Director of Design & Innovation, RSA

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Amelie O’Sullivan

Student at Arts University Bournemouth, Submitted ‘Work Hard Play Hard’ idea in response to Where People Meet brief

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Crispin Truman OBE

Director of Rayne Trust and Where People Meet RSA Spark brief partner

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