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A people's history of clothing

RSA Event / Video / Online

24 Mar 2022

Online via YouTube

How have clothes changed the world? Writer and artist Sofi Thanhauser tells the stories behind what we wear, and what it means about who we are.
Fashion Open Studio: valuing our clothes, protecting our planet

RSA Event / Online

20 Apr 2021

Online via YouTube

In a time when fashion is throwaway, Patrick Grant and Zero Waste Leeds explore how locally rooted fashion is changing the way we value our clothes.
Capitalism Without Capital

RSA Event

23 Nov 2017

Great Room Auditorium, RSA House

What has led to the rise of the ‘intangible economy’? And what impact is it having on levels of inequality and productivity? Economic analysts Stian Westlake and Jonathan Haskel investigate.
Making Matters

RSA Event

04 Jul 2017

Great Room Auditorium, RSA House

Bill Lucas, Dan Charny, Liz Corbin and Zoe Laughlin discuss why we need to act now to ensure more people have a chance to learn through making.
Brexit: The Cultural Response

RSA Event

26 Jul 2016

Great Room Auditorium, RSA House

BBC R4’s Front Row programme presents a special live broadcast event at the RSA examining the artistic impact of the decision to leave the EU, and featuring leading creative figures including actor Samuel West, National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris, designer Wayne Hemingway and novelist Val McDermid.
How We Became a World of Consumers

RSA Event

28 Jan 2016

Durham Street Auditorium, RSA House

Historian Frank Trentmann traces the evolution of our material culture, and reveals how what we consume has become the defining feature of our lives.
RSA Makers Summit 2015

RSA Event

02 Dec 2015

Great Room Auditorium, RSA House

An all-day summit featuring the pioneering inventors, tweakers, crafters, coders and visionaries at the heart of the maker movement.
Aspiring Design

RSA Event

11 Jun 2015

Great Room Auditorium, RSA House

A special event to celebrate the 2015 RSA Student Design Awards programme and the burgeoning design for social innovation movement.
Are public workshops more important than public libraries?

RSA Event

10 Oct 2013

National Galleries of Scotland

In the annual Angus Millar Lecture at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, material scientist Mark Miodownik argues that where libraries solved a need of 19th century, the requirements of the 21st century have pushed ‘makespaces’ and ‘hackspaces’ above them in necessity.
RSA President's Lecture: Making the Future

RSA Event

19 Sep 2013

RSA House, London

For the 2013 President’s Lecture, an expert panel will discuss revolutionary new approaches to making and manufacturing in the 21st century. Speakers include Julie Madigan, chief executive, The Manufacturing Institute; Alice Taylor, founder and CEO, MakieLab; Bas van Abel, founder, Fairphone and Dr Laura James, co-director, Open Knowledge Foundation and co-founder and director, Makespace.