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Manufacturing

Engineering our Messy Problems

RSA Event

21 Apr 2016

Durham Street Auditorium, RSA House

Policy adviser and engineer Guru Madhavan reveals how good engineering design can help solve problems in many areas of society, from healthcare to governance.
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.
The Great Disruption: Unleashing the Power to Create

RSA Event

15 Jul 2014

RSA House, London

We are living in creative times. New technologies combined with an unstoppable desire for self-determination has unleashed a wave of new ideas and practices in a huge diversity of areas. This is being driven not by a handful of specialists and entrepreneurs as in the past but by millions of ‘ordinary’ citizens and consumers.
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.
Making at Home, Owning Abroad

RSA Event

29 Apr 2013

RSA House, London

Dr Finbarr Livesey, POLIS, University of Cambridge, Julie Madigan, chief executive, The Manufacturing Institute and the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP discuss the findings of a new RSA/Lloyds Banking Group report on the future facing the UK’s mid-sized manufacturers.
Redesigning the Future

RSA Event

11 Apr 2013

RSA House, London

An influential panel will debate the role designers must take in driving a sustainable manufacturing model.
The New Industrial Revolution

RSA Event

27 Sep 2012

RSA House, London

The FT’s Peter Marsh explores the set of new forces influencing the business of making things – and the implications and opportunities for consumers and British manufacturers.