Catherine Pineo
Head of Regenerative Learning and Design
Discover your purpose
RSA Spark 25/26: workshop one
12 Mar 2025 | 01:00 pm – 02:00 pm | GMT Standard Time
Online
Education and learning
RSA Spark
Built on the solid foundations of 100 years of the Student Design Awards, RSA Spark has been designed to achieve even greater impact.
Join us for the first in a series of free interactive online learning workshops.
In this workshop, you’ll grow your capabilities in care, citizenship and composure as you reflect on the world as it is and the world as it needs to be and identify your strengths and energy for change.
Key takeaways from this workshop
- At the end of the workshop, you’ll understand what you care about and connect that to your chosen RSA Spark brief.
- The workshop will also prepare you for the next stage of the creative process: exploring different perspectives to better understand your chosen brief.
We encourage you to participate in or watch all five workshops (all of which are available on playback and are 20-40 minutes) and/or do the downloadable activities provided to help you develop your idea for RSA Spark (see resources pack below).
You can also earn a digital badge by attending or watching a workshop.
Claim your RSA Spark digital badge
As a reminder, everybody who attends or watches a workshop on playback and completes the two surveys below will get an Explorer digital badge.
You will need to complete both surveys with your name so that we can issue the badges.
- At the start of the workshop, you will be invited to fill in the baseline survey. Please complete this when prompted.
- At the end of the workshop, we will also ask you to fill in the end of workshop survey. We will only be issuing badges to participants who complete both surveys.
- Although you only have to participate in one workshop to get an Explorer badge, we ask that you complete surveys for each workshop you participate in, as these surveys are designed to support you in identifying your capabilities and how they grow. The surveys are also an important way to give RSA Spark feedback and help us learn and improve!
Important links and resources
- RSA Spark webpage, where you can also find the briefs
- A video introduction to RSA Spark
- RSA Capabilities for Life framework
- Workshop one slide deck, activities and resources (template to download and use as you’d like)
Attend another RSA Spark event
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Test your impact RSA Spark workshop four
In the fourth RSA Spark workshop, you’ll consider what and how you might test your most promising ideas.
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Design for Life: Digital Badging Commission
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Explore enterprise RSA Spark workshop five
Explore the business and economic viability of your RSA Spark idea while delivering positive social and environmental impact.
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Design For Life Coffeehouse: Social Capital
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