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Roots of Trust: how a forgotten artefact might redesign the future

16 Jun 2025 RSA House and online via YouTube
Join trust expert and artist Rachel Botsman at RSA House as she explores how design thinking and visual storytelling can reshape leadership and trust. Inspired by her 2025 London Design Biennale installation Roots of Trust, this event revisits the world’s first organisational chart to uncover new possibilities for human-centred systems.
Fellowship news

RSA Journal wins big at global design awards

24 Apr 2025 Mike Thatcher
The RSA Journal has continued its winning streak of successes by triumphing in the Astrid Awards, which recognise outstanding achievement in corporate design.
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Design for (end of) life

12 Mar 2025 Tim Walker
How can better product design help reduce consumption and create a circular economy? Tim Walker, RSA Fellow and President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, discusses.
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RDI Address 2024

28 Nov 2024
We award the title ‘Royal Designer for Industry’ annually to designers of all disciplines who have achieved sustained design excellence, work of aesthetic value, and significant benefit to society.
Online

Small inventions that changed the world

02 Mar 2023
Award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions that have changed our lives in dramatic ways.
Public talks

19 Apr 2023
Sir Peter Bazalgette is joined by pioneering creative entrepreneurs to discuss the importance of maximising the value of the sector to wider society and the economy.
Online

How colour changed our way of seeing

08 Dec 2022
Internationally renowned designer Riccardo Falcinelli reveals the surprising history of how colour came to define the way we see the world around us.
Online

2022 RDI Address

17 Nov 2022
Jo da Silva DBE RDI, global director of Sustainable Development at Arup will give this year’s RDI Address on building resilience in cities and communities to reduce vulnerability and improve social wellbeing.
Public talks

2022 Bicentenary Medal Event

29 Nov 2022
2022 Bicentenary Medallist Janine Benyus calls on innovators everywhere to learn from nature to design products, processes and policies that support and create conditions conducive to life.