Capabilities for life
Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.
Building capabilities
Design for Life Building capabilities
Change starts with supporting people to learn and lead. At the heart of our Design for Life mission is the commitment to understand and unlock the confidence, capabilities and connections of children, learners and entrepreneurs of all ages. We want to help them reach their full potential in how they shape a regenerative world.
How are we achieving this?
Design for Life Awards
Offering collaborative and inclusive learning experiences for children, learners and entrepreneurs helping them grow the capabilities and ideas needed for a regenerative world.
Playful green planet
Co-creating nature-based learning spaces and activities for 3-11-year-olds in urban areas, using creativity to build strong connections with nature and community.
Attend an event about our capabilities work
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Design for Life: nurturing life-centric capabilities
At the House / Fellowship events / Design for Life series
The Coffee House (RSA House) and Online via Zoom
This summer, the RSA will work with Fellows to craft a series of life-centric learning journeys rooted in our capabilities to test on the RSA’s Design for Life Awards. Jahnvi Singh (Senior Learning Designer) will share more about our vision for the learning experiences that will bring these capabilities to life.
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RSA Fellowship Townhall
Fellowship events
Online
Join us at our next Fellowship Townhall to hear updates on our Social Connections, Student Design Awards and Pupil Design Awards interventions.
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Design for Life: Playful Green Planet
Fellowship events / Design for Life series
The Coffee House (RSA House) and Online via Zoom
Playful Green Planet aims to transform how children foster a connection to nature and community through creative outdoor play. Join us to hear about the journey to date, and hear about examples in action from Penny Hay FRSA (Professor of Imagination at Bath Spa University), and Sam Kendall (Education Manager at the Eden Project).
Related capabilities content
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Inspired by nature
Blog
Rebecca Ford Alessandra Tombazzi Penny Hay
Our Playful green planet team summarises a ‘lunch and learn’ at RSA House that focused on how the influence of nature can benefit a child’s development.
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The slow death of classical music education
Comment
Ray Coyte
Classical music is becoming a niche activity not helped by the fact that fewer and fewer state school pupils are learning to play orchestral instruments. It’s time to reassess our priorities, argues Ray Coyte.
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Regeneration: from time lords to transforming cities
Blog
Martin Wright
Martin Wright reports back from our sessions on the regeneration of capabilities, social infrastructure and cities at Cornwall's ‘think fest’, Anthropy 2023.
Explore our other Design for Life areas of focus
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Growing hubs
Design for Life works across organisations, communities, industries and regions to create new ways for them to achieve regenerative impact together.
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Developing infrastructure
Design for Life develops and influences infrastructure at a system-wide level that people, communities and organisations need to drive regenerative change.
Become an RSA Fellow
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