Cities of Learning
Connecting and catalysing place-based lifelong learning to unlock opportunities for a regenerative economy.
Growing hubs
Design for Life Growing hubs
People can effect change by coming together. Design for Life supports the growth of societal hubs. The RSA works across organisations, communities, industries and regions to create new ways for them to achieve regenerative impact together.
How are we achieving this?
Creative corridors
Nurturing clusters of creative excellence through evidence-gathering and action, to grow the impact of the creative industries, and creativity in industry.
Regenerative business enquiry
Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.
UK Urban Futures Commission
Unlocking the potential of UK cities, to drive economic, social and environmental improvements for people and for the country.
Watch an event about our hubs work
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Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive
Public talks
RSA House and online via YouTube
Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership at Harvard Business School and the world’s leading expert in the science of psychological safety, offers a practical guide to ‘intelligent failure’.
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Where next for business?
Public talks / Video / Online
RSA House and online via YouTube
Alan Jope, outgoing CEO of Unilever, discusses the need for a system shift in business practice to unlock potential and support a regenerative economy.
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Bish Bash Bosh: R&D-led innovation in the creative industries
Public talks / Online
RSA House and Online via YouTube
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.
Related hubs content
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Investment for inclusive and sustainable growth in cities
Blog
Anna Valero
Anna Valero highlights a decisive decade for addressing the UK’s longstanding productivity problems, large and persistent inequalities across and within regions, and delivering on net zero commitments.
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Cities of Learning: seeding lifelong learning infrastructure in UK places
Blog
Tom Kenyon Jahnvi Singh
How we've been reimagining and redesigning The Cities of Learning intervention and network.
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Valuing cities
Blog
Prof. Michael Keith
UK Urban Futures commissioner Michael Keith explains why it's important to value the way cities combine material, social and technological forms.
Explore our other Design for Life areas of focus
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Building capabilities
Design for Life supports people to learn and lead. We're unlocking the confidence, capabilities and connections of children, learners and entrepreneurs of all ages.
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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
The RSA Fellowship is a unique global network of changemakers enabling people, places and the planet to flourish. We invite you to be part of this change.