Videos

RDInsights: Steven Appleby

Video

18 Oct 2022

Steven Appleby RDI, celebrated cartoonist, illustrator and author, talks about entertaining us with her wobbly line drawing style and transporting us into often darker corners of her imagination.

Slouching towards utopia

Public talks / Video / Online

13 Oct 2022

Online via YouTube

One of the world’s most celebrated economists, Brad DeLong, explains just how and why the long twentieth century’s explosion of technology and prosperity has failed to deliver us a real utopia.

The Huxleys: a revolution in how we see ourselves

Public talks / Video / Online

12 Oct 2022

RSA House and online via YouTube

Across two centuries, the Huxley family reshaped how we think about evolution, ecology and social progress. Leading historian of science Alison Bashford explores their impact on the intellectual culture of their times, and the big debates of today.

How climate migration will reshape people and planet

Public talks / Video / Online

06 Oct 2022

Online via YouTube

Climate-related pressures may bring about an era of mass migration unlike anything seen before. Science journalist Gaia Vince sets out a manifesto for this transition, exploring likely futures and the solutions that can help us build a better, greener and fairer future.

If science is to save us

Public talks / Video

29 Sep 2022

RSA House and Online via YouTube

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that if we are to solve the multiple crises we now face, we need long-term, rational, global thinking, guided by values science alone cannot provide.

The story behind extraordinary success

Public talks / Video

29 Sep 2022

RSA House and Online via YouTube

From resilience, confidence and grit to the odds stacked firmly in your favour, what does it take to achieve extraordinary success today? Bruce Daisley explores the complex story behind success and sets out how we can all unlock our inner strength.

Rethinking what good work means today

Public talks / Video / Online

22 Sep 2022

Online via YouTube

To celebrate 12 months of the RSA’s Good Work Guild, good work experts, Laetitia Vitaud, Hilary Cottam, and Sharmi Surianarain come together to reflect on what good work means today, how our attitude to work needs to adapt and evolve and what impact this change could have on us all.

That quiet little voice: when design and ethics collide

Public talks / Video / Online

21 Sep 2022

Webinar via Zoom

Designer George Aye, co-founder of Greater Good Studio, examines the risks and challenges involved when design seeks to intervene in complex social issues.

Is social prescribing the future for healthcare?

Public talks / Video / Online

20 Sep 2022

RSA House and Online via YouTube

Lord Andrew Mawson and Sir Sam Everington, recipients of the 2022 RSA Albert Medal, will talk about creating new contexts for health through social prescribing, the innovative approach now widely used in the NHS.