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Social innovation

Can games technology revive place-making?

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18 Nov 2014

How can we re-discover this lost art of city making and adapt it to 21st century and future needs? Anthony Hudson FRSA argues that the internet is demonstrating how we can begin to understand, predict and apply the complex patterns that exist in nature to the development of towns and cities.
Is the future of cities smart?

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20 Oct 2014

In the future, cities will account for 80% of wealth creation, 60% of energy consumption, and almost 90% of global population growth, according to research on city science from MIT. Russel Cooke argues that those cities that understand the value of ‘big data’ within their urbanisation strategies will be better positioned for future improvements.
Heritage Exchange 2014: Forging the next generation of heritage thinking

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11 Jul 2014

A note from Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund
How cities learn

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13 May 2013

Eddy Adam FRSA has spent the past year looking at how cities can innovate in addressing the challenges they face in the 21st century. Central to this is how cities can better learn from one another.
Leadership in the post-crash 21st century

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31 Jul 2012

Frank Hore FRSA David Low FRSA

FRSAs Frank Hore and David Low argue that leadership will get us out of the trouble we face at the start of the 21st century; but not if our grasp of what it means is confused and rooted in last-century thinking.
RSA Animate - The Power of Networks

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22 May 2012

In this RSA Animate, Manuel Lima senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
Digital media and urban spaces

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08 May 2012

By the end of 2012, it is predicted that networked devices will account for a fifth of internet traffic, logging and processing in various ways the ‘behaviour’ of the street. Barbara Anderson FRSA argues we all share a responsibility to shape how these technologies will shape our lives.
Tomorrow's Pension

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10 Nov 2011

David Pitt-Watson FRSA, leader of the RSA's Tomorrow's Investor programme, recently gave evidence to parliament about some of the conclusions of our work. He argues that UK government policy is heading in the right direction but must ensure that it builds a pension system that meets 21st century needs.
RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizen?

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17 Mar 2011

In this new RSAnimate adapted from a talk at the RSA, author and journalist Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
Back to the drawing board

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20 Oct 2010

FRSA Jane Gosney argues that, as more people from the creative sectors choose or are forced to go it alone as entrepreneurs or freelancers, the need to access life long learning opportunities and embrace the latest digital technology remains equally important.