Capabilities for Life Framework
Exploring and cultivating the capabilities required to ensure business aims and practices contribute towards a regenerative economy.
Capabilities for Life
Design for Life Capabilities for Life
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?
Playful Green Planet
Co-creating nature-based urban learning spaces and activities for 3-5-year-olds to foster nature and community connectedness and care through creativity.
RSA Spark
RSA Spark helps you find your creativity, igniting ideas into action for a positive impact on the world. Through real-world missions and learning fuelled by innovation, you’ll grow life skills and lifelong connections.
Related Capabilities for Life content
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The slow death of classical music education
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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
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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.
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Stage magic: empowering inclusion through art
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David Woodhead
By embracing the power of theatre, dance, music and other live performances we can help to build a more inclusive society.
Explore our other Design for Life areas of focus
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Social Infrastructure
Design for Life develops and influences infrastructure at a system-wide level that people, communities and organisations need to drive regenerative change.
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Prosperous Places
Prosperous Places are programmes that respond to the unique ambitions and challenges of places. Everyone deserves to live in a vibrant community, with opportunities to thrive in a flourishing natural environment.
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.