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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RSA kickstarts Playful Green Planet: connecting children to nature and community
Press release
The RSA announced that it will kickstart a pilot of its radical Playful Green Planet intervention, supported by The National Lottery’s Community Fund.
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A century of innovation
Feature
Joanna Choukeir
From its ‘Industrial Designs’ competition in 1924 to the Student Design Awards of 2024, the RSA has long celebrated innovative solutions to social and environmental challenges. Now enter RSA Spark.
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The play’s the thing
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Catherine Pineo Eirini Zormpa
Could the RSA’s Playful Green Planet intervention help create a world where every child has access to nature-based play spaces?
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.