Design for Life: Capabilities for Life - RSA

Design for Life: Capabilities for Life

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The Steps, RSA House and Online via Zoom

The world as it is: fragile, unbalanced, degenerative. The world as it could be: resilient, rebalanced, regenerative. Explore with us how particular perspectives on challenge and change can help build flourishing futures for people, places and the planet.   

In this interactive events series, we share insights from the RSA’s Design for Life mission, including six perspectives we consider core to regenerative change: systemic, imaginative, adaptive, collective, long-time and authentic. How might we invite these perspectives into all our work to transform our economic, social and environmental systems to be more conducive to life?   

We spotlight where these perspectives are being applied within a range of work-in-progress ‘interventions’ by the RSA, as well as by our Fellows and partners to imagine and pursue better futures. Join us to discuss what we’re doing, what we’re learning, and what shows up in your own changemaking work.   

At this event, Cathy Pineo (Head of Regenerative Learning and Design) will share learnings and provocations from embedding the Capabilities for Life (CfL) framework as a foundation for some of RSA’s interventions, specifically Playful Green Planet (PGP) and Spark.  

Capabilities extend beyond role- or task-specific skills and knowledge. They include our inner drive to take positive action and make decisions that align with our purpose, especially as we navigate complexity.  

The CfL framework, developed last year as part of the Regenerative Business inquiry with over 50 businesses and skills organisations, aims to enable individuals and collectives around the world to cultivate capabilities that centre on the wellbeing of people, places and our planet. 

The framework describes 10 life-centric capabilities recognised as markers of growth by industries and collectives across the world. 

Discover how life-centric capabilities are being embedded within RSA and the work we are doing. Cathy will provide a brief overview of the framework and share insights on the challenges of shaping and embedding this framework, using Playful Green Planet and Spark as examples. 

Presentations from our speakers will be followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion.  

We welcome all changemakers who are interested from different fields and disciplines, within and beyond our RSA Fellowship community. 

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