RSADavid Graeber on the Value of Work. Does the world really need neuroadvertisers, PR researchers and branding consultants? Renowned academic and coiner of the ‘we are the 99%’ slogan, David Graeber is a passionate advocate for meaningful work. After famously condemning the 21st century phenomenon of ‘bullsh*t jobs’, in this short animation he investigates the philosophical underpinnings of employment, and calls for a reformulation of what work should be.
David Graeber on the Value of WorkRSA2016-10-11 | David Graeber on the Value of Work. Does the world really need neuroadvertisers, PR researchers and branding consultants? Renowned academic and coiner of the ‘we are the 99%’ slogan, David Graeber is a passionate advocate for meaningful work. After famously condemning the 21st century phenomenon of ‘bullsh*t jobs’, in this short animation he investigates the philosophical underpinnings of employment, and calls for a reformulation of what work should be.
Voice: David Graeber Illustration & animation: Jack Dubben (jackdubben.com)
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The RSA and the Africa Centre are teaming up to spotlight innovators driving social change through their cultural contributions.
At the RSA in Black History Month, we’ll explore how these emerging leaders are influencing global conversations and challenging traditional narratives, paving the way for a more inclusive and dynamic cultural landscape.
We will discuss how to amplify the impact of African culture on the global stage and consider ways we can foster deeper connections between cultural institutions and the changemakers leading this transformation.
Join us for an inspiring conversation that celebrates the power of African culture to create lasting social change.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Can environmental art save the planet? | RSA JOURNAL PresentsRSA2024-10-09 | In a world where climate change often feels like a distant, abstract problem, artists such as Andrea Polli and initiatives such as Sounds Right are bringing the issue to the fore – and making climate change and its impacts both tangible and impossible to ignore.
Currently a professor at the University of New Mexico, Andrea Polli has spent decades exploring the intersections of art, science and technology. From transforming atmospheric data into sonifications, to creating real-time visualisations of air quality readings, her work turns environmental data into sensory experiences that capture the unseen forces affecting our air and health – and challenges us to confront the reality of our impact on the planet.
Sounds Right, a Museum for the United Nations – UN Live initiative delivered in partnership with music, acoustic ecology, conservation and campaigning organisations, has a similar mission.
By treating NATURE as an official artist on streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, Sounds Right directs royalties from natural sound recordings to conservation efforts around the world. In other words, NATURE can now generate royalties from its own sounds to support its conservation.
Together, Polli's artwork and Sounds Right demonstrate how art, culture (and commerce!) can serve as powerful tools for climate activism, making the consequences of environmental inaction impossible to ignore.
➡️ Sounds Right have joined forces with high-profile organisations to encourage millions of music fans around the globe to recognise the value of nature and to inspire them to take action, including: • Wildlife Conservation Society: wcs.org • The Nature Conservancy: nature.org/en-us • Apco Worldwide: apcoworldwide.com • RikyRick Foundation: https://www.rikyrickfoundation.co.za/ • United Nations Act Now: un.org/en/actnowIn Conversation with AY YoungRSA2024-10-02 | AY Young – CEO of the Battery Tour, UN Youth Leader and one of the RSA’s newest Fellows – discusses the power of music and radical collaboration in driving positive change.
Join us for a transformative talk with influential social philosopher Roman Krznaric.
In a world fixated on the present, we often overlook the invaluable lessons of the past. Roman will explore how insights from the last thousand years can help tackle today's urgent global challenges - bridging the inequality gap, reviving democracy, and preventing ecological collapse.
Discover how understanding the origins of capitalism can inform AI regulation, what 18th-century Japan can teach us about creating regenerative economies, and how the coffee houses of Georgian London can help tame social media. Roman will show that history isn't just about the past - it's a tool for reimagining our future.
Don’t miss this chance to gain a vision of radical hope and practical solutions for the decades ahead.
Speaker: Roman Krznaric, social philosopher and author of 'History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity' Chair: Dr Joanna Choukeir, Director of Design & Innovation, RSA
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.History for TomorrowRSA2024-09-30 | Our new events season kicked off today with an insightful chat featuring social philosopher and author, Roman Krznaric. We caught up with him backstage where he talked about his new book, History For Tomorrow.
Watch the full talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=UUxwpTPEiaEIn Conversation with Hannah JonesRSA2024-09-26 | Hannah Jones, sustainability pioneer and The Earthshot Prize CEO, discusses the urgent need for a global movement fuelled by innovation and optimism.
Watch full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=61SSLeHgnwAAudrey Tang was Taiwan’s first Digital MinisterRSA2024-09-20 | She is a champion of the ‘Taiwan Model’ – a playbook for using safe, #sustainable and citizen-led #ai to revitalise societies worldwide.
Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=LnJJQkuRnHIReportage illustrator George Butler shares a story from his book Ukraine: Remember Also MeRSA2024-09-18 | Watch his full talk at RSA House here: youtube.com/watch?v=Es-Kfiv49wMIs this the generation to end climate change? | In conversation with Hannah JonesRSA2024-09-18 | Join young Fellow Amy Meek, co-founder of Kids Against Plastic, as she sits down with Hannah Jones, CEO of The Earthshot Prize and former Chief Sustainability Officer at Nike.
In this insightful conversation, Hannah shares her journey from tackling labour rights issues at Nike to leading The Earthshot Prize, an initiative founded by Prince William to support global environmental solutions.
Hear Hannah’s views on the intersection of business and environmental action, the importance of innovation and the ways young people can lead the charge for change. This video is packed with inspiration and practical advice for anyone passionate about sustainability and making a difference.
#ClimateChange #SustainabilityHow deeply felt and embodied is our connection to the wellbeing of the planet?RSA2024-09-16 | Neuroscientist and environmental journalist Clayton Aldern describes how a changing climate changes our minds, brains and bodies.
Watch his full talk at RSA House here: youtube.com/watch?v=FBBcr3D0Y3wState of creative education I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-07-17 | Creative PEC 'State of the Nations' Report Launch: 'Creative Further Education in the Four Nations'
Join us for the launch of the Creative PEC’s new State of the Nations report, which for the first time analyses the state of Creative Further Education across all four UK nations.
The new research delves into the dramatic and sustained decline in participation in creative further education across all four UK nations. Using the latest data, our industry guests will dissect the implications for the future of the creative industries at this critical juncture with the research team from Work Advance. With a new cabinet forming and the King’s Speech setting out the government’s priorities taking place, the timing couldn’t be more important for reimagining what a new era of creative FE might look like, and what it could mean for the future of the UK’s creative economy.
Chair Lilli Geissendorfer, Deputy Director of Creative PEC, is joined by an expert panel to explore the report’s key findings, and to discuss the wider situation and outlook for creative further education in the UK – an essential conversation for all those concerned for the future health and vitality of our regional and national cultural industries.
Speakers: Heather Carey, Work Advance; Lesley Giles, Work Advance; Catherine Sezen, Association of Colleges; Paul Moore, Future Screens NI; Sara Whybrew, BFI
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Sir Henry Cole’s list of achievements is long and varied — the first director of the V&A, he helped establish the Great Exhibition of 1851, reformed the postal service, introduced Christmas cards and was hugely influential at the then Society of Arts during Prince Albert’s tenure as President. It was said of him that, “his enterprise, energy and perseverance stimulated its proceedings and supplied much of the driving force that gave the Society a new importance in the land”.
Join us on 15th July - Sir Henry Cole’s birthday - to celebrate his extraordinary life and times in conversation with historians Janina Ramirez, Sir Christopher Frayling, Anton Howes and Dan Cruickshank, alongside Alice MacDonnell, Cole’s 4 x great granddaughter and present-day steward of his remarkable legacy and contribution to British innovation, design and manufactures.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Pupil Design Awards 2024 I Mya-Rose CraigRSA2024-07-04 | Mya-Rose Craig FRSA, prominent young British-Bangladeshi birder and environmentalist, delivers the keynote address at the annual RSA Pupil Design Awards ceremony.
This year marks a significant milestone, as the RSA celebrates 100 years of the Student Design Awards and 10 years of The Pupil Design Awards.
As we reflect on a century of our Design Awards we are launching RSA Spark - our new global programme for learners and entrepreneurs of all ages. RSA Spark will continue to grow creativity to change tomorrow by igniting ideas for action towards a positive world.
Find out more about Mya-Rose on her website: birdgirluk.comIntroducing RSA SparkRSA2024-07-03 | RSA Spark is our new programme for learners and entrepreneurs of all ages. RSA Spark will continue to build creativity to change tomorrow by igniting ideas for action towards a positive world. Register on the RSA Spark page to stay up to date with the latest news: thersa.org/design-for-life-our-mission/capabilities/rsa-sparkDesigning for and from the future: the 100th RSA Student Design Awards I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-07-03 | Join us for this once in a century event celebrating the 23-24 RSA Student Design Awards (SDAs) and the power of design to shift systems and shape the future.
This year marks a significant milestone, as the RSA celebrates 100 years since the inception of the Student Design Awards in 1924 and recognises the innovators from the final round of this iconic programme. On the night, we will also share more about how we have reimagined our awards for the next 100 years, to create greater collaboration around real-world missions, with a focus on learning, connection and funding opportunities for pupils, students, and entrepreneurs.
Our 2024 keynote address will be delivered by Andrew Grant RDI. Andrew brings extraordinary experience and perspective as an internationally acclaimed and award-winning landscape architect whose work explores the connection between people and nature. He uses creative ecological design thinking to find solutions to the major challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and improving human quality of life, health and wellbeing. Each of his projects responds to the place, its inherent ecology and its people, and engages the wider community in the reimagining of our relationships with each other and with nature.
Following the address, RSA Director of Design & Innovation, Joanna Choukeir, and our valued partners and supporters will share an overview of each winning project and invite the people behind these inspiring ideas on stage to receive their awards.
The RSA Student Design Awards is a global open innovation competition that's been running since 1924. We challenge students and recent graduates to tackle pressing social, environmental and economic challenges and propose creative solutions that can shift the system and shape the future.
With thanks to our SDA partners:
Rayne Foundation, Arup, Google Deepmind, Skin Health Alliance, Bond & Coyne, Marketing Trust, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, Natracare
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Student Design Awards Scrapbook: Illustration animationRSA2024-07-02 | Student Design Awards Scrapbook by Ying Qi Tang from Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Commended in the 2024 Student Design Awards.
A distinctive illustrative animation celebrating the centenary of the Student Design Awards through a universal format of scrapbooking.
Voiceover: Anton Howes, RSA Historian.It All Starts on Paper: Risograph animationRSA2024-07-02 | It All Starts on Paper by Abbie Smith and Frankie Harrison from Northumbria University, England.
Commended in the 2024 Student Design Awards.
A risograph style animation exploring the history of the Student Design Awards through print and paper - where all design begins.
Voiceover: Anton Howes, RSA Historian.A History of Making a Mark: charcoal animationRSA2024-07-02 | A History of Making a Mark by Sophie Pierce from Technological University Dublin, Ireland.
Commended in the 2024 Student Design Awards.
A rich mark-making charcoal animation revealing the legacy of the RSA Student Design Awards and the impact that it continues to have on society.
Voiceover: Anton Howes, RSA Historian.Trailblazers to Future Shapers: Illustration animationRSA2024-07-02 | Trailblazers to Future Shapers by Miriam Hurley from Technological University Dublin, Ireland.
Highly Commended in the 2024 Student Design Awards.
An illustrative animation that immerses viewers in a journey of the evolution of the Student Design Awards, and aims to inspire specifically young audiences to explore their potential impact as future innovators.From The Ground Up: Multimedia animationRSA2024-07-02 | From The Ground Up by Rachel Cartledge from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.
Winner of Anjool Maldé Centenary Design Award in the 2024 Student Design Awards.
A bold multimedia animation that showcases the innovation of previous Student Design Award winners as individual artworks within the walls of the iconic RSA house in London.
Voiceover: Anton Howes, RSA Historian.Through The Centuries: Graphic shapes animationRSA2024-07-02 | Student Design Awards Through The Centuries by Teo Hennessy from Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland.
Winner of Centenary celebrations Award in the 2024 Student Design Awards.
This animation spotlights the journey of the Student Design Awards through graphic shapes, distinctive colour and striking form.
Voiceover: Anton Howes, RSA Historian.Day One | RSA Fellow-led ManifestoRSA2024-07-02 | The RSA has published ‘Day One’, its first Fellow-led manifesto, which includes proposals covering society, the environment, education and youth. With people voting in more than 60 countries across the world in 2024, the Day One Manifesto discusses how governments can develop new societal contracts to prioritise regeneration, education and sustainability.
Find out more: thersa.org/fellowship/news/first-fellow-led-rsa-manifesto-launchedMusic for Impact: London Climate Action Week I AY Young I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-06-27 | The worlds of music, culture and art have a massive role to play in making progress on sustainable development goals. But how do young people starting out in the industry navigate a path that connects their creative talent to their social change mission?
This London Climate Action Week, the RSA are partnering with singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and UN SDG Youth Leader AY Young for a day of conversations focused on how artists can mobilise audiences and communities to champion sustainability, securing a healthier, kinder future for people, places and planet.
On the 26th June, all are welcome to RSA House for an “AMA” session with AY on sustainability and artistry in the music business. AY will talk about his career as a producer and performer supporting acts from Wyclef Jean to Wiz Khalifa, to creating the ground-breaking renewably powered Battery Tour, as well as being joined by artists and musicians who are pursuing sustainable pathways through the industry.
Speakers will include singer songwriter Alex Hepburn; Timo Peach, creative director and artist, Momo:zo; Margarita Samsonova, founder, Behind the Greens; Jarvis Smith, recording artist and founder, MyGreenPod; and Lisa Merrick-Lawless, co-founder, Purpose Disruptors.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Building bridges: London Climate Action Week I AY Young I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-06-27 | Join us at RSA House, and online, for a special event during London Climate Action Week 2024 where we will explore how to break down the barriers and bridge the divides that preventing progress towards sustainability and regeneration.
The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sit at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and planet, now and in the future. The goals are an urgent call for action by all countries in global, cross-sectoral partnership. They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
At this event, leading figures from culture, industry and civil society will gather to share insights into how we more effectively foster the cross-sector collaboration that will be essential to accelerating our collective journey to achieving the goals.
The speakers
Chair
AY Young - musician, UN Youth Leader and SDG champion Featuring
Jarvis Smith - P.E.A. (People. Environment. Achievement.) Awards founder Timo Peach - musician and social impact storyteller Sarisher Mann - sustainable finance communications specialist ... among others This event is an unmissable invitation to unite, innovate, and propel the global sustainability agenda forward.
Join us and be part of the conversation.
In collaboration with Project 17, BNP Paribas and London Climate Action Week
Are you a young creative? Join our Music for Impact talk at 5.30pm for conversation focused on how artists can mobilise audiences and communities to champion sustainability, securing a healthier, kinder future for people, places and planet.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Misinformation is a threat to democracies worldwide | RSA JOURNAL PresentsRSA2024-06-25 | Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s first Digital Minister and champion of the ‘Taiwan Model’ – a playbook for using safe, sustainable and citizen-led AI to revitalise societies worldwide.
“Global economic and security instability is placing our free and open societies under tremendous pressure. Extremism, isolation, polarisation and populism — amplified by social media and the 24/7 news cycle — are reshaping the geopolitical landscape in ways favourable to authoritarian regimes,” writes Tang.
“With India and the US, the world’s largest democracy and economy, respectively, going to the polls in 2024 — along with nearly 40 other countries such as Taiwan, Indonesia, Mexico and Pakistan — there is not a moment to waste in recognising the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) in amplifying election-related risks via deepfake videos, echo chambers, micro-targeting and undermining information integrity. Indeed, these tools and tactics are already being used in attempts to sway opinions and create confusion.”
As Digital Minister, Tang worked alongside The Ministry of Digital Affairs, or ‘the moda’, and other Taiwan ministries and agencies, to heighten vigilance against cyberthreats and misinformation.
“Stable operation of critical infrastructure and key websites was ensured by the moda through drills and tests, safeguarding systems and establishing a 24/7 rapid response team. Each distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was logged, analysed and acted upon. This approach, complemented by frontline monitoring, proved effective, as evidenced by the 22% drop in DDoS incidents compared to 2022.”
Other tactics, such as anticipatory debunking, or prebunking, verified phone numbers and collaborative fact checking have also been key in Taiwan’s fight to restore faith in our democratic institutions.
Check out Plurality, Audrey Tang’s most recent project, detailing how she and her collaborators – architects of Taiwan’s internationally acclaimed digital democracy – achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth that harnesses digital tools to strengthen both social unity and diversity: plurality.net #RSAJournal #AudreyTang #DigitalDemocracy #AI #Governance
In Brave New Words, Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, and offers a roadmap for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting - and sometimes intimidating - new world.
A pioneering education technologist, Khan is uniquely well-placed to foresee and assess how these new tools will change the way we learn and teach. Rather than approaching the ChatGPT revolution with fear and anxiety, however, Khan urges parents and teachers to embrace AI and adapt to it - while acknowledging its imperfections and limitations. He emphasises that introducing AI in education is not about replacing human interaction but enhancing it so that every student can complement the work they're already doing in profoundly new and creative ways, to personalise learning, adapt assessments, and support growth and success.
Join Salman Khan at the RSA to explore what this new technology means for our society, its implications for both the classroom and the workplace, and how we might harness its power to create a more accessible education system for students around the world.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Making sense of chaos - shaping economics for a better world I Doyne Farmer I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-06-18 | Accelerating technology and global interconnections hold more promise – and more peril – than any other time in human history. How can we shape an economy to better address the complex problems facing the world?
Many books have been written about Doyne Farmer and his work. Making Sense of Chaos is his personal manifesto for doing economics better.
As a complex systems scientist and entrepreneur, Doyne has pioneered many of the fields that define the scientific agenda of our times: chaos, complexity, artificial life, wearable computing, and more.
A former Oppenheimer Fellow and founder of the Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Doyne built the first wearable digital computer while still a graduate student, and successfully used it to predict the game of roulette.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Nature stewardship: 2024 RSA President’s Lecture I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-06-14 | Introduced by the RSA’s President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, an expert panel explores the theme of nature stewardship amidst a climate and biodiversity crisis.
Imagine if, in 10 years' time, everyone was a nature steward. What would that world look like?
And how can young people, communities, movements, and governments contribute to making that vision a reality?
With Kabir Kaul FRSA, 19-year-old conservationist, wildlife writer and passionate advocate for London’s biodiversity; Caitlin Turner, marine biologist and policy officer, Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust; Rebecca Wrigley, chief executive, Rewilding Britain; and Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta FRSA, economist and author of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review.
Introduction: Tim Eyles OBE, RSA Chair Welcome remarks: HRH The Princess Royal, RSA President Chair: Dr Joanna Choukeir, Director of Design & Innovation, RSA
The RSA is itself encouraging the next generation of nature stewards through Playful Green Planet – with a greener, more creative, more community-centred vision for education. Find out more: www.theRSA.org/playful-green-planet
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling I Layla McCay I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-06-07 | How can LGBTQ+ people thrive and succeed at work?
There are currently only four LGBTQ+ CEOs across all Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies who are out at work, and just 0.8% of Fortune 500 board positions are filled by LGBTQ+ people. This deficit, occurring across sectors and around the world, reveals a diversity gap playing out in today’s workplace: LGBTQ+ people are less likely to reach the top jobs. But what is holding LGBTQ+ people back at work – and what can be done?
Layla McCay is Director of Policy at the NHS Confederation, Executive Lead of the UK's Health and Care LGBTQ+ Leaders Network and author of a new book: Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling. Combining fresh data with personal insights from over 40 prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazers, from CEOs to Ambassadors, the book reveals the challenges that LGBTQ+ people commonly encounter as they find their way in work environments, and provides practical strategies that can help empower LGBTQ+ people to reach their full professional potential.
Join Layla at the RSA to explore how everyone – from boards, CEOs, HR professionals, managers and colleagues, through to LGBTQ+ people navigating their own career paths – can recognize and address the barriers to progression, achieve their career goals, and build a more inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and succeed.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Portraits of conflict and courage I George Butler I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-06-05 | “In Ukraine, I learnt that the stories of those I was trying to draw, were in fact, far more significant than my attempts at figurative likeness on the page. The drawings became an introduction to something and someone more meaningful that we would have otherwise never known”.
George Butler is an award-winning illustrator who has reinvented the role of the Artist Reporter, drawing conflict zones, climate issues, humanitarian crisis, and social issues for the news. His drawings are done in situ - in pen, ink, and watercolour.
Over the last 15 years, George has been commissioned to offer a deliberately slow alternative to the headlines. He attaches his drawings to the personal testimonies of those that he meets and records their resolve and resilience alongside the vulnerability of their situations. This has included in a leprosy clinic in Nepal, a militia in Yemen, the mass graves in Bucha, a caesarean-section in Afghanistan, the oil fields of Myanmar and the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
At the RSA, George introduces his latest work Ukraine: Remember Also Me - a collection of vivid and powerful testimonies from the conflict in Ukraine. While reporting on the war, George created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce the people behind the headlines. His drawings, made in a variety of places - from people and animals in underground shelters in the Kharkiv metro, to hospitals and bombed out streets and homes - vividly capture stories of family, tragedy, and perseverance.
These powerful portraits of war and conflict are a timely reminder of the humanity we all share and our universal need for peace.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Stories from a hotter world I John Vaillant I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-05-29 | An unmissable exploration of our rapidly changing relationship with fire and the action we need to take to reckon with an increasingly flammable world
For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture and civilization. Yet in our age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in ways never before witnessed by human beings.
In the Baillie Gifford prize-winning Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, internationally best-selling author John Vaillant delves into the intertwined histories of the oil industry and climate science, the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern wildfires, and the lives forever changed by these disasters.
Join award-winning authors John Vaillant and Gaia Vince to examine the devastating effects of fossil-fuelled climate warming, and to ask: what does ever more flammable world mean for the future of life on Earth?
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Growth: a reckoning I Daniel Susskind I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-05-13 | The pursuit of growth continues to define economic life around the world. Yet the prosperity gains of the last two centuries have come at an enormous price: deepening inequalities, destabilizing technologies, environmental destruction and climate change.
Daniel Susskind is an award-winning economist, research professor in economics at King's College London and senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. At the RSA, he joins CEO and former chief economist at the Bank of England Andy Haldane to explore the 'growth dilemma' at a time of huge uncertainty about its very value, and as sluggish productivity and stagnation haunt not only the UK, but also Europe, China, and many other countries around the world.
In his new book Growth: A Reckoning, Susskind looks afresh at the evidence to argue that we cannot abandon growth; we must instead redirect it to make it better reflect what we truly value.
Join us at the RSA to explore perhaps the most important economic question of our times: what type of growth should we pursue, how much of it, and for whose benefit?
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.From the era of anxiety to the age of aspiration I Andy Haldane I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-05-08 | Many of our key systems – economic, social, political, environmental – are in recession. This has left us in an era of anxiety about the future, one at risk of becoming self-reinforcing. What are the bold initiatives we need to spring the trap, inject optimism and dynamism into our decision-making and shift us to an age of aspiration? And what role does - and should - the RSA play in this new Enlightenment?
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Ken Costa is a leading figure in global investment banking, and the author of The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer - an urgent exploration into how Gen Z and Millennials’ focus on ethics, purpose, social justice and environmental causes will transform capitalism as we know it, as wealth flows from one generation to the next.
Can we seize this opportunity to build a more inclusive, purposeful, ‘socially energised’ capitalism, which shifts focus away from the individual and more towards collaboration, compassion and community? Or is it time for a more radical break from an economic paradigm that many blame for widening inequality and widespread ecological destruction?
Join Ken Costa in conversation with financial educator and content creator Timi Merriman-Johnson aka Mr MoneyJar and founder Rachel Drapper, as they explore the implications of the coming shift for markets and wider society, as the next generation look to invest, create value and steward financial assets with a very different set of principles and priorities to those that created the economy we live in today. Is intergenerational engagement the key to avoiding the mistakes of the past and creating a path to a fairer, more flourishing future for people and planet?
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.How a changing climate changes our minds, brains and bodies I Clayton Page Aldern I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-04-24 | How deeply felt and embodied is our connection to the wellbeing of the planet?
Neuroscientist and environmental journalist Clayton Aldern has travelled the world to meet scientists and doctors working at the intersections of environmental science, psychology and neuroscience to synthesize a new, interdisciplinary approach to a novel field — the neuroscience of climate change.
His new book The Weight of Nature is an impassioned work of research and storytelling, documenting the emotional and physical toll of a warming climate on our minds, brains and bodies.
In the book, he explores how our beliefs, language, communities, family ties, cultural narratives, imagery and soundscapes are all being warped by the repeated shocks and stresses of climate change, reshaping our very humanity, and contributing to a growing public health crisis that has gone largely unreported.
Join Clayton Aldern at the RSA as he argues that it is only by living in fuller intimacy with our planet that we will apply the compassion, resilience and courage to act to save it.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Building a better society for healthier, longer lives I Andrew J. Scott, Noreena Hertz I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-04-15 | The last century saw a revolution in life expectancy. And this revolution will require us to shift what we do at every age and will demand a transformation of every aspect of our society.
Most of us are now expected to live much longer than previous generations. But instead of seeing this as a precious gift of extra life, we see it as a burden, with ageing populations dogged by infirmity, dependent on an ever-decreasing number of young people to support them.
Andrew J. Scott – the world’s leading expert on the economics of longevity - argues it doesn't have to be like that. In his new book The Longevity Imperative, he shows how our longer lives can be a source of hope and fulfilment if we seize the opportunity to invest in our health, skills, personal relationships and community connections to support a flourishing longer life – for ourselves, and for the planet.
Join Andrew at the RSA in conversation with Noreena Hertz, economist, broadcaster and bestselling author of The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect.
**Please note Closed Captions are auto-generated and may not be 100% accurate 100% of the time! Thank you for your understanding.Global environmental challenges: lessons from Ukraine I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-03-29 | What can other parts of the world learn from Ukraine, as it pioneers bringing acts of ecocide into the discussion of justice in the context of war?
Ukraine is not only having to confront the destruction of human life and infrastructure caused by Russia’s invasion but also having to deal with damage to the environment. The question of the environment is closely linked to that of justice. Ukraine is a pioneer in bringing the acts of ecocide into the discussion of justice in the context of war. The lessons of Ukraine are thus of vital importance to those parts of the world that suffer from environmental damage in the context of armed conflicts, climate breakdown, and other crises.
An expert panel gathers at the RSA to foster public discussion and continued cooperation between organisations and individuals for an ongoing environmentally focused conversation about the consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine, situated in the context of wider environmental challenges faced globally.
Speakers: Jojo Mehta, Stop Ecocide; Bart Gruyaert, Neo-Eco Ukraine; climate and energy policy analyst, Anna Ackermann; and environmental policy expert Marjukka Porvari, European Commission.
Chair: Dr Sasha Dovzhyk, editor of the London Ukrainian Review
This event is held in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute London, the Delegation of Flanders (Embassy of Belgium) in the UK and Ireland, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, the Cyprus High Commission and EUNIC London (European Union National Institutes for Culture).
The event is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Culture of Solidarity Fund powered by the European Cultural Foundation.
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Find out more: thersa.org/events/coffeehouse/2024/04/live-music-thursdaysRSA Fellows on a Gender Equal WorldRSA2024-03-26 | We invited Fellows Tina Basi, Sophie Larsmon, and Lauryn Mwale to RSA House to talk about Women's History Month, what a gender equal world would look like and what they're experience has been like as part of the RSA Fellowship.
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Already a Fellow? Nominate an inspiring colleague, friend, or mentor to join our community thersa.co/3wYiMATFellows Festival 2024 - three centuries of social impactRSA2024-03-25 | Watch a few highlights from the day and our incredible speakers reflecting on our theme for this year 'courage'.Powering concerts with 100% renewable energy | RSA JOURNAL PresentsRSA2024-03-20 | We sat down with AY Young, CEO of the Battery Tour, UN Youth Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and one of the RSA’s newest Fellows, to talk about how he’s using music to get dozens of villages around the world plugged in.
“Energy is the base resource we need in our food, our water. Everyone needs energy, and if you store enough, you can power anything.”
Photos/video: Chris Burrow instagram.com/chrisburrow/?hl=en-gb_RSA Albert Medal Address I Courage in climate leadership I Christiana Figueres I RSA REPLAYRSA2024-03-15 | Christiana Figueres receives the RSA Albert Medal, awarded annually to honour outstanding, regenerative and impactful innovation that is enabling people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony.
Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognised leader on global climate change, credited with forging a new brand of collaborative diplomacy that led to the historic Paris Agreement of 2015.
In her courageous determination to lead the process to a universally agreed regulatory framework, she brought together national and subnational governments, corporations and activists, financial institutions, and communities of faith, think tanks and technology providers, NGOs and parliamentarians, to jointly deliver the unprecedented climate change agreement.
At the RSA, RSA Chief Executive Andy Haldane will present Christiana Figueres with the 2023 RSA Albert Medal in recognition of the leadership and creativity she has shown in the areas of climate and nature action, and in her award address, she will tell us about her ongoing commitment to the acceleration of the global response to climate change.
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