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      Words on Squeak & Bubble

      Writer Oli Stratford reflects on the Royal Designers Summer Session 2025
      09 02 26
      Photos: RDIs/Philip Vile

      New RDIs announced for 2025

      We are pleased to welcome five new Royal Designers and two new Honorary Royal Designers to the Faculty, announced at this evening’s annual ceremony at the RSA.
      27 11 25

      Design Entanglement – Royal Designers Session at the Barbican Conservatory, World Design Congress 2025

      Writer and strategist Rupert Evans-Harding reports on a participatory Session that explored how to design with, not just for, the planet.
      15 10 25
      Photos: RDIs/Philip Vile

      New RDIs announced for 2024

      We are pleased to welcome three new Royal Designers and four new Honorary Royal Designers to the Faculty, announced at this evening’s annual ceremony at the RSA.
      28 11 24

      Mend, Do and Make - Royal Designers Summer Session 2024, Dartington Hall, Devon

      The writer and creative director Tom Lynham responds to Mend Do & Make. How can a kinship of design, science and thought help mend our world through ingenuity and empathy?
      17 10 24
      Photo: RDIs/Philip Vile

      Earth, Wind & Fire: Just add water – a climate recipe

      Charlie Paton RDI, RDI Address
      30 11 23

      Optimism - Royal Designers Summer Session 2023, Dartington Hall, Devon

      Writer and strategist Rupert Evans-Harding shares a personal response to the 2023 Summer Session, which focussed on “the endless inventiveness of the human spirit to bring about change for the better.”
      20 11 23
      Photo: Tom Lloyd

      New RDIs announced for 2023

      We are pleased to welcome four new Royal Designers and three new Honorary Royal Designers to the Faculty, announced at this evening’s annual ceremony at the RSA
      01 11 23

      Survive and thrive

      Dame Jo da Silva is Global Director of Sustainable Development at Arup and a Royal Designers for Industry (RDI). This article is based on her December 2022 RDI Address.
      01 11 23

      New RDIs announced for 2022

      We are pleased to welcome five new Royal Designers and four new Honorary Royal Designers to the Faculty, announced at this evening’s annual ceremony at the RSA
      17 11 22

      All Change: Design and Science in a time of Crisis

      Collaborative Workshop, V&A London
      28 03 22

      Making Sense, Making Progress: Design after Covid

      Tom Lloyd RDI, founding partner of the London design studio Pearson Lloyd
      25 11 21