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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

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