Fab Friday!

What is the Great Recovery?The current economic and environmental challenges of take, make, dispose manufacturing are becoming apparent. Increasing supply risk and rising costs of materials is putting pressure on businesses to change. We need to shift towards more circular systems and good design thinking is pivotal to this transition. The Great Recovery is building new networks to explore the issues, investigate innovation gaps and incubate new partnerships.www.greatrecovery.org.ukWhat is the RSA?The RSA is an enlightenment organisation committed to enabling people to find innovative and practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance and share human capability so we can help make these solutions a reality.Your PrivacyThe information you provide when registering for an event will be retained by the RSA and will be used to record attendance at the event.To understand more about how the RSA uses your data, please see ourPrivacy Policy.

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What will the day look like?
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