Darkness before the dawn Ian Burbidge Associate Director of the RSA Lab
Leadership
In the first lockdown the RSA coined the phrase building bridges to the future to describe how learning, adaptation and innovation during the crisis might shape and prefigure a better future.
Over the last ten months we have tested these ideas with a wide range of partners turning categories and propositions into concrete examples and proposals. We are nearing the end of the bridge, but what do we want to create on the other side?
The nighttime economy has seen as much carnage as most sectors through Covid-19 due in part to the impossibility of social distancing. DJs and producers, denied their audience and the means through which they showcase their talents, faced a bleak future. Many of the lesser-known were already finding it difficult to make ends meet before the crisis