Today we launch a #book #engaging #design www.epflpress.org/produit/1606... #download #openaccess #design @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social @epfllibrary.bsky.social

Royal College of Art to honour Nick Cave with honorary doctorate

Our Doctoral Researchers have been busy. From a visit by His Majesty The King, to Damien Roach’s Grounding at SXSW London, and preparations for SPACEX (Coventry Biennial, November 2025), there’s plenty to celebrate. Discover the latest from our research community: bit.ly/46nF2CD

Congratulations to this year's winners of the RCA's third annual Hyundai Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice! Learn more: bit.ly/4lMUrBN #Sustainability #Design #ProductDesign

📣 We're pleased to announce Professor Hua Dong as Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design! Our longest-running research centre specialises in inclusive design for population ageing, disability, health and social care with impact across society. Find out more ➡️ www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We're 'fluent in disruption' at the Royal College of Art! i-D on our MA Fashion graduating students #RCA2025 exhibition 'where garments are treated as vessels for critique as well as craft.' Find out more 👉 i-d.co/article/roya...

Motivational advice at the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social last night

Great @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social interview with London Loo Alliance member @gaillyk.bsky.social @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Congratulations to the winners of this year's School of Architecture prizes. This year's winning projects span everything from queer temporal frameworks and speculative reuse to conflict-driven spatial justice, and historical landscape research. Discover the award winners ➡️ bit.ly/459nZ6r

📣 A new three-year research project brings together universities in Brazil, South Africa and the UK including the RCA to explore the history of graphic design for street protests. Funded by @ukri.org, @agenciafapesp.bsky.social and NRF. Find out more ➡️ www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Popped into the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social Service Design MA show on the way back. Some really good stuff. The GOV•UK gang should check out the Shared Parental Leave demo which also uses learnings from UC. @joelanman.bsky.social @tomski.com

Sorted 🙃 #RCA2025 continues to showcase the work of our graduating students at the Royal College of Art campuses and venues across London on selected dates until 23 July… Find out what’s coming up👇 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

"We’re seeing a very expanded idea of photography, and disrupting the traditional notion that we need a camera at all." The Big Interview: James Coupe, Head of Photography at the Royal College of Art www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/the-... 💪 @RoyalCollegeofArt.bsky.social

Thank you Bloomsbury @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, Royal College of Art @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design for supporting us, and of course Jo-Anne Bichard for suggesting we do this. Seemed like madness to me but we did it! 🏆 I'm delighted 😘

🥳 #RCA2025: School of Arts & Humanities Show is open to the public for free from 19–22 June at RCA Battersea, 12 to 6pm daily! Get the details: rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/rca2025-school-of-arts-humanities-show And don't forget you can buy works from the show at rca-sales.com 🛒

Involved in #CommunityEnergy? New #CitizenScience project needs your help to find out how community energy schemes are run through online workshops bringing together #EnergyGroups and researchers. Find out more 👇 www.sei.org/projects/eco... @sei.org, @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social,

Been a pleasure & privilege to work with residents in Custom House & colleagues from @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social who created these beautiful outputs. No change to a community done without them, is for them ✊❤️‍🔥

The @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social degree show RCA2025 opens this evening. Here’s a sneak preview of the MA Writing programme display with pages from the book our students made in response to The Cosmic House.

🐚 Meaningful burials helping marine life from our MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering graduates at Resting Reef! Aura and Louise met at the RCA where they set out to use design thinking to provide memorials that enhance marine life. Read more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ In a time of rising political and social pressures LGBTQ+ communities are using art as a powerful tool for resistance, celebration and connection. This #PrideMonth we spoke to Royal College of Art students, staff and graduates about their projects. Find out more 👉 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🌱 A new 'living collection' from CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA in Rome demonstrates the power of seed saving as a tool for resilience in the #ClimateCrisis... Working with farms in Italy the project challenges laws banning traditional seed-sharing practices and impacting biodiversity. Find out more 👇

Thinking about applying to the RCA? Got some questions about academia, scholarships, portfolios or logistics? Follow @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social to ask for advice! www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/the-...

On 27 May, 4-6pm, our annual collaborative postgraduate research seminar with the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social takes place (online, via MS Teams). All very welcome to join and listen to the six of our researchers discuss their projects! Details and a meeting link here. @llc-rhul.bsky.social

🥗 CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art just announced the 2025 recipients of their Food Action Awards! Museo Pelumpen and Green Violence advance food systems in the new seasons of the climate crisis. Find out more ⬇️ www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

📣 #Architecture from the Royal College of Art will be well represented at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2025 from 10 May to 23 November. From facing environmental threats to heritage in the city. Find out more ➡️ www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

💡 How do Royal College of Art students bring great ideas to life? Often with expert technicians like Melanie, Maria and Alexander who can help them 'unleash their creative potential.' Read the article ➡️ bit.ly/44u4WVR

3. Thames Barge Stories: Exploring the design and material culture of the Thames Sailing Barge c1800-present @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... (apply by 30 June)

Ecological citizenship practices connect the public, scientific researchers & decision-makers to co-design #sustainability solutions. Could it be the key to unlocking engaged, positive #climate action from individuals & communities? Discover more: buff.ly/EaNYQxn @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social

🙌 Our Graduate Diploma in Art and Design has been shortlisted as a finalist in The PIEoneer Awards 2025! The award recognises innovation in teaching focused on the international student’s in the 21st century. Find out more about our Graduate Diploma ⬇️ www.rca.ac.uk/graduate-dip...

Ecological Citizen(s) @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social @pintofscience.uk: 'Paths to Progress: Walking as a tool to reconnect us to our natural world'. Tuesday 20th May 2025 > The Glitch in Waterloo, SE1 7AE, doors at 6.30pm > tickets: pintofscience.co.uk/event/paths-...

#RCA2025, a series of exhibitions and events and activities, showcasing the work of graduating RCA students will take place from 19 June to 23 July across our campuses and beyond. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4izZ5S1

🌊 Day 1 of the #ScienceToImpact challenge kicks off! We're teaming up with @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social to turn complex ocean science into real-world impact. 25 design students + 10 scientists = 1 big mission. Results unveiled May 15! #OceanScience #Innovation #MarineResearch #DesignThinking

⏰ The deadline for the 2025 CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA Food Action Awards is 22 April (Midnight GMT)! 🌽 The Food Action Awards support projects advancing food practices that confront extractive food systems and climate breakdown. Find out more ➡️ climavore.org/2025-food-action-awards

🧶 Knitwear that can heal... Dr Laura Salisbury (PhD Design, 2020) tells BBC World Service how her start-up KnitRegen helps stroke survivors 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Come to this free symposium at the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social on Monday 7 April. With keynotes by Egidija Ciricaite, SJ Fowler, and Clare Hewitt, and shorter presentations by RCA research students and staff, including me. (I'll be talking about Joris-Karl Huysmans, monks, and bookbinding.)

📸 In the her photos for Dior – Professor Sarah Jones uses her unique photographic style of “small gestures, nuances - slow looking.” Find out about her work and teaching in our interview 👇 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

London is a global hub of creativity ✨ Deputy Mayor @justinesimons.bsky.social visited our MA Fashion grad Karoline Vitto in her studio as @london.gov.uk makes a £10m investment in our capital's creatives 👇

🧑‍💻 How can design make life better for Londoners? Our students designed solutions to our city's most pressing problems in this year's Grand Challenge – now featuring in an exhibition at RCA Battersea. Meet the winners 👇 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🎨 Always a pleasure to visit @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social , this time touring sculpture & print workstations where I met Xavier - a total South London talent! Great to hear about the work the RCA are doing to make sure art belongs to everyone in the #Battersea community

The comic anthology OVERLAP! is the result of my Short Course:Self-Publishing Comics that I designed as part of my PGCert in Creative Education and delivered at the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social with students from MAs Animation and Visual Communication. 12 unique comics with overlapped narratives!

Happy Spring Equinox from the Royal College of Art 🌸☀️🐝

🫳 Drop the most unusual material you've worked with in the comments if you can beat making a car model out of tights...

In London on 3rd April? 🗓️ Interested in feminist creative-critical writing on art, gesture and performance? 👇 'Gestures: A body of work' will launch at the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social, 6-8pm. Tickets are FREE. Reserve your place here: tinyurl.com/f6yzvfc7

💗 Last week we were thrilled to be joined by our iconic textiles alumna, Dame Zandra Rhodes who met students in the MA Textiles studio to see their work and gave a talk on her illustrious career as a designer.

That makes eleven years as the World's No. 1 Art and Design University! 🚀 Our QS World University Ranking recognises the RCA's global impact in art and design – with an overall score of 97.4%! Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4iIcdFh #QSWUR #UniversityRankings