🤔 ‘Change one thing...and everything has to be approached from a different perspective.’ In episode 3 of our new podcast, @barbara.k.brownie (Assistant Dean, School of Communication @rcasoc) explains how RCA students prepare for unexpected futures. 🎧 Listen now ➡️ link in the RCA bio. #CommunicationDesign #VisualCommunication #Animation #GraphicDesign #ExperienceDesign #InformationExperienceDesign #Podcast

💨🍃🌱 These aerodynamic seedpods from #TerraCarta Design Lab winners @aerseeds can accelerate the regeneration of depleted land 10 times faster. Biké Ayaskan and Begum Ayaskan (MA Design Products, 2015) have been busy turning their unique design idea into a reality after winning the prize last year, having received further funding from @weareinnovateuk in the shape of a Fast Start: Innovation grant to support a 6 month project. Following on from the global success of the 2022 competition, the Royal College of Art is partnering for a second time with The Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Terra Carta Design Lab to discover high impact solutions to the climate crisis. 👋 Are you a current RCA alumni or student from the past five years? Express an interest in the Terra Carta Design Lab now if you have a design solution for the climate crisis at the link in the RCA bio. #Reforestation #Seedpods #EcologicalRegeneration #EnvironmentalDesign #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

🎓 Get your application in early for the best chance of securing a place and funding on our Master's and Doctoral programmes. 📝 Round 2 opens today, and closes 12 noon on Wednesday 14 February 2024. 🗓️ Link in the bio for all the key application dates. #Postgraduate #DesignEducation #University #ArtSchool

🖥️ This #AdaLovelaceDay, meet Dr Iulia Ionescu (@iulia.ai) – the @microsoft sponsored RCA PhD Design student asking what are the real social implications of #AI technology? Iulia's research at the RCA explored the space between the technical and social facets of AI, as well as the co-construction of meaning in human-AI interaction. Before her PhD, Iulia completed an MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering (@idecourse) at the RCA. As she explains 'the RCA holds a special place in my academic journey – I completed my Master’s degree here, so, when I had the opportunity to spend seven more years at RCA, I figured “why not?”' Iulia is now Programme Director Creative Computing & Robotics at the UAL Creative Computing Institute. Read our interview ➡️ link in the RCA bio. #ArtificialIntelligence #DesignPhD #DesignResearch #PhD #PhDResearch #AITechnology

🍰 A quick slice of life #InsideRCA with thanks to our Student Ambassadors who shot the footage from across the College. 👋👀 Want to see your work featured on the RCA Instagram account? Just tag your post #InsideRCA and send over to us so we can take a look! #DesignStudent #ArtStudio #ArtSchool #University #Postgraduate

👚💨 How do we measure the carbon footprint of our clothes? Last week our MA Fashion students visited @eastlondontextiles to consider a critical question facing the fashion industry – what can we do to mitigate the damage of clothing supply chains? Students were accompanied by Dr Savithri Bartlett, Senior Tutor (Research) and Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Tutor (Research) from MA Fashion to explore the challenges we face in dealing with second-hand clothing for re-use. Students saw how clothing was sorted, packaged and baled for international distribution – and considered the ethical, political, cultural and environmental questions involved in this trade. Students also explored the difficulties we face in dealing with clothing that has reached the end of it’s lifecycle. 🔗 Discover our MA Fashion at the link in the RCA bio. #SustainableFashion #SupplyChains #TextileWaste #RegenerativeFashion #LandFill

👻 It’s #SpookySeason! Celebrate by exploring the #RCA2023 Collection ‘It’s a kind of magic’ bringing together students from across the RCA working with magic, folklore and myth. 👆 See the whole collection - link in the bio. 1️⃣ @rafaella.lazarou, MA Sculpture 2️⃣ Xanthe Horner, MA Visual Communication 3️⃣ @lauricmahe, MA Contemporary Art Practice 4️⃣ @jyuemim, MA Photography 5️⃣ @wojciech_fec, MA Visual Communication 6️⃣ Jie Ji (@jjjie.ji), MA Jewellery & Metal 7️⃣ Adaiya Granberry, MA Information Experience Design 8️⃣ @aimiliosmetaxas, MA Painting #Halloween #Magic #Folklore #October

Meet @rongbaobaobao’s inflatable wonders @thecolab.art’s Triple Bill event on Tuesday 10 October from 4 to 6pm in the Artist’s Garden on the roof of Temple tube station! Rong Bao graduated from our MA Sculpture (@rcasculpture) in 2023 and is the recipient of the @thecolab.art/RCA/ @yspsculpture Graduate Award. Rong’s provocative works invite viewers to ‘engage with the world in a playful yet meaningful way’ she explains on her #RCA2023 profile. 🔗 See more of Rong’s work at 2023.rca.ac.uk - link in the RCA bio. #Sculpture #Sculptor #InflatableArt #InstallationArt

Formed With Future Heritage curated by RCA Honorary Felow, Corinne Julius is @DesignCentreCH from 9 to 13 October – featuring five recent RCA graduates! With a history of spotting the next big names in craft, we are very excited to see so many RCA graduates involved in bringing new work to this unique event. The RCA graduates exhibiting are: 1️⃣ @joannelambstudio (MA Textiles) 2️⃣ @edgarward_ (MA Ceramics& Glass) 3️⃣ @studioisabelfletcher (MA Textiles) 4️⃣ @lolalazarohinks (MA Ceramics & Glass) 5️⃣ Caroline MacDonald @carol_mac2020 (MA Print) 🔗 Tap the link in the bio to find out more. #Craft #London #LondonExhibition #Ceramics #Textiles #Print #Printmaking

⚡The immediacy of creative education... In episode 2 of our new podcast Chris Mitchell (Deputy Director of Academic Development) tells us what sets creative education apart from conventional learning. 🎧 Listen now ➡️ link in the bio.

🖤As part of Black History Month, we’re celebrating artists from our community whose work is inspired by history. 📸 Aisha Seriki @occupiedbythelense is a Nigerian visual artist based in London, who completed her MA Photography (2023) and is now a student on our MFA Arts & Humanities. Inspired by the Ghanaian concept of 'Sankofa,' Aisha's captivating photography series 'Ori Inu’ weaves together the historical past with present realities, both on a personal and broader societal level. Aisha employs culturally significant objects, and the Calabash tree's hard-shelled fruit - a symbol of body, mind and spirit - as powerful visual metaphors within her work. “The comb is informed by its relationship with African diasporan histories, where it surpasses functionality to become a cultural symbol of empowerment, ritual and self-care.” “As an immigrant, I have experienced and witnessed the devastating impacts of bureaucracy and institutional systems on the lives of individuals who live within the cracks of society. For that reason, I am interested in the ways that societal norms impact the self, the personal, and the private space. I aim to showcase an imagination of marginalised bodies beyond the binary.” #OriInu #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2023 #SankofaSpirit #SalutingOurSisters

🧪 time for this week’s #InsideRCA. @chloebenham_ makes bacterial and plant based dyes for her MA Textiles - taking us from the lab to the studio. Chloe’s work explores the possibilities of living colour systems as an alternative to petrochemical dyes that are the norm in industry. Her #RCA2023 project included several successful applications of her work to print projects. 🔗 More on Chloe’s work at the link in the bio. #Textiles #Dye #Dyeing #NaturalDye #BioLab #TextileDesign #TextileDesigner