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School of Communication

Visual Communication (MA)

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Visual Communication students are infamous for producing work that does not always fit into the expected parameters of their discipline. The very nature of the work produced asks challenging questions of our field, and rethinks the purpose it serves in society.

The body of work on display this year is no exception. However, these goals have been heightened and intensified by the necessity of producing work during the upheaval and uncertainty of a pandemic. It is from their bedrooms and living rooms, positioned all over the world, that this cohort of Visual Communication students has been driven by the urgent need to communicate and address societal change.

These students have each negotiated their work on their own terms, but at the same time are asking you to view this work as a collective response. Rejecting individualism, they are instead presenting themselves as a community of makers who over the last two years, have formed a collective shared vision of a deep and resilient belief in humankind. Through their work, each one of them is asking you, the audience, to act, and in doing so to re-imagine a better future.

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Above image: ‘Conversation as Design’ workshop run by Graphic Design student Ravista Mehra. Photographer: Max Kohler

Pathways

18 July 2020
13:00 (GMT + 0)

New Choreographies Within And With All of Us

On the missing bond between human interactions
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25 July 2020
13:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

CANCELLED - New Choreographies Within And With All of Us #2

On the missing bond between human interactions
19 July 2020
13:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

Zoom in Zoom out

A graphic designer is rarely just a graphic designer.
20 July 2020
13:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

What's Your Reference? Part 1: Round Table

Round Table on Graphic Design/Visual Communication
20 July 2020
13:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

Collective e-Choir (Lecture)

30 July 2020
13:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

Collective e-Choir (Workshop)

21 July 2020
16:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

Critic/Curator Panel #1 - Ifeanyi Awachie

Panel discussion with Visual Communication students and staff
22 July 2020
13:00 (GMT + 0)

Questioning, Dismantling & Rebuilding the Institution

Discussion on decolonisation within the RCA.
22 July 2020
16:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

Critic/Curator Panel #2 - Catrin Morgan

Panel discussion with Visual Communication students and staff
24 July 2020
15:00 (GMT + 0)

How May I Serve You

25 July 2020
16:00 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

Washing the Screen

Webinar and Q&A session.
26 July 2020
9:30 (GMT + 0)

DIY Art School

Workshop / Discussion focused around what happens within an Art School.
26 July 2020
13:30 (GMT + 0)
Zoom

The Practice of Media Ecology: Applied McLuhan in 2020

Talk followed by Q&A.

RCA2020 Visual Identity: Representing People and Practice

Words by Ricky Stoch
For the first time in recent history, RCA students from across the College were invited to pitch to design the visual identity for the RCA’s graduate exhibition.
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Cross-College

How Might Illustration Be Queered?

Curated by Catrin Morgan
Cross-College

Landscapes

The land beneath and beyond the metropolis
Cross-College

Tasty

Dinner's Ready
Cross-College

Super/Sonic

Shh, listen
Cross-College

The Volatility of Definition

Curated by Neville Brody
Cross-College

Optimistic, Singular and New

Curated by Jony Ive
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