Stories
Read more about how this year’s students have adapted, innovated and reimagined their practice against the backdrop of unprecedented world events.
School of Design
Textiles (MA)
Constructors, Preservers and Responders
Textiles
This year students in the MA Textiles Programme have identified themselves within three themes, formulated by students as a way to prepare for showcasing their work as a community.
Cross-College
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.
Cross-College
6 Curated, Computed Collections
School of Architecture
A machine-readable dataset, resulting in a curatorial collaboration between the School of Architecture, artificial intelligence and six invited critics.
School of Arts & Humanities
Ceramics & Glass (MA)
The Unstable & Altered States of Fluidity
Ceramics & Glass
An exploration of the human condition, explored through material states of flux and fluidity by three Ceramics & Glass students.
School of Arts & Humanities
Curating Contemporary Art (MA)
Curating Contemporary Art Exhibitions
Curating Contemporary Art
Five distinct online exhibitions, curated in partnership with leading UK-based art organisations.
School of Architecture
Architecture Research (MPhil) (PhD)
A Short History of the Elevator Pitch
Ines Weizman
A short, spoken story to catch the interest of an imaginary interlocutor, as if told during an elevator ride. A situation invented by architecture, which points to the elevator not just as an architectural element, but as a media form.
School of Architecture
Architecture (MA)
Community and Culture / Continued Conversations
Xcessive Aesthetics and Thandi Loewenson
Stories around the forms of collective and socially–engaged practice forged within the School of Architecture show that attitudes fostered within the School lead to a series of continued conversations among graduates, students and staff, between cohorts, and across the college too.
School of Architecture
Architecture (MA)
A new way to discover and navigate the work of MA Architecture graduates
Folios is the Royal College of Art MA Architecture students’ online folio library.
Visitors are able to read, download original architecture design studio (ADS) folios and compile their own folio by choosing a selection of the students’ contributions. Each generated PDF publication is stored immediately and will be accessible in the folio library.