Royal College of Art Annual Review

09 20 10 ‘The objects of the College are to advance Royal College of Art Rector’s Review 3 learning, knowledge and professional Annual Review 2009/10 competence particularly in the field of fine Student Statistics 2009/10 4 arts, in the principles and practice of art and design in their relation to industrial Overview 2009/10 5 and commercial processes and social developments and other subjects relating Battersea Campus 8 thereto through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce.’ Studying at the RCA 9

Charter of Incorporation of the School of Applied Art 10 Royal College of Art, 28 July 1967 Ceramics & Glass, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery

School of Architecture & Design 13 Architecture, Design Interactions, Design Products

School of Communications 16 Animation, Communication Art & Design

School of Design for Production 19 Innovation Design Engineering, Vehicle Design

School of Fashion & Textiles 22 Fashion, Textiles

School of Fine Art 25 Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Drawing Studio, Moving Image Studio

School of Humanities 29 Critical & Historical Studies, Critical Writing in Art & Design, Curating Contemporary Art, History of Design

Research RCA 32

Helen Hamlyn Centre 33

ReachOutRCA 34

Sustain 35

FuelRCA 35

Industry Partnerships 36

InnovationRCA 37

Visitor Design London 38 His Royal Highness The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh AlumniRCA 39

Provost Donors & Sponsors 40 Sir Terence Conran Honours & Appointments 40 Pro-Provost and Chairman of the Council Sir Neil Cossons Summary Accounts 41

Rector and Vice-Provost Dr Paul Thompson summer was voted the best pavilion of the show and won the Rector’s prestigious 2010 RIBA Lubetkin Prize in June 2010 for the most outstanding work of international architecture. Ian Callum, Review Head of Design at Jaguar (alumnus, 1979), launched his XJ car to much acclaim. Finally, 2009 Design Interactions graduate Min-Kyu Choi won the Design Museum’s Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2010 for his ingenious folding plug, which is currently in the InnovationRCA business incubator (see InnovationRCA p. 40). Founded in 1837 as the Government School of Design, This academic year we celebrated the opening of the renamed the Royal College of Art in 1896 and granted a royal Sackler Building at our Battersea campus, which won a Royal charter in 1967, the RCA is the world’s oldest art and design Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award within a month university in continuous operation. Furthermore, it is the of opening. This fabulous studio space provides the first-ever, only art and design institution in the world operating exclusively purpose-built space for Painting in the RCA’s 173-year history! at postgraduate level. We offer rigorous two-year Master’s In 2010 the construction team commenced work on courses; we demonstrate impressive research outcomes; and the Dyson building, due to open in Battersea in 2012. (View we deliver robust knowledge transfer from academe to industry, our streaming video of the construction site at www.rca.ac.uk/ as evidenced by our intellectual property track record of buildingbattersea.) Named in honour of Sir James Dyson patent and design registrations, which leads the field in UK (alumnus, 1970), the building will provide new incubator art and design schools (see pp. 40–42, InnovationRCA units, a lecture theatre and gallery, and new facilities for the and Design London). Photography and Printmaking Departments. Firstly, at Master’s level: in summer 2010, 400 students Please join me in welcoming to the Council, the presented work in their graduate Shows. It is a real testament to communications expert Matthew Freud. Finally, we bid the talent of our students that 40,000 industry leaders, talent farewell and ‘thank you’ to departing staff, including Professor recruiters and members of the general public chose to visit. I’d Dan Fern. We also note with sadness the loss of Professor like to thank especially the Conran Foundation for its continued John Hedgecoe, tutor Gerrard O’Carroll, alumna Lucienne Day, support of the SHOW, in particular our Provost, Sir Terence and senior and honorary fellows H T Cadbury-Brown, Conran, who is a passionate mentor to many cohorts of RCA Joseph Ettedgui, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Rosamund Julius, graduates. Importantly, when the SHOW is dismantled and Dosia Verney and Rosemary Wilson. life returns to normal, we can report that RCA graduates fare I wish to thank all of the RCA community for helping me well in the workplace, with approximately 93 per cent of our during the first year of my tenure at the College; it has been graduates gaining employment at an appropriate professional immensely stimulating and enjoyable. level within a year of graduating. In 2010, ten MPhil students graduated and 12 candidates were awarded PhDs – a testament Paul Thompson to the strength of student research in fields ranging from Rector History of Design to Vehicle Design. Secondly, staff research: the Helen Hamlyn Centre goes from strength to strength; this year it embarked on a major research project for the NHS London. The brief: to redesign the emergency NHS ambulance for London, working alongside the RCA’s Vehicle Design Department, Imperial College London, the University of the West of England and London paramedics. The team also continued its DOME (‘Designing Out Medical Error’) project. Thirdly, innovation and knowledge transfer: InnovationRCA and Design London have continued their vital role of assisting recent or current graduates to take ingenious design concepts to marketplace. Working with our partner Imperial College London, we present a formidable interdisciplinary team comprising MBA, design and engineering students. Eight new business ventures were successfully incubated and launched on the road this year. We congratulate the many alumni of the College who received international accolades during the course of this year: Erdem Moralioglu (alumnus, 2003) won the first British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund award; Christopher Bailey (alumnus, 1994), Chief Creative Officer of Burberry, won Rigorous two-year the International Award at the Council of Fashion Designers of America; artist Chris Ofili (alumnus, 1993) was the subject of a major solo exhibition at Tate Britain last autumn; architect Master’s courses, Eric Parry (alumnus, 1978) won a Civic Trust Award and Building Design magazine’s Architect of the Year award; and impressive research David Adjaye (alumnus, 1993) won the prestigious commission to design the Smithsonian’s new Museum of African-American outcomes and robust History & Culture in Washington DC. Thomas Heatherwick’s (alumnus, 1994) British pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo this knowledge transfer 3 A major survey of graduates who studied Student Nationalities Number of Students: 948 Number of Nationalities: 53 Student at the RCA from 2002 to 2007 revealed that prospects for RCA graduates are exceptionally strong. The percentages below indicate Statistics the proportion of graduates in directly related 2009/10 employment/activity. British 522 German 46 French 44 South Korean 38 US American 27 Swedish 24

School / Department Applicants Admissions Student Graduate Destinations Numbers

Applied Art Irish 22 Danish 21 Spanish 15 Chinese 14 Dutch 13 Greek 13 Ceramics & Glass 55 22 48 98% Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery 64 19 40 99% School Total 119 41 88 —

Architecture & Design

Italian 12 Japanese 12 Polish 10 Finnish 9 Indian 8 Taiwanese 8 Architecture 240 29 49 95% Design Interactions 92 17 35 89% Design Products 212 36 73 93% School Total 544 82 157 —

Communications Canadian 7 Portuguese 7 Austrian 6 Israeli 6 Australian 5 Cypriot 5 Animation 89 15 32 95% Communication Art & Design 335 47 100 90% School Total 424 62 132 —

Design for Production

Innovation Design Engineering 129 37 71 95% Belgian 4 Singaporean 4 Thai 4 Bulgarian 3 Hungarian 3 Russian 3 Vehicle Design 59 19 43 95% School Total 188 56 114 —

Fashion & Textiles

Fashion Menswear 44 12 25 — Fashion Womenswear 168 26 48 — Brazilian 2 Czech 2 Iranian 2 Lithuanian 2 Romanian 2 Swiss 2 Textiles 131 36 75 — School Total 343 74 148 95%

Fine Art

Painting 502 23 46 93% Photography 215 21 49 98% Yugoslavian 2 Chilean 1 Colombian 1 Croatian 1 Ecuadorean 1 Egyptian 1 Printmaking 120 22 45 91% Sculpture 206 24 45 95% School Total 1,043 90 185 —

Humanities

Icelandic 1 Indonesian 1 Luxembourger 1 Mexican 1 New Zealander 1 Norwegian 1 Conservation — — 3 86% Critical & Historical Studies 9 4 9 — Curating Contemporary Art 79 15 37 95% Curating Contemporary Art (Inspire) 122 13 13 — History of Design 67 29 62 80% School Total 277 61 124 — Pakistani 1 Serbian 1 Slovakian 1 Turkish 1 Venezuelan 1 Grand Totals 2,938 466 948 —

4 Overview Autumn Spring 2009/10 Term Term

Feb Oct

Gender and Performance: Students’ Union programme questioned how gender, sex, The Sackler Building, housing the Painting embodiment and the real are constructed, Department, opened in autumn 2009 participated in and performed

Inspire Work-based MA in Curating Contemporary Art, which aims to address the imbalance in black, Asian and minority ethnic representation in curatorial staff David Prosser (Animation) and Adam in UK museums and galleries, enrolled Paterson (IDE) won the Adobe Design its first students in October 2009 (Image: What If… we could evaluate the genetic potential of lovers? What If… our emotions were read Achievement Award 2009 in the Animation We’re Moving, the opening exhibition of Painting in Battersea, featured alumni Angela de la Cruz, Contort Yourself exhibition, curated by by machines? These are just some of the questions addressed in Design Interactions’ display at and Packaging Categories Ryan Mosley, Goshka Macuga, Chantal Joffe, Varda Caivano, Katy Moran and Jamie Shovlin Inspire students) the Wellcome Trust headquarters at 215 Euston Road, London

5 Spring Summer Term Term

Apr

John Smith Solo Show: for the first time in Last Orders: new work by jewellery students the 18-year history of the RCA Curating from the Royal College of Art, London, the Contemporary Art MA programme, final-year Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich students presented a solo exhibition as (Munich Academy) and Hiko Mizuno College, Mar their graduate project Tokyo, at Gallery S O, London

DRAW: an exhibition that celebrates crossovers between design, moving image, illustration and fine art at the Royal College of Art. (Image: Angela Barrett, Snow White)

Trading Places exhibition, held at the V&A, HotelRCA: Professor Tord Boontje, Head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art, marked ten years of the DBA Inclusive presented work by 90 students and recent graduates of the MA course at this year’s Milan Design Challenge with the RCA’s Helen Impact! exhibition: a unique collaboration between science and design funded by EPSRC and exhibited at the RCA in 2010 Salone del Mobile Hamlyn Centre

6 Summer Jul Term

Jun

Convocation 2010: Honorands included Yinka Shonibare, William Kentridge and Ben Evans (Image: Ann-Marie LeQuesne with Zoe Maxwell) RIM BlackBerry: a conceptual Smart Accessories project based around PDA technologies, in partnership with RIM BlackBerry and the RCA’s Helen Innovation Night: YouTube co-founder Hamlyn Centre and CEO Chad Hurley in conversation with the Rector, Paul Thompson

Fashion Gala guests included Chanel muse Lady Amanda Harlech, Biba designer Barbara Hulanicki, fashion designers Erdem, Lucas Ossendrijver (Lanvin) and Orla Kiely (Image: David Seesing won the Conran Award for Symbiosis, the car of the future Robert Huth, MA Fashion Menswear, 2010) SHOW 2010: taking advantage of the new campus at Battersea, SHOW 2010 welcomed 40,000 visitors and provided an exclusive shuttle bus

7 Battersea Bridge Road, providing a shop Battersea window for the creative processes that 8,400sqm take place inside our building; a state- of-the art lecture theatre to accommodate RIBA Award Campus a busy teaching programme for all students, as well as hosting large keynote lectures, presentations and films; and 300 students incubator units for emerging designers. The InnovationRCA incubator units The Royal College of Art is in the middle will provide a structured environment of an exciting programme of expansion, in which newly formed design businesses creating a second campus in Battersea can develop and become self-sufficient that will have a transformative effect within a community of like-minded on the College. enterprises, each having access to Following the complete dedicated studio/workshop space and refurbishment of the existing Sculpture to a range of shared facilities within Building last year, the Sackler Building for the College. Painting opened in November 2009 with The final phase of the Battersea We’re Moving, an exhibition of work development is a building for the Applied by a selection of RCA Painting graduates, Art departments of Ceramics & Glass staff and visiting lecturers from the and Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, past ten years including Nigel Cooke, Metalwork & Jewellery. When the whole Goshka Macuga, Gillian Carnegie project is complete in 2014, more and Paul Housley. The building, designed than 300 RCA students will be based by architects Haworth Tompkins, was in Battersea. made possible with a major gift donated by The Dr Mortimer and Theresa The Sackler Building Sackler Foundation. It all began with informal visits to The Sackler Building was existing painting studios in other eminent conceived as a conversion: the old institutions, as well as the spaces at building, a single-storey factory, has the Victoria and Albert Museum, which been transformed into a series of — until 20 years ago — were the home day-lit spaces under a dramatic new of the RCA’s Painting studios. roof. This provides several large, From these informal visits, to double-height studios together with drawings on paper, to delightful a mezzanine level housing a number polystyrene models, meetings with of smaller, top-lit studios. thermal and acoustic experts, The specially profiled roof allows experiments to ensure the optimum much needed north light to be achieved quality of light, to great big dirty pile- throughout, without direct glare from drivers, an army of hard-hatted builders, the sun, providing ideal studio conditions to scaffolding and tarpaulin being for painting. taken down, interior walls being painted The flexible working space and trimmed. Then finally, a building provides studios for up to 60 students. finished and taken over by the very The organisation of the studios around best artists, tutors, writers and thinkers, a generous corridor is a traditional art creating the artworks of the future. school arrangement and provides both a social space and a temporary exhibition Professor David Rayson venue, where everyone moves through Head of Painting the work of other students. The Sackler Building has been extremely well received by students, visitors and critics, and in May 2010 it was recognised with a RIBA Award. Construction of the next phase of the RCA’s landmark development – the Dyson Building – began in January 2010 and the departments of Printmaking and Photography will relocate to Battersea when the building is complete in 2012. The Dyson Building makes up the largest part of the new campus, with a gross internal area of 4,750sqm. Alongside the printmaking and photography studios, the building will also house: a large gallery fronting Top: Site of the Dyson Building

8 Bottom: Model of the Battersea campus Our approach to education is founded Studying on three principles: 350 staff

The Individual at the RCA We believe that the responsibility for 945 students a postgraduate education is a mutual one, shared between student and Founded 1837 College. The emphasis is always on the individual. We expect every The Royal College of Art provides a student to be highly motivated, able unique educational experience in art to demonstrate independence and and design, to a community of carefully a maturity of approach that involves selected and exceptionally talented defining his or her own goals. In return, students. Our aim is to nurture their we aim to provide a challenging and creativity and their ability to innovate, supportive environment that enables to develop their practical and intellectual every student to meet his or her skills and to expand their horizons. All personal ambitions. our courses are taught by distinguished artists, designers and thinkers, and Reflective Practice students have an unrivalled opportunity We want our students to be able to to study art in a design environment, and produce innovative work that design in an art environment. demonstrates a mastery of both the The College is exclusively intellectual and technical processes postgraduate. We offer MA, MPhil and involved in its creation. We believe that it PhD degrees that not only prepare is this integration of thinking, research students for careers in the cultural and and practice that allows our students to creative industries but also equip them to find their voices. As part of this ambition, challenge and influence the development all first-year studio-based MA students of the businesses, professions and engage in a Critical & Historical Studies industries that they will join. We are programme that encourages debate also committed to a two-year Master’s on contemporary themes from historical, programme, which is unusual in UK philosophical and critical perspectives. Higher Education. We believe it takes two years of intense study and practice ‘The RCA was a hugely important to achieve ‘Mastery’. In the first year, the experience. It was there that I really primary focus of teaching is on enabling figured out who I was as a designer.’ a student to find his or her own voice; Erdem Moralioglu, Fashion the second year is about developing that Womenswear graduate, 2003 voice and discovering how best to use it. The Practitioner–Teacher ‘You’re surrounded by creativity We are committed to providing educators every day. It’s a perfect environment who practise what they teach. Our for developing your talents.’ academic staff comprises distinguished MA student, 2008 artists and designers who retain one foot in their professional worlds and Each year our students are asked what continue to excel in their fields. Many they value most about their experience departments connect directly with at the College. Every year, the number business and industry through sponsored one answer remains the same: the people, projects, where briefs are provided and the community. The College provides projects critiqued by industry partners. the opportunity to learn, explore and The College’s academic staff is experiment within a diverse, international complemented by highly experienced community of postgraduate and technicians and an impressive network of professional artists and designers. We pre-eminent visiting staff. We also offer a aim to provide an experience that makes range of centrally delivered services that the fullest use of this amazing resource. provide expert care before, during and after attendance at the College, in areas ‘The RCA is a diverse melting pot such as disability support, English of creativity… it is the most exciting language skills and professional practice. design laboratory in the world.’ David Adjaye, Architecture and ‘The tutors are totally committed Interiors graduate, 1993 to getting the absolute best from each student and are very skilful in identifying strengths and weaknesses.’ MA student, 2009 Top: Painting large-scale in the new studios at Battersea

9 Bottom: Design Products studio School of Ceramics Applied Art & Glass Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery

18 Ceramics & Glass In 2009/10 the department: Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork — encouraged staff research and knowledge & Jewellery transfer through exhibitions and lectures by The Department of Ceramics & Glass is a world — supported doctoral research into: staff and alumni: GSM&J graduate Hiroshi leader in research and practice. However we the physicality of print (Steve Brown, AHRC- GSM&J provides an environment for exploring, Suzuki, Professor of Metalwork and Jewellery do not see ceramics and glass merely as a fixed funded); the development of glass colour in practical and theoretical ways, what it at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, had set of media. We prize and celebrate diversity in a studio context (Heike Brachlow, AHRC- means to be an applied artist today. We see a retrospective show at The Goldsmiths’ and breadth. We embrace connections. funded); and the poetics of glaze (Emmanuel our role as challenging norms and questioning Company; and Professor Hans Stofer’s solo Our department is a site for discursive Boos, AHRC-funded) conventions, interrogating the role and show Walk the Line at Gallery S O, London practice, where cultural, social, personal, purpose of objects and adornment through explored the parameters of use and not-use historical and aesthetic concerns intersect. — encouraged staff research into: the the development of a personal approach and the threshold between art and design We believe that the skills of making and development of a hybrid silkscreen/digital print to researching, experimenting, designing thinking can develop in tandem, and that the process for ceramic transfers (Martin Smith and making in the context of an increasingly — continued to be active in collaborations made object is a vehicle for expression that with Steve Brown); and the contemporary complex object culture. with industry: Waddesdon Manor RCA Applied can engage with the individual and society. potential for the historic Chinese technique of The rich and extensive bodies of Art Collection (with Ceramics and Glass); Our students’ work covers a wide spectrum ‘Fencai’ (Felicity Aylieff with Red House Design knowledge associated with object-making and elective programme Designing For Industry, – from design for manufacture to the unique and Zhen Shang San Bao Factory, China) and jewellery underpin an approach that is where students have the opportunity to test art object. All the strands contribute to each outward-looking, open to the wider discourse their ideas as part of an internship, with Comme other and form a single discipline, at the core — redesigned and updated the studios to on commodity objects, connecting to des Garçons, Fred Butler, Moritz Waldemeyer, of which is material understanding. Students provide an enhanced working environment contemporary life. Lanvin Paris, Gallery S O London, Stelton learn through a mixture of workshops, lectures, for increased numbers of students The growing importance and Denmark and the Rothamsted Sample Archive tutorials and, most importantly, through their interdisciplinary character of materials culture own practice. — undertook projects with: the National gives the applied arts an added vibrancy — celebrated awards to students and staff: Trust at Waddesdon Manor, the Wilfred Owen and relevance. We believe that the physical Marta Mattsson, Victoria Delany, Rowena Poetry Society, the Siobhan Davies Studio, act of making has an essential role to play in Murray, Christopher Thompson-Royds and and the friends of the Hermitage, St Petersburg an increasingly virtual world. We also embrace Rachel Colley (Theo Fennell Award, 2010); digital technologies and the virtual, and Natalia Shugaeva (Adler Jewellery Design — arranged industrial internships at: it is the dialogue between these worlds that Award); and Christopher Thompson-Royds Wedgwood, Royal Crown Derby, Derix, Vista provides the applied arts with one of its most (Marzee Graduate Prize). Senior Tutor Michael Allegra; and undergraduate teaching internships fertile testing grounds. Rowe received an Honorary Doctorate from at Bath, Brighton, Falmouth, Plymouth, Farnham Our aim is to place critically and culturally Hasselt University, Belgium. and Central St Martins. aware individuals at the centre of the visual arts arena, creating objects and adornments — gave students the opportunity of a Professor Martin Smith that play a part in shaping our identities and teaching internship in UK undergraduate the aesthetics of today. courses at Edinburgh College of Art, Middlesex University, Central St Martins College of In 2009/10 the department: Art & Design, Hertford College of Art, Glasgow School of Art and the University of Ulster. — supported doctoral research into amateur craft practice in modernity (Stephen Knott); Professor Hans Stofer and MPhil research in the craft of digital tooling (Kathryn Hinton)

— raised its profile through working with international galleries and museums: Gallery 45 students: Marzee, The Netherlands (Overcoat exhibition and graduate-curated show Raised on London), 41 students and the ‘Three Schools’ project, a collaboration 38 MA with international art education establishments 15 nationalities (Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery, Tokyo, and 7 research the jewellery department of the Akademie der 3 international Bildenden Künste, Munich), with exhibitions at 10 nationalities the Pinakothek Munich and Gallery S O London exhibitions

20 Left: Amy Hughes, Trésor Découvert series, Porcelain and stoneware, 2010

Right: Märta Mattsson, Beetle Juice, Cicada, resin, yellow cubic zirconias, lacquer and silver, 2010

22 School of Architecture Architecture Design & Design Interactions Design Products

24 Architecture — the RCA MA in Architecture received Design Interactions — launched a new Design Interactions unconditional full RIBA accreditation in its 2009 Research website (www.di.research.rca.ac.uk) Our mission in Architecture is to take a broad validation, for the maximum period of four years The Design Interactions Department explores showcasing work from collaborations view, and make the most of the RCA’s art new roles, contexts and approaches for with external partners, including Microsoft and design context. At MA level we prepare — the fifteenth edition of the Architecture interaction design in relation to the social, Research Labs, Philips Design, EPSRC students for an effective, ideas-driven Annual, Pop-up Politics, was published by cultural and ethical impact of existing and and the Wellcome Trust approach to architecture. London is always the department emerging technologies. our testing ground. We are both inspired Projects, which are often speculative and — saw 2009 graduate Alexandra Daisy by, and apply our ideas to, the city – combining — Nigel Coates exhibited at the Salone critical, aim to inspire debate about the human Ginsberg appointed Design Fellow on experiment with plausibility. We tune in to Internazionale del Mobile, and lectured at Kent consequences of different technological ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’, a project run by the its social, economic and cultural wavelength, School of Architecture, Central Saint Martins futures — both positive and negative. Students University of Edinburgh and Stanford University prise open real lives and load our proposals and the J G Ballard conference at the Royal work closely with people outside the College, that brings together synthetic biologists, with narrative and personality. Academy of Arts; Tobias Klein received designing for the complex, troubled people we designers, artists and social scientists to We are not interested in designing spaces an honourable mention in the ‘narrating void’ are, rather than the easily satisfied consumers explore collaborations between their disciplines that simply evolve the norms of style but work Shinkenchiku competition, Japan, and exhibited and users we are supposed to be. Project in a dynamic way with what happens in them. at the 12th Architecture Biennale, Venice; outcomes are expressed through a variety — was a partner in a successful funding Our medium is not so much bricks and mortar Chris Procter led the student design workshop of media including prototypes, performance, bid to the European Union to set up StudioLab, but space itself; we consider the work of ‘Floodlines’ at the 5th Archiprix International, video and photography. which aims to create a new European platform the architect as spanning between the hard Montevideo, Uruguay; Charlotte Skene Catling Graduates go on to work for multinational for creative interactions between design, art materiality of building and the reprogramming art-directed the opera Fidelio in the Gulag, corporations, design consultancies, academic and science. Partners include: Le Laboratoire of existing space. The pursuit of these aims Perm 36, Siberia, Russia; Roberto Bottazzi’s and industrial research labs and, increasingly, (Paris), Science Gallery (Trinity College Dublin), in architecture makes particular sense in the ‘Islands: The Spatial Politics of Soccer’ paper to set up their own design studios. Ars Electronica (Linz) and MediaLab Prado College, where the proximity of sophisticated was published by Columbia University, and he (Madrid). practice across the art and design spectrum exhibited with Tobias Klein at the Future Places In 2009/10 the department: underpins a multidisciplinary view of design. festival, Porto, Portugal Professor Anthony Dunne Not only do we want our students to — exhibited projects by students, develop original design skills, but to know how — the majority of graduates found graduates and staff in four exhibitions: the to communicate them. MA students work in employment in well-known architectural Wellcome Trust windows on Euston Road our four Architectural Design Studios, each of practices including: DSDHA, Amanda Levete (throughout 2010), What If… at the Science which develops an urban theme over the course Architects, Foster & Partners, Fielden Clegg Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, EPSRC Impact! of each year; MPhil and PhD students belong Bradley, Arup Associates, Wilkinson Eyre, at the RCA and Designed Disorder, Cube to our dedicated research studio. From 2012 Alsop, John McAslan; Jordan Hodgson and Neil Gallery, Manchester the department will also be offering a one-year Gallacher founded the House of Jonn, and post-graduate MArch in design. were selected for a live residency at Selfridges. — worked with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to develop In 2009/10: Professor Nigel Coates 16 projects based on a research project or research centre supported by the EPSRC. — James Wignall was commended for the The research spanned the broad spectrum RIBA Silver Medal 2010 and awarded the of engineering and physical sciences, ranging SOM Foundation Travel Fellowship for Part II; from renewable energy devices and security Stuart Evans won the NLA prize for Architecture technologies to the emerging fields of synthetic and exhibited at the London Building Centre; biology and quantum computing. Lucy Wood won the Alsop Award for Urbanism; and Max Klaentschi won the CLAWSA Award — collaborated within first-year MA projects with T-Mobile’s Creation Centre in Berlin — the department collaborated with the on a project exploring ‘eEtiquette’ in relation 36 students Architecture Foundation to host two lecture to online and mobile technologies, and with series held at the College: ‘London_Rome’, 57 students from Imperial College London’s Centre for Synthetic 11 nationalities and ‘Poland_UK’ 20 universities Biology and Innovation 6 external — appointed the world-leading bio-artist w o r l d w i d e Oron Catts as a visiting professor collaborations

26 Design Products — staff were invited to speak at international conferences on a wide range of design-related The Design Products Department recognises subjects. Daniel Charny spoke on curating that design is an activity that fundamentally industrial design at ‘Made in Italy’, London shapes our world and influences the processes and Glasgow. Hilary French contributed of change. We aim for our students to find to conferences on housing design in Barcelona their own place, from where they can lead or and Berkeley, California; Gareth Williams contribute to these processes. spoke on museology and education at the V&A Although there is a focus on product and and museums and the market in Leeds; and furniture design, we do not see any limitations Tord Boontje contributed to the ‘Design Indaba’ to our field, understanding very well that in South Africa, ‘A World Without Oil’ in most of tomorrow’s products and services do Toronto and ‘Lace in Translation’ in Philadelphia not yet exist today. As we are living in a rapidly changing world, we want to be forward-thinking — was awarded funding for two full-time and engage with new possibilities. We aim PhD studentships by the AHRC, working to engage with design as a cultural activity in around the theme of ‘Emerging Design Practice the context of art, society, the environment, and Curating: Paradigms and parameters’, humanity, technology, and diverse forms and supervised jointly with the Contemporary Team scales of production. The department has at the Victoria and Albert Museum a strong culture of experimentation, innovation and debate. We see these as tools or systems — saw Platform tutors include leading to develop our thinking about design and, practitioners: Sebastian Noel of Troika, even more, what design can be. designers of the content for the British pavilion The nature of the course is pluralistic; we at the Shanghai World Expo; and Luke Pearson encourage diversity in thinking, opinions and of PearsonLloyd, whose DBO Commode is ideologies. There are no preferred methods shortlisted for the best product in the Building or styles. Our aim is for our students to develop Better Healthcare Awards. their own voices. Professor Tord Boontje In 2009/10 Design Products:

— exhibited the results of the Sunny Memories collaborative project, initiated 75 students by EPFL+ECAL Lab in Switzerland. The project explored the potential for Graetzel flexible 20 nationalities photovoltaic cells and was first shown as part of RCA at the LDF before travelling to New 1 Brit Insurance York, MIT and California.

— saw Platform groups exhibit or stage Designer of events in Berlin and London, at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Barbican. Students the Year and tutors from Platform 2 visited South Africa.

— exhibited HotelRCA during April 2010, the work of 57 current students and recent Left top: Zoe Papadopolou (designer), Professor Francis Livens graduates, alongside the International Furniture and Dr Neil Hyatt (researchers), Nuclear Dialogues, EPSRC Impact! Exhibition, 2010 Fair in Milan Left bottom: Lucy Wood (MA, 2010), Foyerism: Condensed Urban Playground, 4D urban topography — welcomed a new head of department, Professor Tord Boontje. His studio’s work Right: Maciek Wojcicki (MA, 2009), L.O.F.T Furniture – Workstation, Beech wood, plywood, steel, aluminium and fabric is at the forefront of contemporary practice (exhibited at HotelRCA, 2010)

28 School of Animation Communications Communication Art & Design

30 Animation — Mushroom Thief by Professor of Communication Art & Design — mounted a major retrospective exhibition Animation, Joan Ashworth premiered at the in the RCA galleries on the work of the Polish The Animation Department is a world leader Deloitte Contemporary Art Festival and The Department of Communication Art & graphic designer Roman Cieslewicz, financed in research and practice, with a commitment the Royal Opera House Design (CA&D) is highly regarded worldwide by the Polish Cultural Institute and the National to broadening the understanding and practice as a leader in the study of visual communication Museum in Poznan and jointly curated by of our discipline in all its forms. We offer — Magali Charrier’s (MA, 2010) 12 Sketches practice and research. We set out to challenge Professor David Crowley, Professor Andrzej a unique learning and teaching environment: on the Impossibility of Being Still was selected the prevailing perceptions industry has of Klimowski and Jeff Willis developing the skills required in an age of for the 54th BFI London Film Festival 2010 the emergent disciplines of graphic design, rapid technological and cultural change, illustration and new media. Ideas, visual — launched the Draw exhibition at the RCA, through rigorous, practical research and an — Wake Up, Freak Out – Then Get a Grip intelligence, thoughtfulness and playfulness curated by Anne Howeson and Catherine understanding of different contexts, traditions by Leo Murray was selected by Professor Ian remain the essential tools of our practice. Anyango, and showing the uses of drawing and histories. Students learn through a Christie of Birkbeck College in his five best Our students enjoy a supportive by designers, artists, staff and students mixture of workshops, lectures, tutorials and, films of the year inSight & Sound magazine and energetic environment, where they are from across the College most importantly, through their own practice. and has been selected for inclusion in the BFI encouraged to develop a genuinely The emphasis of the Animation Department National Archive multidisciplinary approach to their practice. — contributed to the pilot initiative is the development of auteur–artist–filmmakers Our graduates continue to be among the Department 21. Students from CA&D with a relationship to the industry. Our — Strange Lights by animation tutor Joe King best-known practitioners engaged in the art were instrumental in the management and department is very much about practising was released in January 2010 and has been and design related industries. Department organisation of the college-wide animation within a visually sophisticated, screened at film and media art festivals alumni are to be found working at senior levels interdisciplinary experiment. innovative and multidisciplinary art and in leading design consultancies or establishing design context, which includes and demands — David Prosser’s (MA, 2010) Clockwork new and diverse practices. — took part in the Bath International Music developing skills and expertise. won the Adobe Achievement Award; Kristian Festival, and performed work in The Pit Theatre Our graduates shape the progress Andrews’ (MA, 2008) Rabbit Punch won top In 2009/10 the department: as part of the Barbican’s ‘Surreal House’ of animation in- and outside the industry prize at Curtocircuito Festival, Santiago season. This experience involved CA&D as innovative designers and directors. de Compostela, Spain; Rafael Sommerhalder’s — supported PhD research including: ‘Type students working on the ‘MAP/making’ The success of our graduates in senior creative (MA, 2009) film Flowerpots won at CineFest Legibility: Towards defining familiarity’ project (MAP= Music, Art & Performance). roles indicates that the auteur–filmmaker in Miskolc, Hungary, where David López (Sofie Beier, AHRC-funded); ‘Perception and approach practised by the department Retamero (MA, 2009) won Best Animation for the Moving Image’ (Jocelyn Cammack, AHRC- — saw the retirement of Head of Department is effective as a holistic method of preparing Sam’s Hot Dogs; Rafael’s Wolves was a finalist funded); ‘Landscape and Military Surveillance’ Professor Dan Fern and the subsequent animation artists for a number of roles in the National Television Awards and was (Matthew Flintham, linked to Patrick Keiller’s appointment of Professor Neville Brody, within gallery-based and industry-based awarded first prize at Pune Film Festival, India, ‘The Future of Landscape and the Moving who formally takes up his duties as Head of animated filmmaking, and provides innovators where Sarah Wickens’ (MA, 2009) What Light Image’ research project, AHRC-funded); Department in January 2011. to the animation professions. won second prize. ‘Inclusive Typography: Scientific and design approaches to legibility’ (Karen von Ompteda, Professor Dan Fern In 2009/10: Professor Joan Ashworth Canadian Scientific Research Council-funded) and staff research project: ‘Landscape — the department celebrated the twenty-fifth and Perception’: (Jon Wozencroft, RDF-funded) anniversary of the Master’s in Animation — co-produced Control/Print, a collaborative — South African animator and artist William project with Parsons The New School for Kentridge was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Design that was exhibited in its award- and gave a fabulous presentation with eminent winning galleries on Fifth Avenue, New York, writer and Visiting Professor Marina Warner and featured in several editions of Baseline th magazine. The project was conceived — a set from Susie Templeton’s (MA, 2001) 25 anniversary of at the RCA with funding from the Science Oscar-winning film Peter and the Wolf was Research Investment Fund (SRIF). 100 students the first animation object to be accepted into Animation MA the College collection — undertook student projects with Google 23 nationalities UK, the London Olympic Authority, WPP Group, — Glass Princess by Research Fellow National television the Royal Overseas League, Oberon Books, International Deborah Levy was broadcast on Radio 3 awards finalist Transport for London, Airbus and others exhibitions

32 Left top: Adnan Lalani, The Boy, 2010

Left bottom: David Prosser, Matter Fisher, 2010

Right: Jean Jullien, Fancy Fence (detail), 2010

34 School of Innovation Design Design for Engineering Production Vehicle Design

36 Innovation Design Engineering — carried out external collaborations with Vehicle Design creating a new ‘Ultimate Urban’ integrated (MA/MSc Double Master’s joint course with Unilever, Vodafone (Futureagenda project), transport solution with Ford Motor Company Imperial College London) Airbus; iGuzzini Illuminazione SpA, Withers LLP, The Vehicle Design Department at the RCA and the Architecture Department; a study of South Square, London Development Agency, is the world’s leading centre for vehicle design generation Z’s relationship with the car for We see the Innovation Design Engineering Elmar and RIM BlackBerry (with the Helen education and research. Hyundai Motor Company; research into new Department as a cutting-edge product design, Hamlyn Centre) To ensure our graduates continue to be safety typologies for Honda Motorcycles; experimentation and enterprise discipline, the leading practitioners that they have been and designing an aerodynamic Bentley coupé within which our students work at the centre of — increased awareness and interest in for the last 40 years, we are constantly using industry-leading digital processes and complex, demanding projects with an emphasis sustainability, with regular specialised studio moving the Vehicle Design agenda forwards. aerodynamic simulation software from EXA on prototyping and proving propositions. The tutoring and support. First-year students Our current focus is on emergent areas of programme demands that a wide range of undertook four specific sustainability modules, the discipline, such as urban transportation — connected with a network of alumni design skills and thinking are utilised (industrial and a series of expert speakers inspired the systems design, sustainable vehicle design and in numerous top design positions globally, design techniques, manufacturing, mechanical students about relevant themes. designing for new digital consumer agendas. including design directors at Jaguar, Kia, engineering, design research, user-centred The Master of Arts two-year programme Transport for London, McLaren, Think, design and sustainability, among others). — focused on building a stronger remains the only established and dedicated Betterplace, Aston Martin, Ford, LG Electronics, We are externally facing and encourage all internal environment for MPhil and PhD postgraduate course in Vehicle Design Bentley and Lotus students to tackle important real-world issues candidates, and built a series of specialised in the world and has an enviable graduate involving advanced technical, design and themes and activities supported by both employment record. Our research activities at — won student internships at Toyota social parameters. We believe that design is internal and external partnerships and funding PhD level, and in collaborations with other (Japan), Finnish Government, Renault (France), a verb not a noun. opportunities, including a successful bid to industry and academic organisations, now also GM Patac (China), Jaguar (UK), Volvo Research Councils UK to run a college-wide form a significant part of department activities. (Sweden), Ford (UK), Scott Sports (Austria) In 2009/10 the department: Summer School in China on design and ageing. and Think (Norway) In 2009/10 the department: — celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with Professor Miles Pennington — won student design prizes including: an event attended by over 300 alumni and the — celebrated 40 years of Vehicle Design at Green Dot Award: Coachmakers, Pilkington, publication of IDE 20 10 30: a review of the the RCA at the annual Alumni and Friends Interior Motives, Guigiaro Award and department and student stories from every year Dinner with informal talks from Nigel Chapman, Betterplace Design Challenge. since its inception the first course director, and from Peter Stevens and Dawson Sellar, the two first graduates Professor Dale Harrow — opened the 300m2 IDEAS Lab at Imperial of the course College London in January 2010, providing a combination of model-making facilities, rapid- — supported research into the future of the prototyping, ideation and project workspace ambulance (collaboration with the Helen Hamlyn Centre, funded by the EPSRC); the — had extensive student competition impact of fashion on the automotive industry success, including: the Deutsche Bank Award; (Louise Kiesling); cycle cars (Lino Garcia- Ideal Home Inventor of the Year; two coveted Verdugo); and the aesthetic of the automobile Yellow Pencils from the D&AD (student) in the age of sustainability (Artur Mausbach) awards; Adobe Design Achievement Award; Starpack; James Dyson Fellowship; and — created a new format of ‘lecture sessions’ multiple entries in InnovationRCA’s Selected – three to four 15-minute lectures and Works and Selected Start-ups activities a short Q&A – as a delivery platform and to engage with external partners. Speakers — accompanied 34 first-year students to 70 MA/MSc included: David Nelson, Head of Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the city Fosters Associates; Julian Thompson, Head of Yangquan in Shanxi province, China, for a students of Advanced Design, Jaguar; Nick Talbot, 7 companies three-week collaboration project based on th Director, Seymour Powell; and Nicola Rawlston, the socio-economic meta-theme of ‘rural urban 30 anniversary Design Director, Nokia sponsoring projects migration’. This marks the third time since 2005 that IDE has collaborated with Tsinghua and 10 commercial — undertook sponsored projects to build 8 international has provided a fertile ground for both staff and industrial relationships and the department’s students to exchange knowledge. collaborations engagement with new processes, including internship hosts

38 Left: Alicia Tam, Hawys Tomos and Gaetano Ling, Storyware, 2010

Right top: David Seesing (MA, 2010), ‘Bentleys of the Future’ project

Right bottom: James Harness, Honda Motorcycles ‘Safety Typologies’ project, 2010

40 School of Fashion Fashion Menswear & & Textiles Womenswear Textiles

42 Fashion Remarkable achievements continue to be Menswear Womenswear made in all areas. The courses and specialisms In 2009/10: In 2009/10: The courses pursue regeneration and have advanced and developed successfully, development by constantly adapting to the enriching the whole School of Fashion & — recent graduates continued to make a — recent graduates continued to make realities and needs of the designers of Textiles and achieving professional recognition powerful impact on the regeneration of London a powerful impact on the regeneration of the future. We see this as a positive challenge for its graduates. We are assured of the Fashion Week (LFW), including: Aminaka London Fashion Week (LFW), including: Erdem and an inspiration to the work within all success of the courses through the high Wilmont, Katie Eary, James Long, Carolyn Moralioglu, Justin Smith, Holly Fulton and our courses. New ideas, materials, methods international employment profile secured Massey, Aitor Throup and Matthew Miller Heikki Salonen and design applications are continually by our graduates who, as they achieve seniority originated and progressed by our MA, MPhil in their own careers, return to the College — major sponsors renewed their commitment — Holly Fulton won the British Fashion and PhD students. to recruit young designers. Many of our former to the department, including Umbro, Brioni, Awards Swarovski Emerging Talent Award for The RCA Menswear course students also establish their own businesses Crown and IFF Accessories; Christopher Raeburn and Holly encourages a fearless approach to creative in all aspects of design. Fulton won the BFC NewGen Award at LFW; expression, fanatical technique and informed Students participate in the organisation — Hanna ter Meulen won the 2010 Conran and Erdem Moralioglu won the first BFC/Vogue professionalism and communication. The of exhibitions generated by the courses, Foundation Award for the first time for Fashion Designer Fashion Fund Award understanding of individuality within a global in particular the annual work-in-progress design context is realised through our excellent exhibition. A professional practice programme, — Menswear and Womenswear featured — major sponsors renewed their links with practising designers, established seminars and guest speakers from the exclusively in a purpose-designed exhibition for commitment to the department, including brands and a dedicated academic staff. design and related industries support the a reception for 500 key figures from the clothing Umbro, Crown and IFF The course is reputed for producing the most core curriculum. industry at Buckingham Palace exciting menswear designers to launch onto — an industry collaboration project the fashion scene in recent years. Professor Wendy Dagworthy — Sid Bryant (Sibling), Carolyn Massey, with Marks & Spencer allowed selected The primary aim of the Womenswear James Long, Matthew Miller and Katie Eary Womenswear students to create designs sold course is to unleash each student’s received continuing sponsorship for NewGen in M&S’s flagship store and online, and professional self-assurance through the at LFW Anna Smit is producing a capsule collection acquisition of a sound design methodology and rigorous research technique, firmly — Aitor Throup presented ‘Prelude’, selected — project collaborations with international underpinned by an in-depth understanding trouser archetypes in London and Paris corporations, companies and fashion houses of the student’s chosen area of technical included Marni, Swarovski, Sophie Hallette, expertise. The course is focused towards — project collaborations with international Umbro, Esprit and Bentley strengthening the students’ spirit of exploration corporations, companies and fashion houses through unique technical expertise and sound included Brioni, Umbro (exhibited in Umbro’s — Menswear and Womenswear featured industry awareness. We encourage a strong public gallery space in Manchester), Manolo exclusively in a purpose-designed exhibition work ethic across a broad variety of personally Blahnik, RIM BlackBerry, J Panther Luggage Co, for a reception for 500 key figures from driven and industry-oriented design projects. Crown and Bill Amberg the clothing industry at Buckingham Palace

— recent graduate destinations included, — recent graduate destinations included among many others: Maison Margeila, Prada, Alberta Ferretti, Burberry, Stella 72 students Givenchy, Prada, Gucci, Burberry, Adidas, Nike, McCartney, Marni, Chloe, Celine, Aquascutum, McQueen, Asprey, Versace, Aquascutum, Givenchy, COS, Nina Ricci, Louis Vuitton, 13 nationalities Topman, COS and Umbro Balenciaga, Cerrutti and McQueen International — opportunities for representation in major — opportunities for representation in exhibitions and competitions included the V&A major exhibitions and competitions included (Future Fashion Now), Design Museum the V&A (Future Fashion Now), Buckingham alumni network (Super Contemporary), Buckingham Palace, Palace, HM Treasury, International Talent HM Treasury, International Talent Support Support and Mittelmoda (fashion collection and industry- and Hyères. winners include Marielle Van de Ven and leading graduate Louise Langkilde Larsen). destinations

44 Textiles — graduating student Katie Gaudion was awarded the Helen Hamlyn Design Award for MA Textiles students at the RCA employ Creativity and will be the first Textiles graduate traditional and innovative skills while exploring to join the HHC as a research associate constantly evolving materials and technology, to create diverse solutions that span many — Textiles graduate Rene de Lange exhibited disciplines and sectors. The creative interface work at the Textile Institute Parliamentary lunch between the materials and the make demands at the House of Lords a challenging and dynamic environment, which frequently employs multidisciplinary — RCA Textiles graduates were selected to and collaborative methods to express exhibit at Texprint as part of the ‘Indigo’ show the breadth of Textiles through the contexts in Première Vision Paris, and Andrew Stevenson of ‘Body’ and ‘Space’. won the Texprint Chairman’s Prize; and work Personal research and an individual design by Knitted Textiles students was exhibited at philosophy are at the heart of the Textiles the Pitti Filatti Trade Fair, Florence, in July 2010 postgraduate programme and underpin all the MA specialisms of Print, Knit, Mixed — a group of Textiles graduates presented Media and Weave. collections at London Fashion Week’s Vauxhall The Department of Textiles has a thriving Fashion Scout in February 2010 research community with 12 research students supervised by staff who are international — Textiles research students Katie Gaudion experts in their field. The department also and Rachel Philpott, and Senior Research houses the interdisciplinary ‘Materials for Fellow Dr Raymond Oliver, attended the ‘Plastic Living’ Research Hub. Electronics’ conference in Dresden and presented posters in the strand ‘Smart Fabrics In 2009/10: & Textiles’.

— department staff developed a proposal Professor Clare Johnston for the RCA interdisciplinary ‘Materials for Living’ Research Hub and instigated a plan for an ‘International Materials’ conference 76 students — bespoke first-year projects were set, to align the contexts of ‘Body’ and ‘Space’ textiles 14 nationalities to related industries such as: LG Hausys Wallpaper; Paul Davies Luxury Interiors; DAKS Simpsons Weave and Knits; WGSN Fabric samples for Trend Directions and John Kaldor Prints for Fashion

— students were involved in the interdisciplinary projects RIM BlackBerry ‘Research in Motion’; Airbus; the Rowan pure life sustainability project; and the Rowan British Wool and Liberty project (exhibited at Liberty, autumn 2010)

— a group of nine first-year students curated and exhibited Eight Fingers No Thumbs: Experiments in Contemporary Textile Design at The Smithfield Gallery during the summer term Left: Zara Gorman, MA Womenswear (Millinery), 2010 Right: Jane Bowler, Blue Raincoat, MA Textiles, 2010

46 School of Painting Fine Art Photography Printmaking Sculpture Drawing Studio Moving Image Studio

48 Painting — Painting hosted the Red Mansion Prize Photography — current and alumni students took part in exhibition off-site at the A Foundation, featuring the following exhibitions: reGeneration, curated Paint as a fluid material and painting as a the recipient of the 2009 Red Mansion Prize, Photography plays a crucial role in by William A Ewing and Nathalie Herschdofer; responsive activity continue to enable artists alumna Sabina Donnelly contemporary art. The Photography Shadow of a Doubt at Galerie Michel to explore personally their relationship Department provides a critical and educational Journiac, Université de Paris 1– Sorbonne; to all things physical, cerebral, intellectually — Painting students travelled to Moscow, environment in which students can develop Album at Liverpool Biennial, curated by proposed and imaginatively summoned. Russia, to exhibit in a group show entitled as artists with photography at the core of Morgan Quaintance from CCA Inspire, Out there on the surface, paint has the power Z-Time as part of the Moscow Biennale for their practice. The Department of Photography and New Contemporaries 2009, which is to flow in line with our desires, and then in Young Art has a fluid approach to image making. touring nationwide an instant the propensity to turn and go off on Whether still or moving, analogue or digital, its own. The journey through a work requires — the Painting and Sculpture SHOW was the photographic image is for us a visual form — first-year student Greta Alfaro was navigating the many external and internal held in Battersea, drawing crowds to the that aims to be thoughtful as well as playful: awarded the inaugural Genesis Foundation forces, such as painting’s historical and new building. Prize-winners included: Gareth an allegorical and thoroughly visual form. Bursary; Photography alumni Jo Longhurst contemporary discourses, the status of the Cadwallader, Valerie Beston Studio Award; The department understands photography (PhD) and Indre Serpytyte were awarded image, contemporary climates, knowledge Annie Fehrenbacher, Parallel Prize; Avis as a medium with no fixed identity. This National Media Museum Photography of audience, etc., and not to underestimate Underwood, Outset Studio Award; and Kate disregard for a fixed essence is photography’s Bursary Awards those uncompromising states of self-belief, Liston, Red Mansion Prize. strength: no aesthetic purity but a multiplicity self-knowingness and self-delusion. of rhetorical forms used for the creation of fact, — the 2010 Photography yearbook featured a The Painting Department is a world leader — the Fine Art Research Show, following fiction and fantasy. An informed practice of dialogue between two influential philosophers, in research and practice, with a commitment the MA show, supported artists to engage photography acknowledges the heterogeneous Jean Luc Nancy and Alexander García to broadening the understanding and practice with the enquiries of research and influence traditions of fine art and visual culture. It Düttmann, on the effects of the photographic of our discipline in all its forms. Through the contemporary art also engages with practices of reading and image. The publication was designed many learning and teaching experiences we writing about the image. Here, theory and by CA&D students and edited and curated offer, our students and staff rigorously, critically — Professor David Rayson exhibited at practice inform each other and this dialogue by Photography tutor Rut Blees Luxemburg. and supportively engage in personal tutorials, Whitechapel Gallery, Vegas Gallery and characterises committed study at MA level. group seminars and presentations. These Schauspiel Spinnerei, Leipzig; Elizabeth Professor Olivier Richon discussions and critiques take place physically Price had a solo show at Spike Island; Milly In 2009/10: in the Painting studios, across the College, Thompson’s BANK Tabloid was included in galleries and other partner institutions and in Rude Brittania at Tate — Alexander García Düttmann, philosopher during visits to major exhibitions both in this and professor at Goldsmiths College was country and abroad. On graduation a selection — Painting alumni exhibited in museums and appointed visiting professor, to present a series of our students is awarded studio residences, galleries including solo shows for: Ansel Krut, of lectures on film, photography and philosophy which the College supports through its Neal Tait, Ryan Mosley, Katy Moran, Matthew and to contribute to the tutorial and critique mentoring scheme. Weir, Varda Caivano, Jamie Shovlin; Lucy programme of the department Moore featured in the Jerwood Painting show; In 2009/10: Ian Homerston was in New Contemporaries; — Yve Lomax, senior research tutor and and Dexter Dalwood was shortlisted for professor of art writing at Goldsmiths, — the Painting Department moved into the the Turner Prize 2010. published her third book Passionate Being: new Sackler Building in Battersea Language, Singularity and Perseverance with Professor David Rayson IB Tauris. Peter Kennard exhibited widely — the Sackler Building opened with the including Rude Britannia at Tate Britain, and We’re Moving exhibition, showcasing work from Goodbye London: Radical Art and Politics our internationally acclaimed alumni network, in the 1970s at NGBK, Berlin including: Angela de la Cruz, Ryan Mosley, Phillip Allen, Goshka Macuga, Neal Tait, — Professor Olivier Richon exhibited his Nigel Cooke, Gillian Carnegie, Ian Kiaer, Ansel 47 students recent work in Teaching Photography at the 49 students Krut, Sophie von Hellermann, Chantal Joffe, Museum Folkwang, Essen, and contributed George Shaw, Varda Caivano, Katy Moran 3 overseas shows to a conference organised to coincide with 15 nationalities and Jamie Shovlin 5 international the exhibition 4 international residencies exhibitions

50 Printmaking In 2009/10: Sculpture In 2009/10:

The Printmaking Department prides itself on the — graduate solo exhibitions included Paul The Sculpture Department enjoys a long — it was the first year in which two RCA diversity of its student intake and a commitment Hodgson at Marlborough Gallery and Haris history of involving itself in the discourse of Fine Art departments cohabited the Battersea to supporting each student in the search for Epaminonda at Tate Modern form making: it was here in the twentieth campus in SW11 a visual language appropriate to their interests century that Henry Moore first developed his and desires. The uniqueness of the RCA — a collaboration began with the Royal working confidence. As social, political and — the arrival of new Professor Richard printmaking course is that it provides inductions Shakespeare Company, which will result economic circumstances have changed, so Wentworth inaugurated 2010 in all print processes, with the support of skilled in a print portfolio and exhibition in 2011 has the ebb and flow of the debate. and specialist technicians alongside a critical To twenty-first century artists, the nine — student-led initiatives provoked spatial discourse encouraged by a diverse team of — graduate Andrea Buettner won the Max letters S C U L P T U R E – a hundred years adjustments, the invention of the Tim Pritchard practising artists as tutors. Definitions of print Mara Women’s Art Prize, exhibited at ICA, after the invention of manned flight and the space, a visit to Berlin and a vigorous approach are routinely challenged and expanded resulting London and has a forthcoming show at the birth of cinema – are a marvellous provocation. to the degree show, led by John Frankland in a particular kind of hybridity in student work. Whitechapel Gallery Students who have decided to gather in Our students excel in having transferable metropolitan London expect to further their — off-site events included a show associated skills, which give many of them a livelihood — graduate residencies and public art own debate, as much by self-motivated free- with Architecture Week at Canary Wharf, on graduation. Professional practice, external projects included Serena Korda at Camden association as by the structures the staff and an exchange with Edinburgh College of Art exhibitions and lecturing opportunities helps Arts Centre, Gemma Anderson’s Wellcome- students invent together. It may, perhaps, be and consort with the newly arrived Painting to equip our students with the intellectual funded project at Bethlem Hospital and fairer to describe the ambition of the students students, cemented by the joint interim show and professional skills to make work in a Güler Ates residency and exhibition at as one that explores spatial intelligence in range of settings. These include residencies, Leighton House workman-like laboratory conditions. — the work of Fine Art Research students collaborations and public art projects which We welcome approaches from people of was celebrated in a major July show in the new are positively encouraged on the course. — a new print edition from Chantal Joffe was diverse backgrounds and experience, since the Painting studios. The range of research activity The majority of our graduates continue to work added to our well-established publications debate will continue to embrace performance, expanded swiftly to include, in July, RCA/V&A as artists and support themselves by exhibiting, programme, which includes work from leading theatre, film and urbanism as much as any in association with RapidformRCA and the selling work, teaching, curating, graphic practitioners such as Paula Rego, Sir Peter historical fine art practices. University of Brighton. and web design, and by setting up editioning Blake, Tracey Emin, Adam Dant, Cornelia Parker workshops and print studios. Sales of and Simon Patterson — a radical new approach was taken to department publications are put into a interviewing applicants, broadening the Printmaking Appeal fund, with the sole purpose — staff, graduates and current students involvement of current students, following of giving financial support to our students. exhibited at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna, in the a bumper crop of applications from all international print show Multiple Matters over the world

— a major contemporary print survey — the appointment of Jenni Lomax, the …And Then Again… at the Museu da Cidade, inventor and director of Camden Arts Centre, Lisbon co-curated by graduate Liz Collini as External Moderator, coupled with and Portuguese artist Ana Fonseca included exploratory discussions about the Paul Neagu staff and 12 graduates legacy with Marianne Eigenheer suggest international research potential in 2011 — a teaching exchange with the Art Academy of Liepzig began an international dialogue that — Pablo Wendel’s socially imaginative work in will continue in 2011 the carefully organised squat in an abandoned fish and chip shop provoked debate that — significant contributions to the advanced simultaneously engaged the local community use of digital print-related technologies and reached into international media. Both the from graduates were made by Professor William German Embassy and Saatchi New Sensations Latham, Marilène Oliver, Faisal Abdu’Allah, have subsequently celebrated him. 2 of 12 Acme Michael Pinsky and Joy Gerrard. 49 students Professor Richard Wentworth live/work Professor Jo Stockham 11 nationalities studio awards 10 awards

52 Drawing Studio Moving Image Studio

In 2009/10 the Drawing Studio provided a wide The Moving Image Studio opened in October range of workshops and events as part of its 2009 – at a time of radical transformation remit to raise the awareness of the importance in the landscape of moving image – to provide of drawing and its relevance to art and design academic and technical support to students practice. The Drawing Studio is also involved using video, film, screen-based media and in Fine Art Research through the Drawing projected installation. Located in a converted Research Tutor, Margarita Gluzberg, who warehouse on the College’s expanding continues to supervise research projects Battersea campus, the facility is available across the College. to students across the Fine Art School, and increasingly to students from across — Course-specific and college-wide the College. workshops and classes included: Anatomy for The Moving Image Studio provides Artists; Forensic Facial Reconstruction; Natural students with bespoke technical and academic Forms; Comicology and Sequential Narrative; support, a new film and video studio, a new Drawing Lab: Experimental Approaches to series of self-contained edit suites, plus camera Drawing; Drawing the Body; sound, music and and lighting equipment for production. The performance drawing classes with Texas blues studio also runs an intensive programme musician Lightnin’ Willie; and performance of workshops, theory seminars, group critiques group FEAR, co-founded by Len Massey and and talks by visiting lecturers. first violinist with Cirque du Soleil Vuk Krakovic In 2009/10 British-based US video pioneer appeared with playwright Zoe Simon, Susan Hiller gave the studio its inaugural photographer Liam Taylor and percussionist lecture, followed by talks and workshops with Luke Notary. guest speakers as diverse as artist Melanie Manchot, dance commissioner Portland Green — Entries for the Drawing Studio and producer Graham Clayton-Chance. competitions and prizes were of a very high standard, including: the John Norris Wood Natural Forms Prize, sponsored by Josh and Cyndy Silver with an exhibition of winners and work submitted in the Hockney Gallery; the Man Group Drawing Prize, with a public exhibition in the Courtyard Galleries; the Tom Bendhem Drawing Prize; the Desmond Preston Prize for Drawing and the Daler-Rowney Prize For Drawing. Drawing Studio staff and students were involved in the Draw exhibition.

— Drawing Tutor Len Massey presented ‘Drawing the Invisible’ at Nomadic: Stories of Art and Science conference, University of Porto

— To coincide with the first dedicated Left top: Sarah Mei Herman, Julian and Jonathan Fine Art Research Show, Margarita Gluzberg (from the Julian and Jonathan series), C-type print, 2009 produced a small publication – a dialogue Left bottom: James Harrison, Even in the even even evening/there’s between Booker Prize nominee Tom McCarthy, an adequate guide/gathering/in window panes and reading books artist Shezad Dawood, RCA staff and research (detail), Works on paper, paintings, books and palette bench, 2010 students. Her lecture and seminar ‘Matter Right top: Barton Hargreaves, In Situ, from the exhibition Fictions: Diagrams, notations and other bodies’ …And Then Again… , Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, 2010 was the first in a series of dialogues on drawing Right bottom: Installation of Sculpture show at SHOW Two at Battersea: a nomadic Drawing Studio. Battersea, 2010

54 School of Critical & Humanities Historical Studies Critical Writing in Art & Design Curating Contemporary Art History of Design

56 Critical & Historical Studies Critical Writing in Art & Design Curating Contemporary Art In 2009/10 the department:

The Department of Critical & Historical Studies Launched in October 2010, the Department of The Curating Contemporary Art Department — presented a solo exhibition by London (CHS) is unique at the RCA, as it delivers a Critical Writing in Art & Design is an exciting is a leader in its field, with an explicitly artist, John Smith, as part of an ongoing college-wide programme of history and theory new development at the RCA. We offer MA and international perspective on the role of the investigation by the graduating MA students for all studio-based MA students, while having research students an opportunity to explore curator in today’s museums and galleries. into how solo exhibitions fit within the no MA students of its own. As part of the new ways of writing about contemporary Established in 1992, the MA programme is landscape of curating today ‘university experience’ of being at the College, art and design at a time when the media is the only curatorial course to work on a studio first-year MA students undertake a weekly undergoing considerable change. The model. It approaches the field critically, — undertook group research visits to programme delivered by CHS. The purpose programme has been built on the idea that theoretically and through best-practice in Barcelona and Madrid, where students met of the programme is to encourage debate, writing and criticism are creative practices commissioning, exhibition-making and a wide range of professionals and artists understanding, intellectual confidence and in their own right, with their own techniques, art writing in museums, galleries and the on an itinerary coordinated and supported self-expression in the history, philosophy ethics and technologies. Taught by leading public realm. Widely acknowledged as an by the State Society for the External Cultural and criticism of the various disciplines taught critics, editors and writers and working important marker of current developments in Action of Spain (SEACEX) at the College. It provides each student with alongside artists and designers in the studio- contemporary art, the annual CCA show an intellectual framework within which they based courses at the RCA, students in the in the RCA galleries has become known for — ran international visiting speaker can begin to establish a coherent relationship department will graduate with the skills and experimental approaches to working with programmes supported by the Goethe Institute, between theory and practice. knowledge required to pursue successful artists, and for introducing new international Polish Cultural Institute and Hungarian Its academic staff, whose expertise careers in the arts. artists to UK audiences. From 2009, with the Cultural Institute embraces the fields of Fine and Applied Art, support of Arts Council England and the Esmée Communications, Fashion and Textiles, Professor David Crowley Fairbairn Foundation, the Curating Department — launched an innovative programme of Architecture and Design, are all research has offered a second MA pathway, the Work- student-curated ‘retreats’ for artists and active, and are responsible for supervising one based (Inspire) programme. This expands curators at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge of the largest MPhil/PhD research programmes CCA’s network of connections across England supported by Arts Council East at the RCA. CHS welcomes students who through collaborations with museums and wish to pursue academic research within galleries offering educational places to MA — collaborated with significant galleries the environment of an art and design college, Curating students on this pathway. It has and arts organisations including the Serpentine and it encourages research projects that enabled CCA to evolve a new mixture of Gallery, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, the transgress disciplinary boundaries and which distance learning, intensive teaching blocks Showroom and ACME Studios on a series of explore ideas within history, theory, criticism and collaborative, supervised, work-based curatorial projects and aesthetics. experience for a new cohort of students. — celebrated its first PhD student to pass his Joe Kerr Final Examination, with research on ‘The Rise of the Contemporary Biennial 1984–2009’

— supported a current MPhil student to curate a programme of Outsider Films on India at Tate Modern and Frieze Art Fair

— collaborated with Birkbeck College, King’s College London, and the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies at London University, 39 students with a conference ‘Lusophone Visual Cultures’ held in January 2010.

17 nationalities Professor Mark Nash 22 participating national institu- tions for Inspire

58 History of Design — added a new student sponsorship and an essay prize to its range of awards, both given The History of Design Department is by generous benefactors to the department internationally recognised as the leading centre for the postgraduate study of the history of — extended its innovative range of specialist design, decorative arts and material culture. pathways in Renaissance, Asian and Modern We offer the opportunity to study design and design history and material culture, with material culture in all its aspects, from the early the first graduating year of students on the fifteenth century to the present day, across Asian specialism global geographies. Our two-year, full-time MA Programme as — developed world-class scholarship: staff well as our research programmes for MPhil and published five sole-authored or co-edited PhD students are shared by two world-class books, over 20 scholarly articles, gave centres of scholarship and creative excellence, numerous conference papers worldwide and the RCA and the Victoria and Albert Museum curated several exhibitions, including Roman (V&A). We provide a unique environment Cieslewicz (David Crowley; 2010); and for the study of the aesthetic, social, cultural, research continued on the major V&A show technological, economic and political contexts Postmodernism: Style and Subversion for design through themes such as skill and 1970–1990 (Glenn Adamson/Jane Pavitt, 2011) craftsmanship, trade and exchange, marketing and consumption, and style and identity. — offered research access to the unrivalled Our students go on to work in universities collections and expertise of the V&A: students and colleges worldwide as academic gained museum experience working on a researchers and lecturers; others work as variety of exhibitions, research projects and curators in museums, galleries and specialist in collections, contributing to Phase 2 of the collections and as writers, journalists, television new Ceramics Galleries and to the catalogue researchers, consultants and policy makers. for the exhibition Quilts 1700–2010

In 2009/10 the department: — collaborated with its international network of academic partners, including LA County — affirmed its status as a centre for Museum, Cambridge and Warwick Universities, excellence for the study of design history: and the Bard Graduate Center, New York. best postgraduate essay (Alice Dolan, Design History Society Award); PhD ‘Vienna Café’ Jane Pavitt project (Diane Silverthorne, AHRC/RCA/ Birkbeck); research network symposium ‘Surface Tensions: Surface, finish and the meaning of objects’ (Victoria Kelley/Glenn 2 world-class Adamson); preparation of the book Global Design History (Glenn Adamson/Sarah institutions Teasley); and publication of The Banham Lectures: Essays in Designing the Future 7 scholarships (Jeremy Aynsley/Harriet Atkinson)

— attracted funding for research including: and awards intoxication and drinking cultures (Angela McShane, ESRC/ESF); Japanese design and manufacture (Sarah Teasley, Association of Asian Studies (NEAC)/British Academy); and domestic culture and the prevention of disease Left: John Smith Solo Show, RCA, March–April 2010 in Renaissance Italy (Marta Ajmar, with Royal Right: Dress Sleeve, Spitalfields, England, Damask trimmed Holloway, Wellcome Trust) with silk braid, 1750s, © V&A Images

60 and collaborative research possibilities Research across the College and beyond:

— ‘Home’ supports the interdisciplinary RCA exploration of the topic of future homes. It brings together researchers and practitioners – from architecture, interior design, design history, product design, urban regeneration and the social 2009/10 was a significant and fruitful sciences – to investigate the role of year for Research RCA, which design in relation to the understanding continued to support staff and student of contemporary theories, practice research excellence. and representation of home, and Research applications – often in speculate on its future development. collaboration with other UK and overseas academic and non-academic institutions — ‘Image and Language’ studies the – were made to a range of funders, still and moving image as representation. from the Research Councils, charitable Embracing practices within photography, bodies and the European Commission film and the visual arts in general, as well to government and business. as literature, philosophy and the study A wealth of new projects were of language and signs, the hub examines funded during the year. For example, how language apprehends the visual in spring 2010 the exhibition and how visual representations challenge Impact! featured 16 EPSRC-funded articulated language. research teams from across the UK, specially partnered with designers from — ‘Materials for Living’ focuses on RCA Design Interactions to examine design-led innovation in materials, both the relationship between science and existing and emerging, with the aim society. Consolidating the College’s of redefining the relationship between research strength in design for patient products and human experience. safety and healthcare on the move, RCA Through collaboration with other design Vehicle Design and the Helen Hamlyn disciplines, scientists, manufacturers Centre received major funding from NHS and engineers, the hub seeks to London to redesign the accident and explore and integrate current and emergency ambulance. emerging technologies essential to the Further projects were supported development of innovative human- RCA Impact! by, among others, Arts Council England, centred products that employ textile Arts and Humanities Research Council components and processes. Beijing summer (AHRC), British Academy, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Over 120 research students were school European Commission, FilmLondon, registered for the higher degrees of MPhil NHS and Wellcome Trust. and PhD in 2009/10. A record 22 of those The year ended with a series of students completed during the year. lectures, workshops and discussions The College also won three research around the theme of design and ageing studentships in the AHRC 2010 Doctoral in Beijing – a joint summer school Award scheme. Additionally, two new between RCA and Tsinghua University AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award staff and research students, funded by studentships were awarded, both based Research Councils UK. in the Department of Design Interactions Several major research projects and in partnership with the Victoria and came to a successful conclusion, among Albert Museum, to examine the interface them, the AHRC-funded ‘Designing and of emerging design practice and its Making Deployable Adaptive Structures representation in the museum setting. based on the Deposition of Metals on Textiles’ (GSM&J). Robinson in Ruins, a film by Patrick Keiller (CA&D), was premièred at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. It was a major outcome of the AHRC-funded project ‘The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image’ (also supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation).

Three new research hubs were Top: End-of-project exhibition for the AHRC-funded launched to build on individual staff ‘Designing and Making Deployable Adaptive Structures based on the Deposition of Metals on Textiles’ (DAS). research strengths by developing The exhibition (2009) was curated by Dr Tine De Ruysser a framework to identify shared ideas (GSM&J) whose PhD studentship for ‘Wearable Metal Origami’ was attached to the DAS project.

32 Bottom: EPSRC Impact! exhibition, 2010 Workplace study of an ageing workforce, Helen Hamlyn and made significant progress in studies funded by the UK Research Councils on medical error on hospital wards Centre and methods to design with people. The centre also invited the leading US designer and gerontologist Patricia Moore to speak at The Methods Lab, an inclusive design workshop for 40 The Helen Hamlyn Centre is the largest RCA students, and awarded £10,000 discrete research centre in the Royal in prize money to student winners of College of Art. It focuses on design the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2010. research for our future selves, and has During the year, centre director a distinctive profile, a dedicated team Jeremy Myerson, who holds the Helen and an international reputation. Its mix of Hamlyn Chair of Design, was given a design, social activism, applied research Design Innovation Award for ‘pushing the and educational and business outreach boundaries of design’ by the University demonstrates many of the core values of Northumbria at Newcastle, and Rama by which the College stands. Gheerawo was named Deputy Director. The Helen Hamlyn Centre has three The Helen Hamlyn Centre is generously main themes: inclusive design, workplace endowed by the Helen Hamlyn Trust. design and design for patient safety. In 2009/10, its flagship project was a redesign of the interior of the emergency ambulance with RCA Vehicle Design, funded by the London NHS through the The centre’s Challenge Regional Innovation Fund. A mock-up of the interior was exhibited at the 2010 Workshop in Seoul: London Design Festival and a full-size mobile demonstrator will be ready to tour 65 designers, 10 countries hospitals in May 2011. The Helen Hamlyn Research Associates programme, which teams up new RCA design graduates with Patient safety research flagship: business, government and non-profit partners, ventured into new territory with redesigning the A&E ambulance challenging projects on design for autism, dementia and incontinence. It also hosted for London NHS its first Fulbright Scholar, Andy Chen from Princeton University, who produced a sexual health campaign for seniors. All the projects were exhibited in a show called The Lives of Others at the RCA, designed by former research associate Gero Grundmann of Studio Bec. The centre’s Challenge Workshops for young design professionals marked the tenth year of the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge in the UK, with an exhibition at the V&A Sackler Centre for Arts education called Trading Places. International challenges of shorter durations also took place in Seoul, Dublin, Jerusalem and in Oslo, where the Helen Hamlyn Centre partnered with the Norwegian Design Council on the ‘Innovation for All’ conference. Nine shoe designers, including RCA alumni, participated in a Challenge Workshop at the University of Central Lancashire on better shoe design for people with rheumatoid arthritis, commissioned by Arthritis Research UK. The centre’s research team published Top: Researchers Grace Davey and Jonathan West work on a new equipment concept as part of the DOME a book, New Demographics New (‘Designing Out Medical Error’) interdisciplinary hospital Workspace, based on the Welcoming project funded by EPSRC

Bottom: Concept model for redesign of emergency 33 ambulance by Gianpaolo Fusari and Yusuf Muhammad and praised the value of making, the ReachOutRCA importance of developing craft skills ‘Thank you and encouraging taking risks not only to the quality of the art and design for an amazing experience in school but across the whole curriculum. Other events in 2009/10 included experience. ‘Behind the Scenes at the RCA’, talks and tours as part of Creative Quarter, and It’s been the ReachOutRCA’s fifth year delivered a collaboration with the Engineering and an exciting and varied programme, Physical Sciences Research Council and highlight developing relationships with a number Design Interaction graduates alongside of collaborators to deliver workshops the Impact! exhibition, exploring the of my year!’ introducing young people to art and meeting points in science and design. design expertise from across the RCA. For the fourth year, schools visited the ReachOutRCA workshop leader In 2009/10 ReachOutRCA supported Man Group Drawing Prize exhibition and 30 RCA students and alumni to develop took part in workshops in the Drawing and deliver a programme to nearly Studio exploring what drawing might be 700 London school students. Additionally in its broadest sense. ‘Art isn’t just for 17 RCA students were mentored as Painting workshops took place in assistants to the lead artists, building our the new Sackler Building at Howie Street looking at; it’s for bank of experienced workshop leaders during the RCA SHOW in June. Local for the future. Wandsworth schools visited the graduate participating in.’ In October, ReachOutRCA’s show and worked for a day each in the Frieze Art Fair Education Programme space learning from new experiences School pupil worked with students from four schools with current Painting students, creating led by sculpture alumni Nic Deshayes their own egg tempera paint, discovering and Melissa Jordan, and sponsored the origins of pigment and working by Deutsche Bank for the second year directly from a live model. running. The weekend hosted workshops In July RCA graduates led week-long for five- to twelve-year-olds with workshops for 13- to 15-year-olds in west animators Anne Harild, Ryan Edquist London as part of Design Camp, now in and Martin Earle. This, with the 11,702 its third year, a collaboration with Latymer visitors to the ‘How Do We Get To Here’ Upper School. Education Blog and distribution of 2,500 Thank you to our funders for their copies of the Family Guide, increased continued support: Crafts Council, ReachOutRCA’s profile outside the Deutsche Bank and Man Group plc for College and introduced us to new making the year a varied and challenging potential supporters. programme. We are delighted to have In November during the Big Draw, established a new connection with students from Haverstock, Surrey Square, Trevelyan Trust, who will be funding Erith School and Park View Academy a core series of events in 2010/11 gathered research at the Natural History and Burberry Foundation who will be Museum, followed by workshops at the supporting Showzine in 2011’s RCA led by Kimiya Yoshikawa, Stephanie RCA SHOW. Quayle (both Sculpture) and Anne Harild (CA&D). Teachers, pupils, parents, collaborators, supporters, RCA staff and students celebrated the resulting work in the RCA Courtyard Galleries, along with a showcase of five years of ReachOutRCA activities. 2010 began with Revival, the applied arts collaborative project with the Crafts Council. Project lead artists Caren Hartley (GSM&J), Purnima Patel and Joanne Ayre (Ceramics & Glass), and Ella Robinson (Textiles) led a teachers’ continued professional development day at the RCA followed by weekly sessions for pupils in four schools over a month. The results were exhibited in the Hockney Gallery, exploring materials, processes and ideas surrounding contemporary craft. The project was commended by the Head of Ofsted, who visited the show Top: Big Draw workshop

34 Bottom: SHOW 2010 workshop Sustain FuelRCA

Sustain is the Royal College of Art’s FuelRCA is the central RCA professional forum for the work, issues and debates development programme, run by that relate to the ever-more-complex graduates of the College. Fuel helps arena of sustainability. It grew out of students and recent graduates progress a recognition that, year-on-year, RCA their careers through interdisciplinary students are demonstrating a greater training events, online resources and level of environmental concern, and mentoring, all designed to complement producing work and projects that address the discipline-specific help provided sustainable issues. Sustain aims to meet by each RCA department. the needs of those students by nurturing Over the year, the FuelRCA team an interdisciplinary culture of support responded to the harsher economic and information. climate for graduates by developing a At the RCA, we recognise that new programme of employability-related sustainability can fuel innovation, training events, expanding its network enhance creativity and drive business. of professional trainers and business We are constantly rethinking what we as mentors, and launching a new website. educators can do to equip designers Over 80 students attended a ‘PR to redesign the products that we buy, our 5 Sustain Awards and Marketing’ seminar at RCA Battersea, lifestyles and the systems that organise while a series of clinics on intellectual us, all with the lowest environmental First Sustain exhibition property rights, company formation impact. We also recognise the power and taxation were held with the support of the fine and applied arts to confront Sustain Talks of Stephenson Harwood, KPMG and (uncomfortable) realities with new HMRC. The Royal Designers for Industry thinking, engaging an aesthetic response (RDI) mentoring programme continued and challenging the viewer to move to help graduates reflect on their career beyond the rationale of information. paths, with the help of Malcolm Garrett, Sustain launched in summer 2009 Robin Levien, Chris Wise and other RDIs. with an online exhibition (www.rca.ac.uk/ For 20 of the most entrepreneurial sustain), which showcased college-wide RCA students, we organised an intensive environmentally aware practice relating programme of business planning and to waste, energy use, culture change presentation skills training, in preparation and sustainable design. Graduates from for their pitches to over 30 angel nine disciplines contributed projects investors at the College’s first-ever that ranged from an attempt to remake ‘Selected Start-ups’ investment evening. an electric toaster using only readily New to FuelRCA’s activities are accessible materials and production the ‘FUELing Debate’ series, which 24 talks & workshops methods to the development of a bring renowned practitioners together thermoplastic biodegradable material to discuss the philosophical side of 728 attendees at Fuel events containing plant nutrients. working life. We began with ‘Fasten In 2009/10 we introduced the Sustain Your Seatbelts’ – a thought-provoking 2,914 Fuel intranet visitors Award 2010, an annual prize that rewards debate about opportunities in the excellence in sustainable art and design, post-election landscape, with Conran and shortlisted 18 graduating students CEO Roger Mavity, designer Paul from ten disciplines during SHOW 2010. Priestman, futurologist Melanie Howard The firstSustain exhibition, at which and Sarah Weir of the Olympic the five awards were presented, took Delivery Authority. place in September during the London Another exciting development was Design Festival. FuelRCA’s rebranding by RCA alumni The Sustain Talks were developed Julia, and the launch of our first public in 2009/10 with support from the website: www.fuel.rca.ac.uk. This Learning & Teaching Project Fund, contains practical information on building aiming to inspire and challenge students a career within the creative sector, advice by providing a forum for honest from RCA alumni, and video interviews discussions about sustainable practice with high-profile professionals talking in art and design. In 2010/11 Sustain about their working lives – from fashion Talks will host a series of debates with designer Betty Jackson to the BBC’s leading thinkers and doers. Rory Cellan-Jones. Top: Noemie Goudal, Les Amants (Cascade), 2010

35 Bottom: Richard Gilbert, The Megajoule Project, 2010 Image: Poster for ‘How To Write Right’ Industry Industry Partnerships: Case Studies Marks & Spencer Ten students from the Fashion & Textiles Partnerships MA courses designed a range of women’s clothes for Marks and Spencer’s Limited Collection range in 2009/10, with the garments going on sale in September. When seeking a partner for this RCA Corporate Partners Launched exciting new initiative, the RCA was the obvious choice for M&S. And for the ten In line with our Royal Charter, the RCA students who designed garments, the engages its students in the practice of fantastic opportunity to see their clothes art and design through teaching, research available as part of the M&S/RCA and mutually beneficial collaborations Collection at the M&S flagship store at with industry and commerce. Our Marble Arch and online was unbeatable. Bestselling M&S commercial partners sit at the core Not only did they gain valuable of what we do at the RCA, and we experience working with one of the UK’s collection work hard to ensure that we meet and most respected and popular retailers exceed their expectations through but their designs are being worn by the bespoke partnerships. public before they have even graduated In February 2010 RCA Corporate from the College. Partners was launched in response to The overall winner of the Bentley concepts the ever-growing demand from industry collaborative competition saw Fashion to work with the College’s staff and Womenswear student Anna Smit selected created by 18 students. Membership of the scheme to work with M&S on creating her gives organisations the opportunity to own collection for spring/summer 2011. MA students connect with academic departments and students by working on collaborative, Bentley creative projects. These offer In what must be certainly one of the more organisations innovative design solutions eye-catching projects this year, 18 MA along with bespoke branding and students from the Vehicle Design communication opportunities. Department created a series of exciting At the heart of each and every new concepts for iconic British motor project is a collaboration that allows car manufacturer Bentley using EXA’s our students to respond creatively state-of-the-art software. to the demand for innovative ideas and In a unique partnership with the designs. In 2009/10 corporate partners famous British company, some of the who engaged in studio projects included world’s best young designers created Airbus, Bentley, Brioni, Ford Motor remarkable ‘Bentleys of the Future’. Company, Google UK, Hyundai Motor They had access to Bentley’s leading Company, Honda Motorcycles, Intel, designers, including Head of Exterior Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, RIM, Design Raul Pires, as they developed Unilever, Umbro International, Vodafone, a range of striking and futuristic along with many more organisations car designs. looking for that competitive edge. A central theme was that the Membership also includes an excellent students and Bentley staff explored new range of benefits, such as superb design processes as well as innovative networking opportunities at the RCA end results. This led to remote uploading Corporate Partners annual reception. of digital design models and the use of Design London’s 3D simulation suite. 2009/10 Projects In total 47 projects were reported, with 80 per cent of departments surveyed running five projects or more during this academic year, including: 54 per cent single department 46 per cent multi-disciplinary, involving up to four departments per project.

Projects’ output formats include: 1. Publication (80 per cent) Top: Vehicle Design students created new concepts 2. Digital output (78 per cent) for ‘Bentleys of the Future’ 3. Prototypes (75 per cent) Middle: For the ‘Future Agenda’ project, sponsored 4. Event/exhibition (28 per cent) by Vodafone, IDE students worked in teams to create design 5. Other output: blog, website, report. solutions beyond 2020 Bottom: Anna Smith and Itziar Vaquer designs for the 36 Marks & Spencer’s Limited Collection Minister Nick Clegg. YouTube co- Innovation- founder and CEO Chad Hurley gave an inspirational ‘innovation lecture’ in conversation with RCA Rector Paul RCA Thompson, and The Rumi Foundation generously agreed to sponsor Innovation Night for the next five years. At ‘Materials Information for Art & Design’, 50 top materials scientists, InnovationRCA manages and design educators and manufacturers commercialises the Royal College of debated how access to materials and Art’s portfolio of intellectual property process knowledge could be improved and leads its knowledge-transfer across the UK. The conference was programmes – from helping students organised for the Materials and Design integrate business and employability skills Exchange of the government-backed with creative practice, to inspiring and Materials KTN, and further knowledge enhancing the innovation performance exchange with the scientific community of industry and the public sector. is planned for 2010/11. Six early-stage RCA student companies InnovationRCA worked with Design took part in ‘Selected Start-ups’ – the London and Grant Thornton to provide College’s first ever business investment training in design innovation to over evening. The students pitched their 300 small businesses (SMEs) in London. business ideas to over 30 angel investors, Delivery partners included Croydon following intensive presentation and Chamber of Commerce and the London business skills training organised Business Network, and the programme by FuelRCA. The pitches ranged from was supported by the London businesses developing a novel fire- Development Agency to improve detection system to one developing the capital’s competitiveness. a sustainable leather alternative produced Finally, the Home Secretary from pineapple leaves. Two of the launched prototypes of a new generation start-ups are now in active negotiations of ‘safe pint’ beer glasses based on with investors. InnovationRCA-led research and concept World’s The RCA Selected Works’ panel generation, while ‘Beyond Workshop’ chose two new student inventions for — an ongoing collaboration with first folding patent protection and support with RCA Innovation Design Engineering — development and commercialisation; a mapped best practice in running ‘plug and play’ fire- and smoke-detection creative workshops for product or wheelchair system and a cycling helmet made service development. of sustainable materials, which delivers wheel improved resistance and offers the wearer greater protection and comfort. Two licensed products went on sale this year: ‘All in One Cutlery’ by Lakeland 30 angel and ‘Tonguesafe’ by Wallace Cameron. James Dyson Innovation Fellow, Duncan Fitzsimons, road tested the investors world’s first wheelchair with foldable wheels, and his innovative design was selected as one of Wallpaper magazine’s 10 Designs for 2010. He is now seeking investment to take the patented wheels to market. Creative directors of Virgin Atlantic, LOCOG, LG, Ford, Diageo, Herman Miller, UK Sport, Sony and other major brands participated in RCA Innovation Forum seminars, hosted by the professors of Design Products, Vehicle Design and Sculpture, where they debated innovation management, sustainability and educational priorities with their industry peers. Forum members were among the 600 senior industry, academic and government figures

attending Innovation Night 2010, Top: James Dyson Innovation Fellow Duncan including special guest Deputy Prime Fitzsimons’ ‘Folding Wheel’

Bottom: Selected Works, Anirudha Surabhi Venkata‘s 37 ‘Kranium’, a safety helmet providing strong head protection Design London’s goal is not only to Design pioneer new methods of interdisciplinary incubation but also to develop a highly skilled community of designer London entrepreneurs and business innovators of tomorrow.

Innovation Technology Centre (IvT) Since opening in July 2009, our IvT centre Design London is an international centre has undertaken work for the automotive for interdisciplinary design-led innovation, industry, architecture and healthcare, STIR based at the Royal College of Art and and students and researchers from both Imperial College London. It was created institutions exploit it as part of their in 2007 as a result of the Cox Review project activity. We aim to provide our lecture series (Creativity in Business), with the goals of students with the very best facilities stirring together the designers, business for their research, and to equip them for 2008–10: leaders and technology specialists of industry where such technologies will tomorrow and pioneering new models become increasingly commonplace. It is 4,000 for interdisciplinary innovation. London’s leading centre for 3D immersive In its fourth year, Design London technology with firms such as Bentley, attendees has delivered its courses to over Honda, EXA and others benefiting. 600 Master’s and PhD students and 700 businesses, and over 4,000 people Research have attended its public outreach The research team’s focus is on the events. Activities revolve around four design of services, solutions and 124 Design pillars: teaching, the incubation of new systems, to develop and accelerate the ventures, the Innovation Technology uptake of design methods and thinking London centre and research. in these domains. They also explore the role and influence of designers Fellows join Teaching and design businesses on private- and Design London, with Imperial College public-sector organisations and their Business School, has created a unique impact on organisational performance. Imperial’s MBA MBA, and at its heart it has a new Their work has been published in leading flagship programme – Innovation, academic and practitioner journals. programme Entrepreneurship and Design. 460 MBA students and 124 Design London Fellows, Public Outreach selected from the RCA and Imperial’s Design London’s STIR Lectures have Faculty of Engineering, have completed attracted over 4,000 people and are the five-month programme so far. It is available to view on our website. Over the first MBA in the world with design as 10,000 people have watched our videos a core subject. or downloaded the videos in the last Design London has also built up year. The STIR Lectures bring together expertise in delivering executive thought leaders from industry, academia education: 422 of London’s SMEs have and the public sector to discuss some participated in its executive programmes of the most important topics of our and 200 more have received direct day. They are a networking opportunity business support. It has also begun to for a multidisciplinary audience. deliver international programmes in Helsinki, Mexico and India. www.designlondon.net

Incubator The Design London business incubator has launched eight businesses, all of which are attracting follow-on investment, and three of these are bringing new products to market. These ventures include Made in Mind’s Folding Plug, winner of the Brit Designer of the Year; the Plumis fire suppression system, winner of the James Dyson Award; and the multi-award winning low-energy air-conditioning system, Artica, which has received awards from the Audi Foundation, Allianz, HSBC Start-Up Stars and the CNBC Entrepreneur of the Year. Top: Incubator – Plumis’ fire-suppression system

Bottom: Incubator – Made in Mind’s Folding Plug, winner 38 of the Brit Designer of the Year 2010 (Womenswear, 2003) winner of the AlumniRCA inaugural BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund award.

— Continuing on from a host of awards won in 2008, Design London incubatee company Artica Technologies won the 2009 Graduate Category of the HSBC Start-Up Stars Awards and The AlumniRCA team performs a very CNBC’s Good Entrepreneur competition, important role in building and maintaining along with the Low Carbon Innovation the relationship between the College and Competition. Artica comprises four 2008 its graduates. AlumniRCA now boasts graduates from IDE, and one Imperial a membership of almost 5,400, keeping Business School MBA graduate. graduates around the world up to date with recent developments at the College Anniversaries and providing a social and professional Innovation Design Engineering celebrated network that taps right into the heart of its thirtieth anniversary with a party during the RCA experience. the degree show – a perfect opportunity The RCA is very much about for IDE alumni to catch up, reminisce community, and this is one of the reasons and celebrate their passion for this so many of our graduates choose to unique joint course with Imperial College. 5,335 active return to the College, either as visiting Vehicle Design too celebrated tutors or as staff. This year Tord Boontje a landmark with the fortieth anniversary members (Industrial Design, 1994) and Richard of its MA course. At a dinner party Wentworth (Sculpture, 1970) joined to mark the occasion, Nigel Chapman, the academic team to head respectively the course’s first director met up with the Design Products and Sculpture Dawson Sellar and Peter Stevens, departments. the first two graduates of the course, Global network As ever, our graduates have along with senior designers and continued to make headlines in the UK design directors from Ford, Bentley, of leaders in and internationally. Here’s a brief Lotus, Jaguar, McLaren and other selection of some of those stories: leading companies. art and design

— Both David Constantine (Computer AlumniRCA Events Related Design, 1990), co-founder of The AlumniRCA Autumn Event: international disability and development ‘Embedded in Iraq’ featured Xavier organisation Motivation and Janet Stoyel Pick (Natural History Illustration, 1996) (Woven Textiles, 1994) received MBEs who spoke about his experiences in the 2010 New Year Honours List. as a war artist with the British military in Basra, Iraq. — At this year’s Council of Fashion The AlumniRCA Spring Event Designers of America awards ceremony, offered alumni an opportunity to view Christopher Bailey (Fashion, 1994) was the new Sackler Building Painting recognised with the International Award. Studios in Battersea, with a talk and Bailey, Chief Creative Officer at Burberry, tour by Head of Department, Professor was also named one of Britain’s top David Rayson (Painting, 1997). digital power-brokers by Wired magazine The AlumniRCA Summer Event for his ongoing evolution of a digital introduced a new initiative, focusing fashion brand and live-streaming runway on the SHOW 2010 and featuring shows in 3D. exclusive guided tours of the exhibition.

— Min-Kyu Choi (Design Products, 2009) won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2010 for his Folding Plug. Total Current — Kia Motors Chief Design Officer Membership 5,335 Peter Schreyer (Transportation Design, 2000s 3,248 1980) was hailed as the world’s 1990s 1,130 best automobile designer in a survey 1980s 504 published in the September issue 1970s 332 of renowned automotive enthusiast 1960s 105 publication, Car Magazine. 1950s 14 Top/Right: Professor David Rayson talks to AlumniRCA members about studio practice — The British Fashion Council (BFC) 1940s 1 announced Erdem Moralioglu 1930s 1 Left: AlumniRCA members tour the new Battersea painting studios

39 Bottom: Christopher Bailey Donors & Honours & Sponsors Appointments

Major Donors Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, At Convocation 2010, Honorary The South Square Trust, The Tom Bendhem Doctorates and Fellowships were conferred Conran Foundation Drawing Prize, The Woo Charitable as listed below. Helen Hamlyn Trust Foundation, The Worshipful Company of James Dyson Foundation Armourers & Brasiers, The Worshipful Honorary Doctors The Dr Mortimer & Theresa Company of Coachmakers & Coach Harness Rolf Fehlbaum: Chief Executive, Vitra Sackler Foundation Makers, The Worshipful Company of Drapers, William Kentridge: Animator and Fine Artist The Garfield Weston Foundation The Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, Simon Schama: Historian and Broadcaster The Rumi Foundation The Worshipful Company of Framework Yinka Shonibare: Fine Artist The Wolfson Foundation Knitters, The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, The Worshipful Company of Professor Emeritus Supporters Grocers, The Worshipful Company of Professor Dan Fern: Former Head of Haberdashers, The Worshipful Company Department, Communication Art & Design Nicholas Goodison of Painter-Stainers, The Worshipful Company Robert Lane of Weavers, Theo Fennell plc, Tim & Belinda Senior Fellows Outset Contemporary Art Fund Mara Award, Valpak Ltd, W H Smith Ken Garland: Graphic Designer Oliver Stocken Scholarship Colin McDowell: Fashion Writer Matilda McQuaid: Deputy Curatorial Director, RCA Corporate Partners Department Supporters Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Airbus UK 11 South Square, Adam Opel AG, Airbus Honorary Fellows McArthurGlen UK Ltd Operations GmbH, Angle plc, Annie Wong Peter Allen: Senior Technician, Painting Merck Serono Ltd Art Foundation, BASF SE, Brian Boylan, Janice Blackburn: Writer and Curator Unilever plc Brioni Roman Style SpA, Domenica Guzzini, of Applied Arts Vodafone Group plc Dyson Technology Ltd, Elmar SRL, Elsbeth R Okwui Enwezor: Educator, Poet, Art Critic Juda, EPSRC, Ford Motor Company Limited, Ben Evans: Director, London Design Festival In-kind Support Google UK Ltd, Honda R&D Europe (Italy), Garry Philpott: Former Director Hyundai Motor Europe, iGuzzini Illuminazione of Administration Arjowiggins Ltd SpA, John Lewis Group, Marianne Straub, Professor Dale Russell: Design Futurist Diageo SNOG Pure Frozen Yoghurt Limited, The Royal and Academic Fever Tree Mail, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Unilever R&D Antonella de Simone: Chief Executive, Brioni Homebase Ltd Port Sunlight, Vodafone Group plc, WGSN. Graça Tavares de Almeida: Former Inbev UK Ltd com, Withers LLP, Zegna Baruffa Lane Assistant Registrar John Purcell Paper Borgosesia SpA Alice Temperley: Fashion Designer Royal Crown Derby Tullis Russell Helen Hamlyn Centre Fellows Wedgwood Group Nadia Danhash: Intellectual Property Manager Age UK Group, Austrian Cultural Forum, and co-Director, InnovationRCA Prizes, Awards & Scholarships BUPA, Department for Work and Pensions, Áine Duffy: Head of Media Relations Design Council, Embassy of the Kingdom of and Marketing A W Slaughter, Alsop Architects, Andrew The Netherlands, GMW Architects, Haworth, Roger Lewis: Weave Technician, Dalton, Anthea & Thomas Gibson Scholarship, Helen Hamlyn Trust, Megaman Charity Trust Fashion and Textiles Augustus Martin Ltd, Basil H Alkazzi Fund, National Patient Safety Agency, NorDan Barry McGowan: Senior Technical Instructor, Foundation, Clawsa, Colette M Christmas, AS, Polish Cultural Institute, Research Council Communication Art & Design Condé Nast, Daler-Rowney Prize for Drawing, of Norway, RIM, Sanctuary Care Ltd, Professor Miles Pennington: Head of Desmond Preston Prize for Drawing, Eric & Technology Strategy Board, The Embassy Department, Innovation Design Engineering Jean Cass Scholarship, Gillian Naylor Essay of Denmark, The Finnish Institute in London, Fiona Raby: Senior Research Prize in Memory of Tom Naylor, House of The Kingwood Trust, The Swedish Embassy Tutor, Design Interactions Fraser, Jaguar Cars Ltd, John Dowling, John Freddie Robins: Senior Tutor, Dunsmore Scholarship, Madame Tussauds, InnovationRCA Fashion and Textiles Marks & Spencer plc, Martha Turinas-James, Matthews Wrightson Charitable Trust, New KPMG LLP, Olympic Delivery Authority, London Architecture, NEWH UK, Onno The Rumi Foundation, Stephenson Harwood, Senior Staff Appointments Boekhoudt, Osborne & Little Scholarship, WilmerHale Neil Barron: Senior Tutor, Innovation Parallel Media Group PLC, Passion Pictures, Design Engineering Pilkington plc, R J Washington Bursary, Ronald ReachOutRCA Professor Neville Brody: Head of Compton, Serenella Ciclitira Scholarship, Department, Communication Art & Design Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Award, Sue Timney Crafts Council, Deutsche Bank AG London, Professor David Crowley: Head of de Villeneuve, Technology Strategy Board, Ted Man Group plc Charitable Trust, The Julian Department, Critical Writing in Art & Design Power Scholarship, The Behrens Foundation, Trevelyan Foundation Jane Pavitt: Head of Department, The Claremont Garments Scholarship, History of Design The Clothworkers’ Foundation, The Dyers’ Company, The Genesis Foundation, The John Top: Rector Paul Thompson with Conran Foundation Norris Wood Natural Forms Prize, The Laura members (Sir Terence and Sebastian Conran) and the Ashley Foundation, The Leverhulme Trust, Conran Foundation Awards 2010 winners: Agata Madejska The Man Group plc Charitable Trust, The (Photography), Hanna ter Meulen (Fashion), Lucy May (Sculpture), David Seesing (Vehicle Design), Richard Gilbert Montjoie Fund, The Nat Cohen Scholarship, (Innovation Design Engineering) and Harry Thalen The National Magazine Company Ltd, The (Design Products)

Bottom: Honorary Doctors, 2010 (from left: William 40 Kentridge, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Simon Schama) Summary Sources of Income (%) Income (£’000) Accounts HEFCE Grants Others HEFCE Grants Fee Income

Treasurer’s Report for the Year contributions (from 25.6 per cent to 13 per Demand for places at the College is currently that no further work will be done until the 2009/10 2009/10 Ended 31 July 2010 cent) and has also resulted in the removal at record levels – in 2010 we had more than costs of its construction (estimated at £12m) of the significant managerial burden that the 3,000 applications for some 490 places. We have been raised. A fundraising auction of The RCA is an exempt charity which operates RCA scheme represented. can therefore have a degree of confidence works of art donated by various alumni and 15,431 under the terms of a Royal Charter. The current Unlike the former RCA scheme, SAUL that the higher fees that will result from the friends of the College took place at Christie’s Charter was granted in 1967, although the is a group pension scheme which cannot withdrawal of government funding will not in October 2010. The proceeds – amounting 46.5 53.5 College was originally founded in 1837 – disaggregate its assets between member threaten the College’s financial sustainability. to £225,000 – will be put towards Phase 3. at that time it was known as the Government institutions, therefore pension costs are shown 7,50 0 School of Design. The College has in the accounts on the basis of contributions Results for the Year Investments governance arrangements which are similar payable. The entries on the Balance Sheet to those of pre-1992 English universities. showing Pension Assets and Liabilities have The consolidated income and expenditure The College’s portfolio is split between It is funded by the Higher Education Funding therefore been removed this year. The effect results for the year to 31 July 2010 show Ruffer Investment Management LLP and Council for England (HEFCE), which also of this is a credit of £9,777,000 to General a historic cost surplus of just over £1m. This a portfolio of iShares, which are traded 2008/9 2008/9 acts as the College’s regulator under the Reserves, which has been shown in the figure includes £527,000 of ‘matched funding’ funds that track various stock market indices. terms of the Charities Act 2006, which came Statement of Recognised Gains and Losses due from HEFCE under a scheme whereby The Finance Committee receives reports on into effect earlier this year. The College’s (represented in the full Accounts, which it matches private donations that the College investment performance at all of its meetings. 18,145 accounts are required to follow the format laid can be obtained at www.rca.ac.uk/accounts). has received during the year in a ratio of The College proposes to set up a separate down in the Statement of Recommended 1:3. The surplus that arose on the College’s Investment Committee in 2010–11 to relieve 44.4 55.6 Practice: Accounting for Further and Higher b) Loan Finance operations was £479,000. the workload of the Finance Committee in this Education (SORP). SAUL offered to accept the £11.7m payment This is a creditable result in the area and to formulate an investment strategy 6,613 In early October 2010 the Government over a period but the rate of interest charged, circumstances. The College has achieved that will include policy objectives. published a report on ‘Securing a Sustainable 7.3 per cent, was unattractive and so significant reductions in both staff and Future for Higher Education’, prepared by the Finance Committee agreed that the full non-staff expenditure during the year and this, Conclusion a panel chaired by Lord Browne. Shortly amount should be paid immediately and along with an increase in fee income, has thereafter the Government announced details that a loan should be raised to finance it. enabled us to maintain an operational surplus The HE sector in the UK is entering a period 2007/8 2007/8 of significant reductions in public expenditure. The College therefore sought proposals from despite reductions in the level of HEFCE of unprecedented financial pressure. The These events foreshadow the most far- the five major banks. RBS offered the most grants and income from sources other than College is well placed to tackle the substantial reaching change in the funding of higher competitive arrangement, and accordingly the fees. However, viewed in the context of the reductions in government expenditure that are 16,166 education in England in living memory. College entered into an agreement to borrow forthcoming reductions in public expenditure, expected, but is under no illusions about how It is clear that the cost of teaching in HE £12m over ten years at an interest rate of an operational surplus of £479,000 represents difficult and challenging the next few years will 43.7 56.3 institutions will in future be borne primarily by 1.1 per cent over three-month LIBOR. In order less than 2 per cent of the College’s turnover be for both students and staff. students and not by the state. As the College to provide security against possible future and does not offer us much of a cushion 5,980 formulates its response to these challenges increases in interest rates the RCA has made against financial adversity. Eric Hagman we will be guided by the need to maintain an arrangement with RBS to cap the rate The College’s Balance Sheet Treasurer our unrivalled reputation for excellence and payable on its loan at 5 per cent. The loan strengthened during the year. This is due to also by the need to do everything possible to was drawn down on 15 April 2010 and it is the effect of removing the pension deficit ensure that our doors remain open to those repayable in 40 quarterly instalments, the on the former RCA pension scheme following 2006/7 2006/7 of limited financial means. However, it is first of which fell on 15 July 2010. its merger with SAUL. inevitable that fees charged to students from the UK and other EU countries, whose studies c) Reductions in Public Expenditure Battersea Project & Fundraising 14,475 are currently subsidised by HEFCE, will be During the year HEFCE announced several significantly increased. small reductions in the level of funding to the During the year the RCA completed work on 44.2 55.8 College, and following the General Election Phase 1 of the Battersea North site – the Major Developments in the Year held in May the new Government announced Sackler Building – which was occupied by 5,355 much more significant reductions in public the Painting Department in the Spring Term. a) Pensions expenditure. Coupled with the changes to HE The final cost of this project was £196,000 On 1 January 2010 the RCA Retirement funding foreshadowed in the Browne review below the agreed budget of £4,416,000. Benefits Scheme merged with the these changes will have a major impact on Work on Phase 2 of the project – the Superannuation Arrangements of the College in 2010/11 and beyond. At the time Dyson Building – has now started and is 2005/6 2005/6 the University of London (SAUL). Under the of writing the precise figures are not known scheduled for completion in late 2011. The terms of the merger agreement SAUL took but reductions in HEFCE grants of at least main contract, in the sum of £13.3m, was on all the assets and liabilities of the former £5m and perhaps much more seem very likely. awarded to Wates Construction Ltd following 13,753 RCA scheme. Benefits accrued for past These reductions will be phased in over the an OJEU tender process in February 2010. service in the RCA scheme will remain four academic years 2011–15. The College has Wates took possession of the site in March 43.9 56.1 unaltered and future benefits for College already begun work on expenditure reductions and work is scheduled to last for 94 weeks. At staff will be accrued on the basis of SAUL’s and also on an expansion in student numbers the time of writing construction is proceeding 5,277 standard arrangements, which are very to help it absorb these reductions. We are according to plan and there have been no similar to those of the former RCA scheme. committed to the preservation of the quality significant difficulties or delays. The The College made a payment of £11.7m of our student experience, and we will construction cost of the building has already to SAUL at the time of the merger to bring the concentrate expenditure reductions in support been raised – there will be some increase funding level in the former RCA scheme up areas that do not impact directly on the in these costs due to the rise in VAT to 20 per to that of SAUL. academic work of the College. It is fortunate cent in January 2011 but this can be covered Before the merger the RCA Retirement that the Dyson Building is due to open in from within the contingency already provided Benefits Scheme seemed likely to have Battersea in 2012 – this will provide much for the project. a deficit of well over £20m and a large needed extra space and enable us to Work on Phase 3 of the North Site increase in employer’s contributions was accommodate additional students without development has not proceeded this year as expected. The merger with SAUL has led making major reductions in space or funding is not yet available. This project has to a substantial drop in employer’s facilities available. reached RIBA Stage D, and it has been agreed

41 Total Net Assets (£’000) Total Salary Costs (£’000) Total Non-staff Costs (£’000) Independent Auditors’ Statement to the Royal College of Art (“The College”)

2009/10 We have examined the summarised financial statements of the College for the year ended 31 July 2010 which comprise the Summary Group Income and Expenditure Account and the Summary Group Balance Sheet, which are set out on pages 50 to 51 of the College’s Financial Report and Summary Accounts. 77,547 14,987 14,802 Statement of Historical Cost Surpluses and The summarised financial statements have 14,355 14,005 Deficits for the Year Ended 31 July 2010 2009/10 2008/9 been prepared by the Council for the purpose 13,256 13,230 12,908 £’000 £’000 of inclusion in the Financial Report and 12,167 Summary Accounts, as explained in note 1. 11,30 6 10,800 This statement is made, in accordance (Deficit)/Surplus after Depreciation with our engagement letter dated 6 June 2008, of Assets at Valuation (336) 1,689 solely to the College, in order to meet the Difference Between the Historical Cost requirements of paragraph 36 of the Statement Depreciation Charge and the Actual of Recommended Practice: Accounting for 2008/9 Depreciation Charge for the Year further and higher education (2007). Our work Calculated on the Revalued Amount 1,342 1,342 has been undertaken so that we might state to the College those matters we have agreed to Historical Cost Surplus 1,006 3,031 state to it in such a statement and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by 65,236 law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the College for our 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 work, for this statement, or for the opinions we have formed. Summary Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2010 2009 Respective responsibilities of the Council £’000 £’000 and auditors The Council has accepted responsibility for Consolidated Income and Expenditure Fixed Assets the preparation of the summarised financial 2007/8 Account for the Year Ended 31 July 2010 2009/10 2008/9 Tangible Assets 59,240 59,201 statements in accordance with paragraphs £’000 £’000 29 to 35 of the Statement of Recommended Other Fixed Asset Investments 404 332 Income Practice: Accounting for further and higher education (2007). Our responsibility is Endowment Asset Investments 12,758 11,179 to report to the College our opinion on Funding Council Grants 15,431 18,145 the consistency of the summarised financial 72,354 Tuition Fees and Education Contracts 7,50 0 6,613 statements on pages 48 to 51 within the Current Assets 21,007 20,054 Research Grants and Contracts 1,494 2,230 Financial Report and Summary Accounts with the full Financial Statements. Other Operating Income 4,041 4,090 Current Liabilities 5,037 4,053 We also read the other information Endowment and Investment Income 360 1,568 contained within the Financial Report Net Current Assets 15,970 16,001 and Summary Accounts and consider the Total Income 28,826 32,646 implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatements or Total Assets Less Current Liabilities 88,372 86,713 material inconsistencies with the summarised 2006/7 Expenditure Long-term Liabilities 10,825 0 financial statements.

Staff Costs 13,256 14,355 Basis of opinion Net Assets Excluding Pension Liability 77,547 86,713 Other Operating Expenses 14,005 14,802 We conducted our work having regard to Pension Liability 0 (21,477) Bulletin 1999/6: The auditor’s statement on the Depreciation 1,840 1,800 summary financial statement issued by the 65,860 Interest and Other Finance Costs 61 0 Net Assets Including Pension Liability 77,547 65,236 Auditing Practices Board. Our separate report on the College’s full Financial Statements Total Expenditure 29,162 30,957 for the year ended 31 July 2010 describes the Represented by: basis of our statutory audit opinion on those financial statements. (Deficit)/Surplus on Continuing Operations (336) 1,689 Deferred Capital Grants 15,324 14,316 Opinion Exceptional Items: Continuing Operations In our opinion, the summarised financial 2005/6 Endowments 12,758 11,179 Payment on Joining New Pension Scheme (11,70 0) 0 statements set out on pages 48 to 51 are consistent with the full Financial Statements Credit Arising on Removal of Pensions Liability 11,70 0 0 General Reserves for the year ended 31 July 2010. Revaluation Reserve 44,703 46,045 (Deficit)/Surplus on Continuing Operations (336) 1,689 General Reserves Excluding Pension 56,441 Neil Thomas Reserve 4,762 15,173 Senior Statutory Auditor for and on behalf Surplus Transferred to Accumulated Income in Endowment Funds 283 183 Pension Reserve 0 (21,477) of KPMG LLP, Statutory Auditor Chartered Accountants 15 Canada Square, Canary Wharf Total General Reserves 4,762 (6,304) (Deficit)/Surplus for the Year Retained London E14 5GL Within General Reserves (53) 1,872 Total 77,547 65,236 18 November 2010

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