Annual Review 2008/9 ‘The objects of the College are to advance learning, knowledge and professional competence particularly in the field of fine arts, in the principles and practice of art and design in their relation to industrial and commercial processes and social developments and other subjects relating thereto through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce.’

Charter of Incorporation of the Royal College of Art, 28 July 1967

Visitor: His Royal Highness The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh

Provost: Sir Terence Conran

Pro-Provost and Chairman of the Council: Sir Neil Cossons

Rector and Vice-Provost: Dr Paul Thompson

Editor: Octavia Reeve

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Photography: Marta Casellas, Anja Schaffner, Dominic Tschudin

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Paper: Cocoon Silk 50% recycled, FSC mixed sources

Website: www.rca.ac.uk Contents

Rector’s Review 2 Design Interactions 32 Student Statistics 4 Design Products 33 2008/9 Features 6 Innovation Design Engineering 34 SHOW 2009 8 Vehicle Design 35 Battersea Campus 10 Animation 36 The Dyson Gift 12 Communication Art & Design 37 Funded Research Case Studies: Fashion 38 EPSRC/AHRC 13 Textiles 39 Exhibitions 14 Painting 40 Annual Fundraising 16 Photography 41 The RCA Experience 18 Printmaking 42 Research 20 Sculpture 43 Helen Hamlyn Centre 22 Drawing Studio 44 InnovationRCA 24 Conservation 45 Olympic & Paralympic Games 2012 26 Critical & Historical Studies 46 Design London 27 Curating Contemporary Art 47 ReachOutRCA 28 History of Design 48 Ceramics & Glass 29 Post Experience Programmes 49 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Financial Report & Summary Accounts 50 Metalwork & Jewellery 30 College Honours & Appointments 54 Architecture 31 Donors & Sponsors 55

1 Rector’s Review

Sculpture. I am delighted to announce The three pillars of the Royal College of Art that Professors Miles Pennington, Tord are: postgraduate teaching; research; and Boontje, and Richard Wentworth join the College for the 2009/10 academic year innovation and knowledge transfer. I am delighted to lead these respective departments. Also in 2009, the RCA was honoured to to report significant success in each of these welcome John Studzinski CBE, financier principal activities. and philanthropist, as a member of Council, chaired by Sir Neil Cossons.

In order to attract the best artists and Firstly, teaching: In summer 2009, 405 tenth anniversary at the heart of the RCA designers in the world to study, research students presented their work in our with a major exhibition supported by the and teach at the Royal College, we need graduate Shows, with over 40,000 visitors European Commission. to improve and enhance our workshops, flocking to the exhibitions. These are equipment, seminar rooms and studios. attendance records that any museum or Thirdly, innovation and knowledge This academic year witnessed the opening gallery would truly be proud of, and it transfer: InnovationRCA, the College’s of the new Sculpture building in Battersea, is a real testament to the public’s sense innovation network for business, has and the continuing development of the of excitement and fascination with our continued its vital role of assisting recent new Battersea campus, with the Painting MA work that so many industry leaders, or current graduates to take ingenious Department moving into the new Sackler talent recruiters and members of the design concepts to marketplace. Similarly, Building in Autumn 2009, thanks to general public chose to visit the College Design London, our partnership with the generosity of the Dr Mortimer and that fortnight. I’d like to thank especially Imperial College, nurtured six new Theresa Sackler Foundation. Looking the Conran Foundation for its continued business ventures through incubation, ahead to the future, Phase 2 of the support of the graduate Shows. As with two projects, ‘Plumis’ and ‘Artica’, Battersea development will commence in important, when the SHOW is dismantled now poised for market commercialisation. January 2010, resulting in new incubator and life returns back to normal, we can In partnership with the best minds in units, a lecture theatre and gallery, and report that RCA graduates continue to fare business and engineering at Imperial new facilities for the Photography and well in the workplace, with approximately College London, we present a formidable Printmaking Departments. We thank 93% of our graduates gaining employment team: committed to a high-tech industrial Council member and RCA alumnus Sir at an appropriate professional level, within future and exploiting creative design James Dyson and the James Dyson a year of graduating. This is particularly capital in pursuit of job and wealth creation. Foundation for their extraordinary gift, gratifying at a time of economic recession. which has enabled us to realise this vision. The ethos of the Royal College places With this tremendous commitment, Secondly, research: The College’s a high value on people and intellectual Phase 2 advances onwards, ready for impressive results in the 2008 Research capital. 2009 marked the retirement of occupancy in 2012. Assessment Exercise, undertaken by Rector Professor Sir Christopher Frayling. the Higher Education Funding Council For thirty-five years, Christopher has Please join me in bidding farewell and of England, confirmed our world- served the College, as Head of the ‘Thank you’ to departing staff, including class pre-eminence: 40% of the RCA’s Humanities School, as Pro-Rector, and Professors Ron Arad (Head of Design research output was rated ‘5’, or ‘world since 1997, as Rector. Under his tenure, Products), Tom Barker (Head of IDE), leading’, with a further 25% scoring a the Helen Hamlyn Centre was born; it was Sandra Kemp (Director of Research), ‘4’, as ‘internationally excellent’. This his vision that shaped Design London Glynn Williams (Head of Sculpture) and is an extraordinary record and a solid and InnovationRCA; and of course the William Lindsay (Head of Conservation). endorsement of our staff’s academic Battersea campus will stand as his legacy. We also note with sadness the loss of H distinction. This year also witnessed He has driven academic excellence and T Cadbury-Brown, Robert Heritage and the creation of a new chair, the Helen brought international prominence to David Mellor. Hamlyn Professor of Design, thanks to the RCA. All of the Royal College of Art the generosity of the Helen Hamlyn Trust. join me in wishing Sir Christopher and I wish to thank all of the RCA community Jeremy Myerson has been appointed as Lady Frayling a happy retirement. One for the terrifically warm welcome you’ve the first Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design of the most stimulating tasks I was asked given me, and I look forward to working and will continue to lead a world-class to undertake before formally assuming with you over the years ahead. research and advocacy programme in the reins as Rector in September 2009, design for an ageing population, universal was to assist in the selection of three design and design in healthcare. This year new Heads of Department: Innovation saw the Helen Hamlyn Centre celebrate its Design Engineering, Design Products and

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A major survey of graduates who studied at Student Numbers 2008/9 the RCA from 2002 to 2007 revealed that Applied Art Ceramics & Glass 48 prospects for RCA graduates are exceptionally Goldsmithing Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery 40 strong. The percentages below indicate the School Total 88 proportion of graduates in directly related Architecture & Design employment/activity. Architecture 47 Design Interactions 35 Design Products 76 School of Applied Art School Total 158 Ceramics & Glass 98% Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Communications Metalwork & Jewellery 99% Animation 30 Communication Art & Design 105 School of Architecture & Design School Total 135 Architecture 95% Design Interactions 89% Design for Production Design Products 93% Innovation Design Engineering 62 Vehicle Design 40 School of Communications School Total 102 Animation 95% Communication Art & Design 90% Fashion & Textiles Fashion Menswear 26 School of Design for Production Fashion Womenswear 46 Innovation Design Engineering 95% Textiles 70 Vehicle Design 95% School Total 142

School of Fashion & Textiles 95% Fine Art Painting 41 School of Fine Art Photography 48 Painting 93% Printmaking 45 Photography 98% Sculpture 41 Printmaking 91% School Total 175 Sculpture 95% Humanities School of Humanities Conservation 12 Conservation 86% Critical & Historical Studies 6 Curating Contemporary Art 95% Curating Contemporary Art 37 History of Design 80% History of Design 46 School Total 101

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4 Applications Student Nationalities Applicants Admissions 2008/9 2008/9 Argentine 2 Australian 5 Applied Art Austrian 3 Ceramics & Glass 52 21 Belgian 4 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Brazilian 5 Metalwork & Jewellery 63 19 British 486 School Total 115 40 Bulgarian 3 Canadian 9 Architecture & Design Chilean 1 Architecture 185 21 Chinese 8 Design Interactions 65 16 Colombian 3 Design Products 155 41 Croatian 1 School Total 405 78 Cypriot 5 Czech 2 Communications Danish 22 Animation 65 16 Dutch 17 Communication Art & Design 297 47 English 1 School Total 362 63 Finnish 8 French 40 Design for Production German 42 Innovation Design Engineering 74 31 Greek 17 Vehicle Design 50 21 Hungarian 1 School Total 124 52 Indian 9 Iranian 1 Fashion & Textiles Irish 19 Fashion Menswear 37 12 Israeli 5 Fashion Womenswear 133 23 Italian 16 Textiles 95 31 Japanese 15 School Total 265 66 Lithuanian 4 Luxembourger 1 Fine Art Mexican 1 Painting 393 19 New Zealander 1 Photography 159 22 Norwegian 1 Printmaking 105 20 Polish 9 Sculpture 212 21 Portuguese 8 School Total 869 82 Romanian 2 Russian 1 Humanities Singaporean 3 Critical & Historical Studies 3 2 Slovenian 1 Curating Contemporary Art 78 15 South Korean 40 History of Design 50 21 Spanish 9 School Total 131 38 Swedish 19 Swiss 5 Grand Totals 2,271 419 Taiwanese 9 Thai 4 Turkish 2 Ukrainian 1 US American 28 Venezuelan 1 Yugoslavian 1 Total 901

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2008/9 Features

1: September 2008: Sponsored by Deutsche Bank, 4: December 2008: Fashion designer, artist, illustrator ReachOutRCA designed and delivered the and RCA Fashion tutor Julie Verhoeven designed the education programme for the Frieze Art Fair 2008, 2008 RCA Christmas card. presenting work by school students alongside high end contemporary art. 5: January 2009: The official re-opening of the Royal College of Art’s Sculpture building marked the first 2: October 2008: The National Trust Shop at step in the College’s Battersea expansion programme. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, commissioned Royal College of Art Ceramics & Glass students to 6: February 2009: The James Dyson Foundation create a range of limited-edition products. generously donated £5 million to fund a major new building in the expanding Battersea Campus. 3: November 2008: Inside Outside Inside, a solo exhibition of new works by Head of Painting Professor David Rayson opened at Marlborough Gallery, London.

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7: March 2009: Design London incubatee company 9: May 2009: A team of Research associates from the 11: July 2009: The RCA launched its first College Artica won first prize in the nationwide Carbon Helen Hamlyn Research Centre redesigned six wide online exhibition. Sustain, designed by alumni Connections Low Carbon Innovation Competition, everyday items of hospital equipment, as part of a Jannuzzi Smith, showcased environmentally aware targetting ways to save greenhouse gas emissions. national challenge set by the Design Council under practice from nine disciplines across Design, Fashion, Artica’s natural cooling, ventilation and heat recovery their ‘Design Bugs Out’ initiative. Textiles and the Applied Arts. system uses 90% less energy than conventional air conditioning systems. 10: June 2009: Outset Contemporary Art Fund made 12: August 2009: Dr Paul Thompson replaced Sir a three-year commitment to an annual purchase Christopher Frayling as Rector and Vice-Provost of 8: April 2009: ‘Smart Pods’, a joint Royal College of Art fund of £10,000 to be spent on works by graduating the Royal College of Art. and Loughborough University-led research project to students for the Royal College of Art Collection facilitate the delivery of urgent healthcare, featured in Painter Lucy Moore was awarded the first Outset Healthcare on the Move – a unique exhibition Prize, worth £3,500. focusing on mobile treatment systems.

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Show 2009

SHOW 2009 was generously supported In May 2009 Richard Cork opened his Financial by The Conran Foundation, for the Times degree show commentary, ‘Has there fourth consecutive year. The Foundation also sponsor the Conran Foundation ever been a worse time to leave art school?’ Awards – a prize fund of £12,000 shared equally between six winners – which aim The RCA graduate exhibition – SHOW 2009 to reward good design that will have – came out dressed for the recession, with a lean, a positive impact on the way people feel, think and live, as well as on the monochrome identity and a strong environmental national and international economic situation; the overall message being that message, as the College opened its doors to the commercial success and cultural impact first generation of students to walk out into the are intertwined. post-credit crunch world. RCA graduates are thoughtfully innovative – the kind of thinking that looks at a new laptop and sees the whole user picture: a super-light, elegant computer that travels with the clunky BS 1363, three-pin plug (first introduced in the UK in the 1940s). Inspired by the Mac Book Air, the world’s thinnest laptop at 10mm, Min-Kyu Choi designed a slim, foldable plug that, at the same width, eliminates the problems caused by the standard UK plug when travelling.

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A variation of that vision prompted three-dimensional model of an unborn of innovation and excellence. The jeweller and maker Jonathan Boyd to use foetus using rapid-form modelling graduate work in SHOW 2009 provides sprue structures created in CAD drawings technology. ample evidence for that claim. (structures so complex that they have never been used in jewellery) to cast The College fosters a culture of intricate conglomerations of type. professionalism: Curating Contemporary Art’s Friends of the Divided Mind attracted high- The economic and environmental impacts profile artists, including Lawrence Weiner, of the traditional toaster were laid bare to its commentary on the contemporary as Design Interactions graduate Thomas art gallery. Painting graduates organised Thwaites attempted to recreate one from two degree shows: Through the Wall at the scratch, mining iron ore by hand and Rochelle School, Shoreditch followed the smelting it in his back garden. exhibition in the College galleries.

Innovation Design Engineering’s Bibiana The atmosphere at SHOW 2009 was Nelson developed a thermoplastic buoyant. The industry-renowned Fashion degradable material containing plant Show attracted its usual luminaries, This page: nutrients. Plant roots actively destroy the printmaker Hector de Gregorio sold his 1: Thomas Thwaites, Toaster Project plastic to extract the nutrients, serving entire show to a single private collector, (Photography Nick Ballon) to help the plastic degrade more quickly, visitor numbers rose and overall sales 2: Jorge Lopes, Rapid Prototyping Model of a Foetus from Ultrasound 3D Scan while at the same time benefiting the increased significantly, with some 3: Bibiana Nelson, Plant Attacking Plastic plant, the soil and the environment. departments reporting record figures. Opposite page: 1: RCA SHOW 2009 identity And product designer Jorge Lopes saw The Royal College of Art stakes its 2: Min-Kyu Choi, Folding Plug the medical potential for producing a reputation on fostering a rare combination 3: Jonathan Boyd: Untitled 1 & 2

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Batte rsea Campus

The Sculpture Department moved to a In January 2009 the long-awaited refurbishment disused factory in Battersea in 1991 and of the Sculpture Building, designed by architects the space remains factory-like – perfect for the wide range of sculpture produced, Wright & Wright, was finished. The 2,500sqm from large-scale installed work to mixed- media installations. The building, which building on Howie Street was officially opened can now accommodate 50 students, offers by sculptor Antony Gormley in January 2009, unrivalled studio accommodation in what is arguably the best sculpture teaching at a special event involving key figures from facility in the country. the art world as well as staff and students from Across the road, work continued on the the department. new Painting Building, to transform a 1950’s warehouse into flexible studio space for up to 60 painters. This will be named the Sackler Building in recognition of a major gift from the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation.

Behind the building’s innovative design are award-winning architects Haworth

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Tompkins, who worked in close conjunction of what will become the Dyson Building with Head of Painting Professor David begins in January 2010. Rayson and his team. This collaborative approach has ensured that the building By 2012 all the Fine Art departments will will house some of the finest new artists’ be together in Battersea, located next studios available in the UK today. to each other for the first time in the College’s history. Plans for the next phase of development – a building to house the departments of Printmaking and Photography as well as In August 2008, the Department of a large Gallery, state-of-the-art Lecture Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) Theatre and incubator units for young launched a matched-funding scheme. The designers and creative start-up businesses scheme, to be implemented by HEFCE, – have also progressed over the last aims to increase voluntary giving to higher This page: twelve months. education providers. Donations received 1: Sculpture Building at night by the RCA over the past year will unlock 2: Sculpture studio 3: Steve Bishop (MA, 2008) exhibition, A donation of £5 million from the James almost £2 million of additional funding for Sculpture galleries Dyson Foundation, the largest single the College. donation the College has ever received, Opposite page: 1–5: Sackler Building, Painting Department will enable this phase of the development (Photography Philip Vile, Helene Binet and to go ahead as planned. Construction Katsuhisa Kida/Fototeca)

11 The Dyson Gift

In February 2008, the James Dyson When announcing the donation, Sir Foundation – Sir James Dyson’s James said: “It’s vital that we give young educational charity – made a donation people the confidence to be inventive of £5 million to the Royal College of and the support to take risks. It’s through Art to help fund the College’s exciting experimentation and failure that new ideas new expansion in Battersea. The gift are born. As a nation we’ve become too – its largest ever – will be used towards scared to take risks, but for me, risk and providing a lecture theatre, gallery problem-solving go hand in hand.” space, studios and 40 business incubator units. Sir James, recently tasked by the Conservative Party with examining ways in The James Dyson Foundation has which the UK can be turned into Europe’s been inspiring young people about capital for new technology, has long been design and engineering since it was a supporter of the College. This year, first set up in 2002. In addition to a his Foundation gave its fifth donation of global design award, the James Dyson £12,000 worth of bursaries to the Innovation Foundation provides students and Design Engineering Department. teachers with exciting and relevant resources, and organises interactive workshops with Dyson engineers.

Sir James Dyson and Professor Sir Christopher Frayling

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Funded Research Case Studies: EPSRC/AHRC

The Royal College of Art signalled its The ‘Welcoming Workplace’ report was propositions to take healthcare to the ambitions in the field of funded research launched in the UK at the British Library, community and reduce patient journeys with the completion of two major studies in the USA at Build Boston and in Asia at and hospital admissions. during the year. ‘Welcoming Workplace’ the Reinventing Retirement conference in was led by Helen Hamlyn Professor of Singapore. The study attracted widespread Academic partners joined from Design, Jeremy Myerson, and the ‘Smart interest. Design guidance was produced Loughborough University, the University Pods’ project was a joint initiative by for RIBA and the BCO (British Council for of Bath, the University of West of England the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre and the Offices) and evidence was submitted to and the University of Plymouth. RCA Department of Vehicle Design with other the Department of Work and Pensions. Vehicle Design students participated with academic partners in the UK. An exhibition toured the regions. A book creative concepts for future ambulances. based on the project and co-authored The ‘Smart Pods’ project completed its The ‘Welcoming Workplace’ study explored by the research team will be published in work with a publication and an exhibition the future of the office environment in a spring 2010, entitled New Demographics called Healthcare on the Move that toured knowledge economy increasingly reliant New Workplace. to several venues. The Royal College on an ageing workforce. It was jointly of Art is now taking the project into a funded by two research councils, the The ‘Smart Pods’ project, funded by the development phase to redesign the current EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences EPSRC, involved a fundamental rethink A&E ambulance. Research Council) and the AHRC (Arts of urgent and emergency healthcare. It & Humanities Research Council). The brought together research by designers, Helen Hamlyn Centre collaborated with clinicians, social scientists, ergonomists 1–2: Concepts from the ‘Welcoming Workplace’ study including the use of natural inventions to create the universities in Japan and Australia to give and operation management analysts, effect of falling rainwater. the study an international dimension. and resulted in a range of innovative 3: Concept from the ‘Smart Pods’ project.

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Exhibitions

Sunny Memories explored the potential of 2008/9 was notable for the range of UK a recently invented technology: dye solar exhibitions involving RCA staff-practitioners and cells. Inspired by photosynthesis in plants, the technology harnesses solar energy with students. Many of these are represented under flexible, coloured and even see-through surfaces. Alongside three other design individual department profiles; presented here is a schools, students from the RCA’s Design small selection that demonstrates the remarkable Products Department were asked to develop breadth of activities that staff and students from their vision of the future of solar energy. Projects considered the relationship the College community engage in, as well as the between the sun and memory, and opportunities to develop individual practice that reflected on the fact that energy is not simply necessary for our comfort: we these displays offer to developing creatives. need it to record our history, heritage and knowledge. The exhibition was shown in the ECAL + EPFL laboratories, Lausanne, at ENSCI and at the RCA for the London Design Festival.

Future Fashion Now at the Victoria and Albert Museum featured highlights from RCA Fashion MAs’ 2008 graduate collections, and marked the 60th anniversary of the inauguration of the RCA Fashion programme.

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The display featured 55 outfits as well At the heart of the exhibition were fifteen included Jurgen Bey’s Pixelated Chairs as accessories and sketchbooks from commissions from some of London’s most (modelled on an over-enlarged digital 27 young designers. Divided into four dynamic creatives, variously answering the photograph of an elegant eighteenth- sections – Concept, Form, Technique and question: ‘What is it about the capital that century chair) and Tord Boontje’s Fig Detail – each explored the design stages brings so many designers to it – and what Leaf Wardrobe (elegant, coppery doors students go through to create their final can they give back?’ enfolded around a bronze clothes rack). collection, from their inspiration to the Goldsmith alumni Kelly McCallum’s Do finished garment, and included preparatory A remarkable number of the fifteen were You Hear What I Hear – a taxidermied fox drawings, design boards and photographs. RCA staff and alumni, among them David embellished with gold-plated maggots Adjaye, Ron Arad, Nigel Coates, Paul – drew attention simultaneously to life Reflection brought together ten students Cocksedge, Thomas Heatherwick, Industrial and death. Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby from the Royal College of Art’s acclaimed Facility (Sam Hecht), El Ultimo Grito and Michael Anastassiades produced Ceramics & Glass course, and offered a (Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado). Others mushroom cloud ‘huggable cushions’, for rare opportunity to see the site-specific joined peripheral events: Wendy Dagworthy those who prefer to embrace their fears. responses of an emerging generation of mapped the 1970s fashion scene, and This page: applied artists. For the exhibitors, it was an Bronwen Marshall (MA, Fashion, 2009) 1: Super Contemporary: Nigel Coates, Battersea amazing opportunity to engage with the redesigned London’s Beefeater uniforms. Gods Home high-profile, public galleries of the Sir John The exhibition was curated by Daniel 2: Reflection: Louis Thompson (MA, 1st Year) 3: Sunny Memories: Min-Kyu Choi, Insect Killer Soane’s Museum as both subject-matter Charny. © Ambrosetti & Droz and display space. Telling Tales: Fear and Fantasy in Opposite page: Super Contemporary at the Design Contemporary Design at the Victoria and 1: Telling Tales: Installation view including Jurgen Bey, Pixelated Chairs and Julian Mayor (MA, 2000) Museum celebrated the diverse approaches Albert Museum brought a fairytale theme Clone Chair to design of London’s greatest creative to a “design art” exhibition of products © Victoria and Albert Museum minds, past and present, across the that blurred the boundaries between 2: Super Contemporary: Bronwen Marshall, London Beefeaters’ uniforms (Photography Naomi James) disciplines of architecture, industrial design, function and art. Curated by RCA Design 3: Future Fashion Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, graphics, fashion and communications Products’ Gareth Williams, the show London

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Creative Collaboration: The RCA engages its students in the practice Toyota iQ Design Challenge 2008 of art and design through mutually beneficial Launched during the London Design Festival, this college-wide competition collaborations with industry. As such, our coincided with the launch of the new iQ car in the UK. RCA students and alumni commercial partners sit at the core of the were asked to design a product that would College’s life, and we work to meet and exceed reflect the concept of ‘intelligent urban living’, using Toyota’s new premium city their expectations through creative, bespoke car as a template for excellence. partnerships. In 2008/9, the RCA continued to Twelve finalists presented their cutting-edge generate huge interest across all industry sectors, designs to a panel of judges, with three winners sharing £12,000 in prizes. Lance resulting in collaborations that allowed its students Scott, chief designer at Toyota’s ED2 base and designer of the iQ, praised the level of to respond creatively to the constant demand entries received, adding: “For me, the RCA is for innovative designs and ideas. Highlights of the place to come for cutting-edge design.” 2008/9 include: Prize-winner Dominic Hargreaves had three bicycles stolen in quick succession. His design solution to

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prevent bike theft locks bicycles out of investment in the creative future of The exhibitors received an overwhelmingly reach, eight feet above the ground. young people. This association with positive response from Bank of America a global centre of artistic excellence staff and visitors, who were given access The collaboration, ending in an exhibition at and innovation aligns with Man’s core to inspiring art on their office doorstep. the RCA, received outstanding international business values of excellence and Comments included: “I don’t get to go press and online media coverage. performance.” Lesley King-Lewis, Director to many art exhibitions so this made a of the Man Group plc Charitable Trust refreshing change from my normal lunch!”, Sustained Partnership: and “The finance environment needs the Man Group and the RCA Art in the Corporate Environment: free end enriching spirit of the artists.” 2009 marked the tenth anniversary of the Tenth RCA Students’ Exhibition at Bank Man Drawing Prize, the competition that of America’s European Headquarters brings everyone in the College together The RCA’s multidisciplinary collaboration once a year to showcase their drawing with Bank of America sets a model skills. Since the first Man Group Scholarship for long-term, reciprocally beneficial was introduced to the College in 1996, the partnerships. This longstanding This page: partnership has grown to include the Man relationship culminated in an exhibition 1: RCA Sculpture exhibition in the atrium at Bank of Drawing Prize, the Man Photography Prize of works from Sculpture students at the America’s European Headquarters. (Photography Lucy May) and Man’s sponsorship of ReachOutRCA, bank’s European Headquarters in Canary 2: Man Drawing Prize exhibition: ReachOutRCA the College’s schools outreach programme. Wharf, London in 2009. In a five-year workshop collaboration, between 2004 and 2009, Opposite page: “As a longstanding supporter of the the bank hosted two exhibitions of RCA Dominic Hargreaves, Out of Reach, Out of Harm, RCA, we are delighted to continue our students’ works each year, ten in total. winner IQ Design Challenge

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The Rca Experience

This commitment is encapsulated in the The reputation of the RCA is, rightly, based on the simple expression ‘1 + 2 + 3 +…’. The quality of the focused, specialised postgraduate College is here to help: in the year before students arrive; in the two years they are learning and teaching that happens in every here to study for their MAs (as most of our students do); in the three years after academic discipline and department of the graduation (when many alumni are finding College, but this is not the whole story. Our their professional feet); and for as long thereafter as they wish to stay involved. responsibility does not start on enrolment day, any The realisation of this undertaking has more than it finishes as a student crosses the stage come in a variety of forms. of the Albert Hall at Convocation. We support and New students join the online RCA community months before they physically arrive at the encourage our students from the day they make College, through networked pre-student services that give them access to a wide their first enquiry, to the day they feel comfortably range of learning resources, relocation independent in their lives beyond the RCA. support and social-networking opportunities. Providing a high-quality educational experience means offering effective

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support to everyone, regardless of their students and recent graduates to access chosen discipline. It also means attending seminars, lectures, discussions, events, to aspects of that experience that affect online resources and face-to-face advice; one student, or a particular group of covering everything from the ‘soft’ end of students. Some 25–30% of RCA students the spectrum (how to develop confidence) are dyslexic or dyspraxic. For a similar to the traditionally ‘hard’ end (accounts, proportion of our students, English is not VAT and intellectual property). their first language. Providing effective support is arguably as important as ReachOutRCA, our high-flying educational providing an effective discipline-specific outreach programme, gives students and curriculum: we offer dedicated staff, alumni the opportunity to extend their screening procedures, clear language practice through hands-on participation. And requirements, pre-sessional courses, through AlumniRCA – with its 5,000 graduate orientation days and specialist support. members, and counting – alumni are offered a range of benefits and ways of engaging FuelRCA helps students navigate the with the College and each other. But the This page: 1: AlumniRCA poster sometimes difficult transition from real point is that the College is enriching 2: Student support studying to professional life. Managed by and enhancing life outside – as well as inside 3: Alumni event InnovationRCA, the College’s innovation – our academic departments, sustaining Opposite page: network for business, this very successful connections with graduates and creating 1: DiverseRCA, Diversity Week, opening address initiative provides opportunities for all an ever-expanding extended family. 2–3: AlumniRCA summer drawing classes

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Research

Stuart Croft (School of Fine Art) was During 2008/9, the Research Office continued to awarded a grant from the AHRC Research support staff and student applications to a range Grant (Practice-led and Applied) scheme for ‘The Stag without a Heart’ and Jo- of external funding bodies, including the Arts Anne Bichard (Helen Hamlyn Centre) was co-investigator for a successful bid with and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the partners at Brunel University to the ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), New Dynamics of Ageing programme. the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research The College was also awarded four research studentships in the AHRC Council (EPSRC), the Medical Research Council Doctoral Award scheme in 2009. The (MRC) and the Leverhulme Trust. graduation rate of our research students remains strong, with over one tenth of those registered receiving degrees at Convocation in July 2009.

Two important AHRC-funded research initiatives came to successful completion at the end of the year:

The Centre for Jewellery Research, led by Professor David Watkins, investigated the

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behaviour of materials and technologies a café run by the renowned Viennese in the production of artefacts. The Centre patisserie Demel. has been the largest focal point in the UK for research into how digital technologies Another significant research project now are having an impact on jewellery’s existing moves into its final year. ‘The Future contexts and forms. A five-strong team of of Landscape and the Moving Image’ researchers explored metal-enhanced textile sets out to address the production of structures, drawing on the methodologies landscape and images of landscape in of mathematical folding patterns, computer terms of mobility, belonging/displacement This page: 1: Dominic Sedgwick, Square Plateau Pattern simulation and animation, biomimetics and and current and anticipated future 2–4: Stuart Croft, The Stag without a Heart (2009), batch production. economic change. It is a collaboration Production still from a film in 35mm (Stills between Patrick Keiller, filmmaker and photographer William Martin; Courtesy the artist © 2009) ‘The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle research fellow at the Royal College of Culture’, a project led by Professor Jeremy Art, Professor Doreen Massey of the Open Opposite page: Aynsley and run jointly by the History of University and Professor Patrick Wright 1: Site of meteorite fall at Wold Newton, North Yorkshire: Patrick Keiller’s research addresses the Design Department (RCA) and the School of Nottingham Trent University, and is production of landscape and images in terms of of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, supported by a grant from the Landscape mobility, belonging/displacement and current and Birkbeck College University of London, and Environment programme of the UK’s anticipated future economic change. 2: ‘The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture’ project investigated the continuing legacy of Arts and Humanities Research Council. led by Professor Jeremy Aynsley investigated the city’s coffee culture in Europe and the continuing legacy of the city’s coffee culture in beyond. In October 2008, an international Europe and beyond. In October 2008, an international conference was held to coincide with conference was held to coincide with the the exhibition Vienna Café 1900 and a café run by exhibition Vienna Café 1900, including the renowned Viennese patisserie Demel.

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The centre organised and hosted the This was a special year for the Helen Hamlyn fifth international Include conference Centre, which reached a ten-year milestone at on inclusive design, welcoming more than 150 participants from 29 different the Royal College of Art in its mission to design countries to the RCA for three days of workshops, talks, papers and networking. for social change and inclusion through practical It also played a leading role in ‘Design research and projects with industry (1999–2009). Bugs Out’, a Government initiative to make Britain’s hospitals safer and cleaner, redesigning six vital pieces of everyday equipment for doctors and nurses.

The centre’s Challenge Workshops for young design professionals extended from the flagship DBA Inclusive Design Challenge in the UK, which this year focused on design to combat sedentary living, to run landmark events in Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Sarajevo and Tokyo.

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The Helen Hamlyn Research Associates Centre director Jeremy Myerson completed programme, which links new RCA design a busy first year as the Helen Hamlyn graduates with business, reached its own Professor of Design – this is the first milestone – chalking up 100 collaborative endowed academic Chair in the entire projects. This year’s crop of ten industry history of the RCA. The Helen Hamlyn This page: projects was presented as part of the Centre is generously endowed by the 1–2: Two of the six items of hospital equipment that pose a hygiene risk redesigned by the Helen Hamlyn CLOSEUP exhibition, sponsored by the Helen Hamlyn Trust. Centre: the Blood Pressure Cuff and Wipe Dispenser, European Commission, during the London part of the ‘Design Bugs Out’ government initiative. Design Festival. 3: ‘mo, a lightweight, portable seat, designed by Matter was the winning project in the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2009. The centre revamped its College student 4: The CLOSEUP exhibition, featuring ten years of the engagement programme with a popular Helen Hamlyn Research Associates programme, was new workshop initiative called The held at the RCA in September. (Photography Matthew Harrison) Methods Lab and a new-look award 5: The 48-Hour Inclusive Design Hong Kong Challenge, scheme. And its research team presented 2008 the results of ‘Welcoming Workplace’ Opposite page: – a global study of an ageing workforce, 1: The cover of the design guidance report that was established a Forum on the Future of based on the ‘Welcoming Workplace’ research. Surgery and began a major investigation 2: A design workshop held during the Include 2009 conference on inclusive design in April. into medical error on hospital wards in 3: Arthur Schmitt; Hook-Light concept, Helen Hamlyn partnership with Imperial College London. Research Associate 2009

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The flagship project in innovation practice InnovationRCA is the Royal College of Art’s for 2008/9 was an interdisciplinary innovation network for business: it acts as a workshop for the Home Office to address the problem of ‘glassing’ in British pubs, portal for external organisations to work with bars and clubs. The project, ‘SWIG’ (Safe Ways in Glass), devised ways to make the creative community of the College; it drinking vessels safer. manages and develops the RCA’s portfolio of In the area of intellectual property, the RCA’s intellectual property; it provides professional Selected Works panel reviewed more than 40 students innovations, choosing its first support for students, graduates and alumni; ever fashion innovation, fold flat millinery, and it leads on strategic College projects related and a modular light bulb for commercial development. Two licenses were sold on the to innovation and entrepreneurship. IP portfolio – a first aid device called Tongue Sucker to Wallace Cameron and the B3 Cutlery range to Lakeland Plastics.

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in hospitals. Other InnovationRCA spinout MADE initiative and leading the Project ventures made progress, including Future Executive for Design London to piloting Acoustic, which launched its first products an RCA Innovation Forum for brand on the Apple i-Tunes platform. leaders in the London area. FuelRCA continued to offer a College-wide James Dyson Innovation Fellow Rombout professional practice service and opened Frieling attracted interest from European a permanent collection of business and manufacturers for his Flupper innovation, careers reference books in the Library. which rethinks human-powered vertical The innovation year ended on a high note movement in buildings. Textiles graduate with Innovation Night 2009, featuring an Yemi Awosile became the first Innovation evening with Jonathan Ive of Apple. This page: Fellow in Materials, funded by London 1: Yemi Awosile, Cork Textiles, Innovation Fellow in Materials Design Festival. 2: Sir Christopher Frayling in conversation with Jonathan Ive Two keyhole surgery devices were developed 3: Emil Rosen, Modular Light Bulb by RCA graduate Lisa Stroux, working with 4: Graeme Davis, Phillip Greer, Christopher Huntley and Lisa Stroux, Tongue Sucker surgeon Justin Cobb as part of the Triangle Projects with Imperial Innovations. Opposite page: 1: Michael Korn, StickSafe 2: Zara Gorman, Flat-pack Hats Strategic projects this year ranged from 3: Rombout Frieling, Flupper working with materials scientists on the 4: ‘SWIG’ (Safe Ways in Glass) workshop

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InnovationRCA’s John Bound continued lessons from the 1951 Festival of Britain Discussions are underway to create to build the College’s relationship with and the Millennium Dome. further opportunities for RCA students, the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic staff and alumni to play their part in the Games, through a Hackney Wick More recently, Sebastian Coe launched run up to 2012. community workshop that generated part of the Cultural Olympiad from the ideas for the Olympic Park. The event Senior Common Room, while students was facilitated by Steve Bunn (Sculpture), of Communication, Art & Design (CA&D) Savina Torisi (Innovation Design were challenged by the ODA to create Engineering) and Onkar Kular (Design images for a 100-metre structure in Interactions), who worked with teams Stratford, East London, with the winning of local people to create sculptures, design going into production. installations and wayfinding systems, which Olympic Delivery Authority Alongside such College-wide projects, (ODA) Head of Arts & Culture Sarah RCA students made their own Weir described as, “bringing the contributions to the Olympics, including: Olympics alive”. William Shannon (Design Products), who recycled some of the Stratford Later in the year, Sir Christopher Frayling site’s 15,000 blue plywood hoardings met senior members of the LOCOG for a boat-building workshop with local Olympics design team to discuss the residents; and Robin Howie (CA&D), importance of a strong narrative for the who developed a visual identity for the 1: Hackney Wick community workshop, working group 2: Hackney Wick community workshop, sign-posting Games and their legacy, drawing on latest Olympic bobsleigh with UK Sport. 3: William Shannon, ‘Blue Fence’ project

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Design London is the new international in service design and design that can simulate and model everything centre for interdisciplinary design-led management, as well as special courses from products, interiors, and service innovation, based at the Royal College of on entrepreneurship for fashion and experiences to business processes. The Art and Imperial College London. It was textile students centre is open for business too, as it created as a result of the Cox Review • launched six award-winning, new supports not only our teachers and (Creativity in Business), with the goal of business ventures, all based on creative researchers but also industry projects. stirring together the designers, business concepts from the RCA leaders and technology specialists of • delivered executive education to 145 tomorrow to pioneer new models for small and medium enterprise (SME) interdisciplinary innovation. Formed at companies in London the end of 2007, Design London has put • published research on service design, design at the heart of Imperial’s MBA, smart cities and the management of the world’s first business Master’s degree interdisciplinary design teams in leading www.designlondon.net to feature design as a core subject. More academic journals than 250 Imperial College London MBA • attracted an audience of over 3,000 students and 88 students from the RCA people to date to its public outreach and Imperial’s Faculty of Engineering programme – the STIR lecture series. have completed Design London’s six- 1: Artica: award-winning air conditioning system that month programme to date. In July 2009 Design London opened uses 10% of energy used by conventional systems. London’s leading centre for innovation 2: Imperial Engineering students’ design exercise 3: STIR, Dick Powell talk during the London Design Design London has already: technology at the RCA with an £850,000 Festival 2008 • launched new postgraduate courses 3D, immersive-visualisation environment 4: Innovation Technology Centre

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2008/9 was a significant and exciting boroughs. Workshops took place in Following on from the award-winning year for ReachOutRCA. Our programme schools, at SW7 museums, at Frieze Art Fair Frieze Art Fair Education Programme in of workshops and projects brought and alongside the SHOW 2009 at the RCA. 2008, Deutsche Bank invited and accepted together young people, teachers, RCA a programme proposal for 2009. students and alumni for inspirational We continued to develop our exchanges. Our work was recognised relationships with schools and key The successful Crafts Council relationship with the prestigious Lloyd’s Arts & collaborating partners, including: will move forward as they have committed to Business Award for our collaboration with Crafts Council, Exhibition Road Cultural fund the ‘Revival’ applied arts project in 2010. Deutsche Bank at Frieze Art Fair. Our Big Group, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Draw project ‘The Animatics’ was named Latymer Upper School and the Royal overall prize-winner in the Campaign for College of Music. Drawing’s Drawing Inspiration Awards. ReachOutRCA also piloted our first Over the year ReachOutRCA provided residency with St Marylebone School 1: Cumberland School students explore RCA SHOW opportunities for 47 RCA students and Chemistry Department. Textiles Alumni Part One 2009 with RCA Printmaking alumnus alumni from across the College’s fine Mandeep Marjara worked with pupils Bronwen Sleigh. and applied art and design departments, over five weeks to create an extraordinary 2: Ernest Bevin College students and their teacher explore Sculpture SHOW 2009 during a workshop to deliver creative and challenging installation based on the star systems. with RCA Sculpture alumnus Philippa Hadley Choy. workshops based on their practice. 3: Haverstock School students and RCA alumnus Lucy We also created new links with Pawlak at Frieze Art Fair 2008. 4: Alperton School students worked with RCA Product We worked with young people and the Boroughs of Wandsworth and Design alumnus Gregor Timlin during RCA SHOW teachers from 27 schools in 14 London Westminster and the Design Council. Part Two 2009.

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Ceramics and glass are ubiquitous. They Alison Britton: Curator, Three by One, Crafts Jack Tan (MA, 2009): Elected president of are among mankind’s oldest synthesised Council & Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. RCA Students’ Union. materials and are present in almost all aspects of our daily lives from tableware Emmanuel Cooper: Contemporary Students’ contributions to teaching to sanitation, art and decoration to Ceramics (pub. Thames & Hudson). programmes: University for the Creative Arts, hip replacements, bricks to windows, Buckinghamshire New University, University etc. Ceramics & Glass at the RCA is Emmanuel Boos: AHRC Doctoral Award. of the Arts London, Bath Spa, Brighton, not simply a fixed set of media, but Falmouth and Plymouth Universities. also a site for discursive practice, where Lisa Stockham & Ben Ben Li (MA, 2009): cultural, social, personal, historical Research residencies at Bath Spa SHOW 2009 sales: £39,341 – the highest and aesthetic concerns intersect. University’s Corsham Court. on record, and three times that of 2008. Underpinning this is the belief that our activity is rooted in its being an Applied Penny Batley (MA, 2009): Exhibitor, Industry collaborations: Site-specific Art. It is this ‘application’ of process, Design-Nation at 100% Design. project collaborations with Sir John skills, material understanding and the Soane’s Museum and Freud Museum, development of ideas through making Katharine Morling (MA, 2009): Major private London; internships at Wedgwood, that defines our approach. commission for ceramic interior, Glasgow. Denby, Royal Crown Derby, Studio Levien and Queensberry Hunt; and product Professor Martin Smith: Surface and Richard Price (MA, 2009): Head of developments for National Trust Shop Depth, Galerie de Witte Voet, Amsterdam. Glass Department, Buckinghamshire at Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury. Exhibitor, Korean Ceramics Biennale. New University.

Felicity Aylieff: Out of China, Monumental Kerry Jameson (MA, 2009): Exhibitor, Young 1: Steve Royston Brown, Arlecchino the Brave (detail) Porcelain, Lightbox Gallery, Woking; Masters, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London. 2: Louis Thompson, Sigmund Freud’s Dream Catching Working to Scale, Contemporary Applied Apparatus 1910 (reproduction, for Freud Museum) Arts, London. External examiner, University Penny Batley, Marie Hermann, Shan Valla, 3: Katherine Morling, Poffa Stool 4: Felicity Aylieff, Transport in China of Work of Ulster. Tutor, Glas & Keramikskolen, Hélène Uffren & Lisa Stockham (MA, 2009): for Working to Scale Bornholm, Denmark. Exhibitors, Mint interior design, London. 5: Willem van Landeghem, Bone China Bowl

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The Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Michael Rowe: Exhibitor, MUDAC, interactive and educational project, Friday Metalwork & Jewellery course at the Lausanne; Raising the Bar, Dovecot Late at the V&A; Be Bold, interactive event, RCA provides an environment to study Studios, Edinburgh; Age of Experience, London Design Festival, V&A. and explore, in practical and theoretical Ruthin Gallery, Wales; Talking Hands, terms, what it means to be an applied National University Gallery, Seoul. Academic collaborations: ‘Three School artist today. We challenge norms, question Project’: Hiko Mizuno College, Tokyo; conventions and interrogate the role and Laura Potter: Exhibitor, Nowhere/Now/ Academy of Fine Art, Munich; and GSM&J, purpose of the crafts-based artefact and Here, LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon; Twelve RCA, London. of adornment – through conventional and Glass Cabinets, Bank St Arts, Sheffield. smart materials as well as through digital and analogue technologies. Whether using Rebecca de Quin: Side x Side, Edge to high technologies or traditional methods, Edge, Häme Castle, Finland. we believe in the physical act of making, because it keeps us in touch with what Amanda Mansell: Adorn: New Jewellery is real and because it offers students (pub. Laurence King; book launch CAA). personal opportunities for invention and innovation. Momoko Kumai (MA, 2007): Awarded Makower Silver Commission for the V&A. Professor Hans Stofer: Off My Trolley, Galerie S O, Solothurn. Exhibitor, Collect Ali Forbes (MA, 2009): Winner, Swarovski 2009, Saatchi Gallery, London; The Crystal Award and subsequently employed Revivalists, Contemporary Applied Arts, as a designer. London; Our Objects, Mackintosh Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art. Industry collaborations: ‘Add Value’, 1: Rebecca de Quin, Side x Side, Edge To Edge student design project, Royal Mint; product 2: ‘Add Value’ project with the Royal Mint 3: Metalrocks, Friday Late at the V&A Otto Künzli: Fukidashi, Galerie developments for National Trust Shop at 4: Momoko Kumai, Makower Silver Commission for Wittenbrink, Munich. Waddesdon Manor; Metalrocks, public, the V&A

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Whether for reasons of size or our unique Tobias Klein: Exhibitor, ‘Contoured Jordan Hodgson (MA, 2009): Shortlisted, art and design surroundings, the RCA is Embodiment and Resonating bodies in RIBA President’s Medals student awards. a very special place to study architecture. Viscous Space’, Royal Academy Summer We celebrate architecture as a distinct Show, London. Contributor, Digital Ian Douglas-Jones (MA, 2009): Winner, discipline. We also invite influence from Architecture Now (pub. Thames & Hudson). Conran Award. product design, graphics and fashion, among others. Looking at the city from Clive Sall: Architect, Design Council Siobhan Kelly (MA, 2009): Winner, different perspectives, four Architectural refurbishment; Walkers HQ, Grand Cayman. Network of Executive Women in Design Studios (ADSs) pursue urban Hospitality scholarship. Nominee, themes with a cultural edge. All of them are Tom Teatum (with Popular): ‘Between Helen Hamlyn Award for Innovation. based in London, and reflect the life that House’, prefabricated concrete façade Londoners lead or might want to lead. in partnership with Quattro Concrete; Tom Greenall (MA, 2009): Selected, We believe in the link between the present ‘Shepherds Bush Masterplan’, for the Building Design ‘Class of 2009’. and the future, and the role architecture Green and surrounding areas. should play in bridging between them. Fergus Feilden and Ian Douglas Jones Gerrard O’Carroll: Designer, SHOW 2009, (MA, 2009): Exhibitors, London Yields: Professor Nigel Coates: Hypnerotosphere, Royal College of Art. Collaboration (with Urban Agriculture, The Building Centre, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Nick Knight, SHOWstudio, Somerset London; also featured in Building Design. Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice Biennale; House, London. Battersea Gods Home, Super Contemporary, ADS3: Exhibitors, We Can Understand Design Museum, London. Glyndebourne Charlotte Skene Catling: Architect, Eco the Meaning Better Without, Euston restaurant redesign, Lewes, UK. House Boat, Regent’s Canal, London; Crypt, London; Small Show Huge Talent, North Mymms Estate Yard, North Mymms. Sotheby’s, London. Roberto Bottazzi (with Chora): Exhibitor, ‘The Landing’, Royal Academy Summer Fergus Feilden, John Edwards and Ian 1: Fergus Feilden, Agridemics 2: Jordan Hodgson, Chandelier Show, London. Shortlisted, ‘Poplar Douglas-Jones (MA, 2009): Blueprint 3: ADS3, Faerie Camp Destiny Shower, Vermont Masterplan’, London. 4: Nigel Coates, Hypnerotosphere

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Design Interactions at the RCA has a Exhibitor: Crossing Over, Royal Institution, Revital Cohen (MA, 2008) and Gunnar broader technological focus that goes London; Kinetica Art Fair, London. Green (MA, 1st year). beyond digital technologies to include areas such as biotechnology, neuroscience Noam Toran: Exhibitor, 4th International Revital Cohen (MA, 2008): Received and nanotechnology. We explore not only Video Art Biennale, Centre for Wellcome Trust Grant. applications for existing technologies but Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. also possible social, cultural, political and Kjen Wilkens (MA, 1st year): Awarded ethical implications for future technologies. Nina Pope: Collaboration, Newham Design London Fellowship. Council, ‘What Will Our Harvest Be?’ Professor Anthony Dunne: Received 2009 Funded through London Development Microsoft Research, Cambridge: Funders, Sir Mischa Black Award for Innovation in Agency and Arts Council. full-time Research Fellow (extended for Design Education. Commissioned by EPSRC another six months) and MPhil/PhD for (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Cesar Harada (MA, 2009): Winner, 2009 three years. Council) to link 16 Design Interactions staff, Ars Electronica Next Idea Award/Grant for students and alumni to 16 UK research graduate MA project, ‘Open_Sailing’. Vodafone: Funder, four-week, first-year MA projects. Invited by The Wellcome Trust to project with Global User Experience team. showcase the work of the department in their Will Carey (MA, 2009): Winner, Blueprint HQ windows, London, throughout 2010. Best Show design at 100% Design, MA Bio Project: Worked with research Disruptive Thinking, featuring selected DI groups at ten UK universities to link teams Professor Anthony Dunne and Fiona graduating projects. of first-year DI students with researchers, Raby: Finalists, Design Management including: Centre for Biomedical Institute’s Muriel Cooper Prize (USA). Daisy Ginsberg (MA, 2009): Awarded Engineering, University College London; Exhibitors: Telling Tales, Victoria and residency at the bioart lab Symbiotica, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Albert Museum, London; Notorious, Australia, to develop graduate synthetic Unit, University of Sussex; Institute of FRAC, Ile-de-France and Le Plateau, Paris; biology MA project. Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College Supertoys, Arnolfini, Bristol. London; School of Biomedical and Dot Samsen, Thomas Thwaites and Cesar Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex. Professor Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby, Harada (MA, 2009): Exhibitors, Test Lab: Noam Toran and James Auger: Exhibitors, What Crisis?, V2: Institute for Unstable Nowhere/Now/Here, Laboral AICC, Spain. Media, The Netherlands. 1: Hayeon Yoo, Compass Phone 2: Nelly Ben Hayoun, Soyuz Chair 3: Noam Toran (with Onkar Kular), The MacGuffin Library James Auger: ‘Carnivorous Robots’ project Design of the Year Prize: Design Museum, 4: Will Carey, Disruptive Thinking nominated for Transmediale 2010 Award. nominees included Noam Toran (tutor), 5: Zoe Papadopoulou and Cat Kramer, The Cloud Project

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Design Products, which incorporates Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Academic collaborations: EPFL + ECAL furniture and industrial design, takes a Contemporary Design, Victoria and Lab, Switzerland, offered flexible photo pluralistic approach to the teaching of Albert Museum, London. Curator, Gareth voltaic cells to create ‘Sunny Memories’. a very broad subject area. A series of Williams; exhibitors including Jurgen (The Greatzel cells they used were separate ‘Platforms’, each with their Bey and Tord Boontje; 165,000 visitors. shortlisted for the Nobel Prize.); the own tutors, invite students to share The exhibition showcased the work of French government’s ceramic factory their own approach to, and definitions contemporary designers who explore the Manufacture Nationale de Sevres invited of, design. narrative potential of objects. proposals for their future.

Royal Designers for Industry: Awarded Jorge Santos (PhD, 2009): Completed Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2009: to tutors Sam Hecht and Luke Pearson. study on application of new designers Shortlisted, Sebastian Noel and Troika, Highest accolade for designers in the UK: tools – scanning and digital manufacturing All the Time in the World and Cloud; limited to 200, the award is conferred for equipment – in foetal medicine, working Durrell Bishop (Lucky Bite), Dinner Table ‘sustained excellence in aesthetic and with physicians, ultrasound specialists and Game; Jurgen Bey, Witness; El Ultimo efficient design for industry’. software developers to construct real-size, Grito, Composite bench system; Jorre Van physical models of the unborn. Aste, Jar Tops; Joe Wentworth (MA, 2007), Professor Ron Arad: No Discipline, a Ippogeo edited by Artemide; Noam Toran major retrospective, Pompidou Centre, Sato Hisao (MA, 2005): Toys developed and Onkar Kular, MacGuffin Library. Paris; MoMA, New York. in 2006 went into production with a British manufacturing company and are now on Super Contemporary: Exhibition to, Hilary French: Key Urban Housing of the sale in Muji. ‘celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit Twentieth Century (pub. Laurence King). of London’s greatest creative minds’. Toyota IQ Design Challenge Award: Curator, Daniel Charny. Exhibitors, Ron Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Winner, Dominic Hargreaves (MA, 2009), Arad, El Ultimo Grito with Urban Salon, Sebastien Noel: MA, 2003): Digital by ‘garage’ category; shortlisted, Romain Industrial Facility and Thomas Heatherwick, Design: Crafting Technology for Products Jeantet and Jonas Trampedach (MA, Design Museum, London. and Environments (pub. Thames & Hudson) 2009), ‘bedroom’ category.

Gareth Williams: Telling Tales – Fantasy Industry collaborations: BASF SE offered and Fear in Contemporary Design students the opportunity to explore (pub. Victoria and Albert Museum), to applications for a new kind of plastic 1: Ron Arad, No Discipline (installation view) 2: Jonas Trampedach, Folding Chair accompany exhibition. Ultradur (B4300 M12); Yamaha Corporation 3: Manufacture Nationale de Sevres project asked for new ways to ‘play’ music. 4: Min-Kyu Choi, Sundew Flower Fly Trap

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In IDE we are looking for a new type Blue Peter, BBC TV: Selection of ‘makes’ Synaesthesia Design Lab: Experimental of designer; one who can innovate for famous children’s programme: Pip Design Master class run by Malte masterfully in areas across the broad Mothersill; Sarat Babu, Hermann Trebsche; Wagenfeld, Royal Melbourne Institute spectrum of industrial design. Our remit is Nick Reddall; Ross Atkin; David Graham of Technology (RMIT). to fully exploit creativity, to deliver social and Chris Holden (MA/MSc, 2009). benefits through design and to achieve Industry collaborations: Ford Motor Co., commercial success through innovation. Sustain: Exhibitors, online sustainability ‘Smart Thinking’, collaborative project exhibition, RCA: Gianpaolo Fusari; Daniel Vehicle Design, Textiles and IDE; Unilever, Professor Miles Pennington: Exhibitor, Mason; Nick Redall; Pip Mothersill; David ‘Laundry Minimisation’, recent IDE My Ecopets, TIA Toy Fair, New York and Graham; Dae Kyung Ahn; Ross Atkin; Hersh graduates; Lakeland Plastics, ‘I’ll Take Fall Toy Preview, Dallas, licensed deal Haladker; Bibi Nelson (MA/MSc, 2009). Nine’, IDE1 project to develop innovative with major global children’s brand owner; house wares; Unilever, ‘Cues for Success’, Cybercino, Sic International Coffee Bare Conductive project: Collaboration developing countries packaging project; Exhibition, Fiera Milano, fully automated with Calvin Harris and Sony Music UK to London Development Agency, ‘Raw commercial coffee machine, design and make the ‘Humanthesizer’: Bibiana Nelson, Fairies’, innovative packaging; Nekuda engineering for England’s only espresso Matt Johnson, Isabel Lizardi, Becky Pilditch Design, ‘I am a brand, workshop with machine makers, Fracino, Birmingham. (MA/MSc, 2009). Avner Sadot, Nekuda Design, Israel; iSpace, Thales Alenia Space, Philips and Ashley Hall: Presented papers at Toyota IQ Design Challenge Award: the European Space Agency (ESA), ‘Space ‘Creating a Better World’, E&PDE 09, 11th Shortlisted, Gianpaolo Fusari MA/MSc, Hotel’, module with space architect Daniel International Conference on Engineering 2009), Dae Kyung Ahn (MA/MSc, 2009) Bedini; Design London, SEED (Social and Product Design Education; IASDR and Present Skins. Environmental Enterprise + Design), 2009 Conference, Seoul. including Clare Brass, Jonathon Porritt James Dyson Award: Winners, Paul – Forum For the Future, Chair Sustainable Ranulph Glanville: Elected President of the Thomas (MA/MSc, 2008), Yusuf Development Commission. American Society for Cybernetics, 2009. Muhammad (MA/MSc, 2008) for life- saving invention ‘Automist’. Neil Barron: Winner, Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s, ‘London on Tap’ Go Global: ‘e.Artisans’ project, 1: Sarat Babu, Micro Kinetics 2: David Graham, Move-it Competition for carafe design. contemporary design for the global 3: Dae Kyung Ahn, Micro Factory market, Kumasi University, Ghana. 4: Sheraz Arif, Living Paint

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Vehicle design has moved beyond David Woodhouse (MA, 1990): Director, Student exhibitions: Japan Car: Designs for engineering and consumerism, and new Ford Ingeni design studio, to the Crowded Globe (Kei-Car project), Science increasingly must respond to individual develop Ford’s global design strategy Museum, London; Fast Forward 40 Yrs, demand, cultural, social and demographic based in London. London Transport Museum; ‘Interior Motives’ change and, of course, environmental entrants displayed at Frankfurt Motor Show; issues. The main focus of the Vehicle Design Reginald Hingston (MA, 2008): Design Future Cities Mobility, London Transport Department is to improve the design and for boat to improve economic health of Museum; Selected graduate works, Futures experience of journeys, particularly of community of Lamrana, West Africa, went Gallery, London Transport Museum. urban and inter-urban mobility. The goal into production using local craftsmen, is to promote and encourage sustainable materials and skills. (Winner, Deutsche Industry collaborations: Internships at transport futures through the development Bank award 2008.) Hyundai, Japan; Ford and Seymourpowell, and teaching of new design methodologies UK; Pininfarina, Italy; BMW, Audi and for socially responsible mobility. Luke Harmer (PhD, 2009): Exhibitor, UITP Opel, Germany. Paris Design Day (2008) and Eurobus 2008. Professor Dale Harrow: Principal Partner projects: Autocare, ‘Smart investigator, EPSRC-funded research Lino Vital García-Verdugo (MPhil student): Pods’; Daihatsu/Suzuki, Kei Car; Ford, project ‘Smart Pods’. Speaker, Design Awarded Design London Fellowship. afFORDable; Opel, Fast Forward 40 Yrs; Council Korean Tour; Cheltenham Science Presentation, Jaguar Land Rover (Coventry). HAVAS Media, Future Cities Mobility. Festival; International Transport Design Summit, Barcelona. Artur Grisanti Mausbach (PhD student): Academic collaborations: ‘Smart Pods’, with Presented ‘Paradigm Shift: Entering a New Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Universities Marek Reichman (MA, 1990 and Visiting Age of Automobile Aesthetics’, Fourth of Loughborough, Bath, West of England Lecturer): Exhibitor, Aston Martin Lagonda International Conference on Ecological and Plymouth. Umbro project with Fashion Concept SUV and One-77, Geneva Motor Vehicle and Renewable Energies (EVER and Textiles Departments. ‘Sunny Delight’ Show. Leader, winning Aston Martin/Foster 2009), Monaco. project with Ford/Innovation Design + Partners multi-disciplinary team to design Engineering Department. new Routemaster bus, Transport for London. Sheila Clark (PhD student): Exhibitor, car seats and accessories, Industrial Fabrics 1: Dalibor Pantucek (MA, 1st Year), Cocoon 2: Rui Guo (MA, 1st Year), Caring Engineering Peter Stevens: Judge, Interior Motives Association International (IFAI), Charlotte, 3: David Seesing (MA, 1st Year), Nomad Awards. ‘Solar Tractor’ project; ‘Windcar’ North Carolina. Invited by Marie O’Mahony. 4: Gabriel Tam (MA, 1st Year), Astrocar project. Lecture tour, China.

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The Animation Department has Joe King: Sea Change, selected for Film Funding Day: Cross-college event developed a vibrant, creative environment screening by Andrew Kotting, Coastal (organiser, Joe King); overview of film in which to observe, study, think, produce, Currents Arts Festival, Hastings. Arts funding opportunities in the UK. Attended exhibit and reflect through research and Council funding: Strange Lights. by Film London; Arts Council England; practice. The department delivers an Animate Projects; UK Film Council; BECTU exciting combination of both teaching and Rafael Sommerhalder (MA, 2008): (Moving Image Union). research, which examines the complex Flowerpots, winner, Animation, Adobe medium of animation. Design Achievement Awards. Wolves, Academic collaborations: Sound winner, Conran Foundation Award. Department students, National Film & Professor Joan Ashworth: Professorial Television School; Composing for Screen lecture, ‘Touch, Transform, Think, Tell’. Kristian Andrews (MA, 2008): Rabbit students, Royal College of Music. Current research project: Mushroom Thief. Punch, award winner, International Animated Film Festival, Stuttgart; Peter & the Wolf: Suzie Templeton (MA, Deborah Levy: AHRC-funded Research Grand Prix, International Competition, 2001) donated a set and puppets from the Fellow, completed three-year fellowship Curtocircuito Film Festival, Santiago de Academy Award-winning animated film; with keynote lecture, ‘The Lost Objects of Compostela; nomination, Royal Television the first animation object to become part Childhood’, featuring a short, stop-motion Student Awards. of the Royal College of Art Collection. animation film, Hot Milk Madonna, made with Pia Borg (MA, 2008). Laurie Hill and Ian Mackinnon (MA, 2005): Photograph of Jesus (Laurie Hill), winner; Marina Warner: First Visiting Professor Long Jump (Ian Mackinnon), third prize: Getty to the Animation Department. Inaugural Images/Short & Sweet Film Competition. lecture, ‘My Father He Ate Me’. Maryam Mohajer (MA, 2007): And Life Went Tim Webb: A is for Autism, in ‘More On, winner, Best Student Film, Trinidad and Than Just Reality? The Best Animated Tobago Film Festival, Animae Caribe. Documentaries’, 51st International 1: Still from Maryam Mohajer, And Life Went On 2: Still from Wolves, Rafael Sommerhalder Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes (MA, 3: Set of Suzie Templeton’s stop-motion film Peter Animation Films. 1996): This Way Up, nominee, Animated and the Wolf. Shorts, Academy Awards 2009. 4: Still from Photograph of Jesus, Laurie Hill 5: Still from Rabbit Punch, Kristian Andrews

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The largest RCA department, CA&D is Competition, Ljubljana, and exhibitor at by first-year students with musicians also one of the most international, and the accompanying design conference. from the Guildhall School of Music, using resulting mixture of cultural backgrounds, Marina Warner’s Rapunzel; culminating in a religious and social attitudes, and linguistic Jon Wozencroft: ‘Brian Eno’s 77 Million one-hour multimedia performance at Bath richness all contribute to the distinctive Paintings’, lecture and screening, Punkt International Music Festival, commissioned flavour of the department. Students Festival, Norway. The Suffolk Symphony, by Festival Director Joanna MacGregor. on the course work in an enormously new film with live music performance, wide range of media, but the defining Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk. British Film Institute: Screening, characteristic, which runs through all of graduating moving-image students. the project work produced in CA&D, Anne Howeson: Remember Me, Guardian is the emphasis we place on ideas. We Gallery, London. Illustrative 09: International forum for encourage students to develop critical contemporary illustration and graphic positions in relation to the great issues of Eva Kellenberger and Sebastian arts: 26 recent graduate and current the day: environmental, cultural, political White (MA, 2009): Designers, Design student exhibitors. and social – but there’s also a great deal Interactions’ yearbook, now working as a of work produced here that is made for no professional partnership. Research: PhD graduate in documentary other reason than sheer creative pleasure. film and two MPhils in typographic research Carlos Mancebo (MA, 2009): Designer, and sonic art installation. External research Professor Dan Fern: Chair, RCA CA&D, SHOW 2009, generally acclaimed seminars and conferences, film festivals and International Development Group. Solo to be the best in recent years design exhibitions in Cuba, St Petersburg exhibition, England & Co. Gallery, London. and UK venues. Karin von Ompteda Povilas Utovka and Alistair Webb (MA, (typographic research) gained major Jeff Willis: Business Fellow, InnovationRCA: 2009): Designers, supporting material, Cold funding from the Canadian Social Sciences founder of Graphic Design Unit to War Modern (curator, David Crowley, CCA). Research Council and other foundations. negotiate projects with industry. Designer, British Academy visual identity. Zoe Taylor (MA, 2009): Illustrator, 1: Povilas Utovka and Alistair Webb, Code Share, Rapunzel, with writer Marina Warner. CAC Vilnius (exhibition identity) 2: Leslie Deere, Outer Dark (detail) Andrzej Klimowski: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, 3: A Young Kim, Protea at MAP/making, The Equator graphic novel (pub. SelfMadeHero). MAP/making: Collaborative performance Project Juror, Slovenian International Design project (MAP=Music, Art and Performance) 4: Jaakko Tuomlvaara, Communication Art & Design Degree Show 2009 gallery graphics

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The design ethos of the Fashion Julie Verhoeven: Fannying Around, London Fashion Week: Recent graduates Department is a powerful combination of Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London; making a powerful impact on the creative expression, technical excellence Feathers Up My Arse, ZINGER Presents, regeneration of London Fashion Week and high professional standards. Amsterdam; Rubber Necking, The White include Erdem, Aminaka Wilmont, Justin Its strength is based on a fearless Cubicle, London. Smith, Soren Bach, Julian Smith, Katie approach to exploring and questioning Eary, James Long, Carolyn Massey, Aitor the boundaries of womenswear and Darla Jane Gilroy: Future Perfect website Throup, Holly Fulton and Heikki Salonen. menswear. We believe that the core of identifying trends and providing brands, innovation is based on the investigation advertising agencies and think-tanks with Brioni project work: Harrods, London; and development of personal vision visions of the future. Menswear Fashion Week, Milan. and inspiration, and that bringing this into a valid context offers a position of Claire Pajazckowska: Co-editor, The Sponsored projects 2008/9: I.F.F; confidence that enables our graduates to Sublime Now (pub. Cambridge Scholars). Bill Amberg; Brioni; FMO; Umbro pursue an influential career path within International; Sophie Hallette; Manolo the international fashion industry. Bronwen Marshall (MA, 2009): Blahnik; UPS; Swarovski; Crown Paints. Competition winner, redesign Tower of Professor Wendy Dagworthy: Contributor, London Beefeaters’ uniforms for launch Umbro: Project collaboration RCA Style City, How London Became a event, Super Contemporary, Design Departments of Fashion, Textiles and Fashion Capital (pub. Francis Lincoln). Museum, London. Vehicle Design, and Imperial College London Mapper and interviewee, Super London. Contemporary, Design Museum, London. Future Fashion Now: 2008 RCA Fashion graduates’ final collections, Victoria and Teko College, Denmark: Design/technical Ike Rust: Halcyon Daze: Uncovering the Albert Museum, London, co-curated by student collaboration. Language of Designing, CETLD-funded Professor Wendy Dagworthy and senior film focusing on the process of learning tutors. Fashion at the RCA. 1: Mason Jung, Menswear ITS8, Trieste: RCA Fashion (Mason Jung, 2: Chau Har Lee, Footwear Tristan Webber: ‘From Sketch to Product’, Chau Har Lee, Ali Forbes) overall winners, 3: Bronwen Marshall, London Beefeaters’ uniforms (Photography Naomi James) CETLD-funded project, with V&A Prints & Fashion and Accessories Collections of the 4: Future Fashion Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, Drawings Study Room. Year Awards. London

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The Textiles Department aims to provide Sarah Dallas: Adviser to Museum of René De Lange, Will Stone, Laura students with a course and environment Fashion, Bath for Sarah Dallas Collections Mcpherson, Justin Smith and Nicola that encourages individuality, enhances 1976–89. Contributor, Rowan Knitting and Strathearn (MA, 2009): Exhibitors, their skills and invites them to challenge Crochet Magazine. Texprint, London, Paris and Hong Kong. and be challenged by related issues, while exploring the breadth and diversity Freddie Robins: Exhibitor, Dress Codes: Nicola Strathearn (MA, 2009): Winner, of textiles. Clothing as Metaphor, Katonah Museum of ‘Breaking New Ground’ Prize, Texprint, Art, New York; Diritto Rovescio, Triennale London and Paris. Constantly evolving technology, Design Museum, Milan; Think Tank takes innovation, art, design and traditional on ‘Skill’, Contemporary Applied Arts, Keith Gray (MA, 2009): Exhibitor, full craft skills cohabit and fuse in the subject London and touring; Bottom Drawer, PM collection of menswear and prints, RCA of textiles. The context of textiles is Gallery, London; Deviants, Crafts Council, Fashion catwalk show, London. approached through two selective London and touring, Cloth & Culture Now, pathways: Body and Space. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich UNESCO: Emma Bradbury (MA,1st and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Year) and Claire-Anne O’Brien (MA, 1st Professor Clare Johnston: Presentations, Year) participated in the ‘Snow Leopard’ The Colour Conference, Belfast University; Julian Roberts: Presenter, Your Label, BBC, project, Northern India. National Institute of Fashion Technology, mentoring ten 14- to19-year-olds through Delhi; National Institute of Design, development of a collection for London Institute of Materials: Joint workshops Ahmedabad. Board member, Material and Fashion Week. School of Subtraction with Vehicle Design Department. Design Exchange, UKKTN Cutting (pub. Centre for Pattern Design, CA). Subtraction cutting master classes at Ford team project: Collaboration with IDE Anne Toomey: Research presentations, international universities and art galleries. and Vehicle Design Departments. Annual Scholars’ Lecture, Cambridge; MADE: Materials for Design and Philippa Watkins: Contributor, journals Umbro project: Collaboration with Safety, Loughborough; Textile Institute and magazines: Textile Outlook Fashion Department. World Conference, Hong Kong; SFIT International, Textiles View and Textiles. (Smart Fabrics and Intelligent Textiles) Comment and analysis on design trends Conference, Rome; Avantex, Frankfurt. and innovation in textiles, through 1: Keith Gray, Menwear External reviewer, Skin Dreams exhibition, European trade fairs in France, Italy and 2: Ella Robinson, Canoe Cocktail Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Germany. Consultant, textiles for fashion. 3: Freddie Robins, The Saddest Sight of All

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The Painting Department is committed Elizabeth Price: Hall of Sculptures, Spike John Moore’s Painting Prize 2009: to offering students the opportunity Island, Bristol. Exhibitors, Richard Baines (2nd year), Ian to engage – in a pluralistic and highly Homerston (MA, 2009). critical manner – with painting’s John Slyce: Convened Fine Art Lecture unique relationship and approach to Series, Dan Graham, Garth Evans, Painting alumni: Katy Moran (MA, 2005), contemporary discourses: the status of David Claerbout. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Laura the image and issues of materiality, site, Oldfield Ford (MA, 2007), Marlborough practice and history. Our aim is to provide Douglas Allsop: Fast Surface, Blind Fine Art, London; Ryan Mosley (MA, 2007), a creative and challenging professional Screen and Reflective Editors, Letherby Alison Jacques Gallery, London; Jaimi Gili environment in which students can develop Gallery, University of the Arts, London; (MA, 1998), Bloomberg Space, London; their work and thinking in relation to both The Director’s Cut, Galerie Bernd A. Armando Anrade Tudela (MA, 2003), Ikon studio practice and academic research, Lausberg, Düsseldorf; Blind Spot, Bartha Gallery, Birmingham; Lydia Gifford (MA, in order to engage in the widest possible Contemporary, London. 2008), winner, Valerie Beston Prize, solo professional arena. exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London. Ansel Krut: Next Chicago, Domobaal Exhibitors: Ryan Mosley (MA, 2007). Professor David Rayson: Everyday Fantastic, Gallery, Art Chicago. Exhibitor, Turps Alistair Frost (MA, 2007), Mathew Weir Marlborough Fine Art, London. Exhibitor, Banana 2, Galleria Marabini, Bologna. (MA, 2004), Sam Windett (MA, 2004) Scott LUBOK 8, Schauspiel Spinnerei, Leipzig. O’Rourke (MA, 2008), Ellen Stanford (MA, Lectures, Camden Arts Centre, The Prince’s Milly Thompson: My Kind of People, 2008), Jerwood Visual Arts, London; Lara Drawing School; Slade School of Fine Art; Galerie Valerie, Bilbao/Venice. Exhibitor: Viana (MA, 2007), Paul Westcombe (MA, CAFA and Tsinghua University, Beijing. Less is Less and More is More, That’s All, 2007), Christopher Hanlon (MA, 2008), CAPC, Bordeaux. Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London; John Strutton: Donderslag, Domobaal Katy Moran (MA, 2005), Anthea Hamilton Gallery, London/Volta, New York. Exhibitor, Through the Wall: Group show (MA, 2009), (MA, 2005), Dee Ferris (MA, 2004), Art PARKHAUS, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Precious Rochelle School, London. Now, Tate Britain, London. Things, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda. 1: Nathan Barlex, Robin Footitt and Andrew Larkin, Jerwood Contemporary Painters: Ghost Tank Goshka Macuga: Nominee and exhibitor, Winners, Ellen Stanford (MA, 2008), 2: Lydia Gifford in the Valerie Beston Studio (2008 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London; Scott O’Rourke (MA, 2008). Valerie Beston Prize winner) 3: Through the Wall, Rochelle School Bloomberg Commission: The Nature of the 4: Kate Moran, Snowdance Beast, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. 5: Ryan Mosley, Peacemakers

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The Photography Department aims to Noemie Goudal (MA, 1st year): Ricoh Japan: Collaboration using their foster a critical practice of the still and the Shortlisted, International Talent Support top-of-the-range compact cameras to moving image. Practice – but also theory awards (ITS8), Trieste. Featured in Hot experiment with the book form. MA and criticism – address the image as a Shoe magazine. student work displayed at Photokina material and physical object, used for the 2008, Cologne. creation of fact, fiction and fantasy. Agata Madejska (MA, 1st year): Winner, National Magazine Award. La Seine: Collaboration between Rut Blees Luxemburg: Commonsensual: Photography research students and the The Works of Rut Blees Luxemburg Ewa Axelrad (MA, 1st year): Solo research atelier, Ecole nationale supérieure (pub. Black Dog Publishing); texts, Regis exhibition, EASTinternational 2009, des beaux arts de Paris. In situ research Durand, A G Duttmann and Douglas Park. Norwich University College of the project and exhibition, Lasalle School of Arts, selected by Art & Language Art, Singapore. Peter Kennard: Embedded Art, Akademie and Raster Gallery. der Künste, Berlin. Thomas Adank (MA, 2009): Exhibitor, Olivier Richon: Anima(l), Ibid Projects, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood. London; Bendana-Pinel, Paris. Regine Petersen (MA, 2009): Exhibitor, Sarah Jones: Within: New Photographic Saatchi New Sensations, A Foundation, Portraits, Bloomberg SPACE, London London. (commission, exhibition and catalogue). Åsa Johannesson (MA, 2009): Shortlisted, Hermione Wiltshire: Birth Rites, Glasgow Independent Photographers Terry O’Neill Science Centre; Manchester Museum. Award.

Yve Lomax: ‘Besides/In a paradigmatic Susanne Ludwig and Konrad Pustola way’, Journal of Visual Arts Practice, 7:3, (MA, 2008): Exhibitors, Bloomberg 2008, pp 205–12. New Contemporaries, London. 1: Runa Islam, Intervals; Spotlight and Banana 2: Olivier Richon, Anima(l) 3: Regine Petersen, Pigeon Leica Prize, Paris: Three Photography Runa Islam (MPhil, 2007): Shortlisted, 4: Åsa Johannesson, Portraits of Him 9 students shortlisted. Turner Prize, Tate Britain. 5: Ewa Axelrad, Mislocated

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Hybridity is the key to the Printmaking Ann-Marie LeQuesne: Double Exposure II, Rhys Himsworth (MA, 2009): Winner, Conran Department, which works with very Merlin Studios, London. Foundation Award; Land Securities Prize. diverse students to explore print media in their widest manifestations within New Prints from the Royal College of Art: Andrew Curtis (MA, 2009): Winner, a fine art context. The material and Selected by Chris Orr (RA), Royal Academy Jealous Print Prize. Exhibitor, Bloomberg conceptual histories and influences of of Art, London. New Contemporaries, London. print are explored through making and critical reflection. This focus is supported 10 – The Chris Orr Years 1998–2008: David Price (MA, 2009): Exhibitor, by excellent workshops, opportunities Limited-edition prints by Paula Rego, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London. for exhibition, discussion and exchange, Michael Craig Martin, Tracey Emin all of which aim to bring out the creative alongside College staff and graduates, Claas Gutsche (MA, 2009): Winner, potential of each student. Royal College of Art, London. inaugural FT Weekend Fine Art Awards; Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition Professor Jo Stockham: Exhibitor, ‘Print in 3D’: One-day symposium, Victoria student prize. Buitendoor, Ostende; No Letters, Nettie and Albert Museum, London; including Gill Horn Gallery, London. Nominee, Paul Saunders, Troika, Simon Patterson, Richard Printmaking alumni: Christiane Hamlyn Foundation Award. Woods, Jeremy Gardiner, Jo Stockham and Baumgartner (MA, 1999), solo exhibition, Nick Grace, RapidformRCA. Alan Cristea, London; Haris Epaminonda Mark Hampson: Curator, Pick ‘n’ Mix, (MA, 2003), The Generational: Younger Than Walthamstow Woolworths, London. Andrea Büttner (PhD, 2009): Solo Jesus; New Museum, New York; Richard Exhibitor, Krakow Print Triennale. exhibitions: Croy Nielsen, Berlin; Healy (MA, 2008), Red Mansion Art Prize; Hollybush Gardens, London. Exhibitor, Gemma Anderson (MA, 2007), Wellcome Dick Jewell: Solo exhibition, Rachmaninoff’s, Nought to Sixty, ICA, London 2008. Trusts Arts Award; George Charman (MA, London. Exhibitor, Self-made Men, Victoria 2008), Jerwood Drawing Prize, Second Prize; and Albert Museum, London. Oona Grimes: Solo exhibition, images Maril`ene Oliver, The Space Between, Crypt made for Iain Sinclair, Hackney, That Rose Gallery, London, The Future Can Wait, Old Bob Matthews: Solo exhibitions: Keith Talent Red Empire (pub. Hamish Hamilton), Truman Brewery, London. Gallery, London; Gregory Lind Gallery, San Daniel Arnaud Gallery, London. Francisco. Curator: A Sort of Night to the 1: Hector de Gregorio, Lee Adams, Performer 2: Maril`ene Oliver, Dreamcatcher Mind, A Kind of Night for Our Thoughts, Serena Korda (MA, 2009): Winner, 3: Rhys Himsworth, Hephaestus Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury. Deutsche Bank Award; Start Point Art Prize. 4: Andrew Curtis, New Empire

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In 2008/9 the students and staff of the RCA John Frankland: Boulder, Peer Gallery, James Capper (MA, 1st year): Shortlisted, Sculpture Department found themselves London, Shoreditch Park and Mabley Jerwood Sculpture Prize, London. Exhibitor, possessed of an exceptional opportunity, Green. Exhibitor, Boule to Braid, Lisson 53rd International Art Exhibition, Peckham working in the handsomely lit, single- Gallery, London. Pavilion, Venice Biennale. Winner, Jack storey spaces of the new building. Looking Goldhill Prize, Royal Academy Summer ahead, with the new Moving Image Lee Grandjean: Workforce Ha Ha, De Exhibition, London. Studio and the imminent arrival of the Fabriek, Eindhoven. Painting Department next door, there Lucy May (MA, 1st year): Exhibitor, is the chance to set fresh standards for Kate Davis: Exhibitor, Travelling Light, Travelling Light, WW Gallery, London and both the production and display of WW Gallery, London and Venice Biennale. Venice Biennale. artworks. It will concentrate the debate Commission with Modus Operandi, about fine art at the RCA. For the first Whooosh, Langdon Park Station, DLR. Fred [London] Ltd: Student exhibition, crit. time there will be a genuine coalition of by gallery director Fred Mann and Kate Davis. fine art students in a single place: a critical Keith Wilson: What is Industry? Strategic mass, to cultivate something much more Questions #25, Eastside, Birmingham; Bank of America: Student exhibition, HQ considerable than the sum of the parts. Boat Race, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. building, Canary Wharf, London. We imagine a magnetic future, open to Exhibitor, Deceitful Moon, Hayward all students. At a time when the forming Project Space, London. Camden Arts Centre: First-year student processes and materials of the world summer project with Keith Wilson. are encountering near-magical guidance Jordan Baseman: Dark is the Night, The systems, we should be expecting the Photographer’s Gallery, London and Foundry: Castings, City of London Festival, Sculpture Department to attract the kinds of ArtSway, New Forest. Exhibitor, 53rd Painters & Stainers Livery Company. intelligences that will become the ‘shape- International Art Exhibition, New Forest Education, Victoria & Albert Museum Guides; brokers’ of the twenty-first century. Pavilion, Venice Biennale. Dr Stephen Case-Green, Pangolin Foundry; The British Wax Refining Company. Professor Richard Wentworth: Exhibitor, Denise de Cordova: Love, Flowers East, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Giardini London. Pavilion and Arsenale, Venice Biennale. 1: Lucy May, Throat of Venice Curator, Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, Edward Payne (MA, 1st year): Winner, 2: John Frankland, Boulder 3: Krister Klassman, Untitled (winner, Villiers David London. Inaugural curator, Cabinet of Annual Friends of Battersea Park Sculpture Travel Award) Curiosities, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Commission. 4: Edward Payne, Table-shelter Stack

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During 2008/9 the Drawing Studio Narrative’ workshops, Doctor Simpo; GOB: Exhibition/research project, provided a wide range of workshops and ‘Tactile’ workshops, Tereza Stelhikova; culminating in a week-long residency events, as part of its remit to raise the ‘Collaborative Drawing’ workshops, in the Courtyard Galleries, Kensington awareness of the importance of drawing Meghana Bisineer and Jane Cheadle; Campus. A collaboration between six and its relevance to art and design and ‘Animation-specific’ workshops, research students from across the College, practice. Course-specific workshops Aline Helmcke. the project aimed to explore and expose were carried out in consultation with publicly the nature of practice-led research, Heads of Department or Senior Tutors, Drawing Studio competitions: The through site-specific production of works alongside well-attended, College-wide Man Group Drawing Prize; John Norris and seminar with external guests artist workshops and evening classes that are Wood Natural Forms Drawing Prize, Shezad Dawood, and writer Tom McCarthy. open to all students and staff. sponsored by Josh and Cyndy Silver (and accompanying exhibition). Drawing classes: ‘Drawing the Body’ figure drawing classes; ‘Lab’ (experimental Under the guidance of the College-wide approaches to drawing) taught by Research Tutor in Drawing, the Drawing Iwona Abrams; ‘The Anatomy Course’, Studio continued its collaboration across restructured and enlarged to meet student disciplines and departments, promoting demand by tutors Eleanor Crook and research through drawing in the widest Richard Neave; ‘Natural Forms’ run by possible sense; encouraging the perception John Norris-Wood; ‘Facial Reconstruction’ of drawing as a tool for investigation, as workshop; ‘Esemplastic Tuesdays’ replaced well as an autonomous medium. by sound/music/poetry and performance; Martin Morris’ ‘Drawing Course’ (lunchtime Margarita Gluzberg: Captive Bird Society, drawing classes open to staff). MAC/VAL, Musée d’art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris; Kevin Kavanagh Master classes, workshops and Gallery, Dublin. Exhibitor, Natural lectures: Run by distinguished artists, Wonders, New Art From London, designers and theorists, including ‘Body Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow; Il Faut 1–2: GOB research project, RCA galleries Decoration’ workshop, Dr Rebecca Être Absolument Moderne, Paradise Row 3–4: Drawing Studio workshop 5: Margarita Gluzberg, Captive Bird Society Jewell; ‘Imagination and Drawing’, Amelia Gallery, Istanbul. Speaker, Folie à Deux (installation/performance), MAC/VAL, Musée d’art Johnstone; ‘Comicology and Sequential Symposium, Tate Britain, London. Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris

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2008/9 saw a review of options for • Some 95% of graduates employed in Liverpool, The National Archives, the RCA/V&A Conservation, and the conservation or directly related National Maritime Museum, the National decision that – as a result of the Victoria activities, many in senior positions both Trust, The Natural History Museum, School and Albert Museum’s reassessment of in the UK and internationally. of Conservation of the Royal Danish its commitment to our partnership in • MA expanded beyond the V&A to offer Academy of Fine Art, the Straus Center conservation – there will be no further diverse specialisms through collaboration for Conservation (Harvard University Art recruitment of students. The College with many London-based heritage Museums), Tate. We are indebted to all will continue to support existing organisations, including: Preventive who have worked with us. Conservation students, and to provide Conservation, Conservation of Social them with a learning experience that History Objects, Natural History meets the RCA’s standards of excellence. Collections, Ethnographic Materials and Musical Instruments, and The department was established in 1989 Conservation Science. as a unique partnership between the • Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further RCA and the V&A, in association with and Higher Education, 2001. Imperial College London, for the delivery • UK’s Student Conservator of the Year of specialist, work-based postgraduate nominations, and three award winners. learning in conservation. MA, MPhil and PhD students have worked across the In addition to the V&A, Imperial disciplinary boundaries of the Humanities, College London and a large number of Sciences and the Arts, exploring avenues conservation, heritage and education of context and understanding that professionals, the following museums and influence conservation practice and organisations have collaborated formally theory, and revealing new ways of looking in the development and delivery of RCA/ at conservation issues. V&A Conservation: the British Museum, English Heritage, the FOM Institute The department’s significant achievements AMOLF (The Netherlands), FORTH-IESL include: (Crete), Historic Royal Palaces, ICON, the Horniman Museum, the Leather 1: Textiles conservation 2: Working on a Plywood Chair by Marcel Breuer • 61 MA, 15 MPhil, and 8 PhD conservation Conservation Centre, the Museum of (dating from about 1936). graduates to date. London, the National Conservation Centre 3: Stained Glass conservation

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Critical & Historical Studies (CHS) provides Filipa Roseta (PhD, 2009): Professora a unique environment for postgraduate Auxiliar, Faculty of Architecture, art and design students to reflect upon Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. their own practice, and to engage critically with students from their own and other disciplines. The CHS College- wide programme is designed to enhance each student’s College experience by engaging with important ideas that are relevant to their studio work in an exciting and challenging manner. In so doing, it provides each student with an intellectual framework within which they can begin to establish a coherent relationship between theory and practice.

Joe Kerr: Convened ‘Architecture and Design in the Bacon Era’, the Architecture Foundation/Tate Britain debates, October–November 2008.

Lucy Soutter: ‘Conceptual Painting’, a panel discussion from 2006, included in Frieze Projects/Frieze Talks 2006–2008 (pub. Thames & Hudson).

Michael Schwab: ‘First, the Second: 1: Critical & Historical Studies resources Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Reflection 2: Franz Ackermann, ‘Gateway’ installation, and the Question of Artistic Research’, Altermodern, Tate Britain © everydaylife.style, 2009 (pub. Journal of Visual Arts Practice, 7:3, 3: Catrin Morgan (MA, 2009), The Collector/The pp. 213–23). Butterfly Library

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Established in 1992, the Curating David Batchelor: The Backlights, Galeria Polly Savage (MPhil, student): Author, Contemporary Art MA at the RCA has Leme, São Paulo. ‘Playing to the Gallery: Masks, Masquerades become a benchmark for postgraduate and Museums’, African Arts, Winter 2008; curatorial education, globally. The course is Clare Carolin: Curator, Regina José Galindo: Nnenna Okore: Infinite Flow, exhibition unique because of the collaborative nature The Body of Others, Modern Art, Oxford. catalogue, October Gallery, London. of its group learning and its growing range Acting Senior Curator, Modern Art, Oxford. of international partnerships and projects. Marieke van Hal (MPhil, student): Curator, Kit Hammonds: Director, Publish and Be Bergen Biennial. CCA RCA provides a unique mix of Damned, self-publishing fair. Acting Director, practical experience based on the Showroom Gallery, London. Louli Michaelidou (MPhil, student): development of exhibition projects, Commissioner, Cyprus Pavilion, Venice. theoretical study, and access – through Michaela Crimmin: Director, Arts & Ecology travel and visiting lecturers – to an Centre, Royal Society of Arts, London. Olga Fernandez (MPhil, student): international range of professionals Coordinator, ‘Curatorial Strategies. Past from all areas of the field. CCA Jean Fisher: Keynote speaker, SITAC, and Present’, CCA RCA. Author, Angel RCA is also developing pioneering Guadalajara. Catalogue essay, ‘James Ferrant, monograph on the avant-gardist research into curatorial histories and Coleman’, IMMA, Dublin. Spanish artist. contemporary debates. Jonathan Rée: Broadcaster, William Hazlitt, Student exhibitions: Performing Localities: This year sees the launch of the work- Philosopher, BBC Radio 3. Recent Guatemalan Performance Art on placement based MA Curating pathway Video, Iniva, London; Testing Ground: (Inspire), an initiative with Arts Council Florence Ostende (MA, 2009): Editor, Curating, collaborative exhibition with England. Catalogue, online contemporary art Goldsmiths MFA Curating, University of magazine (www.cataloguemagazine.com), London and 176 Gallery; Reel Geographies, Professor Mark Nash: Curator, Re-imagining with Coline Milliard (MA, 2007). Jagillonian University, Krakow. October, Calvert 22, London. Co-curator, The View from Elsewhere, exhibition and Pamela Prado (MA, 2009): Organiser, catalogue essay, Gallery of Modern Art, ‘The New Archive. Documenting Visual 1: David Batchelor, Installation view of The Backlights, ~ Queensland; Sherman Gallery, Sydney Art from Latin America’, conference, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo 2–3: Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan (with Kathryn Weir). RCA, 2009. Performance Art on Video, Iniva, London

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The History of Design Department offers following directly from his MA thesis, an exceptional opportunity to study the ‘English Woodworking Artisans of the world of design at postgraduate level. Early Modern Period’. Not only do our students work in the creative environment of the College, The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle they also have direct access to the rich Culture: Working with Birkbeck College, collections and considerable expertise University of London, this AHRC-funded of the Victoria and Albert Museum. research project entered its third and final year. David Crowley: Cold War Modern – Design 1945–1970, Victoria and Albert Vienna Café 1900: Exhibition, Royal Museum, London; MART, Rovereto; College of Art, examining the lasting National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. The Times significance of the city’s coffee culture. called it, ‘Britain’s finest exhibition on The exhibition was accompanied by design in years’. screenings, performances and an international conference. Dr Christine Guth: Toshiba series of lectures in Japanese Art on the theme of Hokusai’s Great Wave, British Museum, London; SOAS, London and Sainsbury Centre at UEA, Norwich.

Professor Jeremy Aynsley: Designing Modern Germany (pub. Reaktion Books).

Asian Design History: Launch of our pioneering MA ‘specialism’, led by Dr 1: Café life in Vienna Christine Guth. 2: Cold War Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 3: Invitation to the symposium organised by graduating Don White (MA, 2009): Took up PhD students at the V&A in June 2009. studentship, University of Warwick, 4: Cover, Jeremy Aynsley, Designing Modern Germany

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There were 11 registered Post Experience Printmaking: Rooshika Patel (India), outstanding designers; Tien Sheng Huang Programme students during 2008/9: furthering knowledge of fine art (Taiwan), collaborating with designers printmaking. from varied backgrounds and extending Communication Art & Design: Jung-Hsuan academic design knowledge into more Liang (Taiwan), illustration and design Design Products: Alejandro Villarreal practical design knowledge. skills; Joana Monteiro (Portugal), visual (Mexico), developing academic knowledge representations in the music industry. of product design (programme will continue into 2009/10); Shunsuke Tanaka Textiles: Sigal Cohen (Venezuela), (Japan; sponsored by Toyota Motor application of graphic design skills to Corporation), studying the European fabric surfaces. design-making process (programme will continue into 2009/10). Fashion Womenswear: Young Joo Yoo (South Korea), identifying traditional For the fourth consecutive year, Post British style for a new audience. Experience Programmes in Design Products were sponsored by scholarships Vehicle Design: Nobutake Tase (Japan; from the Taiwanese government. sponsored by Nissan), extending design capabilities; Daria Cabaj (Poland; naval Two applicants were successful: Shi Kai architect), developing the aesthetics of Tseng (Taiwan), finding the definition a yacht project. of design and learning with the most 1–3: Post Experience Programmes

49 Financial Report & Summary Accounts

The College’s income and expenditure matched by HEFCE in a ratio of 1:3. looked at in the context of declining results for the year to 31 July 2009 are The table below shows the effect of public expenditure, an operational summarised below, and the income these adjustments and the College’s surplus of £419,000 represents less than and expenditure account and balance operational financial results for the past 1.5% of the College’s turnover and does sheet appear on the following pages. two years. not offer us much of a cushion against The figures incorporate a number of financial adversity. quite large elements which disguise This is a creditable result in the the College’s operational financial circumstances, especially in the context performance. These include the financial of the three-year pay settlement agreed position of the College’s Retirement in 2005, which called for an increase of Benefits Scheme, as required by FRS RPI in October 2008. This unfortunately 17, and an amount of £2.2m due to the coincided with the peak level of inflation College under the HEFCE ‘matched just before the recession began and funding’ scheme, whereby certain resulted in a large and unexpected donations received by the College are increase in payroll costs. However,

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Surplus Generated from Operations 419 335

Breakdown of the College’s Income in 2008/9 by Source 5%

Funding Council Grants 56% 12% Tuition Fees and Education Contracts 20% Research Grants and Contracts 7% Other Operating Income 12% Endowment and Investment Income 5% 7%

56%

20%

50 Summary Consolidated Income and Expenditure Account for the Year Ended 31 July 2009

2008/9 2007/8 £’000 £’000 Income

Funding Council Grants 18,145 16,166 Tuition Fees and Education Contracts 6,613 5,980 Research Grants and Contracts 2,230 1,416 Other Operating Income 4,090 3,238 Endowment and Investment Income 1,568 1,938

Total Income 32,646 28,738

Expenditure

Staff Costs 14,355 12,908 Other Operating Expenses 14,802 14,987 Depreciation 1,800 1,762

Total Expenditure 30,957 29,657

Surplus/(Deficit) on Continuing Operations 1,689 (919)

Disposals of Fixed Assets 0 7,704

Surplus after Disposal of Assets 1,689 6,785

Surplus Transferred from Accumulated Income in Endowment Funds 183 548

Surplus for the Year Retained Within 1,872 7,333 General Reserves

Statement of Historical Cost Surpluses and Deficits for the Year Ended 31 July 2009

Surplus After Depreciation of Assets at Valuation 1,689 6,785

Difference Between the Historical Cost Depreciation Charge and the Actual Depreciation Charge for the Year Calculated on the Revalued Amount 1,342 1,342

Historical Cost Surplus 3,031 8,127

51 Summary Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2009

2009 2008 £’000 £’000 Assets

Tangible Assets 59,201 55,242

Endowment Asset Investments 11,179 10,186

Other Fixed Asset Investments 332 243

Current Assets 17,620 15,204

Current Liabilities (4,053) (3,687)

Net Current Assets 13,567 11,517

Debtors: Amounts Falling Due After One Year 2,434 0

Net Assets Excluding Pension Liability 86,713 77,188

Pension Liability (21,477) (4,834)

Net assets including pension liability 65,236 72,354

Represented by:

Deferred Capital Grants 14,316 7,117

Endowments 11,179 10,186

General Reserves Revaluation Reserve 46,045 47,387

General Reserves Excluding Pension Reserve 15,173 12,498 Pension Reserve (21,477) (4,834)

Total General Reserves (6,304) 7,664

Total 65,236 72,354

The full financial statements were approved by Council on 12 November 2009 and can be obtained at www.rca.ac.uk.

Independent Auditors’ Statement to the Royal College Respective responsibilities of the council and auditors Opinion of Art (“The College”) The Council has accepted responsibility for the In our opinion, the summarised financial statements preparation of the summarised financial statements in set out on pages 50 to 52 are consistent with the full We have examined the summarised financial statements accordance with paragraphs 29 to 35 of the Statement Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2009. of the College for the year ended 31 July 2009 which of Recommended Practice: Accounting for further and comprise the Summary Group Income and Expenditure higher education (2007). Our responsibility is to report Stephen Clark Account and the Summary Group Balance Sheet, to the College our opinion on the consistency of the Senior Statutory Auditor which are set out on pages 50 to 52 of the College’s summarised financial statements on pages 50 to 52 within for and on behalf of KPMG, LLP. Statutory Auditor Annual Review. The summarised financial statements the Annual Review with the full Financial Statements. Chartered Accountants have been prepared by the Council for the purpose of 2 Cornwall Street inclusion in the Annual Review, as explained in note 1. We also read the other information contained within the Birmingham Financial Report and Summary Accounts and consider B3 2DL This statement is made, in accordance with our the implications for our report if we become aware of 12 November 2009 engagement letter dated 6 June 2008, solely to the any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies College, in order to meet the requirements of paragraph 36 with the summarised financial statements. of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting for further and higher education (2007). Our work has been Basis of opinion undertaken so that we might state to the College those We conducted our work having regard to Bulletin matters we have agreed to state to it in such a statement 1999/6 the auditor’s statement on the summary financial and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by statement issued by the Auditing Practices Board. Our law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone separate report on the College’s full Financial Statements other than the College for our work, for this statement, or for the year ended 31 July 2009 describes the basis of for the opinions we have formed. our statutory audit opinion on those financial statements.

52 53 College Honours & Appointments

At Convocation 2009, Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships were conferred as listed below.

Honorary Doctors Graham Lawson: Sound Technician, Clare Brass: Senior Design Tutor, Design Tony Cragg: Sculptor Animation London and Industrial Design Engineering Professor Sir Christopher Frayling: Rector, Richard Rome: Former Senior Tutor, Catherine Demoisy: Head of Academic Writer and Broadcaster Sculpture Fundraising, Development Jonathan Ive: Designer Malcolm Shirley: Secretary, the Royal Jamie Gilham: Senior Research Manager, Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Office Senior Fellows Bob Tipper: Former Technician, Printmaking Bradley Hardiman: Head of Incubator, Elsbeth Juda: Fashion and advertising Martha Turinas-James: Patron, the Varley Design London photographer Awards for Excellence in Communications Sam Livingstone: Senior Tutor, Jan Svankmajer: Animator Vehicle Design Michael Wolff: Communication Designer Fellows Professor Miles Pennington: Head Sue Bradburn: Media Relations Officer of Department, Industrial Design Professors Emeritus Padraig Coogan: Network Administrator Engineering Professor Ron Arad: Head of Department, Kate Davis: Tutor, Sculpture Dr Paul Thompson: Rector and Design Products Chris Franklin: Events Manager Vice-Provost Professor Sir Christopher Frayling: Rector; Nick Leon: Director, Design London Professor Richard Wentworth: Head of Professor of Cultural History Ann-Marie LeQuesne: Tutor, Printmaking Department, Sculpture Professor David Watkins: Former Head of Ray Martin: Chief Engineer Gareth Williams: Senior Tutor, Design Department, Goldsmithing, Stefan Stefanou: Technician, Ceramics Products Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery and Glass Professor Glynn Williams: Head of School of Fine Art; Professor of Sculpture Senior Staff Appointments Karen Alexander: Senior Tutor, Honorary Fellows Inspire Programme, Curating Victoria Conran: Sponsor and champion of Contemporary Art the College Professor Jeremy Aynsley: Director of Catherine Mitchell: Business Development Research; Head of School, Humanities Manager, International Flavours and and Professor of History of Design Fragrances Professor Tord Boontje: Head of George Kessler: Group Director, Kesslers Department, Design Products International Ltd Honorary Fellows, 2009 (from left: Jan Svankmajer, Sir Christopher Frayling, Elsbeth Juda and Michael Wolff)

54 Donors & Sponsors

John Purcell Prize The Royal College of Art gratefully acknowledges Kay Cosserat Scholarship the substantial help and support we have received Laura & Bernard Ashley Scholarship Manolo Blahnik Award – financial, in kind and in many other ways – from Marks & Spencer Scholarship Marlene Burston Award our patrons, donors and sponsors. A number of Nat Cohen Scholarship those listed below – in particular those who have National Magazine Award New London Architecture Prize provided college-wide support, endowments Oliver Ford Trust Scholarship Ossie Clark Scholarship and capital funding – have made a long-term Parallel Prize commitment to us over a number of years; others Passion Pictures Prize Photographer’s Gallery Award have supported us during the current academic Pilkington Automotive Vehicle Design Awards year. We are also grateful to those patrons, donors Printmakers Council Prize and sponsors who wish to remain anonymous. R J Washington Bursary Rowan Award Royal Mint Awards Ruth Drew Award College-wide Supporters Department Supporters Serenella Ciclitira Scholarship Sheila Robinson Memorial Prize Major Donors Awards & Scholarships SMC Alsop Prize for Urbanism Conran Foundation 20:21 Contemporary British Art Fair Sophie Hallette Award James Dyson Foundation Alexander de Brye Scholarship South Square Trust Scholarships The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Prize The Augustus Martin Award Foundation Augustus Martin Award The Boots Company Scholarship Toyota (GB) plc Basil H Alkazzi Foundation Theo Fennell Awards Garfield Weston Foundation Brioni Award Tim Mara Trust Prizes The Wolfson Foundation Charles Wallace India Trust Awards Todd & Duncan Award for Excellence Charlotte Fraser Award Umbro International Award Supporters Claremont Garments Scholarship UPS Award 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust CLAWSA (Cities of London and Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Award Monica Ford Westminster Society of Architects) Varley Memorial Award Robert Lane Clive Wainwright Memorial Prize W H Smith Scholarship Linklaters Crown Award Worshipful Company of Carpenters Outset Contemporary Art Fund Davis Langdon Award Worshipful Company of Coachmakers The Paolozzi Foundation Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Award and Coach Harness Makers Bursaries Miuccia Prada Engineering and Physical Sciences Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ Bursary Oliver Stocken Research Council Studentships Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers The Violet Tchenguiz Charitable Trust Eric and Jean Cass Scholarship Bursaries for Painting & Award Michael G Wilson Friends of the V&A Geoff Lawson Jaguar Scholarship Donors In-kind Support Gillian Naylor Essay Prize in Memory of Adam Opel AG Homebase Ltd Tom Naylor Allen & Overy Forbo Flooring UK Ltd History of Design Award for Distinction Arts Council England in the Final Dissertation Bank of America Prizes, Awards and Scholarships Hoopers Gallery Award BASF SE Conran Foundation House and Garden Award Brioni Deutsche Bank International Flavours & Fragrances (GB) Converse The Man Group plc Charitable Trust Ltd / Thierry Mugler Awards Design Museum NEWH UK James Dyson Foundation Bursaries EPFL Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Janey Ironside Travel Scholarship EPSRC The Matthews Wrightson Charity Trust Jealous Art Print Award Federation of Manufacturing Opticians John McAslan + Partners Award Ford Motor Company plc

55 House of Fraser Denby Pottery Company Research in Motion Intel Corporation Foster + Partners Samsung International Flavours & Fragrances (GB) Future Systems Sanctuary Care Ltd/Thierry Mugler John Purcell Paper Think! Manufacture National de Sevres MAKE Architects Factorydesign Merlin Studios New London Architecture Help the Aged Metro Imaging Nexus Productions Technology Strategy Board Microsoft Research Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners Ltd Monique Beudert Fund Polywood Studios InnovationRCA Next Robert Horne Paper Co Ltd Design Council Oasis Arts & Crafts Products Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners James Dyson Foundation Oberon Books Ron Arad Associates London Design Festival Picasso Pictures Royal Crown Derby London Development Agency Polish Cultural Institute Studio aka Materials Knowledge Transfer Network Romanian Cultural Institute Studio Levien (Technology Strategy Board) Royal Mail The Sound Post Production Department SEACEX of the National Film School ReachOutRCA Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Wedgwood Group The Man Group plc Charitable Trust Swarovski Wells MacKereth Reeves The Behrens Foundation Zaha Hadid Architects Project Partners: The French Embassy Crafts Council The Leverhulme Trust Helen Hamlyn Centre Deutsche Bank The Woo Charitable Foundation Helen Hamlyn Trust Campaign for Drawing: Drawing Thomas Gibson Fine Art EPSRC Inspiration Award Umbro International AHRC Kensington & Chelsea Council Unilever R&D Port Sunlight Design Council Hammersmith & Fulham Council UPS ESRC Oasis Arts & Crafts Victoria Miro Wellcome Trust Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Vodafone National Patient Safety Agency Westminster Council Wellcome Trust Audi Design Foundation Withers LLP Bene WPP Group plc BUPA Yamaha Corporation CABE Zegna Baruffa Kinnarps Sir Christopher Frayling with Conran Foundation Legrand members (Vicky Conran and Nicholas Bull) and the Conran Foundation Awards 2009 winners: Ian Douglas- In-kind Support Megaman Charity Trust Fund Jones (Architecture), Penelope Batley (Ceramics & Adjaye Associates Norwegian Design Council Glass), Rafael Sommerhalder (Animation), Min-Kyu Choi BreakThru Films Norwegian Research Council (Design Products), Rhys Himsworth (Printmaking) and Andreas Blank (Sculpture).

56 ‘The objects of the College are to advance learning, knowledge and professional competence particularly in the field of fine arts, in the principles and practice of art and design in their relation to industrial and commercial processes and social developments and other subjects relating thereto through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce.’

Charter of Incorporation of the Royal College of Art, 28 July 1967

Visitor: His Royal Highness The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh

Provost: Sir Terence Conran

Pro-Provost and Chairman of the Council: Sir Neil Cossons

Rector and Vice-Provost: Dr Paul Thompson

Editor: Octavia Reeve

Design: Happily Ever After www.happily-ever-after.co.uk

Photography: Marta Casellas, Anja Schaffner, Dominic Tschudin

Printed by: Calverts

Paper: Cocoon Silk 50% recycled, FSC mixed sources

Website: www.rca.ac.uk Annual Review 2008/9