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Annual Review Royal College of Art

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2 Rector’s Review 18 School of Architecture 54 Research RCA Architecture ‘The objects of the College are to 4 Student Statistics Interior Design 58 The Helen Hamlyn 2012/13 Centre for Design advance learning, knowledge and 24 School of Communication 6 Highlights 2012/13 Animation 60 InnovationRCA professional competence particularly Information Experience Design 10 175th Anniversary – Visual Communication 62 SustainRCA in the field of fine arts, in the principles ‘The Perfect Place to Grow’ 30 School of Design 63 ReachOutRCA and practice of art and design and their Design Interactions 12 Show RCA 2013 Design Products 64 FuelRCA relation to industrial and commercial Global Innovation Design 14 Battersea Innovation Design Engineering 65 Corporate processes and social developments and Developments Service Design Partnerships Vehicle Design other subjects relating thereto through 16 New Knowledge 66 AlumniRCA Exchange Hubs 36 School of Fine Art teaching, research and collaboration and Research Painting 68 Development Centres Photography with industry and commerce.’ Printmaking 70 Donors & Sponsors Sculpture Charter of Incorporation of the 72 College Honours & Royal College of Art 42 School of Humanities Appointments 28 July 1967 Critical & Historical Studies Critical Writing in Art & Design 72 Council and Court Curating Contemporary Art Membership V&A/RCA History of Design 75 Summary of 48 School of Material Accounts Ceramics & Glass Fashion Menswear & Womenswear Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery Textiles Rector’s Review

This academic year the RCA launched four new The year 2012 marked the 175th anniversary Master’s programmes – the largest increase of the RCA, now the world’s oldest school of art and in course provision in recent history. Designed both design in continuous operation. We celebrated with a ‘Such live projects with "real world" partners to reflect and inform new practices in design, we major exhibition comprising some 350 works of art and introduced Information Experience Design, led by design by staff and alumni, spanning three centuries. abound across the RCA and offer tremendous Dr Kevin Walker; Interior Design, led by Ab Rogers; Alumni events were hosted in New York, San Francisco Service Design, led by Dr Nick de Leon, and Global and London, with many different generations of former strength to the employment prospects of our Innovation Design, led by Professor Miles Pennington. students enjoying the opportunity to reminisce about This latter programme sees the RCA working on their years at the RCA. highly talented graduates.’ a global stage, in partnership with the Pratt Institute An alumni highlight of the year was the in New York and Keio University, Tokyo. announcement that Elizabeth Price was the winner With these exciting new programmes the RCA of the Turner Prize 2012. Elizabeth graduated from witnessed a 10 per cent increase in student numbers Constructed Textiles in 1991 and served as a tutor and a commensurate growth in staff; we were pleased in Fine Art in 2007–11. to welcome Associate Dean Teal Triggs to the School In estates planning, we are engaged in a of Communication, in addition to those new heads long-term comprehensive masterplan, comprising the of programme mentioned above. The excellence of construction of new buildings and major renovations an RCA education rests on the calibre of academic to the existing estate; I wish to thank Dr Jo Kennedy OBE staff, and I’m delighted to report that in preparation in particular for her guidance in leading the Building for the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework & Estates Committee over the past year, during which assessment in 2014, the RCA will be submitting we saw the magnificent new Dyson Building open – outdoor theatre and meeting space near Wembley 100 members of faculty all with outstanding research in autumn 2012. Especial thanks are due to those Stadium, commissioned by Brent Council in London. profiles. World-ranking academics attract the world’s donors whose support made this building possible, Remarkably, these students will be able to lay claim finest students, and this year we welcomed 1,249 in particular the James Dyson Foundation, the Wolfson to having a complete, built project under their belts talented individuals from some 59 different countries, Foundation, the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler before having finished their Master’s degree! Such live and increased our pool of MPhil and PhD candidates. Foundation, and Lydia and Manfred Gorvy. Alongside projects with ‘real world’ partners abound across the In governance and leadership, we were the Printmaking and Photography programmes, RCA and offer tremendous strength to the employment fortunate to announce Dame Marjorie Scardino DBE, InnovationRCA moved into the Dyson building with prospects of our highly talented graduates. Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Sir Peter Michael as new a fresh and greatly expanded cohort of design We remain grateful to HEFCE for its continued members of Council. We thank Sir Mark Jones and entrepreneurs. The success of these design start-ups support of the RCA, in particular, its recognition of the Robin Levien for their service as they complete their is outlined on pp. 60–61 of this Annual Review. high costs associated with the RCA’s teaching practice terms of office. Construction of the Woo Building began in and provision of technical facilities. The RCA is often described as the world’s spring 2013, and it is on track to open its doors to I hope the following pages give you a sense most influential art and design university, and this year students from the School of Material in spring 2015. of the many, varied accomplishments of the RCA in we lived up to that reputation by being called upon Finally, in terms of live projects undertaken 2012/13. to deliver a series of design workshops at 10 Downing by our Architecture students, I’m delighted to report Street, aimed at senior policy advisers and high-flying that a group of first-year students won a design Paul Thompson civil servants. competition to create a demountable – or ‘pop down’ Rector

2 3 Student Statistics 2012/13

School Applicants Admissions Student 2012/13 Sept. 2012 Numbers Australian 2 Austrian 10 Belgian 7 Brazilian 7 British 529 (British) Guernsey 1 Architecture Architecture 260 39 80 Interior Design 84 24 24 School Total 344 63 104 (British) Jersey 1 Canadian 19 Chilean 3 Chinese 65 Croatian 1 Cypriot 8

Communication

Animation 85 21 43 Czech 3 Danish 25 Dutch 13 Estonian 5 Finnish 13 French 41 Information Experience Design 31 16 16 Visual Communication 325 59 115 School Total 441 96 174 German 65 Greek 15 Guatemalan 1 Hong-Kong 4 Hungarian 4 Indian 15 Design Design Interactions 100 20 45 Design Products 207 47 87 Iranian 3 Irish 20 Israeli 16 Italian 21 Japanese 34 Kazakhstani 1 Innovation Design Engineering 166 49 92 Service Design 64 24 24 Vehicle Design 87 31 52 School Total 624 171 300 Kenyan 1 Latvian 2 Lithuanian 5 Luxembourger 2 Malaysian 3 Maltese 1

Fine Art Painting 400 36 74 Photography 139 24 54 Mexican 3 New Zealander 4 Norwegian 5 Omani 1 Pakistani 1 Polish 18 Printmaking 92 25 52 Sculpture 190 34 65

School Total 821 119 245 Portuguese 13 Qatari 1 Romanian 3 Russian 7 Serbian 1 Singaporean 1

Humanities Critical & Historical Studies 9 2 11 Critical Writing in Art & Design 48 22 40 Slovakian 4 Slovenian 5 South-African 4 South Korean 80 Spanish 19 Swedish 15 Curating Contemporary Art 73 18 40 V&A/RCA History of Design 116 42 77 School Total 246 84 168 Swiss 10 Taiwanese 21 Thai 6 Turkish 5 US-American 54

Material Ceramics & Glass 73 20 45 Fashion 227 42 90 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork 55 18 38 & Jewellery Textiles 88 40 85 School Total 443 120 258

Total Nationalities 59 Total Students 1,249

Grand Total 2,919 653 1,249

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The College celebrated 175 The College began the years with a major historic new year with a new brand The start of the academic exhibition and book The identity, designed by year saw students enrol Perfect Place to Grow. Dean of Communication on new programmes Service Design Neville Brody. Information Experience Yinka Shonibare MBE led a design summit at Alumna Elizabeth Price won Moving On Design, Interior Design delivered the inaugural 10 Downing Street to help the prestigious Turner Prize Collective, founded by and Service Design. lecture of RCA/Outset retrain civil servents for her film-based work. GSM&J students, organised The Dyson Building Visual Cultures series. in thinking about First-year an innovative jewellery opened its doors to Painting Image and government services. Architecture students' walking exhibition. and Photography students, Language research Second-year Visual winning design ‘Pop The College uniting Fine Art disciplines conference at the RCA Communication student Yeni Down Square’ was picked showcased research in Battersea for the first time strengthened ties with Kim won the Adobe Design to transform a Wembley site talent through the biennial in 175 years. Chinese academics. Achievement Award. into a new community hub. exhibition Disruption.

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Joan Jonas joined the College as Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor for Performance, giving an illuminating series of talks and performances. Show RCA 2013 attracted The Helen Hamlyn more than 60,000 visitors Centre for Design to its Battersea and research played a pivotal Kensington exhibitions. role in informing the arts Burberry strategy at one of Scotland’s The College secured Chief Creative Officer largest hospitals. a further £3 million in Christopher Bailey was Christo, Paula Rego, Curating Contemporary Art donations towards the made an honorary doctor Julian Opie and David Bailey students drew inspiration development of the Woo at this year’s convocation all donated postcards from the internet and Pionen Building, in addition Fashion programmes ceremony, alongside to the RCA Secret sale, Data Centre to launch the to the major donation took to the catwalk in artists Cindy Sherman helping raise £100,000 for well-reviewed exhibition, No by Sir Po-Shing and the first College show and Faith Ringgold, and Fine Art bursaries. one Lives Here. Lady Helen Woo. to be streamed live. architect Eva Jiriˇ cná.ˇ

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8 9 ‘The Perfect Place to Grow’, Left: ‘Spike’, installation installation view, Tracey Emin, 2001 view, David Mach, 2012 Below: 175th Anniversary publication, designed by Neville Brody and Research Studios

Exhibition

In November the College presented a landmark exhibition of its outputs, impact and influence across three centuries, bringing to a close a year of celebratory activities. The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art, curated by Rector Paul Thompson and Fine Art Society Director Robert Upstone, charted student, staff and alumni work and professional achievements, presenting an astonishing range of the cultural, artistic and creative leaders who have 175th The Royal College of Art’s 175th emerged from the College. anniversary in 2012 was a milestone Through the principal themes: ‘Art for Industry’; Anniversary - for the College. It marked the longest ‘Public Purpose’; ‘Personal Expression’; and ‘Political continuous experiment in publicly Expression’, the exhibition offered a critical insight Publication 'The Perfect funded postgraduate art and design into the politics and polemics of how Britain should, or education in the world, bringing should not, train artists and designers, while examining A supporting book, also published in November, Place to Grow' to the fore the College’s sometimes the purpose of publicly funded art schools. explored the College’s rich history and vast influence, unacknowledged legacy and critical From Victorian industry to the birth of Pop featured a graphic timeline and a series of insightful role in both British and global cultures and Postmodernism, the show featured historic essays by leading academics, including historian and economies. and contemporary work of alumni including Gertrude Fiona MacCarthy, fashion critic Colin McDowell, Two outcomes of anniversary Jekyll, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Eric Ravilious, Edward curator Robert Upstone, graphic design critic Rick celebrations – a book and exhibition, both Bawden, Hans Coper, Ossie Clark, Bill Gibb, Zandra Poynor, Andrew Wilson of Tate and Dr Glenn Adamson ‘It has moved, manipulated, arranged, designed by Neville Brody – provided Rhodes, Sir James Dyson, Eric Parry, David Adjaye, Tord of the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as the greater understanding of the significant Boontje, Ron Arad, Graphic Thought Facility, Neville RCA’s Jane Pavitt, Paul Thompson, Sarah Teasley designed and improved more of our lives contribution of the College’s creative Brody, Lady Elizabeth Butler, Dame Barbara Hepworth, and Joe Kerr. The book also featured alumni interviews critical thinking and user-centred design Henry Moore OM, David Hockney OM, Bridget Riley, with Christopher Bailey of Burberry, film director than all the others put together. There is to higher education and society at Eduardo Paolozzi and Tracey Emin, whose 2001 work, Ridley Scott, design engineer and entrepreneur a time when accountability is demanded The Perfect Place to Grow, was both exhibited and Sir James Dyson, artist David Hockney, graphic something in every house that owes its more than ever. According to His Royal referenced in the exhibition title. designer Margaret Calvert and artist Tracey Emin. Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, who Free and open to the public, from 16 November The book did much to cement a critical and genesis to the Royal College of Art.’ prefaced the book, the College has – to 3 January, the exhibition attracted a total of more academic understanding of the College’s role – over the years – successfully discovered 9,556 visitors and was featured across media including in higher education, as well as being an incisive 'The Art Beat of the Nation' talent and given it ‘every opportunity BBC’s Start the Week, The Times, The Sunday Times and visually appealing record of its impact on society, Sunday Times, 4 November 2012 to develop and to flourish’. and the Guardian. culture and the economy.

10 11 ‘Untitled (For Man Would Remember Each Murmur)’, installation view, Virgile Ittah (MA Sculpture, 2013) ‘The vast efforts across curation, production, operations, together with student enterprise, made for an entirely richer visitor experience attracting record visitor numbers - more than 60,000 - over the course Above: ‘LED Vase’, Nicholas Gardner (MA Design Products, 2013) of 11 days.’ Middle: ‘Show RCA 2013’, Sculpture Building Right: ‘Metáfora’ (from the project ‘Metaphor or Sadness Inside Out’), Catarina Vasconcelos (MA Visual Communication, 2013)

Show RCA 2013, with 509 graduating students, was a move which brought together all four programmes of harnessing human waste as a resource, a focus Show RCA 2013 the College’s largest graduate exhibition to date, as a united School of Fine Art. Sculpture, Painting, on culturally sensitive developing world innovation spanning seven buildings across the College’s two Printmaking and Photography all showed at the was evident. campuses in Battersea and Kensington. Battersea campus, alongside Architecture, which A growth in performance art at the RCA was The optimistic and enterprising spirit of the exhibited in the nearby Testbed site. also evident in the number of graduates who produced academic year 2012/13 was encapsulated in Show That Ceramics & Glass and Goldsmithing, time-specific pieces for their graduate show. More than RCA 2013’s identity, designed by Visual Communication Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery also showed ten students from across Sculpture, Painting, alumni, Studio Oswald. This was a shift from the at the Battersea campus, and pointed to the opening Photography and Printmaking incorporated performance tradition and heritage evoked in the previous year of the Woo Building, which will house these programmes into their final show offering. The arrival of performance prompted by the College’s anniversary celebrations. from 2015. pioneer Joan Jonas as the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Studio Oswald modified Tobias Frere-Jones’ sans- Building on a collective, curated approach tested Professor for the spring and summer terms helped serif Gotham typeface, introducing new possibilities out in the work-in-progress shows earlier in the year, bolster students’ understanding of producing, for spatial alignments. The bolder identity and Show RCA 2013 emphasised the power of interdisciplinary presenting and documenting performance-based ‘fragmented’ typography were combined with images creativity, and teased out the common and complementary projects. More students than ever staged work supplied by graduating students, set in a bright, narratives between programmes. Altogether the exhibition externally, drawing on their surrounding environment, dynamic palette. drew over 60,000 visitors. from billboards to exterior walls and roads. This distinctive look and feel was used across The dynamic and enterprising spirit captured Another focus of Show RCA 2013 was on hoardings, wayfinding and all print and digital marketing by the Show identity was particularly evident in students’ sustainability and reducing waste. Instead of the materials. A supporting visually led publication, also culinary and music events, and performance initiatives conventional painted MDF plinths, which are difficult designed by Studio Oswald, gave visitors a snapshot of the across the Schools of Communication and Fine Art. to recycle, the Show RCA 2013 production team used extent of Schools’ and programmes’ activity throughout There was much collaborative, interdisciplinary work pre-existing cardboard tubes as plinth supports, the year and directed them toward a comprehensive between programmes such as Fashion and Textiles, delivered straight into galleries on a just-in-time basis. online digital catalogue of graduating students. while a collaborative graduate project between Textiles The organisation of space emphasised recent and Vehicle Design for Audi exhibited at Clerkenwell capital developments at Battersea, including the Design Week. Across the School of Design, from opening of the Dyson Building in September 2012 – mechanical washing machines to concepts

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Above: Wolfson Printmaking Hall Left: Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

The Dyson Building was officially opened in received generous support from the Garfield Weston space for an additional 24 students in the programme. September 2012. Three hundred guests gathered Foundation, the Higher Education Funding Council The College is extremely grateful to the Dr Mortimer ‘What is so clever is the way in the Wolfson Printmaking Hall for toasts and for England, the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler & Theresa Sackler Foundation for funding this essential speeches, and to see RCA alumnus and design Foundation and the Wolfson Foundation. work, which takes place over the summer and will be in which Haworth Tompkins engineering entrepreneur Sir James Dyson inaugurate Construction of the next phase of the College’s completed for the start of the 2013/14 academic year. the building, turning the wheel of the 1829 printing expansion in Battersea began in spring, and The Sir The Foundation has demonstrated exceptional support has mirrored our educational press to produce a rare Sir Peter Blake etching. Po-Shing and Lady Helen Woo Department of Applied to the Painting programme at the Royal College of Art, The Dyson Building houses the programmes Art is on track to be completed before the end of 2014. and without them the Sackler Building for Painting aspirations. They have of Printmaking and Photography on the same campus The programmes of Ceramics & Glass and Goldsmithing, would not have been possible. as the Painting and Sculpture programmes, uniting Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery will move to created vistas, walkways and all the Fine Art disciplines for the first time in Battersea in 2015. the College’s history. The Sackler Building for Painting opened in cut-throughs that allow all InnovationRCA, the College’s entrepreneur September 2009. Since this time the continued growth business incubator, which now has a dedicated, in excellent applications to study Painting at the RCA the building’s very different purpose-built home at the Dyson Building in Battersea, has led to the need to expand the amount of studio showcased its most successful ventures in the space available. Original architects Haworth Tompkins occupants to interact in true Innovate show in the new public exhibition gallery devised a scheme to create floating mezzanines over for the opening. the double-height studio bays to meet this need. In RCA interdisciplinary style.’ Other guests visited the 225-seat Lecture addition, some entirely new floor spaces have been – Theatre, to be named the Lydia and Manfred Gorvy created to provide much-needed new seminar and Paul Thompson Lecture Theatre in recognition of their leadership gift workshop spaces. Rector to the College’s capital campaign. The newly reconfigured Sackler Building stays In addition to the £5 million gift from the true to the original brief – creating the ideal space in James Dyson Foundation, the new building has also which to make, learn and teach – while providing studio

14 15 New Knowledge Exchange Hubs and Research Centres The Creative Exchange Helix

The Royal College of Art is recognised as an established The Creative Exchange (CX) is a £4m Knowledge Plans for a healthcare innovation centre with Imperial leader in research in the creative arts and design, Exchange Hub led by Lancaster University in partnership College London were also put in motion in 2012/13. humanities, architecture and communication, with with Newcastle University and the Royal College of Art. The Healthcare Innovation Exchange (Helix) Centre, 70 per cent of its research rated as world leading The programme connects design research excellence in partnership with Imperial Health Trust’s St Mary’s or internationally excellent, according to the 2008 with businesses, service providers and citizens. Hospital, will combine the RCA’s creativity and user- Research Assessment Exercise. CX responds to changes in the design, creative centred design expertise with ICL’s clinical, engineering The RCA engages with business, government, and media-based industries, and the rise of the digital and scientific know-how, maximising the economic the non-profit sector and the design community through space. It explores new forms of engagement and exchange and social impact of healthcare research and innovation education and events, publications and industrial in the digital media, design, broadcast, performing and with national and international partners. The Centre collaborations, and has a strategic plan actively to visual arts, and gaming sectors, focusing on the public builds on previous collaborative work between Imperial build on this existing knowledge exchange platform, digital sphere and notions of participation, experience, College London and the RCA, and is funded by £2.8m to strengthen research as well as the culture of design personalisation, connectivity, narrative and identity. over four years from the HEFCE Catalyst Fund. innovation and entrepreneurialism, linking closer Such research will lead to new products, Dr Paul Thompson will co-direct the Centre to industry. experiences and business opportunities that empower with Professor Lord Ara Darzi, director of the Institute There are plans to nurture knowledge exchange anyone, anywhere to access, explore and create with for Global Health Innovation at ICL. The centre will recruit in each of the six Schools, connecting existing research the newly accessible collections of media, public five designers working across areas including patient excellence with industrial, economic and cultural information and personal data trails that form the public safety, and training and simulation technology. activity. Three centres of expertise, or ‘RCALabs’, digital sphere. concentrated on visualisation, design and prototyping, A cohort of 20 doctoral researchers are being and high-end imaging, have also been proposed; and recruited in the project’s first two years. RCA candidates a Head of Knowledge Exchange, Christina Schönleber, are jointly supervised by the Digital Research Lab will take up her post in January 2014. in the School of Communication, led by Professor Established expertise in knowledge exchange Neville Brody, and by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, and innovation lie with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for led by Professor Jeremy Myerson. This combination Design, InnovationRCA, and in studio projects. More brings together communication and digital design recent activities have centred on the Arts & Humanities expertise with skills in citizen participation and Research Council (AHRC)-funded Knowledge Exchange user engagement. Hub for the Creative Economy, the Creative Exchange (CX), In October 2012, the first PhD students joined and the Healthcare Innovation Exchange Centre (Helix). the CX programme: – Ben Dalton, ‘Demons and Sock Puppets: Metaphors of Personal Identity for Pseudonymity in Digital Public Spaces’ – John Fass, ‘Start Making Sense: Digital Archives and Narrative’ – Veronica Ranner, ‘Knowledge Exchange in Bio- Digital Public Space’.

16 17 Main Image: ‘Synt[e]tech[e]cology – Greenhouse Gas to Economic Asset’, main view of the tower with dust cultivation, Chang Yeob Lee (MA Architecture, 2013)

The academic year 2012/13 saw the graduates. The work in the show was Architecture first year of the new Interior Design regarded as outstanding, with critical programme, the emergence of more reviews citing its prescient, fresh and Architecture Design Studios (ADSs), relevant approach. more variety in student work, more World-class speakers contributed Interior Design publicly oriented projects in both to both the ‘Talking Interiors’ lecture Architecture and Interior Design series at the RCA, and the ‘Architecture&’ programmes, and increased external lecture series held at the Victoria and connections for the School. Albert Museum. These events provided An inter-school UK–Chinese a lively forum for debate, and were well research symposium was attended and attended by students and academics from contributed to by five students with their across the College and other institutions, tutor, who spent over two weeks in China as well as members of the interior design studying and making proposals for post- and architecture professions. industrial regeneration sites in Beijing. Here in London, a project with Brent Professor Alex de Rijke Council Regeneration will result Dean of School in a public building for Wembley in 2014. The Berlin architect Frank Barkow was Architecture Visiting Professor, setting the agenda for the radical transformation and often reprogramming ‘Architecture is measured of the façades of 1960’s London buildings. Interior Design Visiting Professors against the past; you build Fred Scott and Eva Jiriˇ cnᡠboth gave outstanding lectures on the subject, in the present and you try and contributed to the developing studio culture of tutorials and work reviews. to imagine the future.’ Research in Architecture was – given new impetus by the successful Richard Rogers application of two major grant awards, From Inside Out, Royal Academy of Arts, 2013 and the acceptance of two new PhD (designed by Ab Rogers, Head of Interior Design) students (one an RCA graduate), both of whom are fully funded. In Show RCA 2013, the Architecture programme exhibited in Testbed, Battersea, with Fine Art School of Architecture

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‘Patapolis: The Matter Form and Top: ‘Zedlev Inbetween Journey’, waiting Power of a Commonwealth Absurd area design for Waterloo International and Pata-Modern: Language is Railway Station, Karolina Finkova, Patiya always appropriated by the new Pullket, Ja Yoon Yoon and Leon Kacinari ruling class’, James Crawford (MA (MA Interior Design, first-years) Architecture, 2013) Middle: ‘Jerusalem’, artificial dairy pastures, License Zone PEDL 245 (New Addington), Joshua Green (MA Architecture, 2013)

Architecture Interior Design

All first-year students The new Interior Design socialist buildings in London, took part in ‘Wembley programme saw students exhibiting their findings at Meanwhile’, a live project challenging typologies and Great Western Studios. The collaboration with Brent evolving poetic conceptual Talking Interiors lecture Council to build a community responses to diverse series at the RCA provided facility next to the stadium. problems. They completed a lively forum for debate and The competition was won nine exciting projects, discussion, drawing such by a team led by Mike Lim exploring all notions of the world-class speakers as with the proposal ‘Pop interior from the emotionally Eva Jiriˇ cná,ˇ Fred Scott, Down Square’. Now under stimulating to the super- Ed Jones and Petra Blaisse construction, the all-timber functional; creating from a variety of disciplines. dance hall and auditorium full-scale, immersive below an elevated public environments, re-imagining deck is to be completed in our public transportation summer 2014. experience and envisaging Second-year work the future of A&E. was characterised by The students a wider-than-ever spread designed commercial of thesis experiment, interventions for real clients: including the critique two retail stores for Save the of public institutions, Children, one for Topshop transformation of existing Boutique in Oxford Circus, buildings, responses to and the Champagne and contemporary industrial/ DX bars within May Design ecological issues and Series. It promoted cross- housing design. The programme collaboration Architecture Design Studios through a shared project grew from five to six with History of Design, units, welcoming key new where students researched academics and practitioners and developed a design to the teaching faculty. response to key post-war

Pop-Down Square, Wembley, Event space (day view), Mike Lim, Shoichi Sado, Olivia Wright and Isobel Davies (ADS 6, first-year students)

22 23 Main Image: Poster for Eady Forum, Jack Llewellyn (MA Visual Communication , 2013)

This year has seen a period of home for the new programme. Joint Animation consolidation, with the biggest technical facilities now actively foster period of change the School has ever cross-learning and shared skills. experienced. With its physical space Many exciting joint strategies doubling in size within a completely have evolved over the year, with all Information Experience redesigned Queen’s Gate building, programmes in the School now running we have welcomed both Animation open electives, wherein students are and the new Information Experience encouraged to explore different areas Design Design (IED) programme, led by Dr and ideas. New and continuing forums Kevin Walker, into our environment. create open debate around disciplines. Hubs have been established that Exciting external projects have allowed articulate our academic structure: The programmes to collaborate across Visual Communication Research Zone identifies our growing the RCA, and the CX Hub continues emphasis on developing research to provide an inspiring source for new culture within the School, supported by thinking and experimentation. the appointment of our new Research Leader, Tom Simmons, and the IED Professor Neville Brody Experimental Lab provides a spiritual Dean of School

‘One student said it best when they said: "The course is not about making builders, it’s about making explorers".' – Anna Gerber Director, Visual Editions, June 2013

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Opposite: ‘Soligram’, Jaiyu Liu (MA Information Experience Design, first-year), Mario Andre Kong (MA Architecture, first-year) Opposite Right: Launch of Eady Forum, ILLinformed and Red Tape publications during ‘Show RCA 2013’

Left: Still from ‘Home’, Luiz Stockler (MA Animation, 2013) Middle: Still from ‘Untitled’, Luca Tóth (MA Animation, 2013) Information Animation Experience Design Visual Communication

It has been another Wellcome Trust towards a Information Experience London, and IED students Visual Communication is at have re-engaged with the successful year for film and supporting Design (IED) was validated showcased work at the V&A the edge of emerging new Royal Mail, with a project Animation graduates. Mikey web resource exploring in July 2012, and since and London Design Festival. disciplines stemming from connected to their extensive Please (MA Animation, the phenomenon of then the programme Funding was secured from the relationship between new communications archive. 2010) was long-listed for sleep paralysis. has experimented with AHRC and ESRC for research and traditional technologies, The V&A worked with us to an Academy Award for The acclaimed curriculum, maintaining projects, and the programme and understanding how this ask what the future of the his graduation film The writer, illustrator and a grounding in theory and was shortlisted for a large has changed the designer poster might be, and we Eagleman Stag, and Ben musician, Peter Blegvad, has research while remaining Wellcome grant. MA as well and society. Students and collaborated on the RIM Cady (MA Animation, 2012) been an inspiring addition to experimental and forward- as research students and staff work in an enormous BlackBerry project managed was nominated for the Royal the School as Visual Writing thinking. IED has a strong tutors have had academic number of disciplines – by the Helen Hamlyn Centre Television Society Award for Tutor. The programme technical focus, balanced papers accepted/presented photography, film, video, text, for Design. Our students best postgraduate animation welcomed a delegation from with conceptual and critical at conferences, and the paint, sound, wood-block continue to be in demand for Anomalies. 2012 graduate Hangzhou, China to attend perspectives. We have a core programme has established type, print, environment and across the College designing Eamonn O’Neill was also the Sino-UK Symposium and of three visiting lecturers, new industry links, with, digital. Ideas and creativity exhibitions and print nominated for a BAFTA for also hosted the Animated complemented by Senior for example, Jawbone and are the media, and visual material for other schools Above: Posters for Eady Forum and ILLinformed, Giulia Garbin, Yeni Kim and his first-year film, I’m Fine Bodies research symposium. Tutor Brock Craft. Our the Guardian. intelligence, thoughtfulness and programmes. Jack Llewellyn (MA Visual Communication, 2013) Thanks. Karolina Głusiec The Animation Experimental Lab serves and playfulness are Research students Below: ‘City Acrobat’, pop-up book, Yeni Kim (MA Visual Communication, 2013) (MA Animation, 2012) was programme has identified as a physical hub for the the tools. in Visual Communication awarded the prestigious Serious Animation as an programme, as well as a Over the past year, have worked to produce Jerwood Drawing Prize area in which to expand technical hub for the School Visual Communication some inspiring exhibitions for her film Velocity. Luiz research within the as a whole. has received tremendous this year within the College. Stockler (MA Animation, School. One key research Imperial College support from sponsors and As well as contributions to 2013) had his first-year film development this year was funded collaborative collaborators, from reviewing the exhibition, Disruption, Home screened on Channel the start of the Medical projects, such as Space design communications for in January, the Nightworks 4 as part of Random Acts, Research Council funded Program between IED, the Royal Navy to navigating spring exhibition, held at and 2013 graduate Christian CHILDSPLA project, with Architecture and Sculpture. BT’s archives, Christmas the Battersea campus, Schlaeffer’s film The London School of Hygiene The Student project 'Mapping cards for Tate Modern, and presented film and video Dewberry Empire premiered and Tropical Medicine, Great America' was selected for a competition set by Sir installations alongside at the prestigious BFI Ormond Street Hospital and public exhibition, first-year Quentin Blake. We have a performances from artists London Film Festival. 2013 the RCA, led by Professor student Hanna Lee won initiated a major project with and filmmakers. graduate Carla Mackinnon Joan Ashworth. an award for her poster Hyundai looking critically at was awarded £12,000 by the design for Transport for their branding status. We

28 29 Main Image: Vehicle Design SABIC ‘VISiCON’ project, Selim Benhabib, Pierre Andlauer and Henri Peugeot (MA Vehicle Design, first-year)

Programmes in the School of Design Design Interactions range from the highly conceptual to the deeply practical, and share a strong culture of experimentation, innovation and debate within differing Design Products approaches and curricula. Their shared aim is to provide a dynamic and vibrant environment that encourages risk and originality, diversity in thinking, Global Innovation opinions and ideologies. The School is increasingly focused on research-led teaching Design and innovation, and the appointment ‘The School has had a very of a School Research Leader has led to a significant increase in bids for successful year with numerous external funding. The School will make Innovation Design a strong contribution next year to the research and industrial College’s submission to the government Engineering census of research quality, REF 2014. collaborations involving other Professor Dale Harrow universities, institutions Dean of School and innovators from around Service Design the world, which continue to enrich the student and Vehicle Design staff experience.’

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Right: ‘The New Weatherman’, commissioned as part of Blueprints for the Unknown and Studiolab, EU-funded research project, David Benqué (PhD candidate, Design Products Service Design Design Interactions) Service Design is a new Below Right: ‘The Bird’, Wonseok Jung (MA Design Throughout the year, programme at the Royal Products, 2013) alongside their core College of Art and its first design project work in students joined in 2012. The their Platform groups, course is already recognised Vehicle Design students also took part not only in the UK but also in programme-wide globally, attracting industry Vehicle Design has now workshops, study trips collaborations from leading recruited a full team of and collaborative projects, UK firms such as Sainsbury’s, tutors to consider the including: 'Enhanced international brands such as broader issues of transport Design Interactions Bodies', exploring modifying Samsung and working at the design. The programme highest levels of government the body to achieve ‘Eidos Hero’, Tim Bouckley, is structured around three In 2012/13, MA projects something impossible; Mi Eun Kim, Millie Clive Smith including workshops that ‘pathway’ themes: Automark and Yuta Sugawara (MA Innovation included exploring social and the Rural is Radical Design Engineering, 2013) it ran in Downing Street for (commercial context and and cultural implications exhibition, Gallop Workshop, the Cabinet Office. The RCA branding), Inside Out for synthetic biology with Deptford, which showed faculty are complemented (interiors and physical user students from Imperial the outcomes of the Royal Innovation Design by some of the biggest interface), and Urban Flow College, a biohacking Amateur Expedition Society Global Innovation Engineering names in the field of Service (urban vehicle, system and workshop at a Community field trip to the Merz Barn, Design Design including Joe Heapy infrastructure) in order Biolab, and exploring new Cumbria. Platform 17 A recent applicant described who founded Engine, Neal to pioneer new design, models for the state and produced the 'Mind the After almost three years the IDE programme as one Stone who headed up design innovation and approaches citizenship. We visited Gap' workshop in Taiwan, of planning and many for ‘designers who don’t for British Airways, Ben to future mobility. High- Beijing and exchanged supported by NCKU Tainan; thousands of miles of air want to be designed’ – an Reason from Livework, Gus profile collaborative work, ideas with students at Cafa Platform 8 participated travel, the new double apt descriptor. The last Desbarats who is chairman as cross-disciplinary and Tsinghua University. in the Atmosphere and Master’s in Global Innovation year has been one of the of the Alloy, and Joe Ferry projects, was carried out Graduates continued Membrane exhibition, Brick Design started on 8 July strongest in the history of who led the design team and with Sabic on automotive to have an impact on Lane; and Harry Richardson 2013. Twelve students joined IDE and featured one of the Virgin, Intercontinental hotels lighting and plastics, and design discourse through and Platform 15 participated the induction period held most diverse set of students. and most recently Vertu. with Audi on the Audi Design conference presentations in the Out of the Woods for five weeks at the RCA Projects included design In these last 12 months the UNIverse European contest. (e.g. a colloquium at Nasa exhibition at the Victoria and and Imperial College. Those tools for synthetic biology; Service Design programme As the contest's external Ames Research Center, Albert Museum, as part of students were introduced digital camera disabling has undertaken projects examiner stated: 'Basing Design Indaba in South the London Design Festival. to the fast-paced, big badges; farming on the for Sainsbury's, the NHS, some projects on emerging Africa, and the Global Design The WORKS thinking approach of the sea; underground housing; BlackBerry, Transport for technologies and systems Forum, London). In research, collective of recent London-based programme and a laundry system for London, the Design Museum led to genuinely innovative the first commissions graduates showed in the before they travelled to Afghanistan. Another major and the Ministry of Justice. outcomes.' The overall from our EU Studio Lab Ventura Lambrate district New York for the autumn highlight was the ninth Its research team is working Student Design Award of the project were exhibited at during the Milan Furniture semester. They will spend GoGlobal trip, which took on the role of service design internationally renowned Ars Electronica. We helped Fair. Alexander Taylor’s 15 weeks in the USA before first-year students in policy development for CDN Interior Motives initiate, and participated Fold light was included in travelling on to Tokyo for to Sydney, Australia, government, social housing competition was given to our in, a design seminar at The Next Wave industrial the spring semester. on the Rio Tinto Sports as a service, and the role students Nir Siegel, Cherica 10 Downing Street, and design exhibition during The programme will expose Innovation Challenge. of intellectual property in the Haye (Textiles) and Hanchul Intel funded a new the Washington DC Design students to a very broad And in research a lot of formation of new service- Lee (Fashion). Louise D three-year technologist-in- Festival, and Postler spectrum of approaches effort has gone into growing led business ventures. The Kiesling was successfully residence post to combine Ferguson’s Papafoxtrot toys in design, technology MPhil and PhD numbers – programme offers a two-year awarded her PhD on Design hands-on learning with were nominated for the 2013 and innovation. As one at the beginning of 2013/14 MA and PhD courses and Transience, by investigating critical reflection on Designs of the Year award at student put it: ‘prepare for we expect to have a strong undertakes short courses for the impact of fashion on the digital technologies. the Design Museum. difference’. We await. cohort of 13 research students. experienced designers. automotive industry.

34 35 Main Image Left: ‘Little Red Flower’, installation view, Echo Morgan (MA Printmaking, 2013) Main Image Right: ‘Drive’, Max Ruf (MA Painting, 2013)

The School of Fine Art opened Painting the year with the RCA/Outset Visual Cultures lectures series, and with ‘The openness of the Sculpture workshops run by Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor for Performance course attracts students with Photography Joan Jonas. These continued throughout the year and were popular an amazing range of interests, and significant contributions to the School. The integration of all four skills and experience, many Printmaking programmes in the School at the Battersea campus had a positive from other disciplines such as impact on students and staff, and has created new opportunities science music and theatre.’ Sculpture for recruitment and exchange. – We closed the academic year Jenni Lomax with a highly successful degree show, Director, Camden Arts Centre which was professional and confidently installed. The ethos of this year’s Show stemmed from the School-wide effort to embrace the concept of a collective Fine Art exhibition. The show was critically and professionally acclaimed, affording the students positive feedback and new industry connections. In preparation for the new academic year, the School established the Moving Image and Performance routes, and cohorts of students from across Fine Art will have the opportunity to work together in these specialist areas.

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Painting Photography Printmaking Sculpture

This year was exceptional in collaboration with the equipped project/seminar The Photography programme Printmaking began the The community nature of the Manor Prizes; Rodrigo for the Painting programme, British Council, the Edge space. These additions to began the year by settling academic year with all Sculpture programme not Matheus showed around with our artists being of Arabia organisation, the Painting studios were into custom-built facilities 2012 graduates exhibiting only nurtures creativity, but the word, with highlights included in many high- the Ministry of Arts and generously supported by in Battersea, which include at Christies Multiplied, also achievement. During the including the Palais de profile exhibitions such Letters in Kuwait, and the the Sackler Foundation, substantial photographic and with a talk by visiting academic year, our students Tokyo, Paris, and a solo as Paper at the Saatchi Contemporary Art Platform. which also played a major studios and darkrooms artist Kiki Smith. Our showcased a vast array of project for the Pina Art Gallery, and Bloomberg Painting’s home role in financing the original for large-format analogue brand new workshops accomplishments in addition Fair – the South American New Contemporaries. in the Sackler Building was building in 2009. and digital prints. Early hosted an increase in to our rigorous academic Biennale. This academic year Professor David Rayson and reconfigured under the in the year, the programme publishing projects and book programme and the School’s was challenging, yet one of a group of students worked stewardship of architects organised a School-wide production. The graduates work-in-progress and our most accomplished. We with emerging artists in Howarth Tompkins, creating international research of 2013 produced a group degree shows. Mark Essen achieved this by celebrating the Middle East, running 12 bespoke mezzanine conference, The Shadow portfolio, as well as Before, was selected for Bloomberg diversity and offering a wide residencies and workshops studio spaces and a fully of Language, together with Between and After, a book New Contemporaries; Emma spectrum of ideas that are The Unseen, an off-site of text and images, with Alonze won the Jarman connected to what it means exhibition of moving image essays by invited guests. Video Award; Emily Price to produce sculpture in the work at the Guangzhou Ambitious and varied work won the Coutts and Cowley twenty-first century. ‘Catch Sight of My Moving Image’, Cristina Cojanu (PhD Painting, 2013) Triennial. Our MA students pushing the boundaries wrote, produced and edited of print was presented Waving Flags, a Black Dog- in the final show. Solo shows published book of text by Printmaking graduates and images addressing at Milton Keynes Gallery photography as a form of (Andrea Beuttner), Camden translation. Many students Arts Centre (Serena Korda) were part of significant and MOMA New York exhibitions: Joanna (Haris Epaminonda) were Piotrowska, a Genesis amongst many alumni scholar, and Fatma Bucak exhibitions. Three staff were selected for Bloomberg presented work at Impact New Contemporaries. Taus Dundee the international Makhacheva was part Printmaking conference. of Love Me Love Me Not Alumna Elizabeth Gossling at the Venice Biennale. won tthe Clifford Chance Michal Bar-Or was Postgraduate Printmaking prize. a finalist in the Saatchi New Sensations commission.

Middle: ‘IV’ (from the 'Frowst' series), Joanna Piotrowska (MA Photography, 2013) Right: ‘L-R Piloerection/ Galactophorous/ Lactiferous’, detail, Lauren Kelly (MA Sculpture, 2013)

40 41 Main Image: ‘Curiosity: Art and the Pleasure of Knowing’, installation view, Hayward Touring exhibition curated by Critical Writing in Art & Design tutor Dr Brian Dillon

2012/13 has been an especially campaign group Index on Censorship; Critical & Historical productive year for staff and students and Dr Sarah Teasley, Reader in Design alike in the School of Humanities. History and Theory, ran the British We began the year with a move to new Academy/International Partnership Studies premises in Kensington – bringing & Mobility Scheme-funded workshops us under one roof for the first time ‘Design History of Now’ with Chiharu and encouraging a greater spirit of Watanabe (Tokyo Zokei University). cross-fertilisation for all. We welcomed Dr Victoria Walsh, Critical Writing in Staff achievements include a new Head of Curating Contemporary Art, number of exciting projects: Professor and Dr Marquard Smith who joins as our David Crowley staged his exhibition new School Head of Doctoral Studies Art & Design Sounding The Body Electric: Experiments and Research Leader for 2013/14. in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984 at Calvert 22 Gallery; Dr Professor Jane Pavitt Brian Dillon curated Curiosity: Art Dean of School Curating Contemporary and the Pleasure of Knowing at Turner Contemporary; Michaela Crimmin led the AHRC-funded research project Art+Conflict, co-organised with Art ‘This kind of conference / couldn't happen in an English V&A RCA History department. It's important that of Design we're in an art school.’ – John Calder Samuel Beckett's publisher and champion of European literature, on the Christine Brooke-Rose conference organised by the School of Humanities

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‘Nice Seats and Projection: People's Passion, Lifestyle, Beautiful Wine, Gigantic Glass Tower, All Surrounded by Water’, installation view, Neil Beloufa, ‘No one Lives Here’ exhibition, 2013

Above: ‘Space, Trace, Identity, Materials’, History of Design symposium, June 2013 Left: Cover of ‘After Butler's Wharf’, publication by Critical Writing in Art & Design students

Critical & Historical Critical Writing Curating V&A/RCA Studies in Art & Design Contemporary Art History of Design

We were joined by our largest Calling Time on the Grand Our graduating students Windshield, at The Yard The graduating student with Migration in Mind and The graduates of 2013 ('From Punk to the Hijab: ever cohort of new research Project); and curator James channelled their diverse in July 2013. Other highlights show for CCA this year the exhibition Not Dressed produced an extraordinary Women’s embodied dress students, including Helen Lingwood (Artangel). Alumna interests and skills into include graduating student was entitled No one Lives for Conquering: Ines Doujak’s range of research topics as performative resistance Kearney who was awarded and current staff member a pioneering study of the Alice Butler winning the Here – an exploration of the Loomshuttles/Warpaths this year, from the sensorial 1970s to now'). Shehnaz an AHRC Collaborative Christine Atha was awarded history of Butler’s Wharf. Frieze Writer’s Prize, while digital condition in dialogue (edited and curated by Ruth impact of modern cremation now joins us as a new Doctoral Award to work with her PhD, entitled ‘Coals in Art Review described the PhD student Bill Balaskas with artists, architects Noack). Louli Michaelidou in late Victorian England history of design tutor. For the British Postal Museum the Bath: Design Reform book as ‘a vivid reminder was awarded the Alice and cultural critics, and completed her PhD on the to nation branding in 2013, we also welcome and Archive on the subject and the British Working of the creative benefits Award for an emerging artist included a digital platform, representation of Cyprus modern Malaysia. Students Dr Livia Rezende and Spike ‘Mapping Modernity: The Class, 1937–1947’; she of all forms of collective and Xinru Long published live events and the making at the Venice Biennale. explored design and craft Sweeting as new tutors, London Postal Map of 1856’. is now writing a book on endeavour’. Students the first book on data of a documentary. During At the end of year, we also processes, architectural and say goodbye to Dr Glenn For our MA programme the subject. also collaborated on visualisation in Chinese. the year, students engaged said farewell to Ruth Noack training and model making, Adamson, Head of V&A we hosted our customary the creation of a new in a number of projects with as head of programme, and the distribution and Research. Glenn takes up range of celebrated guest podcasting platform, external partners, including welcomed Dr Victoria Walsh. retailing of goods, and the the post of director at the speakers, including artist CAR (listentocar.co.uk), Wysing Arts Centre, ACME construction of sub-cultures New York Museum of Arts Mark Leckey; theorist which presents imaginative Studios and Lux/Hackney through dress and social and Design, and we look Professor Michael Newman and unconventional audio Picture House. Further work practices. Our graduating forward to working with him (Goldsmiths/Art Institute ‘reports’ every fortnight. for the European-funded PhD students included in his new capacity. of Chicago); author Richard Moving from a web-platform MeLA project (European Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin Jones (Soft Machines: to an event, students on Museums and Libraries ('Creating the Materials of Nanotechnology and Life); the programme won a in the Age of Migrations) led Sociability: The Worshipful author and broadcaster commission to stage a live to the publication of Agency, Company of Pewterers Will Self (Umbrella); writer theatrical performance, Ambivalence, Analysis: in early modern London') Iain Sinclair (Ghost Milk: Unwinding into the Approaching the Museum and Shehnaz Suterwalla,

46 47 Main Image: ‘Untitled Series’, trophies for South Bank Awards, Livvy Fink (MA Ceramics & Glass, 2013)

This year the School has been success this year, many students have Ceramics & Glass extremely successful in raising its been selected for and participated in profile both nationally and internationally. global exhibitions and have won major There have been numerous awards and scholarships. research and industry collaborations The School pursues development Fashion Menswear both School and College-wide, also by constantly adapting to the realities involving other universities. We and needs of art and design for the future, encompass the scientific exploration of which we see as a positive challenge. & Womanswear material, the development and cross- fertilisation of old and new technologies, Professor Wendy Dagworthy and the possibility of new forms. Dean of School We encourage our students to Goldsmithing, challenge and question conventions and to respond with answers and possibilities driven by their sense of Silversmithing, curiosity. As further testimony to our ‘With further study comes a sense of refined focus, Metalwork & Jewellery apparent in the work of the Royal College of Art’s Master's Textiles degrees. Whatever next step these talented individuals take, one thing’s for certain - it will be eagerly awaited.’ – Rebecca Gonsalves Assistant Fashion Editor, The Independent, 10 June 2013

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Ceramics & Glass Fashion Menswear Goldsmithing, Textiles & Womenswear Silversmithing, Students collaborated Metalwork & Jewellery Work from a collaborative with the School of Design, RCA Fashion students project between RCA Pozna ´n, Poland on Art Food won the top three prizes at The GSM&J collective, Boons (overall winner), Textiles and Vehicle Design 2013, a project partially International Talent Support Moving On was launched James Stoklund (silver), for Jaguar Landrover took funded by the Adam in Trieste, and participated with a mission to open Danyi Zhu (jewellery), centre stage at Clerkenwell Mickiewicz Institute to take in an exhibition curated up debate around the and Kia Utzon-Frank and Design Week. Six graduating design education out of the by Iain R Webb at the accessibility and knowledge Thahoura Mona Hadinejad Textile students were university walls and set up Arnhem Biennale and the of contemporary jewellery (both highly commended). selected to exhibit in the conditions that prepare Whitechapel Gallery. Two and objects. Moving On Alumni, Maisie Broadhead Texprint show in London students for professional out of four British Fashion challenged the traditional and Linda Brothwell, and Paris, and two students practice, working at Council Scholarships were notion that jewellery and were selected for the – Signe Rand Ebbesen the Cmielów´ Porcelain awarded to RCA Fashion objects should be kept Jerwood Makers Open. and Cherica Haye – were Factory to produce their students. Graduates were untouched, behind glass Francesca Amfitheatrof awarded major prizes there. designs. Project partners widely represented in in the cabinets of galleries was made design director Graduating students were Michelin-starred London Fashion Week, and museums, by taking at Tiffany & Co, New York. Henry Hussey and Beatrice restaurant Launceston including BFC New Gen and the work to the public and A key event was Larkin were selected to show Place, and freelance food London Collections Men, and increasing public awareness Saplings 360 Vision in work in the Chinese Textile writer William Sitwell. created capsule collections of contemporary jewellery March, an exhibition with competition and exhibition The works were exhibited as part of Selfridges' ‘Bright and object practice. Events Neue Sammlung, Munich. A at Tsinghua University, at Flow Gallery, London, Young Things’. Graduate included the Moving On: photographic installation in Beijing, in April. and at BCB (British Ceramics destinations included 8,207,654mm Walking the area around the museum RCA Textiles were Biennale), Stoke on Trent. Givenchy, Martin Margiela, exhibition and participation showcased key pieces invited to join the ArcInTex Fifteen of the 23 Balmain, Victor & Rolf, in the London Design from the GSM&J archive European Network and shortlisted artists for the Stella McCartney, Alexander Festival 2013. collection, one of several Consortium of six EU British Ceramics Biennial McQueen, Abercrombie There were five specialist collections at the universities to engage 2013 award were graduates & Fitch and Ralph Lauren. winners in the Theo Fennell RCA comprising graduate in interdisciplinary doctoral of the Ceramics & Glass Major sponsors RCA Awards 2013: Sofie work since the 1960s. study and research. programme, the winner and collaborators this year being Nao Matsunaga, included Brioni, IFF, Adidas who graduated in 2007. and Monsoon. Professor Wendy Dagworthy curated the exhibition Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Left: ‘A: SYSTEM’, detail, Emma Sheldon (MA Textiles, 2013) Middle: Xiao Li (MA Womenswear, 2013) ‘Saplings 360 Vision’, Right: Hanchul Lee (MA Menswear, 2013) Munich, 2013

52 53 ‘Meissen Porcelain Table Fountain Group’, scans of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century versions, Victoria Research RCA and Albert Museum project

The RCA continues to lead in the development Cultures of Curating Design, Innovation Dialogues of Form Image & Language of high-level interdisciplinary research in art and & Society & Surface design through the six Schools, the Helen Hamlyn The AHRC-funded ‘Art The School of Fine Art Olivier Richon, with Centre for Design and the Creative Exchange & Conflict Research Professor Anthony Early-career researcher Professor and Head hosted two international Professor Jiehong Jiang, Hub. Research is guided by thematic strategic Network’ is a partnership Dunne, Head of Design and RCA doctoral of Ceramics & Glass, research conferences: Birmingham Institute priorities, and underpinned by innovation, impact between the RCA and Interactions, and Fiona graduate Dr Steve Martin Smith, the project Dr Trish Lyons, School of Art and Design. The and relevance. We are consolidating our four cross- campaign group Index Raby, Reader in Design Brown was appointed to aligns with the School Research Leader in Fine Shadow of Language was College research themes – Cultures of Curating; On Censorship. Curating Interactions, devised contribute to an exciting of Material’s research Art, led the ‘Metaflux the College’s response Design, Innovation & Society; Dialogues of Form & Contemporary Art tutor a key Design Museum project to restore strategy through its Platform’, a two-day to a dynamic international Surface; and Image & Language. Michaela Crimmin leads exhibition, United Micro a Meissen porcelain table focus on material event to address conference held last year This year, all universities in the country submit this initiative, which has Kingdoms (UmK): A Design fountain that will be a key experimentation, as historical interpretations at the Central Academy of their research for the government census of research established a network of Fiction, which presented feature of the Victoria well as the use of new and of bronze in the context Fine Art, in Beijing, which quality, the Higher Education Funding Council’s artists, academics and perspectives on a fictional and Albert Museum’s advanced technologies of contemporary methods explored the idea Research Excellence Framework 2014. This includes activists in workshops future for the United forthcoming Europe for the production and discourses of the ‘shadow image’ – assessment of ‘impact’ – the effects of our research leading to a publication. Kingdom. An interview 1600–1800 galleries. of bespoke objects. of practice. the direct translation of on society, industry and culture. The College believes with Dunne & Raby, filmed The largest single ‘The Shadow of the Chinese word that we have a strong case to make for the relevance at their studio in January, Meissen figure group Language’ was the sixth for photography. of our research in our specialist fields. We continue appeared on the BBC's in existence, the fountain Annual Conference of to build a strong research culture, while boosting Culture Show. has a footprint of the Centre for Chinese capacity to develop activities and knowledge exchange, approximately 4m x 1.5m, Visual Arts, organised with awareness of the need for research outputs to be and is of international by Professor and available for peer review and to a wider audience. importance. Led by Head of Photography,

54 55 Left: RCA research students hosted their second biennial exhibition, ‘Disruption’, showcasing the broadest range of art and design practice-led research to date, January 2013

Grants & Scholarships Research Partnerships

Grant successes, scholar- (EPSRC) and ‘Fashion product design and The AHRC Creative to a major award of ships and support are and Translation: Britain, innovation laboratory; Exchange (CX), an exciting £2.3 million to develop vital for maintaining Japan, China, Korea’ and Dr Suchitra partnership with the an AHRC Centre for the highest calibre of (AHRC). In addition Balasubrahmanyan, universities of Lancaster Doctoral Training, ‘The research, and in 2012/13, to public and private associate professor and Newcastle, to London Doctoral Design the College increased its sponsored research at the School of explore the future of the Consortium (LDOC)’, to research income by studentships, the College Design at Ambedkar digital public space with run from 2014. 20 per cent on the awarded ten scholarships University Delhi. pioneering companies previous year. Funded to PhD students as part to create new products, research projects of its 175th anniversary experiences and business included ‘TRADERS: celebrations. opportunities recruited its Training Art and This year, the first three PhD students. Design Researchers in College welcomed three The ‘Skills Participation for Public international researchers Development for Space’ (EU Marie Curie), funded by the Leverhulme Researchers in Design ‘Compassion by Design’ Trust: performance Practice (SKIP)’, an (AHRC), ‘Innovation and artist and video pioneer RCA-led initiative in Knowledge Centre in Professor Joan Jonas; partnership with Kingston Top: SKIP workshop, March 2013 Synthetic Biology with Dr Jieun Kim, from Arts University and University Right: ‘United Micro Kingdoms’ exhibition, Design Museum, Imperial College London’ et Métiers, ParisTech’s of the Arts London, led Dunne & Raby

56 57 Right: Senior associate Chris McGinley (right) and visiting research associate Cristina Gorzanelli (centre) conduct research at Progress, a gardening community centre in Brixton Middle: Research associate Peter Ziegler (right) checks out the fitness regime of an older person The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design in Hyde Park, London

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design – The Age & Ability – The Work & City Lab – The Healthcare is the Royal College of Art’s largest Lab looks at how designers investigates how designers Research Lab explores how and longest-running centre for design can shape a future that can make living and working designers can collaborate research. Our work has one simple aim: includes all ages and in our cities more inclusive with clinicians and patients to help improve people’s lives. Projects abilities. A keynote study and sustainable. Our work to meet healthcare are organised in three research labs: this year explored the with industrial partners this challenges for the twenty- Healthcare & Patient Safety, Work & design of an inclusive taxi year (including Haworth, first century. This year we City and Age & Ability. Each lab takes for London with Turkish Philips Lighting and worked with Arjo Huntleigh an approach that is inclusive and companies Karsan and Megaman) focused on new to address the challenge interdisciplinary, developing innovative Hexagon, and we continued ways to make workspace of bedsores in community and empathic research methods and the theme of Everyday Living more expressive, flexible care and began a long-term exchanging knowledge via industrial with projects for Stannah and comfortable – and on collaboration with DePuy collaboration, events, external on the connected stairlift, alternative models of on the future of knee education and publications. Panasonic on services low-energy lighting in surgery. We extended Allied to its strong links with to support healthy ageing, the school classroom. our interest in aspects business and other external partners, and Kingwood on activities We explored energy use of dementia care with the Centre also began supervising its for adults with autism. in the home on a major studies on wayfinding first PhD candidates this year through Our People & Technology EU-funded project and and care furniture, with participation in The Creative Exchange research focused on proposed a new design Bupa and Kinnarps (CX), a knowledge exchange hub funded bridging the gap between framework for a Scottish respectively. Our flagship by the AHRC. The year was ‘book-ended’ assistive and mainstream hospital. Engagement in project to redesign the by two extraordinary events: the first, technology (with BT and three UK Research Council ambulance progressed with in October 2012, saw Helen Hamlyn Scope) and on strengthening funded studies – Creative a major evaluation workshop Research Associates work with senior neighbourhood community Citizens, Creative Exchange at Imperial College, and civil servants in a Design Summit at links (with BlackBerry). and Family Rituals 2.0 – we also supported an 10 Downing Street; the second, in July We also completed demonstrated our long-term entrepreneurial start-up 2013, witnessed the successful staging a two-year study with Danish interest in researching to improve medication for of the Include Asia conference with manufacturer Oticon on the rise of digitally- breast cancer patients. local partners in Hong Kong. The Helen ways to improve the use of connected communities. Hamlyn Centre for Design is endowed hearing aids. by the Helen Hamlyn Trust, which has supported its work in inclusive and people-centred design since 1991.

Our design research has one simple aim: to help improve people’s lives. Above: Gail Ramster and Alan Outten (standing) work with creative citizens at the Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum in London Right: Research associate Lisa Johansson talks with care home staff and resident

58 Right: ‘QAF – A Sustainable Washing System’, Idrees Rasouli Middle: MorphTM Wheels launched for sale in 2012 attracted significant customer and media interest InnovationRCA

Graduate entrepreneurs at work InnovationRCA, the Royal College of It also won a string of awards for its at InnovationRCA Art’s centre for entrepreneurship and sustainable waterless sanitation enterprise, marked its expansion into system, including a Rushlight Award, the Dyson Building with Innovate, Climate Week’s Best New Product and a public entrepreneurship exhibition the Observer’s Big Idea Ethical Award. celebrating the works of graduate In parallel the company is advancing its design-engineering enterprises it has development of sustainable alternatives supported since 2005. This attracted to chemical portable sanitation systems significant media and public attention. in use in the UK and has been awarded During the year, 13 graduate start- a UK Trade and Investment Technology up companies were supported in the Strategy Board SMART award. A further InnovationRCA incubator, bringing three start-ups won UKTI SMART grants, the total number of design-engineering bringing the total of Technology Strategy graduate companies supported and Board funding raised during the year by who is developing novel cordless incubated at the RCA to 20 and the incubator start-ups to almost £400,000. shuttering systems. number of jobs created by these Those funded include Cupris Health, This year also saw the SMEs to just under 90. Ten of these developer of general practice diagnostic commercial launch of folding wheelchair companies are now trading and ten devices and services based around wheels, developed by RCA alumnus have generated new patentable smart phones, which expanded its team Duncan Fitzsimons and commercialised intellectual property. and launched a pilot trial of its products at InnovationRCA. The Morph™ wheels InnovationRCA was able to during the year. won the Design Museum’s Design of the sponsor graduate entrepreneur visas InnovationRCA continued to Year for Transport 2013. for the first time this year under the be the first point of call for intellectual As a catalyst for interdisciplinary UK Border Agency scheme, and has property support at the RCA, hosting collaboration, InnovationRCA delivered assisted two graduates in founding more than 20 drop-in clinics for ‘Citizen-Centred Design for Future consumer goods start-up companies students. It also attracted over 100 Transport’, a symposium which based in the incubator. applications for its commercialisation connected RCA researchers with In December, InnovationRCA fellowships’ programme, which offers representatives of public transport, hosted its annual start-up-investor business mentoring, access to space the automotive and technology sectors, showcase event, which saw three and funds to enterprising graduates and city planners. start-ups raise funding to the tune with potentially licensable designs and From June to September, ‘The Royal College of Art’s of £275,000. to social entrepreneurs developing very InnovationRCA delivered Launchpad, The value of the business early-stage design-engineering projects. the RCA’s entrepreneurship summer new innovation centre aims mentoring and support provided Thanks to generous support from Wates school for enterprising graduates. In by InnovationRCA is reflected in the Giving, fellowships were awarded to the year it launched a series of start-up to nurture young entrepreneurs achievements of the companies and Trine Lindegaard, a practising ethical and entrepreneurs’ networking ‘meet graduates it supports. A number of the designer, and Idrees Rasouli, who up’ events aimed at helping aspiring - and takes a surprisingly start-ups incubated reached significant is developing manually powered washing London-based entrepreneurs recruit milestones during the year. Loowatt machines. A James Dyson Innovation skills for their businesses. hard-headed approach Limited secured a follow-on grant of Fellowship was awarded to Patrick Overall, the year has seen $1 million from the Bill and Melinda Morris for developing an innovative InnovationRCA consolidate itself to business survival.’ Gates Foundation, to scale its product 3D printing process, and a fourth as a hub for design-engineering – and technology trials in Madagascar. fellowship was won by Kia Utzon-Frank, entrepreneurship in the UK. Simon Neville The Observer, Sunday 30 September 2012

60 61 SustainRCA ReachOutRCA

SustainRCA is the RCA’s initiative to In June, SustainRCA was 2012/13 was another exciting year inspire and encourage art and design one of 11 international institutions for ReachOutRCA. We offered 67 students to address sustainability and global companies taking part in workshops to schools across 16 London in their work. This academic year the Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship’s boroughs, and brought together 560 was one of growth, and SustainRCA CE100 conference and workshop young people, their teachers and RCA reflected that with an expanded team week, attended by design, engineering students to collaborate on innovative spanning academic support, operations and business students. Innovation and inspiring projects. and communications. Engineering Design student Timothy In November we participated in The SustainRCA Show and Sadler was selected to work on the the Campaign for Drawing’s international ‘It was good for our students Awards, held annually during the initiative's ongoing Circular Economy initiative, ‘The Big Draw: Drawing London Design Festival, present the Innovation Project. Together’, a series of experimental to have time and freedom best of socially and environmentally led Across its research activities, workshops that made links between graduate work. This year’s exhibition, SustainRCA participated in the animation, collage, film and drawing. to express ideas without the Design for the Real World, marked the Design for Social Innovation and In May we took over the gallery anniversary of publication of Victor Sustainability (DESIS) workshops with in the Dyson Building for ‘Open Space’, constraints of school.’ Papanek’s seminal book of the same University of the Arts (AHRC funded), our contribution to Wandsworth Arts – name, and was presented jointly with building connections between academic Festival. Five local schools worked with Design Technology Coordinator the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. In institutions and public and third sectors. RCA Sculpture students to build site- Brentside High School total, 67 graduates from 13 programmes Work continued on SusLabNWE – specific installations and curate applied, with 29 shortlisted. a joint research project with the Helen a vibrant exhibition of their work. SustainRCA further developed Hamlyn Centre for Design. Part of And in June, 12 schools took part its support for programmes. Throughout a wider European-funded programme, in our Showzine workshops alongside the autumn and spring terms, it ran the project aims to reduce household Show RCA 2013. Each group worked ‘Futurebound’ with Textiles, exploring energy use, trialling new user-centred with a graduating student to document sustainability in the textile industry products, services and interfaces their visit. The brilliant outcomes of through field trips, talks and films. with householders. this project included: ingenious three- In October SustainRCA held a week- SustainRCA ran an exciting dimensional maps of the Sculpture Top: Visit to a bamboo forest during A school student participates the ‘Power of Bamboo’ workshop at long Design Enterprise workshop with workshop for the Gwangju Design show, ‘eye-boggling’ texture drawings in ReachOut’s ‘Open Space’ Gwangju Design Biennale, July 2013 Innovation Engineering Design, and Centre in South Korea: ‘The Power in Design Products, The Veiled Man and workshops led by RCA students Above: Shot of the SustainRCA show Felicity Hammond and Gabriel Birch and awards 2012, Design for a week-long interdisciplinary project with of Bamboo’ applied sustainability Other Spooky Stories inspired by the the Real World Nissan exploring future mobility as part thinking to bamboo innovation. Up to Photography show, audio treasure hunts ‘I learnt that of the College’s AcrossRCA initiative. 25 South Korean students took part, around Visual Communication, and an Curriculum work was supported later presenting their work at the 2013 inventive set of instructions for viewing experimenting is one of by tutorials, attended by 50 students Gwangju Design Biennale. art that suggested you should ‘enter the throughout the year. Five talks were room with as much stealth as possible’. the best ways to reach held on topics including algae and This year we were delighted to biomaterials, human waste as a collaborate with Art on the Underground a good outcome.’ resource, the UK high street and data on a series of workshops that culminated – visualisation. These themes appeared in a poster exhibition at Earls Court ‘Drawing Together’ participant in a number of graduates’ work in Show Station, and with Frieze Foundation on Henrietta Barnett School RCA 2013. workshops and family guides for Frieze Projects East and Frieze London. Thank you to our funders the Durham Wharf Foundation and John Lyon’s Charity for their generous continued support.

62 63 Careers adviser Laura-Jane Sculpture MA student Emily Price’s Silverman speaking at FuelRCA's winning work ‘Cheese Rolling’ at ‘Do the Right Thing’ employability Cowley Manor, The Coutts Cowley seminar, November 2012 Manor Arts Award 2013

FuelRCA Corporate Partnerships

‘This year we are celebrating 20 years of collaboration, FuelRCA is the Royal College of Art Eight groups of alumni completed ‘FuelRCA know professional development service. the first PwC-RCA mentoring programme a testimony of IFF’s It helps students prepare for life after for creative start-ups. They had each their market, graduation, and supports alumni received 18 months’ coaching from RCA Corporate Partners is a network of Formula E Racing series in London commitment and as they set up their own practices business consultants at PwC, giving them 23 members in 2012/13, with members in 2014; Sculpture students created their value and gain employment in the creative the confidence to combine business joining from a wide array of industries an unique and inspiring site-specific dedication to the industries. FuelRCA complements rigour with creative thinking. ranging from transportation, digital outdoor exhibition for Cowley Manor’s proposition the discipline-specific support given Top lawyers from Stephenson media, technology, fashion, hospitality, beautiful 55-acre park land; Fashion College, and our by RCA Schools and programmes, Harwood continued to provide generous local authority, retail, fast-moving and Textiles students were tasked is clear and and incorporates the latest thinking pro bono advice on patents and other consumer goods, and food and drinks. to produce a capsule range to help enduring desire to on enterprise, employability and intellectual property rights, while Henry Innovative partnerships with celebrate fashion retailer Monsoon’s their delivery entrepreneurship education. Lydiate gave a fascinating lecture on fine industry sit at the core of students’ prestigious fortieth anniversary; Brent continue to reinforce Thirty-four talks, workshops art copyright and how to engage with the curriculum and have a significant Council collaborated with Architecture is highly and clinics were held, attended by art market. impact on teaching, learning and students to transform a disused space those ties between 54 per cent of students and increasing An annual Christmas Workshop research at the College. These bespoke close to Wembley Stadium into a public regarded.’ numbers of recent graduates. Many was added to FuelRCA’s mentoring creative collaborations give external hub; and SABIC Innovative Plastics the creative minds – events were streamed live and archived partnership with the Royal Society for the organisations the opportunity to connect launched the VISiCON competition, for Plymouth University on the FuelRCA website, which was used encouragement of Arts, Manufactures with the College and its students, Textiles and Vehicle Design students to of brilliant graduating delegate by 49 per cent of students. and Commerce (RSA) Faculty of Royal and gain innovative design solutions develop innovative automotive lighting IEEC 2013 An Employers’ Forum was Designers for Industry (RDIs). Hosted along with bespoke branding and concepts using the group’s materials. fashion students, and launched, where alumni holding senior by ceramicist Robin Levien RDI, the communication opportunities. These valuable collaboration roles in business and commerce helped workshop helped 15 alumni reflect on In total, over 20 creative experiences offer students rare chances IFF’s uniquely creative current students understand the skills the career decisions they were facing six collaborations took place during the to observe how industry works, and and attitudes they need to gain months after graduation. academic year. Highlights included: to put their designs in the context of perfumers.’ employment, and explored how companies a competition sponsored by Drayson everyday life, which in turn help to shape – might make more of their talents. This fuel.rca.ac.uk Racing Technologies, for Vehicle Design their own learning and practices. Xavier Renard was followed by a memorable seminar students to design a concept for the VP regional general manager on the hidden job market with renowned electric Drayson Racing car that will EAME for Fine Fragrance career coach John Lees. run in the new ground-breaking global & Beauty Care (IFF)

64 65 Final Collection, ‘Savage Grace – Alligator’, Hanchul Lee (MA Menswear, 2013)

AlumniRCA Alumni Accomplishments Upholding a long-standing – RCA Menswear reputation of excellence graduates won International in the fields of art and Talent Support’s (ITS) design, in the past year prestigious ‘Collection of scores of RCA alumni were the Year Award’ for the fifth recognised around the world time. Han Chul Lee (MA as innovators and leaders Menswear, 2013) scooped in their disciplines. It would the prize, following in the be impossible to list the footsteps of fellow alumni myriad honours and awards Marcus Wilmont, Aitor our alumni received in the Throup, Mason Jung and past year, but the small Ichiro Suzuki in winning sample highlighted below the annual award. His edgy demonstrates the diversity collection also won him and prowess of the RCA’s the Vogue Talents Award, alumni community. earning a feature on the – Elizabeth Price (MA Vogue Italy site. Constructed Textiles, 1991) – Jenny Tillotson won the 2012 Turner Prize (PhD Fashion Textiles, The alumni community continued to celebrate the RCA, reunite with old for her work The Woolworths 1996) earned international to grow in 2012/13, with significant classmates and friends, and to make Choir of 1979. The 20-minute recognition as the driving increases in the numbers of alumni new connections with fellow members of film fuses archive images of force behind Scentsory engaging with the College through the alumni community. ecclesiastical architecture, Design® which unites the membership of AlumniRCA, via social Other highlights of the alumni a 1960's girl band ancient art of perfumery media platforms, and at events events calendar included a guest lecture performance and a with emerging technologies, throughout the year. from Tony Cragg (MA Sculpture, 1977), devastating furniture store ‘emotional fashion’ and The College’s programme of Vehicle Design Night, a curator-guided blaze that kick-started a wellbeing. Nike, Unilever, alumni events expanded considerably. tour of the Hollywood Costume Show change in UK fire law, with Philips AVENT, Selfridges Twelve events were held throughout at the Victoria and Albert Museum with text and music to explore our and US outdoor clothing the year, in the UK and abroad, and alumna Deborah Landis (PhD History relationship with consumer company The North Face between them attracted more than of Design, 2003) and former Rector culture. are working with the sensory 1,150 participants from all corners of the Sir Christopher Frayling, and a guided – Jane Ní fashion afficionado. alumni community. tour of the College’s new Printmaking Dhulchaointigh (MA Design – Karolina Głusiec In November, the College facilities on the Battersea campus. Products, 2004) won the (MA Animation, 2012) was hosted its first all-alumni reunion in the Alumni in the USA also had 2012 Entrepreneur of the awarded the prestigious galleries in Kensington to coincide with the opportunity to attend reunions Year Award at the London Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012. the successful exhibition The Perfect on the East Coast and West Coast. Design Festival and made The Jerwood Drawing Prize Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal In September, the Rector hosted a it on to Time magazine’s list 2013 is the UK’s largest College of Art, which featured the work reception for alumni and friends at the of the top 50 inventions of and longest running annual of RCA alumni including David Hockney British Consulate in San Francisco, the twenty-first century for open exhibition for drawing, (ARCA Diploma Painting, 1962), Tracey which attracted alumni from as far Sugru, an innovative self- which aims to explore and Emin (MA Painting, 1989), Ossie Clark away as Chicago. In May, an AlumniRCA setting rubber that can be celebrate the diversity, (MDes Diploma Fashion Design, 1966) reunion at the Crosby Street Hotel in used to mend and modify excellence and range of and Sir James Dyson (MDes Furniture, New York brought together RCA alumni household objects. Sugru current drawing practice. 1971). Almost 500 people from across and friends on the East Coast. was number 22 on the list, the alumni community returned to the 12 places ahead of the iPad. College for this flagship event, some Alumni enjoying the 175th Anniversary reunion for the first time in several decades,

66 Development

Philanthropy plays a vital role at the Lydia and Manfred RCA Secret supported College and we warmly thank the more Gorvy Lecture by Stewarts Law than 300 donors who have supported Theatre us in 2012/13. In June 2013, the UK’s The generosity of our Lydia and Manfred Gorvy largest litigation-only law benefactors has made it possible have generously supported firm, Stewarts Law, pledged to transform teaching and studio the College’s stunning new £200,000 to continue their spaces across the College, develop lecture theatre located in the support of the RCA Secret the Battersea campus, establish Dyson Building on the RCA’s exhibition. We are extremely scholarships to ensure that the best Battersea campus. grateful to Stewarts Law and brightest students are able to With over 200 seats for their loyal support of the study at the RCA, and enhance academic set across two floors and College and we are delighted programmes with new projects, state-of-the-art audio- that they have secured the exhibitions and research initiatives. visual equipment, the future of RCA Secret for Here are just some examples Lydia and Manfred Gorvy the next four years. of the transformative gifts made to the Lecture Theatre is the RCA Secret is an College this year: largest theatre space in the annual exhibition and sale College. The lecture theatre of original postcard-sized accommodates a busy artworks by internationally Top: Lydia and Manfred Gorvy teaching programme for acclaimed artists and AlumniRCA Roger Walls Lecture Theatre Opposite: ‘Look 1 Sketch’, Liam all students as well up-and-coming graduates Scholarship Fund Binns Legacy Hodges (MA Fashion Menswear, as keynote lectures, from the Royal College 2013; AlumniRCA Scholar, 2012/13) presentations and films. of Art. Works are sold for Donations from alumni in alumni support for the next Towards the end of the Clad in bronze- a modest price and the 2012/13 have made it possible generation of students! In year we were notified of weathered steel, the artist who created each for the College to award real terms, it means I can cut an extraordinary bequest lecture theatre is a fitting piece is only revealed after AlumniRCA Scholarships down my work shifts to focus to the College from the environment in which it has been purchased. to five students in the 2013/14 on my College work without estate of Roger Walls to host the art and design RCA Secret is a highlight of academic year, the third year worrying about how to afford Binns. Roger, who studied luminaries who come to the the year both for the College of the scholarship scheme. materials and food/bills.’ at the RCA, left a residuary RCA to debate, explore and and for art enthusiasts These scholarships, which Scholars are bequest amounting to nearly exchange ideas. Since its across the country, who are supported though the selected through a rigorous £500,000 to establish opening at the start of the are keen to take advantage generosity of RCA’s alumni application process with a bursary fund in fashion 2012/13 academic year, the of the opportunity to buy community, are awarded each academic programme and textiles. Lydia and Manfred Gorvy original artwork at a very to second-year MA students eligible to nominate one We are delighted to Lecture Theatre has hosted reasonable price. who need financial support student for the award. The be able to name this bursary a variety of distinguished Over the past to be able to complete 2013/14 recipients are Emily fund in Roger’s memory and speakers, including leading 20 years, sales at RCA their studies. Beber (MA Critical Writing in know that his generosity will contemporary artists Yinka Secret have raised more The scholarship Art & Design), Harumi Foster help to transform the lives of Shonibare, Willie Doherty, than £1.1 million for the made a big difference to (MA Ceramics & Glass), future students who might and Michael Elmgreen and RCA Fine Art Student Liam Hodges (MA Fashion Louise Annis (MA Fashion otherwise be unable to take Ingar Dragset. Award Fund, helping Menswear, 2013), one of Womenswear), Sophie Gate up their places at the RCA. The College deeply hundreds of emerging three AlumniRCA Scholars in (MA Animation) and Sean appreciates Lydia and artists at a formative 2012/13: ‘It is an honour and Parsons (MA Vehicle Design). Manfred Gorvy’s support. stage in their careers. shows both the College’s and

68 Donors and Sponsors

The College is most Engineering and Physical Next plc Todd & Duncan Individuals Mr David Gentleman, Ms Konstantina Letrou & Mr Mr Lindsay Robertson grateful for the Sciences Research NHS Forth Valley Vanners RDI, ARCA George Papamarkakis Lord Rogers of Riverside generosity of the Council Nissan Design Europe Ltd Waddesdon Manor Mr Ajaz Ahmed Mr Jonathan Gestetner Mr David Liddicoat Mr Peter Sabriel following donors who Esprit Design & Product NLA (New London West Dean College Mr Alberto Alessi Mr Luc Goidadin Esq Mr Paul Loasby Dame Theresa Sackler DBE made gifts to support Development Architecture) West London Architectural Mr Basil Alkazzi Sir Nicholas and Lady Ms Eleanor Long Ms Alys Scott-Hawkins capital projects, EXA Orla Kiely Society Mr Christopher Allen Goodison Mr Roubi L’Roubi Dr Alex Seago scholarships and Filati Be.Mi.Va. Osborne & Little Winsor & Newton Lord Waheed Alli Mr Manfred and Mrs Lydia Ms Su Lupasco Washington Ms Hilly Seed academic programmes Filmar Oticon A/S Worth Global Style Network Mr Peter Barnes Gorvy Mr Michael Marriott Mr James Seymour between 1 August 2012 Filpucci Panasonic Zegna Baruffa Lane Ms Thalia A M Baron Mr Graham Gouldman Mr John Marrow Ms Katherine Sharp and 31 July 2013. Ford Passion Pictures Borgosesia SpA Ms Elizabeth Beel Ms Carolyn Gowdy Ms Janet Marsh Dr Phil Shaw Further Pernod Ricard Mr Eric Bellinger Mr Gerard and Mrs Sarah Mr Tim Martin Mr Joshua and Mrs Cynthia Organisations Ghioldi Sr GmbH Philips Lighting Trusts and Mr Bruce J Beresford Griffin Mrs Camilla Mash Silver Government Digital Service PwC Foundations Mr David and Mrs Janice Mr Ian Haigh Mr Nick Mason Mr John Sinclair Aedas Haworth RBS Blackburn OBE Ms Sally Halls Ms Lindy Mason Mr Justin Sluce American Hardwood Export Hexagon Studio Rowan Atkin Foundation Sir Quentin Blake CBE Mr George Hardie Mr Yumi Matsutoya Ms Fianne Stanford Council Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd Sabic Visicon Constance Fairness Mrs Nina Blychert Wisnia Ms Ann M Hardiman Mr Ingo Maurer Lady Mary E L Stirling Arcadia/Topshop Hobs Reprographics SABIC Innovative Plastics Foundation Lord Brooke of Sutton Ms Clare Hart Dame Margaret McDonagh Ms Rachael Stone ArjoHuntleigh Hyundai NGV Sainsbury’s James Dyson Foundation Mandeville, CH, PC Mr James Hart-Dyke Miss Emma McGuire Mr Ben Storan Arts & Humanities Research Iafil-Industria Ambrosiana Samsung John Lyon’s Charity Mr Donald Camerson Ms Sissie He Ms Sara Melin Mr Harry Streets Council Filati Scope Matthews Wrightson Mr Eric and Mrs Jean Cass Ms Gail Henderson Mrs Behroz Zal Mewawalla Miss Linda Sutton Asos Igea Shandong Ruyi Group Charitable Trust Ms Nancy Casserley Grenville Herald Ms Jane Michell Dr Paul Thompson Audi Design Ilaria Shizuka Kimura Award The Ashley Family Mr Norman Chang Ms Dominique Heyse-Moore Mrs Jane Mistry Mr Michael A Tonkin BlackBerry Intel for The Tama Exchange Foundation Ms Kate Cheetham Mr Tom Higgs Ms Catherine O Moody Mrs Teresa Treffry Blink Productions International Flavors & Programme The Clothworkers’ Ms Annette Chellingsworth Mr Ben Hillier Mr Peter Morris Mrs Martha Turinas-James Bodin-Joyeux Fragrances Sophie Hallette Foundation Mr Charles Clark Ms Anya Hindmarch MBE Ms Arita Morris Miss Janice Turner Boodles Interreg IVB Stannah The Conran Foundation Ms Rosalyn Clark Mr Robert Hirschfield Mr Val Drumm Ms Esme Usdan Brent Council Jaguar Landrover Stephen Jones The Dr Mortimer & Theresa Mr Richard Clarke Mr Jeremy Hodges Ms Patricia Morris Ms Kay Vincent Brioni Jamieson and Smith, Stephenson Harwood Sackler Foundation Ms Cathy Cleghorn Ms Bino Honda Mr and Mrs Peter Mundy Mr Tim Voegele-Downing British Wool Marketing Shetland Wool Brokers Studio Elmgreen & Dragset The Durham Wharf Ms Cecile Dartiguenave Ms Su-Fang Hsiao Mrs Joan Murray Ms Alina Voronova Board John Boyd Textiles Swarovski Elements Foundation Mr Andrew Davidson Ms Elizabeth F Hyde Mr Khashayar Naimanan Mr Daniel N Watson Brooks England Ltd KIA Motors Technogel Italia SRL The Genesis Foundation Miss Gaelle Denis Ms Jagdip Jagpal Ms Erin Newell Mr Marc A Wayland BT Kilburn & Strode LLP Technology Strategy Board The Helen Hamlyn Trust Ms Smadar Dreyfus Ms E January Mrs Lucy Newman-Cleeve Ms Cathy Wearing BUPA Kinnarps The Coca-Cola Company The Henry Moore Foundation Mrs Amanda Drury Ms Alexandra Johnson Dr Frankie Ng Mr Peter Weldon Burberry Ltd Kopenhagen Fur The Grocers’ Company The Kingwood Trust Mr Bartholomew N Dudley Mr Martin Jones Ms Lindsay Nicholson Dr Kate Wells Burton Lanecardate The Interiors Group The Leverhulme Trust Ms Leo Duff Ms Teleri Jones Mr William O’Brien Mr Colin West Carbon Accountancy Limited Lanificio dell’Olivo The Worshipful Company of The Outset Contemporary Miss Claire Duke-Woolley Ms Angela Joyce Miss Scarlet Oliver Mr Adrian Westaway Coutts Liberty London Broderers Art Fund Ms Emily Dyson Paley Dr Joanna Kennedy OBE Ms Bernadette Ovens Ms Hilary Westlake Cowley Manor Lineapiù The Worshipful Company of The Queen Elizabeth Mr Gary J Edwards Dr Kary Kelly Mr Ian Paley Mr Mark Weston DePuy International LornaLou Ltd Fanmakers Scholarship Trust Ms Helen Eger Baron Fiona Key Ms Jane Palm-Gold Ms Gill White Deutsche Bank Loro Piana & C. The Worshipful Company of The Royal Commission for Ms Edina Ehrman Professor Kramer Ms Karin Paynter Mr Matthew White Diesel Magic of Persia Framework Knitters the Exhibition of 1851 Ms Claire Enders Ms Alexandra R Kustow Miss Lucy A Pengilley Gibb Ms Marie Wilkinson Drayson Racing Technologies Manolo Blahnik The Worshipful Company of The Rumi Foundation Mr Rolf Fehlbaum Ms Nicolette Kwok Ms Rachel S Philpott Mr Pete Willis LLP Marks and Spencer plc Haberdashers Mr Martin Fleishman Lady Ritblat Mr Albert J S Povey Sir Po-Shing and Lady Helen Ecafil Best Industria Filati May Design Series/UBM The Worshipful Company of Mr Richard Fox Mr Tyler La Monda Mr Luke Purser Woo Electronics, Sensors & Megaman Charity Trust Fund Leathersellers Mrs Charlotte Fraser Mr Pierre Lagrange Ms Alicja Radwan-Pytlewska Mr Jack Woolley Photonics Knowledge Merlin Entertainments The Worshipful Company of Mr Jonathan Froud Ms Emma-Jane Lawrenson Dame Gail Rebuck CBE Miss Georgina Wu Transfer Network Michael Hoppen Gallery Needlemakers Miss Clara Gaggero Ms Chau Har Lee Ms Lucy M J Renton Ms Helen Yardley Elf Factory Ltd Monsoon The Worshipful Company of Mr Matthew Galvin Mr Julian Leff Ms Mary Restieaux Mr Peter York EPFL+ ECAL Lab Nesta Weavers Mr Martino Gamper Dr Nick de Leon Mr Stephen A Riddle NEWH UK Theo Fennell plc Ms Virginia Gardiner Mrs Emmanuelle Lepic Ms Catherine Roberts

70 71 College Honours Council Membership Court Membership

Miss Christine Hawley The Royal Institute of Honorands Elect – Convocation 28 June 2013: The Council is the governing body of the Royal College The Court is the body empowered by the Charter to appoint the British Architects of Art. The membership of 35 is made up principally of Visitor, the Provost and the Treasurer of the College. The Court also Miss Wendy Taylor The Royal Fine Art Honorary Doctors Fellows lay (non-College) members and includes a number of appoints certain members to the Council, being neither members Commission staff and students. The following served as Council of the academic staff nor salaried officers of the College. The Court Ms Marjorie The Arts Council of Christopher Bailey–Fashion Professor Ute Meta Bauer– members during the year 2012/13: meets annually, normally in December, and receives a report by the Allthorpe-Guyton England Designer Dean of School, Fine Art Rector and Vice-Provost on the College during the previous year and Mr Richard Riley The British Council Eva Jiriˇ cnᡠ–Architect Caroline Melrose–Head of Ex-officio members One Student elected the audited financial statements of the College. The Court consists Miss June Fraser The Design Council Faith Ringgold–Artist Personnel by the Students of the following people: Miss Helen Auty The Royal Society of Cindy Sherman–Artist Gary Parker–Knit Technician James Dyson–Provost Arts Professor Alex de Rijke– Sir Neil Cossons–Chairman Ola Mirecka–Vice-President Ex-officio members Appointed Appointing body Mr David Gentleman The Faculty of Senior Fellows Dean of School, and Pro-Provost of the Students’ Union members Royal Designers Architecture Dr Paul Thompson–Rector James Dyson–Provost for Industry Asif Kapadia–Filmmaker Ab Rogers–Head of and Vice-Provost Co-opted members Sir Neil Cossons–Chairman Mr Geoffrey Clarke The Lord Archbishop Mr David Pocknell The Chartered Robin Levien–Product Programme, Interiors Eric Hagman–Treasurer and Pro-Provost of Canterbury Society of Designer and Former Professor Teal Triggs– Professor Naren Barfield– Tony Brierley Dr Paul Thompson–Rector Mr Patrick Reyntiens The Archbishop of Designers Member of Council Associate Dean, School of Pro-Rector (Academic) Dr David Good and Vice-Provost the Roman Ms Joan Bakewell The British Film Communication Jane Alexander–Pro-Rector Sir Mark Jones Eric Hagman–Treasurer Catholic Institute Honorary Fellows Dr Charles Walker–Head of (Operations) Sir Peter Michael Professor Naren Barfield– Archdiocese of Mr John Allan The Historic Programme, Angela Bracco–President of Professor Sir Keith O’Nions Pro-Rector (Academic) Westminster Buildings and Dr Glenn Adamson–Head of Architecture the Students’ Union Paul Priestman Jane Alexander–Pro-Rector Ms Leila Behrman The Chief Rabbi Monuments Research, V&A Dr Kevin Walker–Head of Dame Gail Rebuck (Operations) The Rev John A Cooke The President of the Commission for Nick Hedley–Consultant Programme, Information Members appointed John Studzinski The Professors Conference of the England Patent Attorney, Kilburn & Experience Design by the Court The Honorary Professors Methodist Church Ms Rosalinda The Museums Strode LLP and Emeritus Professors Mr Larry Keith The National Gallery Hardiman Association Karen Nicol–Textile Artist Charles Allen-Jones The Fellows and Honorary Mr Sandy Nairne The National Portrait Professor B S Yamey The British Academy Professor Peter Sidell– Professor Ricky Burdett Fellows Gallery Dr Joanna Kennedy The Royal Menswear Entrepreneur Rupert Hambro Those members of the Mr Richard Humphreys The Tate Galleries Commission for Ralph Turner–Curator, Betty Jackson Council who are not Miss Frances Carey The British Museum the Exhibition of Writer, Critic Dr Joanna Kennedy already members of the Ms Jane Smith The Natural History 1851 Julie Verhoeven–Fashion Caragh Merrick Court by virtue of the Museum Mrs Helen Robinson The Commonwealth Designer and Illustrator Sarah Miller above Professor Martin Roth The Victoria and Education Trust Nelson Woo–Gallery Owner, Lady Ritblat The President and Albert Museum Dr Duncan Michael The Royal Academy Collector, Philanthropist Professor Martin Roth Vice-President of the Dr Andrew Nahum The Science Museum of Engineering Dame Marjorie Scardino Students’ Union Mr Timothy Wilson The Ashmolean Sir Alan Muir Wood The Royal Society Yinka Shonibare Museum Ms Rosy Greenlees The Crafts Council Cathy Turner Life members Miss J A Munro The Fitzwilliam Mr Charles McCaskie The Engineering Museum Council Members appointed by People closely connected Dr Christopher Green The Courtauld the Senate with the work of the College Institute of the City Livery Companies may from time to time be University of Professor Jeremy Aynsley appointed as Life Members London Miss Caroline Tate Mercers Professor Neville Brody by the Council. There is Professor J G Williams The Imperial College James Roundell Grocers Professor Wendy Dagworthy presently one: London The Earl of Antrim Fishmongers Professor Anthony Dunne Professor Colin The Royal College of Mr Martin Drury Goldsmiths Professor Jane Pavitt Sir Terence Conran Lawson Music Dr Stephen Lloyd Skinners Professor Jo Stockham Professor John Tarrant The Association Mr P A S Blomfield Merchant Taylors Professor Martin Smith of Commonwealth Mr Brian Shawcross Haberdashers Universities Mr Richard Callingham Salters Mr Anthony Eyton The Royal Academy Mr Richard Hunting Ironmongers of Arts Mr Alan Reid Cutlers in Hallamshire

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Mrs Carolyn M Way Armourers and Six members of Four graduates of the Brasiers the Academic Staff College appointed by Miss Emma Birts Carpenters appointed by the Senate the Senate to serve for a Mr A H Stevenson Painter-Stainers to serve for a period of period of three years: Mr Oliver Makower Weavers three years: Mr Roger Putnam Coachmakers and Ms Cordelia Cembrowicz Coach Harness Ms Clare Brass Mr Edward Hutchison Makers Ms Christine Guth Ms Ekua McMorris To be appointed Gold and Silver Wyre Ms Claire Pajaczkowska To be appointed Drawers Ms Laura Potter Mr Clive Birch Carmen Mr John Slyce Summary Mr Simon T Hill Furniture Makers Mr Gareth Williams

Trade Associations, Universities Sir Peter Michael CBE and other bodies A renowned name in broadcast technology, Sir Peter Michael was the driving force behind a group of pivotal firms throughout the 1970s of Accounts Mr Reginald Watts Confederation of and ’80s, including digital special effects firm Quantel – best known British Industry for the Paintbox computer work station used to produce film and Miss Monica Ford British Ceramic broadcast graphics. He has ties with California, having launched the Confederation successful Peter Michael Winery there in 1983, and as chairman of Miss Jan-Marie Knights British Glass the Pelican Cancer Foundation. Sir Peter is a committed champion of Mr Malcolm Campbell The Woolmark sculpture and has served as vice patron of the Royal Society of British Company Sculptors, as well as being a member of the Royal Mint’s Advisory Mr Stuart Preston Institute of Committee. He is chairman of a number of UK foundations including Materials, Minerals the Greenham Common Trust, and was founder of Classic FM. and Mining Mr Jonathan Furniture Industry Dame Marjorie Scardino Westbrooke Research As the first female FTSE 100 chief executive, and as the long-standing Association chief executive of international education and media group Pearson, Mr Guy Perricone Institute of Dame Marjorie Scardino has a formidable reputation in business Contemporary Arts and publishing. Her tenure at Pearson saw the growth of some of the 2012 13 Ms Amanda Berry British Academy of UK’s most successful publishing firms including The Financial Times Film and Group, Penguin Books and Pearson Education. She serves on the Television Arts board of a number of US-based not-for-profits including the Carter Mr Geoffrey Russell Institute of Center and the MacArthur Foundation. She is a trustee of Oxfam and Practitioners in is currently a non-executive director of Nokia Corporation. Advertising To be appointed The Newspaper Yinka Shonibare MBE Society A cultural powerhouse exploring race and colonialism, Yinka Mr Andrew Nairne University of Shonibare is a multimedia artist who employs painting, sculpture, Cambridge photography, and film to disrupt and challenge our constructions Mr Timothy Wilson University of Oxford of Western civilisation and notions of identity. His signature batik Ms Kay Carberry Trades Union costumed dioramas have featured in major exhibitions around the Congress globe from Santa Barbara to Rotterdam, earning him a Turner Prize Councillor Daniel Kensington and nomination in 2004 and an MBE in 2005. His Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle Moylan Chelsea Borough stood on Trafalgar Square’s plinth in 2010. He has participated in Councillor Judith Council international events including Documenta, 2003; Spoleto Festival, Warner Westminster City Charleston, 2003; and the Venice Biennale, 2001; and was awarded an Council Honorary Doctorate by the RCA in 2010.

74 75 Treasurer’s Report for the year ended 31 July 2013

The Royal College of Art is the world’s Estates development building management and maintenance as The College increased its home/ was undertaken and it was decided that Conclusion most influential wholly postgraduate the College tackles a backlog of investment EU fees to £9,000 in 2012. This figure was the funds should be invested in the Baring university for the study of art and The College’s current strategic plan was in its estate (£894,000). Payroll costs also chosen as it is the maximum fee allowed Dynamic Asset Allocation fund. The rest The HE sector in the UK is undergoing design. The RCA has a distinctive role in agreed in 2010. It covers the period 2011-16. rose – this reflects increased staffing levels at undergraduate level (although as a of the College’s portfolio remains under unprecedented change and financial preparing its postgraduate students for The strategy was complemented with an required to teach the increased number postgraduate institution the College is the management of Ruffer Investment pressure. However the College remains careers in art, design and the creative estates Masterplan, drawn up in conjunction of students enrolled at the College. not bound to set fees below this level). Management LLP. During the year the funds in a strong market position and has an sector – indeed the College is widely with Haworth Tompkins, the architects who The College’s balance sheet However, the effect of increased tuition under management rose from £14.1m agreed strategy to take it forward over viewed as a crucible of the creative designed the College’s Battersea North remains strong – general reserves have fees at undergraduate level on the ability to £15.6m, an increase of some 11 per cent. the next few years. industries. In 2012/13 it had almost Site development. The Dyson Building, increased to £11.4m and cash reserves of students to finance postgraduate study 1,200 students enrolled, approximately which forms the largest element of this remain above £9m, despite capital is not yet known and the College does not - 30 per cent of whom came from countries development, was completed in the Spring expenditure of £3.8m being incurred during intend to increase home fees again until Risks Eric Hagman CBE outside the EU. of 2012 and formally opened by Sir James the year. The additional £4m of borrowing at least 2015, by which time the higher Treasurer The College is an exempt charity Dyson on 24 September 2012. for the Woo Building was not drawn until undergraduate costs will have worked their The College has a well-developed risk which operates under the terms of a Royal Council agreed in principle in 2011 1 August 2013 and so does not appear on the way through to all home/EU students. The register which is reviewed by the Audit Charter. The trustees of the charity are to go ahead with the construction of the Woo Balance Sheet for 2012/13. rise in both fees and student numbers led Committee at each meeting. The most the current Council members. The current Building, which forms the third and final to a substantial rise in fee income during significant risk on the register at the end Charter was granted in 1967, although the phase of the Battersea North development. the year. Income rose by 37 per cent from of the 2012/13 financial year is the possible College was originally founded in 1837 – The main contract for the work was awarded Income and expenditure account £11.7m to £16.1m, and for the first time the effect of increased costs at undergraduate at that time it was known as the to Vinci Construction (UK) Ltd in January College’s income from fees exceeded its level impacting on the willingness of Government School of Design. 2012 was 2013 and work began in April 2013. The During the year HEFCE made a series of income from HEFCE grants. students to apply for postgraduate study. the 175th anniversary of the College’s contract is in the sum of some £8.3m plus announcements about future funding Income from research also Other important risks are the threat to foundation and an exhibition and other VAT. Practical completion is expected in following the increase in undergraduate rose, but income from other sources was student recruitment represented by the events to mark the occasion took place the Autumn of 2014 and the total cost of fees which came into effect for new disappointing, falling by some £650,000 economic difficulties in Europe, the difficulty in November and December. the project, including the construction students in the autumn of 2012. Funding for during the year. This is due partly to the of obtaining visas for non-EU students and The College has governance contract, fees and VAT, is expected to be postgraduate taught courses has continued increase in student numbers diverting effort potential threats to the student experience arrangements which are similar to those some £13.3m. The project is being financed on an interim basis (it had originally been into teaching activity. arising out of the rapid expansion of the of pre-1992 English universities. It is through a donation of £1.5m from Sir Po expected that this funding would cease) Staff costs rose by some 11 per College in recent years. Increasing costs and funded by the Higher Education Funding Shing and Lady Helen Woo and additional and HEFCE has also continued to fund cent, almost all of which arose through the continued uncertainty about the size and Council for England (HEFCE), which also borrowing of £4m, with the balance coming 'high cost courses' albeit at a lower level creation of new posts in both academic and timing of reductions in public funding for the acts as the College’s regulator under from a series of smaller donations and the than previously. During the year HEFCE administrative areas of the College. These College are also major risks. Action is being the terms of the Charities Act 2011. The College’s reserves. The building will provide reviewed the College’s targeted allocation posts are required in order to cope with the taken to mitigate these risks inasmuch College’s accounts are required to follow accommodation for the Ceramics & Glass (institutional premium) funding and decided expansion of student numbers studying at as it is in the College’s power to do so. the format laid down in the Statement of and Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork to continue it until at least 2015/16 at the College and to improve administrative Recommended Practice: Accounting for & Jewellery programmes, along with approximately its current level. The net and other College services. Further and Higher Education (SORP). additional studio and seminar space. effect of all this is that the College’s grant Subsidiaries income from HEFCE fell by only a very modest £304,000 in 2012/13 – a drop Investments During the year the College continued to use Results for the year of about 2.2 per cent. a subsidiary – RCA Design Group Ltd – to Applications for places at the The College’s investments are overseen act as the developer of the Dyson and Woo The consolidated income and expenditure College remain strong, particularly from by an Investment Sub Committee chaired Buildings on the Howie Street North site. results for the year to 31 July 2013 (pp. 78–9) overseas students. The number of students by John Studzinski and charged with This arrangement has been made necessary show a surplus of just over £200,000. This enrolled increased last year to 1,174 (full time setting investment policies for the College’s in order to safeguard the College’s position is considerably lower than the previous equivalent) and a further increase to about endowments and cash reserves and in respect of the recovery of input VAT on the year’s figure. 1,380 is expected in 2013. The completion of monitoring their implementation. In 2012 project. RCA Design Group is incorporated The main reasons for the fall in the the Dyson Building and the acquisition the Committee reviewed the College’s in Great Britain and registered in England surplus are the costs of the 175 exhibition of short-term space in the Dana Centre investment management arrangements and Wales. The subsidiary is included in the and associated events (£546,000), increased in Kensington and Elcho Street (Testbed) and decided that the funds previously consolidated accounts. The College also expenditure on research activity in the run- in Battersea means that the College invested in iShares, amounting to just has a dormant subsidiary company – Lion up to the Research Excellence Framework has additional space to accommodate under £5m, should be transferred to an & Unicorn Press Ltd. (£462,000) and an increase in expenditure on the extra numbers. active manager. A competitive process

76 77 Income/Expenditure For full Accounts, please see www.rca.ac.uk/accounts

2013 2012

Income Expenditure Deficit/Surplus Income Expenditure Deficit/Surplus

Consolidated Income Account Consolidated Expenditure Account Surplus Consolidated Income Account Consolidated Expenditure Account Surplus for the Year Ended 31 July 2013 for the Year Ended 31 July 2013 All figures in £’000s for the Year Ended 31 July 2012 for the Year Ended 31 July 2012 All figures in £’000s All figures in £’000s All figures in £’000s All figures in £’000s All figures in £’000s

Surplus/deficit 142 Surplus/deficit 533 Funding Council Grants 13,175 Staff Costs 15,036 on continuing Funding Council Grants 13,479 Staff Costs 13,581 on continuing operations after operations after depreciation of depreciation of tangible fixed tangible fixed assets at valuation assets at valuation before exceptional before exceptional items items

Surplus transferred 359 Surplus transferred 448 to accumulated to accumulated income in income in endowment funds endowment funds

Surplus for 217 Surplus for 981 the Year the Year

Tuition Fees & Education 16,068 Contracts Statement of Historical Statement of Historical Other Operating Expenses 18,086 Cost Surpluses and Tuition Fees & Education 11,695 Other Operating Expenses 15,298 Cost Surpluses and Contracts Deficits for the year ended Deficits for the year ended 31 July 2013 31 July 2012 All figures in £’000s All figures in £’000s

Surplus/deficit 142 Surplus/deficit 533 after depreciation after depreciation of assets at of assets at valuation valuation

Difference between 1,342 Difference between 1,342 the historical the historical cost depreciation cost depreciation charge and the charge and the actual depreciation actual depreciation charge for the year charge for the year calculated on the Research Grants & Contracts 1,547 calculated on the revalued amount revalued amount Research Grants & Contracts 1,875

Other Operating Income 4,537

Other Operating Income 3,881 Historical 1,200 Historical 1,875 Cost Cost Depreciation & Amortisation 2,215 Surplus Depreciation & Amortisation 2,069 Surplus

Endowment & Investment 356 Endowment & Investment 160 Endowment & Investment 441 Endowment & Investment 218 Income Income Income Income

Total Income 35,355 Total Expenditure 35,497 Total Income 31,699 Total Expenditure 31,166

78 79 Balance Sheets as at 31 July 2013 Independent Auditors’ Report

2013 2012 We have examined the summarised Respective responsibilities - financial statements of the Royal College of the council and auditors Neil Thomas Summary Consolidated Balance Sheet All figures in £’000s All figures in £’000s of Art for the year ended 31 July 2013 which For and on behalf as at 31 July 2013 comprise the Summary Group Income and The Council has accepted responsibility of KPMG LLP Expenditure Account and the Summary for the preparation of the summarised Statutory Auditor Fixed Assets Group Balance Sheet, which are set out on financial statements in accordance with Chartered Accountants Intangible Assets 123 0 pages 78 to 80 of the RCA Annual Review paragraphs 29 to 35 of the Statement of 15 Canada Square Tangible Assets 84,826 83,332 2012/13 (‘Annual Review’). The summarised Recommended Practice: Accounting for London E14 5GL Other Fixed Asset Investments 571 551 financial statements are non-statutory further and higher education (2007). Our accounts prepared by the Council for the responsibility is to report to the College 30 November 2012 Endowment Asset Investments 15,372 14,140 purpose of inclusion in the Annual Report. our opinion on the consistency of the This statement is made, in summarised financial statements on Current Assets accordance with our engagement letter pp. 78–80 within the Annual Review with Stock 52 66 dated 19 August 2013, solely to the the full annual Financial Statements. Debtors 1,512 1,571 College, in order to meet the requirements We also read the other information Investments 9,324 11,055 of paragraph 36 of the Statement of contained within the Annual Review and Cash at Bank and in Hand 46 5 Recommended Practice: Accounting for consider the implications for our report further and higher education (2007). Our if we become aware of any apparent Total Current Assets 10,934 12,697 work has been undertaken so that we might misstatements or material inconsistencies state to the College those matters we have with the summarised financial statements. Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year 6,756 5,937 agreed to state to it in such a statement and for no other purpose. To the fullest Net Current Assets 4,178 6,760 extent permitted by law, we do not accept or Basis of opinion assume responsibility to anyone other than Total assets less current liabilities 105,070 104,783 the College for our work, for this statement, We conducted our work in accordance with or for the opinions we have formed. Bulletin 2008/3 The auditor's statement Creditors: Amounts Falling Due After More 7,719 8,818 on the summary financial statement in the Than One Year United Kingdom issued by the Auditing Practices Board. Our separate report on Net Assets 97,351 95,965 the College's full Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2013 describes the Represented by: basis of our statutory audit opinion on those financial statements. Deferred Capital Grants 18,881 18,944

Endowments Opinion Expendable 5,023 4,534 Permanent 10,349 9,606 In our opinion, the summarised financial Total endowments 15,372 14,140 statements set out on pp. 78–80 are consistent with the full Financial Statements Reserves for the year ended 31 July 2013. Revaluation Reserve 51,685 53,027

Income and Expenditure Account 11,413 9,854

Total Reserves 63,098 62,881

Total 97,351 95,965

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