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Contents

Introduction 2 Other College 39 Departments and College Year in Brief 4 The Great Exhibition 2007 6 Activities The Future RCA: 2008 and Beyond 8 Exhibitions 40 External Relations 40 Department Reviews 13 Buildings & Estates 41 Information & Learning Services 41 School of Applied Art 14 Students’ Union 41 Ceramics & Glass 14 College-wide Initiatives 42 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, 15 InnovationRCA 43 Metalwork & Jewellery Donors and Sponsors 44 School of Architecture & Design 16 Architecture 16 Design Interactions 17 College Honours and 47 Design Products 18 Engineering 19 Appointments Vehicle Design 20 Student Statistics 49 School of Communications 21 Animation 21 Applications 2006/7 50 Communication Art & Design 22 Students 2006/7 51 Graduate Destinations 51 School of Fashion & Textiles 23 Overseas Students’ Nationalities 52 Fashion Menswear 23 Fashion Womenswear 23 Tex t ile s 2 4

School of Fine Art 25 Painting 25 Photography 26 Printmaking 27 Sculpture 28 Drawing Studio 29

School of Humanities 30 RCA/V&A Conservation 30 Curating Contemporary Art 31 History of Design V&A/RCA 32 Critical & Historical Studies 33 Post-Experience Programmes 33

Research 35 Research at the RCA 36 Helen Hamlyn Centre 37 RCA Rectors text film:Layout 1 4/12/07 12:46 Page 2

Introduction the Exhibition of 1851 who supplemented language of art and design is now at Terence’s generosity. the heart of business and government documents: ‘fitness for purpose’ – which 2006/7 was a very special anniversary The Great Exhibition 2007 was of course of course comes straight from Modernist year for the Royal College of Art. 150 years preceded by the Curating Contemporary writings on design, via the Bauhaus; is ago, in 1857 the RCA moved to its South Art exhibition Various Small Fires, the just one phrase that everyone now uses. Kensington home, alongside other notable Fashion catwalk show and by our Sculpture Like ‘cutting edge’ from the Arts and Crafts institutions born of the Great Exhibition, exhibition in Howie Street Battersea, the movement and ‘blue skies thinking’ from including the South Kensington Museum last before the complete refurbishment of Prometheus Unbound, and Icarus. These (now the V&A), the Science and Natural the Sculpture studios in time for next year’s and other phrases are so deeply embedded History Museums, Imperial College, The show. And speaking of developments in in the public mind now – we really must Royal College of Music and the Albert Hall. Battersea, this year we signed the lease have moved centre stage. The creative It was an astonishing permanent legacy for a whole side of a street opposite the industries and the arts have also moved and Legacy – the L word has been a Sculpture Department – which in time will up the political agenda in 2007. Let us hope word that’s been in the news a lot this year. house our schools of Fine and Applied Art, that this message comes over strongly That’s why we held our annual Summer giving them much-needed space to breathe to the Specialist Institutions Review, Show in a tent in the park this year, which and develop; it will also house incubator which is currently considering the level with the College galleries showed the units for start-up businesses, a large lecture of our funding from government. work of nearly all our graduates, all theatre and a gallery. RCA North and RCA together for the first time ever in the South – a second College campus, with Where research is concerned, this has been long history of this institution. And that profound implications for all of us, and if all a successful year in attracting externally was why we called it The Great Exhibition goes well, this second campus in Battersea funded research grants (from the AHRC, 2007, not to be nostalgic, but to say that will help to resolve our pressing space EPSRC and elsewhere). The AHRC-funded this was our contemporary take, at the problems for the foreseeable future. There’s Centre for the Study of the Domestic beginning of the 21st century, on the more about these developments on page 8. Interior came to an end in style – with a cultural and technological issues first major exhibition at the V&A, At Home in addressed all those years ago. Issues It was the year when, implementing the Renaissance Italy, two important book which today have turned into sustainable agenda of the George Cox Review – steered publications, several conferences and design; digital design and manufacture; by my successor as Chairman of the Design symposia and an extensive database. The asking the users what they want; soft uses Council – we created Design London, academic year 2007/8 will be crucial for of technology; the politics of identity and which is an important alliance between our research performance in the 2007 of nostalgia; and the status of the visual design, engineering and business, involving Research Assessment Exercise, where image. said it was the the RCA, Imperial College engineering staff research and the growing number best degree show they’d seen anywhere and the Tanaka Business School, the first- of research students are concerned. for 10 years, the Telegraph said it was the ever alliance between an art and design birth of a new renaissance, while college and a Russell Group University. The departmental entries that follow provide concluded: “The posturing has largely It has been generously supported by a detailed guide to the achievements of the gone. The work presents itself thoughtfully, HEFCE. This was also the year when past year. They reveal that the College more more quietly and more intelligently.” The James endowed a Fellowship and a or less continues to perform its important private view of our Great Exhibition 2007 seminar series in intellectual property, role, a national role and an increasingly was visited by an astonishing 7,000 people from the proceeds of a design rights international one, as a crucible of the in a single evening – and the total number battle in court from which he’d emerged creative industries, andusually to perform of visitors was an even more astonishing triumphant. These will be supplemented it well. 73,000 in 14 days. With the tent, and what following future victories, and we hope its done for all the summer exhibitions this he’ll win a whole lot of them. “If only”, The whole of the Architecture Department year, we’ve certainly turned a corner. James said with feeling in a lecture for us, went to the Venice Biennale, and Design There’s no turning back though we’re not “if only the RCA was a microcosm for Products did the same, to the Milan Furniture sure yet exactly how to go forward. My innovation in Britain today.” If only. Fair. Design Interactions launched a major thanks go to Nigel Rolfe, curator of the project with on the future of digital College galleries, and to Claire Catterall There’s also been a realisation this year money, while Industrial Design Engineering and Gerrard O’Carroll, curator and designer in public statements – at last – that was listed in Business Week as one of the of the tent for their hard work in making it a the creative industries have become top design schools in the world. In Vehicle memorable Summer Show, and also to the mainstream rather than marginal, not Design, our graduates became design Pro-Rector Alan Cummings whose idea it ‘economy lite’ but ‘economy central’; directors of Ford Europe, Land Rover, GM was. I wasn’t convinced at first. He was worth more than 7% of gross domestic Europe, Bentley, Volkswagen, Mazola and right. Above all many thanks go to the product and growing at three times the Kia – an incredible record. Provost Sir , whose rate of the economy as a whole. No longer Foundation made the tent financially a side show, but centre stage. The penny Our School of Communications created a feasible. And the Royal Commission for really has seemed to drop in 2007. The complex multimedia performance about

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childbirth called On the Edge of Life, which Original Print Fair in the Royal Academy; My thanks as ever go to all the staff of played to capacity houses at the Bath and Margaret Salmon, a recent Photography the College – academic, administrative, International Music Festival. Meanwhile, graduate won the first Max Mara Award technical, catering and manual – and to all one of our recent graduate animators won for women artists, in collaboration with the members of the Council (especially the the BAFTA for best short animation, and the Whitechapel Gallery. She, too, was Provost, the Chairman, the Treasurer and another created an amazing new version selected for the current Venice Biennale. the Chairman of the Estates Committee) of Peter and the Wolf, premiered at the for helping to make this such a memorable Royal Albert Hall with a live orchestra. Among this year’s leavers, I’d like to single year. Above all my thanks go to all the out, on a personal note, Gill Plummer, my students for making the College such a Fashion students won five out of eight personal assistant for 23 years – which must continually challenging, unpredictable as awards at the International ‘It’s Six’ be a record; it’s longer than most marriages well as energising place, which it should competition in Trieste, while Textiles these days – who has put up with my always be. This Rector’s Report for 2006/7 participated in the Heal’s Discovers individual style of working with great good will show you just some of the reasons why. exhibition and designed the windows at humour and efficiency; Ian Hay Davison Harvey Nichols. CBE, Chairman and Pro-Provost of Council who stepped down at Christmas after ten Alex Farquharson, a tutor from Curating years of service and Karel Bartosik, much- Contemporary Art curated If Everybody loved technical instructor in Jewellery, who Had an Ocean – inspired by the music of retired after 16 years of helping the students. the Beach Boys at Tate St Ives – the nearest place on the mainland to Malibu Sadly, we lost forever Dick Guyatt, who was Beach; and Dr Vincent Daniels, Research Professor of Graphic Design at the College Fellow in Conservation, was awarded the from 1947 right through to 1981, during very prestigious Plowden Medal 2007 which time he founded the RCA’s School of for his exceptional contribution to the Communications, developed world-beating conservation profession. courses in Graphics, llustration, Printmaking, Typography and Photography, invented the The Helen Hamlyn Centre hosted the Lion & Unicorn Press, the Department of international ‘Include’ conference on Film and TV Design, and ARK magazine, human-centred design, the biggest of its eventually becoming Rector in 1978 for the kind in the world, with delegates from 16 last three years of his long career. He helped different countries, and won the Medical to found the very visibly modern College – Futures Innovation Award for a new the last of the pioneering 1940s professors. resuscitation trolley. So if you have a heart We lost Bernard Myers, a student at the attack in hospital be reassured that the RCA College in the early , an early tutor in as well as the RCN will be there to bring you Industrial and Film Design, a senior tutor in Professor Sir Christopher Frayling round. We owe a huge debt of gratitude Humanities, a lecturer in IDE, Head of the to Helen Hamlyn and her Foundation for RCA's Design Education Unit – and, after their continuing support. Meanwhile, the leaving, Professor of Design Education at Research Office published the first-ever Brunel University. Bernard was, as Dick book by and about Royal College of Art Guyatt once said “the best Rector we student researchers. never had.” We also said goodbye to the celebrated Italian furniture and lighting Felicity Aylieff, a senior tutor in Ceramics designer Vico Magistretti, who often taught & Glass created a huge work – over two at the College in the 70s and 80s; Hans metres high – at Jingdexhen in China, Wenger, furniture designer and Honorary while in Jewellery two graduates were the Doctor; Naomi Sargent, Honorary Fellow finalists in the Jerwood Jewellery Prize, and a former commissioning editor of which the RCA always tends to dominate. ’s education programmes and to R.B. Kitaj, who was a Painting student In the Fine Art area, a recent graduate won from 1959–1962, and a strong influence this year’s Jerwood Sculpture Prize – a prize on the young David Hockney. which has been running for four years, three of which we’ve won so far – and a We warmly welcomed Sir Neil Cossons as current student won the Celeste Art Prize; our new Chairman of Council, and joining three of our painters were selected for the the rank of Professor this year were David Bloomberg newcontemporaries and two Rayson of Painting and Hans Stofer of for the Venice Biennale; our Printmakers Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork had a stand to themselves at the London & Jewellery.

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College Year in Brief

2006 2007

October November December January February March

The AHRC-funded Graduate Thomas A new three-year Sir Neil Cossons The Helen Hamlyn Alison Chitty, Director Centre for the Study of Heatherwick was research project, The became the new Research Centre, of the Motley School the Domestic Interior awarded the Prince Viennese Café and Chairman and Pro- the RCA’s of Theatre Design, announced the launch Philip Designers Prize. Fin-de-siècle Culture Provost of Council, multidisciplinary was awarded the of the Domestic The designer beat a project, was launched succeeding Ian Hay centre for inclusive 2007 Sir Misha Black Interiors Database – host of the UK’s other by the RCA and Davison CBE, who and human-centred Medal. Sir Peter Hall a survey of the ways top design names, Birkbeck University. stepped down after design co-founded by was also a guest of in which the interior including Richard Funded by a research 10 years of service. Roger Coleman and honour at the awards has been represented Rogers and fellow grant from the AHRC, Jeremy Myerson in ceremony. in Western Europe RCA alumni Lucienne the project will examine 1999 got a new name – and North America, Day and David Mellor the cultural and artistic the Royal College of from the Renaissance to the coveted award, complexity of the café Art Helen Hamlyn to the present day. which is hailed as the as urban space. Centre – and an It was accompanied industry’s equivalent enhanced focus on by a publication and to the Oscars. A special issue of design for healthcare a major exhibition, At the international and patient safety. Home in Renaissance It took just one day architecture journal Italy, at the V&A. to sell over 2,500 AD was edited by CA&D student Angela postcard-sized works Mark Garcia. Palmer had an of art at RCA Secret Architextiles AD exhibition at the 2006. Amongst the featured commissioned Hunterian Gallery contributors were essays, design projects of the Royal College Damien Hirst, Tracey and interviews by of Surgeons. The Emin, Quentin Blake, senior RCA staff sculptures in Inside Paula Rego, David including Professor Out were built up from Bailey and Terry Gilliam. Nigel Coates, line drawings or The College and the Professor Ron Arad, engravings of MRI RIBA announced that Professor Will Alsop (Magnetic Resonance Haworth Tompkins and the MA and PhD Imaging) medical Architects had been design projects of 13 scans of her body selected to develop RCA students. transferred onto the Battersea site. layers of glass. CCA graduates presented their annual show. This year’s exhibition entitled Various Small Fires took the concept of the exhibition back to basics – interrogating the materiality of its spatial support, the gallery.

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April May June July August September

Research Fellow Dr The RCA and Imperial To celebrate the 150th GSM&J student Nutre Fashion student Peter The College announced Vincent Daniels was College London anniversary of the Arayavanish was Smith won an Adobe that it was to sell awarded the Royal announced a major RCA's move to its named Student Design Award in the Study from the Human Warrant Holders strategic partnership South Kensington Designer of the Year Digital Illustration Body, Man Turning on Association’s Plowden and the creation of a home, the College held at the UK Jewellery category for his the Light by Francis Medal for 2007 in world-class £5.8 million its most spectacular Awards 2007. menswear collection, Bacon. The painting recognition of his multidisciplinary centre Summer Show to date which was designed was sold at auction in long and exceptional called Design London under the sponsorship in collaboration with October for £8 million. contribution to the at RCA-Imperial. of the Conran Communication Art This entire sum, conservation Foundation. For The & Design student together with the profession. Great Exhibition 2007 Cristian Zuzunaga. interest it will earn, the College constructed will help finance Phase a temporary tent in Two of the Battersea Kensington Gardens. development on which The Design Products This enabled the RCA work is expected to Department took over to show the work of The Sculpture begin in 2009. (See The Great Eastern all of its graduating Department announced page 8.) Hotel again. For the students simultaneously. a new award – the SLEEPLESS project (See page 6.) Bronze Age Sculpture Platform 10 students Prize. Developed as created an interactive an opportunity for experience inviting graduates of the RCA’s guests to step into a Sculpture Department hidden dimension to extend their where the hotel was practice by integrating more than just a place bronze casting into to stay for the night. their existing working An innovative re- methods. The artist Tracey design of the hospital The Sculpture Emin RA; acclaimed resuscitation trolley Department held its vehicle designer by a project team led end of year show, the Peter Schreyer; and by Professor Roger The RCA and Imperial last in its Howie Street legendary musician, Coleman and Ed College announced premises before its sound artist and RCA Matthews at the the appointment of refurbishment. tutor Brian Eno Helen Hamlyn Centre Nick Leon as Director received Honorary won two awards at of Design London. Doctorates. Other the Medical Futures Nick is a graduate of figures amongst this Innovation Awards the RCA and of years Honours included 2007. Imperial College architect David Adjaye, London. former Chair of the College Council Ian Hay Davison, former Culture Minister Chris Smith and Design Museum Director Deyan Sudjic.

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The Great Exhibition 2007

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was one of the defining moments in the history and development of art and design in the UK. Held in London's Hyde Park, it succeeded in its aim to showcase Britain's industrial skill and material prosperity in a world context. Over six million people visited the 13,000 exhibits displayed in the Crystal Palace – a vast glass and iron structure purpose built for the occasion on the sight of today’s Albert Memorial – over the six month period of the exhibition, and the money raised (equivalent to £14.5m today) was used to advance cultural, scientific and educational learning in the capital and beyond in 1857, Exhibition 1 Road was born.

It was in honour of this auspicious anniversary that the RCA decided to stage its own Great Exhibition for this year’s annual Summer Show. The Great Exhibition 2007 was presented around a specially erected tent, located opposite the College in Kensington Gardens, just a few hundred metres from the site of its namesake. It was the first time in living memory that Fine Art, Design, Architecture, Humanities, Communications and Fashion & Textiles were all exhibited concurrently, offering 2 graduating students a rare opportunity to show art in a design environment and design in an art environment – a philosophy that lies at the heart of the RCA.

Designed by RCA Architecture tutor 1: Painting student, Will Martyr’s giant painted sphere dominated the entrance Gerrard O'Carroll, the customised tent to the Fine Art exhibition was as ambitious as the project itself. He and curator Claire Catterall determined 2: Nigel Rolfe, Curator of the School of early on that, as she put it, there wouldn’t Fine Art exhibition in the RCA galleries, be “a white plinth in sight.” Rather, the and Sir Terence Conran with graduating Printmaking student Jason Oliver. industrial aesthetic they devised, featuring Photograph: Olivia Hemmingway a neutral colour palette and ‘add-ons’ such as lean-tos and garden sheds, and plywood 3: Slip by Printmaking student Jane Ward, gables at either of the tent, aimed to provide one of six winners of the Conran a “wonderful experience” for visitors, while Foundation Awards offering a great platform for every single 4: Entrance to the ‘tent’ in Kensington Gardens one of our graduating students’ work. 5: Ceramics & Glass exhibition Before its launch, Sir Terence Conran noted that The Great Exhibition 2007 6: Florian Seidl’s futuristic helicopter formed “could well be the greatest Show in the the centrepiece of the Vehicle Design exhibition RCA’s history.” Quite where the College 3 – and future Summer Shows – goes from 7: Fashion & Textiles exhibition: work by here is anyone’s guess. Stephanie Sloan

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The Future RCA: 2008 and Beyond Key Themes from the College’s New Strategic Plan

A New Campus its special creative environment has never in Battersea been more in demand. This expansion – spreading the Royal College of Art from The Royal College of Art has ambitious Kensington to Battersea – will also help to plans to increase the College’s physical regenerate an area just south of the river, space by some 50% through the forming part of an already emerging new development of a new site in Battersea. creative quarter. In London as a whole, Expanding and updating our studios and over half a million people are employed in facilities will in time transform the the creative industries, contributing some College and benefit every future student £25 billion to the capital’s very modern to pass through its doors. economy. RCA Battersea, like RCA South Kensington, will play a significant part RCA Battersea in this. Instead of a single concentrated The plan is to develop a site, opposite the community of artists and designers there existing Sculpture Department in Battersea, will in future be two such communities, for which we have a 125 year lease. This closely linked to one another. second campus – south of the Thames in Battersea – will increase the College’s Phased Plan useable space by some 9000m2. The new Work will begin in summer 2008 with campus will house studios, workshops and the creation of a new Painting building, teaching spaces for the fine arts of painting, followed by space for the departments of printmaking and photography and the Printmaking, Photography, Ceramics & applied arts of ceramics, glass, metalwork Glass and Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, and jewellery; incubator units for start-up Metalwork & Jewellery as well as creative businesses; a state-of-the-art college-wide facilities. It is hoped that the lecture theatre; and a gallery on Battersea completion date will be autumn 2011. Bridge Road. This major new development Haworth Tompkins Architects have been will enable the College to breathe freely, to selected to design the development expand, to introduce new programmes and following an international architectural above all to stimulate and enhance a rapidly competition organised by RIBA. Founded changing sector of the modern economy. in 1991, by architects Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins, the London-based The new development will also help facilitate firm has completed a diverse portfolio of expansion of digital technologies on both work in the public and private sectors, sites. A key challenge in the College’s with notable success in buildings for the learning, teaching and practice will be to arts and social housing. They have won stay abreast (or preferably ahead) of student numerous design awards nationally and expectations in digital technologies while internationally including Young Architects maintaining our world-class teaching of of the Year at the 2001 Building Awards more traditional practices in art and design. and the 2007 RIBA London Building of the Year Award for The Young Vic Theatre. RCA Kensington Other award-winning projects include the The construction of the Battersea campus Coin Street Ikoro Housing Co-op on the will also release much-needed space South Bank, The Egg Theatre in Bath, in South Kensington where all the Newington Green Student Housing, the departments of architecture and design, refurbishment of the Hayward Gallery Fashion & Textiles, communication and the and the Royal Court Theatre. humanities will remain and will themselves be able to flourish. At present, the South Kensington campus is experiencing serious space difficulties, which are holding the College back at a time when

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Illustration of Battersea North Site by Communication Art & Design alumni Laura Carlin

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Collaboration with Together, MA, MEng and MBA students the higher education landscape is facing a Business and Industry will swap knowledge and ideas, research period of considerable change. Factors to partnerships will explore how design can consider include: widening participation in more effectively be integrated with undergraduate education; ‘the skills business and technology to create world- agenda’; the increasing financial burden beating products and services, and on students entering higher education; entrepreneurial graduates from both increasing competition from other Innovation of course is central to all our Imperial and the RCA will be given postgraduate providers at home and work at the RCA. The desire to think in oppotunities to develop new ideas. overseas; and potential demand for adult unorthodox ways to find new and better Meanwhile, the groundbreaking ‘Incubator’ and workplace learning and part-time ways of doing things drives not only our – a multidisciplinary environment for study opportunities. students and teaching staff, but is one of business development – will support the key rationales of the College itself. unexpected collaborations between We are carefully considering our own place Now this passion for innovation has led different disciplines, organisations and in this landscape and are developing an to a major strategic partnership with places. It is the first partnership of its academic strategy to manage change in one of our most successful and creative kind anywhere in the UK. recruitment, student profile and student collaborative partners – Imperial College expectations. Discussion of these strategic London – to establish a world-class £5.8 The initiative is being developed as a core issues has already begun and will continue million multidisciplinary centre called part of the strategic aims of the RCA and during the first two years of the new five- Design London at RCA Imperial. Imperial College, in direct response to the year Strategic Plan 2007/8–2011/12. There recommendations for higher education are many ideas for enhanced areas of Design London outlined in the 2005 Cox Review (carried academic engagement but at this early The partnership will create an ‘innovation out by the Chairman of the Design Council, stage, the College favours serious triangle’ between design, engineering and Sir George Cox), commissioned by then- exploration of two possibilities: business, incorporating the RCA, Imperial Chancellor Gordon Brown. College and Imperial’s Tanaka Business Access Office School, and will use this to develop and Funding of Design London An ‘access office’ which will provide and explore the roots of innovation. Design The three-year project is being funded manage learning opportunities beside, or in London takes our work in innovation in partnership by the Higher Education collaboration with, existing MA courses. The and design to a new plateau through Funding Council for England (HEFCE), agenda for this office will include the design close association with a Russell Group the National Endowment for Science, and delivery of: short courses; pre-sessional University. The centre builds on the existing Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the and post-sessional courses for postgraduate collaboration between the two colleges RCA and Imperial College. Beyond this students; part-time courses; online and that stretches back over a quarter of time, the aim is for the Centre to be self- blended learning opportunities; and non- a century in the form of the Industrial sustaining, and the London Development degree programmes. The point of these will Design Engineering course, and broadens Agency (LDA) is working with other be to give wider access to what we are best this collaboration to a much more partners in the capital, including the at, and to enrich the College community. ambitious level. Design Council, to ensure the Centre is incorporated into a wider strategy that Multidisciplinary and As Nick Leon, the project’s first Director and capitalises on design strengths to drive Interdisciplinary ‘Lab’ Visiting Fellow at Tanaka Business School, innovation across London businesses and to The establishment of a multidisciplinary said upon his appointment: “Successful contribute to future UK economic success. and interdisciplinary lab will seek to place innovation demands a systemic not a creativity – side by side with the discrete component approach to designing new As well as conducting high-level research disciplines of ‘art and design’ – at the products and services.” He points to and disseminating “new practice in centre of the learning process. The idea , one of the greatest innovation by creating new teaching will not be to displace, but to complement, innovators of all time, as an example of programmes”, Nick Leon predicts Design more traditional pedagogic approaches. the kind of thinking Design London at RCA London will “incubate new business The principles on which the lab will Imperial hopes to produce: “Edison didn’t ideas and pioneer the next generation operate can be summarised as: issue- just patent a light bulb – he delivered an of innovation technology.” based, project-led, student-centred entire new system that changed our learning within multidisciplinary project world. He was an engineer, a master teams. The aim will be to run large-scale systems thinker, conceptualiser and A Fresh Academic Vision projects of varying duration, sometimes entrepreneur.” Design London might funded by industry and often (but not not be able to guarantee producing one The expansion of the College’s estate exclusively) with a social, environmental great Edison-like figure, but what it will will enable the College to undertake or cultural theme. Project teams will be do, Leon continued, is “stir together significant academic developments that recruited from across the educational those same domains of expertise in would have been impossible within the spectrum, with a wide range of subject multidisciplinary teams.” space constraints to date. This is vital as backgrounds, on a project-by-project

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basis. All participants will negotiate their of access to our teaching, including short contribution to a particular project as a and part-time courses. The developments at way of building personal profiles of skills, Battersea will free up space at the Kensington knowledge and creative experience. Our Gore site to enable us to develop these new aim will be to collaborate with an institution modes of access, on top of the 10% full-time specialising in education in the practical student expansion. Simultaneously, the development of this concept over the next development of externally funded research two years. and post-doctoral work will contribute to the College’s income stream.

A More Mixed Economy Partnerships There will also be significant potential 1 In order to implement the College’s for new sources of income through the ambitious plans, over the next five years development of educational partnerships, we will need to develop a more ‘mixed both in the UK and internationally. Our economy’ approach to our income successful bid for funding from HEFCE’s generation, and through this we will work Strategic Development Fund, to create towards a significant increase in non- Design London, in partnership with Imperial HEFCE income. At the moment HEFCE College, will greatly enhance the revenue grants and home/EU fees form more than we can earn through our partnership 60% of our income. projects which were initiated through HEIF2 funding. As we develop the relationships we Overseas Students are establishing with overseas institutions, Our current major source of non-public there will be increased opportunities for 2 income is overseas fees which, in 2006–7, income generation through joint courses provided 10% of our total revenue. The and projects, in both art and design. College will seek to increase income from overseas students, not through the Fundraising imposition of departmental quotas, but by In terms of fundraising, there are to be improving and expanding our promotional two strands to the College’s work: estates efforts in territories and sectors where we fundraising and academic fundraising. are less strong at the moment. The value There will be a three-stage campaign for of overseas students to the culture of the raising funds for Battersea North Site – College is well beyond the economic and involving, in the first instance, close is incalculable. friends and associates of the College; then industrial and business contacts; then Business trusts and foundations, and a campaign We aim to increase the income we generate which moves from prospect-led to project- from our interaction with businesses.This led – this will be led by the Rector. At the will be partly through increased use of same time, an academic fundraising office College facilities such as rapid prototyping, will be created – reporting to the Pro-Rector, through RapidformRCA, where, through with the brief to raise substantial funds the acquisition of new, high-end digital for scholarships, projects and named equipment in recent years, we are now appointments at senior level. able to provide an unparalleled service within higher education. We also expect to increase our income from licence fees Conclusion through College innovations which are patented and commercialised through The conclusion of these elements – the InnovationRCA, though we recognise this Battersea campus, the consequent can be a slow and unpredictable process. reorganisation of the South Kensington 1:Alan Cummings, Dan Fern and Jeremy Myerson met senior academics from A further source of income from business campus, Design London, new modes of Tsinghua University in Beijing on a visit to will arise through intensive seminars, access and study, all supported by a more establish course and project links with workshops and projects aimed at ‘mixed economy’ approach to College Chinese art and design institutions particular businesses and/or sectors. income generation will have radical effects on all aspects of the Royal College of Art. 2:Architectural model created by RapidformRCA for architects Sheppard Access This is the most ambitious and challenging Robson. The College aims to increase We also expect our income to increase Strategic Plan for many years. income generated through interaction through the development of new modes with business

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Department Reviews

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School of Tavs Jorgensen produced designs for the American retail market and continued Applied Art with his research into digital technologies.

Graduate Success Ceramics & Glass One of the highlights of the COLLECT 2007 exhibition at the V&A was Four Decades Student Success of Glass: Graduates from the Royal College Marcus Lanyon was named as a finalist of Art, 1967–2007, an exhibition which in the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4’s celebrated 40 years since the course in ‘4 New Sensations’ art prize. Marcus glass was introduced into the RCA also gained a distinction in his Critical & curriculum by Lord Queensberry in 1967. Historical Studies dissertation. 13 artists were showcased, from Pauline 1 Solven, who was among the first Students were successful in winning graduates in 1968 to Laura Birdsall, several awards and scholarships: Elinor who graduated in 2006. Andersson won the British Institution Award at the Royal Academy Summer 2001 graduate Eleanor Long was awarded Show, and the Pilchuck Glass Summer an Arts Foundation Award. School Scholarship; Rebecca Harvey won the Charlotte Fraser Prize; James Rigler Collaborations won the Royal Overseas League Music This year saw a significant increase in Trophy; and Owen Wall won both the the number of students using the rapid Wilfred Owen Poetry Society Trophy and prototyping facility. the Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Scholarship. 2 Research The sumptuous interior of Leighton House PhD candidate Steve Brown was given provided the perfect setting for a series a Collaborative Doctoral Award by the of material interventions by Ceramic & AHRC, allowing him to continue his Glass students. The Intervening Guests practice-based research into ceramic was an exhibition of imaginative site- technology. specific responses to the home of the eminent Victorian painter and president of Two PhDs were completed in 2007, and the Royal Academy, Frederic, Lord Leighton. the Department recruited two Glass MPhil candidates for 2007/8 and one new Design Michi Suzuki and James Lethbridge were MPhil candidate. finalists in the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s Design for our Future Selves Awards, for their project, ‘Flexi grip’, a series of slip on portable handles and flexible personal devices to help people grip different hot handles with ease and comfort.

Staff Success Felicity Aylieff had solo international shows in Paris and Belgium. She also had an exhibition in the Lobby of One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, of the large-scale work she produced whilst on sabbatical at the Pottery Worskshop Experimental Factory in Jingdezhen, China. The exhibition will tour the UK in 2008.

Professor Martin Smith was in a group 1: Marcus Lanyon was named as a finalist in show in Denmark with Senior Tutor Alison the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4’s ‘4 New Britton. Martin and Alison also had solo Sensations’ art prize shows at the Barrett Marsden Gallery. 2: Elinor Andersson won the British Institution Award at the Royal Academy Summer Show, and the Pilchuck Glass Summer School Scholarship

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Goldsmithing, Tutor Rebecca de Quin organised the made from waste or scrap material. One of Silversmithing, speakers programme at The Association of the essays is by Senior Tutor Alison Britton. Metalwork & Jewellery British Designer Silversmiths’ CONNECT He also researched two new books: one conference. Attendees included many featuring his own reworked ceramic RCA graduates, whose work was figurines and a book of Indian rat traps Student Success exhibited during the conference. and cages which will have an introductory Second-year Nutre Arayavanish won Student text by Hans Stofer. Designer of the Year in the Retail Jeweller’s Graduate Success UK Jewellery Awards and top prize at the The David Mellor Museum opened Other Department News BDC New Designer of the Year Awards. at Hathersage near Sheffield, as a The V&A acquired the GSM&J Visiting permanent tribute to the great designer Artist Master Class collection. These The winners of the third annual Theo Fennell and distinguished alumnus of the College pieces, created as part of Professor David Awards were Mette Klarskov Larsen for who graduated in 1954. Watkins’ annual Masterclass Project from Overall Excellence; Ann-Marie Colquhoun 1987–2006 will go on display in the new for Best Work in Silver; and Nutre 1989 graduate Sophie Harley designed Jewellery gallery (due to reopen in May Arayavanish for Best Work in Jewellery. jewellery for the latest James Bond film 2008). Tutor Dr Beatriz Chadour-Sampson The awards were presented by Theo Fennell Casino Royale including the Algerian Love is Consultant Curator of the gallery and during the Summer Show and a selection of Knot worn by Eva Green which played a has catalogued the pieces and been the winner’s pieces were displayed at Theo central role in the film. involved in designing the new display. Fennell’s Fulham Road shop in October. Stephen Johnson, 2007 graduate, was Karel Bartosik Jewellery Technician Staff Success invited to take part in the RCA Student retired after 16 years at the RCA. Head of Department Hans Stofer curated Union and Applied Evolution project, the exhibition Domestic Things at Flow And Other Stories, at The Crypt, St Pancras Gallery in West London and later at The Church, London. His work also featured in HUB in Sleaford. This Arts Council-funded Invitation hosted by the creative space exhibition investigated ideas on the theme Suzu Hoodless. of domestic objects. The V&A also purchased a ceramic set by Hans Stofer, through his 2006 graduate Katja Bremkamp’s cutlery Swiss-based Gallery SO at the Collect range designed as part of GSM&J’s 2007 art fair. partnership project with Habitat UK was launched and is now on sale. Michael Rowe, Senior Tutor, completed a major site-specific commission for the Collaborations new building at Middlesbrough Institute of For the exhibition Creative Currency at the Modern Art. The permanent installation Bank of America’s headquarters in Canary 1 using fibre optics was funded through Art Wharf, GSM&J students produced a piece for Architecture’s ‘Percent for Art’ scheme. of work in response to a set brief, which was then available for sale to BoA employees. Technician Peter Musson had work at 100% Design and sold the rights to produce Tutor Laura Potter participated in ‘Culture his new range of coat and cupboard hooks, and Care’ a collaborative research project Trophy Kills to an Italian manufacturer. with the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at Kings College Antje Illner was awarded the Vice London. Chancellor’s Grant in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at the University of Visiting Tutor Tony Hayward exhibited in Hertfordshire, for research into exploring Accidental Collectors at the Aram Gallery ways in which molten glass can be fused and contributed a text to the exhibition with sterling silver in the creation of publication. He was also responsible, with 2 wearable pieces of jewellery. RCA graduate and designer Peter Marigold, for the publication design. The Rebecca De Quin exhibited in the TEN exhibition was curated by Daniel Charny, exhibition, organised by the Association Senior Tutor in Design Products. 1: Nutre Arayavanish won Student Designer of British Designer Silversmiths. This of the Year in the Retail Jeweller’s UK Jewellery Awards and top prize at the BDC selling and commissioning exhibition was Research New Designer of the Year Awards launched in Bath and was also shown at Tony Hayward, Visiting Tutor, republished Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Made in India featuring his collection of 2: 2006 graduate Katja Bremkamp designed John Adams Fine Art in London. Indian contemporary utilitarian objects a cutlery range for Habitat

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School of and Vehicle Design as well as Rapidform, and explored the potential of the current Architecture developments in the Thames Gateway & Design area to accommodate the complex range of cultures, ethnic ties and lifestyle choices of its future inhabitants.

Architecture Mark Garcia guest edited an edition of AD journal. Architextiles was published by ADS Programmes 2006/7 Wiley in November 2006 and explored the The Architecture Department’s focus links between architectural and urban continues to be London – a glorious cultural design, and fashion and textile design. patchwork of languages, people and places that is changing at breakneck speed. Each Graduate Success of the three ADSs (Architectural Design 1993 graduate and leading contemporary Studios) is helping this patchwork to architect David Adjaye was awarded an evolve and anticipating London’s future. OBE. 1 Globalisation was the focal subject for 1989 graduate Sunand Prasad of Architectural Design Studio 1 (ADS1). architectural practice Penoyre & Prasad Their aim was to broaden the context of was named as the new President of The architecture beyond the town and city. Royal Institute of British Architects. In London, buildings are getting taller, but as ADS2 showed they do not necessarily Collaborations have to belong solely to corporate Professor Coates’ ‘Mixtacity’ project inhabitants; they could be home to entire received funding and support from the neighbourhoods. ADS4 on the other hand London Thames Gateway Development have calculated the psychological effects Corporation. of surveillance and the West’s war on terror. How, they asked, will we want to The department was also supported by live in a society that is increasingly Andrew Morris from Rogers Stirk Harbour 2 threatened by outside forces? & Partners who provided the Professional Practice course component. Staff from Student Success Adjaye Associates, Egret West, FAT, Feilden Lucy Pengilley’s proposal for architectural Clegg Bradley, Fosters and Partners, spaces that prevent future city dwellers’ Future Systems, Grimshaw Architects, anxieties won a Conran Foundation Award. Philip Gumuchdjian, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and Wells Mackereth all Rosy Head won the SOM Foundation contributed their time to the Professional Travelling Fellowship Award at this year’s Practice course. Royal Institute of British Architects Presidents Medals. Research Professor Coates is currently writing a Staff Success book Narrative Architecture and Mark Gerrard O’Carroll designed the RCA’s Garcia is preparing a book Diagrams in very successful Summer Show, The Great Architecture. Exhibition 2007. He also curated the Don’t Panic exhibition at the Architecture Other Department News Foundation’s Yard Gallery which featured Following the success of the department's the work of tutors and recent graduates. exhibition at the Venice Biennale in The exhibition presented alternate visions September 2006, this year’s lecture for now and the near future. programme was a series of five debates on questions raised by the Babylon:don 1: Lucy Pengilley’s proposal for Professor Nigel Coates created an exhibition. Speakers included Peter York, architectural spaces that prevent future installation for the Global Cities exhibition Richard Sennett and Deyan Sudjic. city dwellers’ anxieties won a Conran at Tate Modern (June–September 2007). Foundation Award The ‘Mixtacity’ project was realised in 2: Professor Nigel Coates created an collaboration with staff and students from installation for the Global Cities exhibition the Departments of Architecture, Textiles at Tate Modern

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Design Interactions to show in exhibitions and become involved in other events and programmes. Student Success Jonathan Bishop won The Helen Hamlyn The work of several of this year’s graduates Award for Creativity and the Michael has been selected for inclusion in an Peters Award in the Helen Hamlyn exhibition at MoMA , opening in Centre’s Design for Our Future Selves February 2008 called The Elastic Mind. Awards, for his project with Sabine Fekete from Industrial Design Engineering. The Susanna Soares was selected for the project ‘dot°’ is an interactive playground EPSRC-funded ‘material beliefs’ residency simulating an enormous horizontal programme where designers are linked to 1 game screen on the floor that engineers working in emerging tech areas encourages kids to run, play and socialise like biotech. The purpose is to open up a outdoors using their imagination. reflective and critical space around the role of technology, in which research can Miquel Mora and Henry Holland were be put before the public in novel ways. selected by Yahoo to participate in the annual Yahoo Design Expo at their Sunnyvale Susanna Soares and Michiko Nitta were campus. Students were chosen from five also selected to represent the Department interaction courses from around the world. and the RCA in the exhibition International Graduation: Design Projects For The Future Michiko Nitta was commissioned by the as part of Utrecht Manifest in November. ICA to produce some new work from her graduating project ‘Extreme Green Collaborations Guerrillas’ for the exhibition Saving Planet Student Tasmin Fulton collaborated with the Earth: a 21st Century Approach. Communication Art & Design Department on a new website for the Museum of Staff Success London. The website takes the form of an 2 Tutors in Design Interactions, including online map of London on which Londoners Tony Dunne, Fiona Raby, Onkar Kular, and visitors can place their memories in James Auger, Sebastian Noel (Troika) and different forms (text, small videos, photos, Tom Hulbert (Lucky Bite) designed exhibits etc): www.mapmylondon.com. for the Science of Spying exhibition at the Science Museum in London. Research The Design Interactions Department Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby had a collaborated with IDE on a project with O2 large show of past and new work at Z33 in and worked on a project with MBAs at the Hasselt, Belgium. SAID Business School in Oxford.

Nina Pope’s second feature-length Other Department News 3 documentary Living with the Tudors The artist and engineer Natalie premiered at the Brit Doc Festival in Jeremijenko was appointed as a Visiting Oxford in July. Professor.

Brendan Walker took his Thrill Laboratory In January, Fiona Raby and Nina Pope took 1: Susanna Soares was selected for the EPSRC-funded ‘material beliefs’ to Alton Towers theme park in September first-year students on a whirlwind tour of residency programme where designers for a series of workshops designed to Tokyo research labs, artist studios and are linked to engineers working in expose the ‘science of thrill’. A series of design offices. emerging tech areas like biotech willing volunteers underwent individual Thrill Profiling by Brendan and his team of 2: Michiko Nitta was commissioned by the ICA to produce some new work from her Thrill Assistants, a team of trainee graduating project ‘Extreme Green doctors of psychology, in a bid to assess Guerrillas’ for the exhibition Saving the experience of riding on Oblivion, the Planet Earth: a 21st Century Approach world’s first vertical drop rollercoaster. 3: Senior Tutor Brendan Walker took his Thrill Laboratory to Alton Towers theme Graduate Success park where a series of volunteers There was good feedback from this year’s underwent individual Thrill Profiling by Show with many of the students going Brendan and his team of Thrill Assistants. straight into jobs and others being invited Photo by News Team

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Design Products Professor Ron Arad had exhibitions in How can design turn a music listener into New York, Milan, Belgium and . New a player? This was the question posed by Student Success furniture launched in Milan included a new Tomoko Azumi and Jurgen Bey working Joe Wentworth came second in the BSI version of the ‘Ripple’ chair in collaboration with Yamaha. Student proposals were Sustainable Design Awards for his design with APOC, the ‘Clover’ chair and ‘Screw’ developed for an exhibition in the Yamaha for adding folding handlebars to bikes. His bar stool for Driade and the ‘Misfits’ sofa Space at the Milan Furniture Fair. Each of design aims to encourage cycling which is for Moroso. He was also awarded the the selected projects aimed to find ways of a sustainable and pollution-free method of Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters. making existing technologies accessible to transport. a broader public – the sampler became a Deputy Head of Department, Hilary French, bracelet, for example, and the synthesiser, Joseph Nunn and David Beau Sutton published New Urban Housing, case an octopus-like toy. received Conran Foundation Awards. Joseph studies of innovative recent housing design. for his ‘Imura Stool’ and ‘Imura Table’; and Students teamed up with lighting David for his innovative work on shape Tutor Luke Pearson’s design studio manufacturer Artemide in September for and form using rapid manufacturing. Pearson Lloyd launched a new public an exhibition at The Aram Gallery curated seating range and sofas for Modus and by Daniel Charny which featured 70 new Platform 8 landed at the Milan Furniture the ‘Horizon’ storage range for Spanish task-light prototypes designed by the Fair with a rather different sort of excess manufacturer Oterez, and Michael students. The inspiration for the project and baggage. 14 students, led by designers Marriott designed bicycle racks and the exhibition was the iconic task-light; the Gabriel Klasmer and Hannes Koch, used benches for a local school and the ‘No- ‘Anglepoise’ designed by George Carwardine luggage as a mobile exhibition space in Nonsense Please’ bag to support the ‘Bags in the 1930s. The brief was to discover a which they packed and unpacked their of Goodwill’ project and to raise awareness new type of task-light; one that would ongoing reactions to the fair spreading, and funds for the Fairtrade Foundation. inherit the mantle from the ‘Anglepoise’. in their words, ‘manifestos and mayhem’ across the city. Graduate Success Other Department News Three recent graduates were selected Christoph Behling has stepped aside from Slow Water, part of the Innovation at for a new annual showcase at the Design Platform 5 to start the seed of a department- the RCA Show showcased new design Museum. Designers in Residence featured wide alternative energy group. His place is concepts by Platform 10, exploring the the work of Sarah van Gameren, Tomas taken by Sam Hecht, Durrell Bishop and potential for more sustainable domestic Alonso and Finn Magee. Tomas transformed Andre Klauser. Onkar Kular Singh will water use. Exhibits looked at rainwater the museum’s café with his furniture and replace Carey Young in Platfrom 11 who management, water awareness, water bill a modular plant system, ‘Home Greenroom’; is on sabbatical with an AHRC-funded sharing and the future of showers. Sarah’s ‘Big Dipper’ which mechanically research project at the London College creates 24 candle-wax chandeliers by of Communication. Staff Success dipping strings of wick in heated wax was Tutor Martino Gamper’s fondness for installed in the Riverside Hall and Finn’s found objects was the basis of his ongoing ‘Flat Life’ project recreated the atmosphere research project. 100 Chairs in 100 Days of a designer’s studio. was exhibited at the Design Museum in June. Martino also selected work from At Milan, the Great Brits: Ingenious recent College graduates to showcase in Therapies showcase of cutting-edge, the Gradual exhibition which took place new-generation UK design featured RCA during London Design Week. The exhibition alumni Peter Marigold, Hiroko Shiratori space at the Old Art Studio was and Eelko Moorer. transformed into a temporary laboratory, offering visitors the chance to engage Collaborations directly with the designer as the work was The Great Eastern Hotel and 14 students conceived and executed. The exhibition from Platform 10 collaborated on was part of the Brompton Design Project, ‘SLEEPLESS’, a project led by Professor initiated in 2006 to increase the presence Ron Arad. The students presented individual of new design in South Kensington. interpretations of the hotel through reactive installations and objects. Guests and 1 Tutor Noam Toran showed work at the visitors were invited to take part in an Musee d’Art Moderne in Luxembourg, the interactive experience and step into a Goldstein Museum in Minneapolis and the hidden dimension where the hotel became 1: Sarah van Gameren’s ‘Big Dipper’ which mechanically creates 24 candle-wax Baltic Centre for Contempoaray Art in more than just a place to stay for the night. chandeliers by dipping strings of wick Newcastle. in heated wax was shown as part of the Designers in Residence exhibition at the Design Museum

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Industrial Design Snowdon Award for Disability Projects for Engineering ‘Kneetronic’, an intelligent and supportive rehabilitative brace that limits harmful knee movement while the knee is healing Student Success after injury or surgery. Ben Storan won first place in the BSI Sustainable Design Awards for his project Staff Success to design an affordable personal wind The design work of both Professor Tom turbine suited to the urban environment. Barker and Senior Tutor Ashley Hall featured Third place went to Andreas Zachariah in the prestigious International Design (IDE) for his ‘Carbon Hero’ personal Yearbook 2007, published by Laurence King. carbon calculator. The work of Professor Barker also featured in the Architecture Biennale in Venice. Clara Gaggero and Sabine Fekete won Futurelab’s Innovate to Educate Prize; an Graduate Success award supported by Cambridge Assessment 1996 Industrial Design graduate, Simon and the BBC designed to encourage Waterfall, was made Deputy President students to develop a digital educational of D&AD. resource. Along with their £3,000 prize money, the pair has been awarded a three- Collaborations 1 month secondment with BBC Learning & The department’s first year MA students Interactive next year. Their prize-winning worked in China during May as an ongoing project – called ‘dot°’ – is an interactive collaboration with Tsinghua University, playground that can be unrolled like a Beijing. carpet and was inspired by children’s ability to create games wherever they are. In collaboration with the Classical Opera Company students from IDE and Textiles Michael Korn, Clara Gaggero and Andy designed the set and costumes for the Goodman won the Imperial New Business first UK production in over 30 years of Challenge. The prize was £25,000 which Mozart’s The First Commandment, was split £15,000 for services and £10,000 performed in London’s wonderfully cash. This group also came third in the atmospheric Wiltons Music Hall. Tanaka Business Challenge which was held in Milan. Other Department News The Industrial Design Engineering The department was also very successful Department was listed in Business Week as in the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s Design for one of the top design schools in the world. 2 our Future Selves Awards, with students taking nearly all of the awards available. ‘dot°’ won the The Helen Hamlyn Award for Creativity and the Michael Peters Award; Michael Korn took the Future Foundation Award for Inclusive Design Process for ‘Sticksafe’, a redesign of the standard hospital cardboard tray that holds needles safely in order to minimise the risk of needle-stick injuries; Clara Gaggero won the Help The Aged Award for Independent Living for ‘P’, a urine sample collector and diagnostic device that makes the process of collecting urine 1. Komal Vora, Rachel Tomlinson and Michael more comfortable; Komal Vora, Rachel Korn won a Helen Hamlyn Award for Tomlinson and Michael Korn (with Helen hera.miko, A footwear technology that Wilde from Fashion Womenswear) won the opens and closes without the need to bend Mobility Choice Award for ‘hera.miko’, a down or use hands

footwear technology that can be embedded 2. In collaboration with the Classical Opera into any type of shoe that opens and Company students from IDE and Textiles closes without the need to bend down designed the set and costumes for Mozart’s or use hands; and Sabine Fekete won the The First Commandment

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Vehicle Design Dale Harrow has continued to develop Following a successful research project, international links in Korea, China and Learning and Teaching Development Student Success the US. funding and SPARK Awards, Sheila Clark Students in the department continue from Textiles has returned to the to be acknowledged in the media, with Graduate Success department to work on a PhD. interim and final Show work being 1980 graduate Peter Schreyer, Director published in specialist automotive press of Kia Design Europe, was awarded an The department now includes three and wider design publications such as Honorary Doctorate by the College. This government-funded Brazilian PhD students. Monacle and Wallpaper. is only the third time in the department’s history that one of its graduates has been Other Department News The activities of the department have been awarded this honour. The first Alumni Dinner was very enriched by the developing research culture, successful and funding from Autodesk a third of students on the Vehicle Design Ian Callum, 1979 graduate and Director has been secured for the next event. course are now researchers. This has of Design at Jaguar became a Royal led to many international conference Designer for Industry – a first for automotive The department has been in negotiations publications and exhibitions. Students design. He has also redesigned the new with Banenburg boats and Gloria publishing have shown at various exhibitions including Jaguar XF. to inaugurate a student bursary for Mitomacchina, MART Italy – a major yacht design. review of the history technology and 1973 graduate Martin Smith was appointed the future of car design; the Transport Head of European Design at Ford Motor Visitors included Nick Talbot from Museum London as part of the Futures Company and 1974 alumni Peter Horbury Seymourpowell; Sebastian Conran, Gallery; and the Goodwood Revival. was appointed Design Director. Other Conran Partners; Marek Reichman, Jaguar; alumni appointments include Mark Adams Stephane Schwarz, Nissan Design The winners of the 20th Pilkington Awards who was appointed Design Director at Opal Europe; and Andrew Nahum from the were Teresa Mendicino for Most Innovative Design; Thomas Inglath, Design Director Science Museum. Use of Glazing and Flavien Dachet for Best at VW Berlin; Marek Reichman, Design Design Interpretation. The awards were Director at Aston Martin; and Trevor The department hosted a one day judged by an international panel including Cread, Design Director at Chrysler, USA. seminar Moving Forward which explored David Wilkie from Bertoni, Italy and Earl future design directions for transport. Beckles from Landrover. Collaborations In collaboration with Intel and the Helen The Coachmakers Award was won by Teresa Hamyln Centre, students worked on a Mendicino, and Vinnie Desai was awarded project investigating future mobility. the Jaguar scholarship. Julien Cueff was awarded the Interior Motives Best Interior The first-year student industry project and Best Overall Design Awards. teamed students with Rosta, a Chinese wheel design and manufacturing company. Students participated in a number of international competitions including Senior Designers from Nissan and Aston Pierre Sabas who won the Daihatsu Martin took part in Crits and projects. International Design Competition. Uros Pavasovic was shortlisted for the DFOFS Interdisciplinary involvement with 1 Challenge, and went on to develop his Fashion & Textiles continued, as did project into a full-size model, which was collaborations with The Worshipful shown at the Detroit Motor Show as part Company of Carmen on developing of the Michelin Design Challenge. strategies on urban transport.

Staff Success Research Stephan Schwarz’s development of the Following a bid for EPSRC funding on Nissan Quasqui was presented to the a collaborative research project called students as a prototype. ‘Smart Pods’ working on taking health- care to the patient, £250,000 was awarded Visiting Lecturer Marek Reichman designed to the partnership, which included the the Aston Martin DB7 car for the latest Helen Hamlyn Centre, other universities James Bond movie. including Loughborough, Bristol and Portsmouth, and industrial partner Nissan Visiting Lecturer and Director of who will be prototyping. 1: Visiting Lecturer Marek Reichman designed Seymourpowell developed the ENV, the the Aston Martin DB7 car for the latest world’s first fuel cell motorcycle. James Bond movie

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School of Graduate Success Joan Ashworth’s new film, Mushroom Thief, 2005 graduate Ian Gouldstone picked up a was shot on location on a working farm on Communications coveted BAFTA award for his graduation the outskirts of the beautiful Trough of film, Guy 101. Bowland in Lancashire, working with local teenage actors. Her crew consisted of Animation Also shortlisted for a BAFTA, in the Short cinematographer Hugh Gordon, and Nic Animated Film category was 2001 graduate Welbourne from the University of Central Student Success Suzie Templeton who received a nomination Lancashire. Mushrooms for the film were Graduating student Johnny Kelly was a for her stop-motion accompaniment to grown specially by Drinkwater Mushrooms, recipient of a Conran Foundation Award. Sergi Prokofiev’s classic music score, Peter Galgat and additional props were provided Johnny was also a finalist in the Adobe and the Wolf. Her film also won both the by a local gamekeeper. A full-size model Design Awards for his film Shelly, the story Grand Prix and the Audience Prize at of a hare was also built by Se Ma For of a lobster with a new-found love for music. Annecy International Animation Festival. Productions, Poland.

Marc Reisbig won the Best British Film 2006 graduate Will Bishop Stevens won Prize and the British Panorama Jury Vote the Audience Vote at LIAF for his film The at the London International Animation Adventures of John and John. Festival (LIAF), August 2007, for his film Time is Running Out. 2006 graduate Laurie Hill was chosen for Bloomberg newcontemporaries 2007. Reka Gaks’ film Nothing Happened Today was selected for the 2007 London Film Collaborations Festival. Reka’s film Yarn…Good Light is RCA students worked on Big Small People, Essential also received a commendation a UNESCO-supported international from the LIAF jury. animation project about children’s rights that showed as part of the Animated Girl with the Short Hair by Maryam Exeter Festival. The films were first 1 Mohajer won the Residency Prize at the premiered in Tel Aviv and Valenciennes Tricky Women Festival in Vienna. in November 2006.

Shots magazine featured Martin Joan Ashworth has collaboarated with Ruyant’s work and Johnny Kelly’s film the University of West Indies, Trinidad, to Procrastination was featured on the develop a new postgradraduate animation Cover of Creative Review. course, helping to develop animation as an industry in the West Indies. This has Staff Success developed through a connection with NESTA have asked Tim Webb to act as a Animae Caribe, the annual animation mentor to a Barry Murphy project, which Festival held in Trinidad. aims to make work which broadens the appeal of science. Students worked with the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive and used the 2 Tim Webb’s film A is for Autism and Joe resources of the oral history archive in King’s film Seachange was included as their fabulous lip synch projects this year. part of an animated documentary screening at the Britdoc festival in Oxford, as was A group of Palestinian animators and the work of several students and graduates educators visted the Department to view reflecting the developing interest in films and to discuss ways of developing documentary animation. and producing animation in Palestine. The British Council have offered support for Joe King’s film Seachange also won a future collaboration and Ellie Land and Best Experimental Short at the SXSW Tim Webb will be pursuing this project. Film Festival in Austin, USA, the Doug Wandrei Award for Best Lighting Design Research 1: A full-size model of a hare was built by at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Best Joe King shot a new film, I Am Not You Are Se Ma For Productions for Joan Experimental Short at Hull International Not Me, part of the ‘City Speaks’ project Ashworth’s new film, Mushroom Thief Short Film Festival. for Film London and BBC 4.This is 2: Marc Reisbig won the Best British Film a collaboration between radio writers and Prize and the British Panorama Jury artist film makers. vote at the London International Animation Festival

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Communication Art Professor of Illustration Andrzej & Design Klimowski’s graphic novel Horace Dorland was published by Faber. It subsequently Student Success came second in the V&A’s National Arts Carrie May’s project won the Helen Hamlyn Library Illustration Awards. Deputy Head Centre’s Big Idea Award for Inclusive of Department Jeff Willis designed a Communication. The Wordy Hurdy Gurdy history of the Royal Ballet Company is a screen-based book that subtly employs titled Pas de Deux for Oberon Books. the use of synthetic phonics to encourage Willis also designed an exhibition of the children to recognise sounds within words work of artist Mark Dion at the Natural in order to gain a clearer understanding of History Museum. word construction and pronunciation. Graduate Success Second-year Angela Palmer had an 1995 IIlustration graduate James Jarvis exhibition at the Hunterian Gallery of the created a series of freestanding Royal College of Surgeons. The sculptures foamboard figures for the menswear in Inside Out were built up from line department of London store, Liberty. drawings or engravings of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) medical scans onto Collaborations layers of glass which, when brought The College created a new website for together, form extraordinary 3D images. the Museum of London in November. The 1 Angela was also awarded joint first prize website production was a collaboration in Asthma UK's inaugural exhibition at between Tasmin Fulton of Design London’s Jerwood Space. In See No Evil, Interactions and CA&D. It takes the she exhibited a piece which appeared to form of an online map of London on be nothing more than a framed panel of which Londoners and visitors can place glass, but in fact contained 297 dust mites their memories in different forms (text, – the average number found in a gram of small videos, photos, etc) and under dust – naked to the human eye. different themes: www.mapmylondon.com.

Staff Success Visiting Professor Brian Eno created a new piece of work for the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, a version 2 of which was also displayed at Selfridges. The new piece ‘The Constellations (77 Million Paintings)’ consisted of 300 slides created by Eno, digitised for computer, then projected onto the TV screens. They would take 9,000 years to watch were they to run in all possible forms. The visual show was enhanced by randomly generated ambient music.

Professor Dan Fern directed On The Edge Of Life in collaboration with musician Joanna McGregor, a groundbreaking one day event for the Bath International Music Festival (Bath 07), which used live and recorded sound, music, images test and poetry to depict the fragility and vulnerability of 1: Angela Palmer had an exhibition at the children before, during and after childbirth. Hunterian Gallery of the Royal College of Surgeons. The sculptures in Inside Out Professor Dan Fern was also the guest were built up from line drawings or judge on the panel for the nationwide engravings of MRI medical scans onto Doodle For competition. The contest layers of glass was open to schoolchildren across Britain. 2: Video still of students working in the The brief was to design a Google logo premature baby unit at St George's Hospital around what it meant to be British. for Dan Fern’s On the Edge of Life project

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School of Fashion Graduate Success Other Department News 1965 graduate Brian Godbold was honoured The Show: Fashion was once again well & Textiles with an OBE for his services to fashion attended and Guests of Honour at the design. He was Marks & Spencer’s Design Fashion Gala included Sir Terence and Director from 1993 to 1998 and former Lady Conran, fashion designer Hussein Fashion Menswear Chairman of the British Fashion Council. Chalayan, artist Sir Peter Blake and Fashion Womenswear singer Holly Johnson. 2005 graduate Marcus Wilmont won Student Success Fashion Fringe 2007 with his business Tristan Webber was appointed Senior Peter Smith won an Adobe Design Award partner Maki Aminaka Löfvander. Womenswear Tutor. in the Digital Illustration category for his menswear collection, which was designed 2007 graduates were successful in gaining in collaboration with graphic designer employment with high-profile names in the Cristian Zuzunaga. Together they designed fashion industry: David Longshaw is at modern and functional street-wear Alberta Ferretti, Holly Fulton at Lanvin, clothing for men inspired by the pixel. James Holman at Louis Vuitton, Hans Madsen at Diesel and Louise Crawford RCA Fashion students took the top prizes and Laerke Melgaard Hansen are at at the sixth annual International Talent Hiroko Koshino. Support (It’s Six) Awards in Italy. Susanne Happle was awarded the top prize in the Increasing numbers of graduates are highly coveted Accessories Designer of going on to start their own labels. 2006 the Year category for her dramatic, graduate Aitor Throup, 2003 graduate moulded handbags and purses and Erdem Moralioglu and 2002 graduate milliner Justin Smith took the i-D Styling Julian Smith all presented collections and Maria Luisa Awards for his collection during London Fashion Week in 2007. based on a circus freakshow. Collaborations Womenswear students Jenny Hortlund Leading high-street retailer Oasis partnered and Pamela Leung were amongst the with the RCA for a project with first-year winners of the new Rowan Design Awards Womenswear and Textiles students. The 1 for creativity in handknitting. winners were Elisabeth Borglin and Mio Yamamoto, and their designs will go on Staff Success sale in selected Oasis stores nationwide Professor Wendy Dagworthy curated from March 2008. The Bag Show – an exhibition dedicated to the über-accessory – ‘the bag’, at Flow In a new collaboration with cashmere Gallery, London. The show included over yarn firm Todd & Duncan, a new award 40 exclusive designs by students, recent was created. This year’s winner was graduates and staff. Womenswear student Soren Bach. Other new collaborations resulted in projects and Designs by Professor Wendy Dagworthy awards from Laura Ashley and Missoni. and Senior Tutor Sarah Dallas were on Projects were also created through display as part of an exhibition of 1970s established collaborations with Manolo fashion at the Museum of Fashion in Bath. Blahnik, International Flavours & Fragrances, United Arrows and Umbro. Womeswear Tutor Julie Verhoeven had several solo exhibitions, including Research Ver-Heaven at Riflemaker Gallery in Senior Tutor Henrietta Goodden’s book London and Dull as Dishwater at Galerie Camouflage and Art: Design for Deception, Vera Gliem in Cologne. She also created Disguise and Decoy in was a ‘pop up store’ in Westbourne Grove for published by Unicorn Press in May. 2 Mulberry and was commissioned to create 1: Milliner Justin Smith won the i-D Styling a piece of public art for Bristol Harbourside. Professor Wendy Dagworthy’s research and Maria Luisa prizes at the It’s Six project ‘The Forgotten Generation: A Awards Senior Tutor Ike Rust has been made a Study of the London Fashion Industry 2: Peter Smith won an Adobe Design Award Visiting Professor at Kolding Design Between 1968–1989’ continues. A book for his menswear collection, which was Skolen in Denmark. will be published in 2009, and a future designed in collaboration with Cristian exhibition at the V&A is planned. Zuzunaga from CA&D

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Textiles Graduate Success She was a research partner for the 2006 graduate Hsiao-Chi Tsai and Kimiya European Commission’s ‘Fashioning an Student Success Yoshikawa (Sculpture graduate) were Ethical Industry’ project and EPSRC’s Laura Perryman won the CABE Award for commissioned by leading London ‘Smart Textiles for Intelligent Consumer Inclusive Design in the Helen Hamyn department store Harvey Nichols to Products’ project. She was also a speaker at Centre’s Design for our Future Selves create its spring window display. The various international conferences including Awards, for her ‘Component Textile’ project seven site-specific sculptural installations the Sustainable Innovation Conference in – a collection of patterned and contoured were created from foam and balloons. Chigago; the Ambient Interiors conference fabrics mounted on panels to create a at the Royal Institute of British Architects; range of interior components to help Collaborations and the Designed to Recycle government people with visual impairments to organise Heal’s sponsored a project with Textiles conference at City Hall. their objects or navigate space at home. students for its Heal’s Discovers range. This was the first time a Textiles student The designs by Ella Smith, Mary Crisp had won one of the Helen Hamlyn Awards. and Rachel Templeman are on sale at the Tottenham Court Road store. Six second-year students were given the John Dunsmore Travel Award and Designs by last year’s John Lewis project visited Nepal, where they worked with winner Jemma Ooi were translated into nettle weavers. an exclusive John Lewis home furnishings and accessories collection. Rowan, the handknit yarn company, presented the first Rowan Design Awards, In collaboration with the Classical Opera awarded for creativity in handknitting at Company students from Textiles and IDE the Textile evening during the Summer designed the set and costumes for the Show. Git-Ying Tse, and Jenny McHardy, first UK production in over 30 years of both Constructed Textiles students were Mozart’s The First Commandment, amongst the finalists. performed in London’s Wiltons Music Hall.

Constructed Textiles student Mio Yamamoto Designers Paul Davies London sponsored won the Oasis Competition in collaboration the Textile show, and a new award, the with Fashion. Their designs will go on sale Timney De Villeneuve Prize was given to in selected Oasis stores nationwide from Alice Palmer. March 2008. 1 Lectra very generously sponsored 13 Kristine Mandsberg won a new competition software licences and the Department is for Dovecot Tapestry Studios in Edinburgh. collaborating with them to develop textile Her winning work was also shown at the software. first Origin Craft Fair at Somerset House, London, in 2006. The Head of Department was invited to the launch of a new Chinese textile Staff Success company which brought together Chinese Professor Clare Johnston participated textile courses with the RCA and Brighton in the Cox report mission to American University and future cooperative ventures centres of excellence in interdisciplinary are currently under discussion. design. She also co-chaired a symposium for Texprint at Chelsea College of Art, the Research and Staff Development Materialise Symposium at the Royal College Textiles staff gave papers at various of Art, and chaired the Royal Society of international conferences. Anne Toomey Art Furnishing Fabric Design Award. The at Techtextile in Frankfurt and Medtex, Society of Dyers and Colourists also Bolton; Karen Nicol at the Pratt Institure awarded Clare with a silver medal for her in the USA; and Philippa Watkins at the contribution to colour and colour education. Silk Conference in Tunisia. 2 Freddie Robins had an exhibition, The Dr Joan Farrer was an external examiner Perfect, at Contemporary Applied Arts, at the University of Northumbria and London which included an installation of was a panel member on several external 1: Kristine Mandsberg won a new competition knitted human bodies. research-funding bodies including Peer for Dovecot Tapestry Studios in Edinburgh Review Panels for the AHRC and EPSRC and the London Development Agency. 2: The Textile show at The Great Exhibition 2007

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School of Fine Art shows Top Twenty, and My Penguin, at the 39 Gallery.

Painting Visting Lecturer Dawn Mellor had solo shows at the Team Gallery in New York, Student Success and Studio Voltaire in London and Drawing David Sullivan and Tamara Dubnyckyj Tutor Margarita Gluzberg had a solo show were each awarded one of three runner-up at Paradise Row Gallery. prizes in the Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Competition. Graduate Success Several graduates had solo shows at James Ryan won a Conran Foundation prestigious galleries: 2005 graduate Katy Award for his three-dimensional painted Moran had a show at Modern Art London; spaces. and 2002 graduate Sam Dargan had his first solo show at Rokeby. Sam also won 1 Alistair Frost, James Ryan and David the 2006 Oriel Mostyn Open, a prize with Fletcher were selected for Bloomberg a reputation for spotting future stars. newcontemporaries. Alistair Frost was also awarded a place at the prestigious 2004 graduate Daniel Sinsel had his second Rijks Academy in Amsterdam, commencing solo show at Sadie Coles Gallery. in the spring. Collaborations Paul Westcombe received a commission Working with the Marlborough Gallery, to paint a mural for the United Nations Christies and Space Studios Laura Building in Brussels and his work was also Oldfield-Ford was awarded the new Valerie shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Beston Award, which provides the selected student with a fully paid up studio for a year Ryan Mosley, Ian Whitfield and James and a solo show at a central London gallery. Wright had an exhibition called Droppings at Imperial College's Blyth Gallery. Research MPhil student Daniel Baker is continuing Work by research students Ian Kiaer to work with artists and art organisations and Daniel Baker was included in the in Venice. Venice Biennale. Other Department News Staff Success Four new tutors were welcomed into the Professor David Rayson, working as part Painting Department. The writer and 2 of a curatorial panel, organised and curated critic J.J Charlesworth; Goshka Macuga, the Jerwood Contemporary Painters artist; John Slyce, writer and critic; and exhibition that debuted at the Jerwood Millie Thompson, artist. Gallery in London, and then toured to Bay Arts Gallery, Cardiff, and the Lowry Art Marguerita Glutzberg and Dawn Mellor Gallery, Manchester. David also conducted have left to concentrate on their studio a series of talks and presentations in practices. Both have brought a lot to the relation to the exhibition, both in the UK course and will be missed. and internationally. The show attracted coverage in the major newspapers and Susan Reed, the Painting Course art journals. Administrator for the past four years, has also left. Several tutors had solo shows: Rose Finn- Kelscey at the Milton Keynes Gallery; Douglas Allsop at Kunstreneineislingen Gallery and Niedisuherheinischer Gallery 1: James Ryan won a Conran Foundation in Germany; and Goshka Macuga at Tate Award for his three-dimensional painted Britain as part of the Art Now series. spaces

2: Alistair Frost was awarded a place at the John Strutton exhibited at the Camden prestigious Rijks Academy in Amsterdam Arts Centre, and performed with his Band and was also chosen for Bloomberg of Nod. He also organised and curated the newcontemporaries

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Photography Whitechapel also held a solo exhibition of Margaret’s work in January 2007. Student Success Students from the Photography Department Collaborations took part in the Photomonth in Krakow, Students had an exhibition at the Bank of an international festival of contemporary America in Canary Wharf. Bank of America photography. also provided generous sponsorship for travelling bursaries. Leonora Hamill was a finalist in the International Talent Support Photography Research Exhibition in Trieste. Italian Photography Curator, Filippo Maggia, was appointed as our Visiting Research Jessica Layton won the European Leica Fellow. He is currently preparing an Prize, a student competition between the exhibition of new photography in Britain, RCA, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des and is researching work by recent graduates. Arts Décoratifs in Paris and Bielefeld 1 Hochschule in Germany. Other Department News The department welcomed a new The graduating students edited Reference Practice Tutor, Sarah Jones, who also Book, a publication that presented their holds a Research Fellowship at the practice and included critical texts on National Media Museum in Bradford. photography.

Staff Success Senior Tutor Peter Kennard showed his photomontages in MediaBurn at Tate Modern, a group exhibition mapping the boundaries between art, politics, protest and the media.

Rut Blees Luxemburg was commissioned by Platform Art for a public artwork at Heathrow Terminal 4, photographing emblems of modernism on the Piccadilly Line.

Stuart Croft showed his recent film work in Theatre of Cruelty at White Box, New York. 2

Olivier Richon had a solo exhibition at Nepente Art Gallery in Milan, to accompany his recent monograph Real Allegories.

Graduate Success Photography graduates Dafna Talmor and Elina Jokipii organised the third RCA Photography Auction, held at the White Space Gallery in County Hall in October. The auction raises funds for the RCA Photography Graduate Award, the first of which was presented to O. Zhang, a 2004 graduate.

2003 graduate Margaret Salmon won the inaugural MaxMara Art Prize for Women. The award, which is presented by the 1: 2004 graduate O. Zhang won the first RCA Photography Graduate Award Whitechapel Art Gallery, was created to help nurture and promote emerging 2: Jessica Layton won the European female artists based in the UK. The Leica Prize

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Printmaking alongside a series of prints by distinguished guest artists. The graduates featured Student Success were Katsutoshi Yuasa, Adam Bridgland, Jane Ward won a Conran Foundation Tom Leighton, Chris Wraith, Sarah Award for her stunning micro-worlds and Bridgland, Edd Pearman, Akiko Takizawa collaged digital images of an idealised and Mila Furstova. miniature environment of a model village with images taken of the natural world. Collaborations At Sadler’s Wells, Printmaking students Andrew Parker won the Deutsche Bank curated Over and Over Again, an exhibition Pyramid Award, and Jessie Brennan of posters selected from various archives, received the Augustus Martin Prize. with art critic Sacha Craddock.

Francisco Lobo was selected for Bloomberg Research newcontemporaries along with 2006 In summer 2007 Printmaking carried out, graduate Sarah Bridgland. in conjunction with the Conservation Department, a research project to Staff Success establish systems and methods for Professor Chris Orr had a show, Cities of cataloguing the Printmaking Archive with Holy Dreams, at the Jill George Gallery, a view to the move to Battersea. London, in April 2007 showing work produced in Tokyo, London and Dresden.

Ann-Marie LeQuesne exhibited After the 1 Fact at the Rosenwald Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia. The exhibition showed a series of re-enactments of a small photograph supposedly taken at the Execution of the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico in 1867.

Eileen Cooper had a solo show of paintings, Deeper Water at Art First, London, in May and June 2007.

Bob Matthews exhibited in and curated the nationally touring World Gone Mad exhibition.

Mark Hampson was Artist in Residence at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, London.

Jo Stockham undertook a research residency at the Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art and published Notes, a document embodying the work produced. 2

Dick Jewell had three films; Stay Young, Eternal Youth and Death from Baroque to the Contemporary Age, screened at Vigevano Castle, Italy, in a festival.

Graduate Success The Printmaking Department participated 1: Francisco Lobo was selected for in the London Original Print Fair at the Bloomberg newcontemporaries Royal Academy for the third year in a row. 2: Jane Ward won a Conran Foundation This year work by a new generation of Award for her stunning micro-worlds and young artist printmakers recently collaged digital images of a model village graduated from the RCA was shown and images taken of the natural world

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Sculpture Other Department News The Sculpture Department moved across Student Success the road to a temporary building as work Rachel Thorlby won the £5,000 Student got underway on the refurbishment of the Artist Award in the Celeste Art Prize 2007. Howie Street building. The work will be completed in time for the Summer Show First-year student Steven Bishop and in 2008. second-year student Daniel Pasteiner were selected for Bloomberg newcontemporaries 2007. Steven Bishop also won the £2,500 Villiers David Travel Award.

Other award-winning students included Bruce Ingram, who won the £5,000 Villiers David Bursary; Stephanie Quayle, who won the Madam Tussauds Award; and Phillipa Hadley Choy, who was chosen for the Red Mansion Travel Award.

Staff Success Professor Glynn Williams’ new work, a memorial to Lloyd George in Parliament Square was unveiled by HRH Prince of Wales.

Several staff had solo exhibitions: Denise de Cordova’s show Re-Reader was at Emma Hill Fine Art Eagle Gallery, London; Kate Davis’s show Headhearthole was at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere; and Keith Wilson’s had three exhibitions, The Gallery Socks at Matthew Bown Gallery, London; Zone 1 at Hammersmith Station, London and Periodic Table at the Wellcome Trust, London.

Graduate Success 2004 graduate Juliet Haysom received the 1 top award in the Jerwood Sculpture Prize for her work ‘Spring’, which will be unveiled at the Jerwood Sculpture Park at Ragley, Warwickshire in early 2008.

1990 graduates Jake and Dinos Chapman had a major show at Tate Liverpool.

The department announced the inaugural exhibition of the Bronze Age Sculpture Prize, a new opportunity for graduates of the Sculpture Department to extend their practice by integrating bronze casting into their existing working methods. The show, hosted by the Limehouse Gallery, featured work by 2007 graduates Philippa 1: Rachel Thorlby won the Student Artist Hadley Choy, Stephanie Quale, Rachel Award in the Celeste Art Prize 2007 Thorlby and Thomas Winstanley.

2 2: Professor Glynn Williams’ new work: a The Independent cited 2006 graduate memorial to Lloyd George, in Parliament Aisling Hedgecock amongst its list of Square, was unveiled by HRH Prince of 2007's next big things. Wales

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Drawing Studio improvised opera entitled Scratches For an Esemplastic Opera was staged, as Drawing Workshops and Events part of the Limbic Phaze exhibition. The The number of students making use of the Esemplastic Tuesdays class went to Drawing Studio continues to increase. Highgreen in Northumbria, for a one-off During 2006/7 the studio provided a wide session, for local people and students from range of workshops and events as part of Newcastle University. Both events were its remit to raise the awareness of the recorded and broadcast on Resonance FM. importance of drawing and its relevance to art and design practice. The Drawing Drawing Prizes Studio was, however, in a poor condition, A diverse range of work submitted to The worsened by it being used to house the Man Group Drawing Prize and the public counter-balance for the workers´ cradle exhibition of selected entries presented during refenestration. All Drawing Studio work from most departments in the staff and models were determined not to College. First prize went to Joy Gerrard let this get in the way of keeping the from Printmaking, and second prize classes interesting and vital, even though to Gemma Anderson also from the the Studio was closed for three weeks, to Printmaking Department.There were four repair windows broken during a storm. third prize winners, Joseph Childs from CA&D, Yuko Kanemura and Kelly Allen Drawing Lab, an experimental drawing both from Printed Textiles and Amanda class designed for those students who Moore from Sculpture. feel the need to build up confidence in 1 drawing, was a success. The Drawing the Other prizes given this year include the Body figure drawing classes were in Daler Rowney Prize, which went to particular demand and were kept Liz Collini from Printmaking, the Tom interesting by the variety of tutors Bendhem Prize, to Barton Hargreaves and their different approaches. also from Printmaking and the Desmond Preston Prize, to Jennifer Taylor from Esemplastic Tuesdays, where free Sculpture. improvised music, poetry, drawing and sound interact, continues to be a popular Research Drawing Studio class with students and Margarita Gluzberg, the Drawing Research guests making visible the sonic and Tutor, continued to work closely with atmospheric landscapes with enthusiasm research students across departments and sensitivity. These sessions are recorded and ran a series of Drawing Research and edited highlights are broadcast on seminars in the Drawing Studio. She was Resonance FM the next day, 2pm to 3pm. awarded research funding by the College for her solo show,The Funk of Terror Into The Natural Forms drawing class run by Psychic Bricks at Paradise Row, London. John Norris-Wood continues to generate interest and like all of our classes has an inclusive atmosphere. The Anatomy course was again popular with students. Taught by experts in anatomy for artists, with a mixture of off-site visits and studio workshops, it continues to deliver an interesting and engaging programme. The Facial Reconstruction courses were very popular and continue to be over subscribed.

Amelia Johnstone’s Imaginative Drawing classes, a recent addition to the programme, and the Drawing London programme continue to be successful.

This year the department participated in The Big Draw, with enthusiastic help from 1: Joy Gerrard from Printmaking won the students, staff and musicians. A free Man Group Drawing Prize

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School of Museum, London, while 2006 graduate Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Barbara Schertel took up an internship Design, Oslo, on location of storage and Humanities at the in San conservation facilities and was the keynote Francisco, USA. speaker at both the XXI Nordiska Arkivdagar (Nordic Archives Days) at Uppsala and at RCA/V&A Conservation Staff Success and Research the XVII Nordiska Konservator Förbundet Dr Vincent Daniels, Research Fellow, conference in Stockholm on ‘Museum Student Success received the Plowden Medal. This gold Dirt’. He was also an invited speaker Richard Mulholland, PhD student, was medal was awarded by the Royal Warrant at ‘Responding to Climate Change’, at awarded an AHRC Doctoral Award to Holders Association in recognition of Ta t e B r i t a in. support his studies on the drawing media Vincent’s long and exceptional contribution of the American sculptor, David Smith. to the development of understanding in Other Department News Cordelia Rogerson, part-time doctoral conservation, the excellence of his The department has continued to deliver candidate, researching the role of plastics dedicated research and his ready highly relevant and high-quality training in studio jewellery, was appointed Modern engagement with practitioners of the and learning in conservation, marked by Materials Conservator at the British Library, conservation profession. the employment record of our graduates. and also presented aspects of her work at The work-based model of learning remains Plastics conference at the V&A. Vincent produced a number of research the outstanding and unique feature of the publications including a collaborative MA course and it is an approach to higher The Friends of the V&A continued to chapter on plastics for The National education that satisfies both government support the department through their Trust Manual of Housekeeping, a paper demands for greater industry links, and generous award of travel funds and a Conservation Science Heritage Materials the UK conservation profession's own student bursary, and the National for the Royal Society of Chemistry, and aspirations for the delivery of graduates Association of Decorative & Fine Arts analyses of copper- and beeswax-containing ‘fit for purpose’ in the changing climate Societies supported a number of student green paint on Egyptian Antiquities in of conservation. projects through a generous grant. Studies in Conservation. He was also invited to act as a consultant to The British Museum. MA student, Chris Egerton, was supported by the fibreoptic and optical expertise of William Lindsay published research Moritex Europe Ltd, in his project to conserve papers on conservation-decision contexts, the early 18th century ‘Berkswell’ cello. authenticity in natural history displays, and the management of museum-building Graduate Success projects. He also contributed to the Among 2007 graduates, Hazel Arnott has annual conference of the UK’s Natural been appointed Textile Conservator at the Sciences Collections Association on the National Trust’s Textile Conservation Studio theme of 'Selling Natural Science', and in , Sandra Joly has been appointed lectured at Manchester University’s Art as Head of Visual and Performing Arts, Gallery and Museums MA course. Utahloy International School Zeng Cheng, Guangdong Province, China, and Alice Cole Alison Richmond was elected to the Board took an internship at the Abegg-Stiftung, of Trustees of the Institute of Conservation Switzerland. and appointed Vice Chair, and sits on the Professional Standards and Development Dr Angela Geary, who graduated in 2001, Steering Group and is Chair of the Higher was appointed Reader at University of the and Further Education Committee of Icon.

Arts, London, where she is Director of the 1 SCIRIA (Sensory Computer Interface Dr Harriet Standeven delivered a paper on Research & Innovation for the Arts) and the development of gloss paints in the UK FELSSO (Finite Elements with and the USA at the Tate/Getty Conference Scanning for mechanical analysis of on Modern Paints. Sculptural Objects) research projects. Visiting Professor, Jonathan Ashley-Smith, Dr Pedro Gaspar, who graduated in 2003, was an invited participant in the seminar was appointed Conservation Assistant to for the House of Lords Select Committee the Church of England’s Council for the on Science and Technology, ' Science and Care of Churches. Heritage', at Hampton Court in March 2006, in discussions on international Elisabeth Carr was appointed Paper collaboration in risk research and training. 1: Dr Vincent Daniels (on left) received the Conservator at the National Maritime He also acted as a consultant for the Plowden Medal

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Curating Other Department News Contemporary Art Clare Carolin joined the department as a first-year tutor. She was previously Student Success Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery. This year’s exhibition, Various Small Fires, curated collaboratively by all second- Public lectures included a presentation year students took the concept of the in January 2007 by the artistic director exhibition back to basics – interrogating and curator of Documenta 12. the materiality of its spatial support, the gallery.

Highlights included Carmen Gheorge’s installation of coloured sand arranged in bright and colourful patterns borrowed from Michael Majerus, Frank Stella and Robert Morris – visitors were invited to walk on it, turning their participation into a destructive entropic act; Knut Henrik Henriksen’s wooden wall, which unified the incoherent space of the Henry Moore Gallery; and Ei Arakawa’s performance piece ‘1979 Pink Floyd as Reconstruction Mood’ involved the CCA students in the building of a makeshift stage inside the gallery, merging choreography and critique of spectacle.

First-year students on the public realm course developed a proposal in collaboration with London-based Peer Gallery with funding from Deutsche Bank, for moving 1 image art in launderettes.

Staff Success Tutor Alex Farquharson curated If Everybody Had an Ocean – an exhibition inspired by the music of the Beach Boys, at Tate St Ives.

Graduate Success 2001 graduate Martin Clark was appointed artistic director at Tate St Ives.

Collaborations Brazilian sound-art collective Chelpa Ferro, who have exhibited and performed their work at Biennales from Sao Paulo and Havana to Venice brought their unique sonic experience to London’s East End with the help of CCA students. ‘On-Off- Poltergeist’, the group’s newest work, was specially commissioned by the department and supported by the Monique Beudert Fund, created in the memory of the gifted curator to support projects undertaken 2 1: Ei Arakawa’s perfomance piece during by CCA students at the RCA and Bard Various Small Fires involved the CCA College in New York each year. students in the building of a makeshift stage inside the gallery

2: Carmen Gheorge’s installation of coloured sand for theVarious Small Fires exhibition

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History of Design Luisella Stroebele (MA 2001) founded the With the closure of the AHRC Centre for V&A/RCA design company Volksmarke in Berlin the Study of the Domestic Interior, the in 2002 and has been the recipient of Domestic Interiors Database was the Student Success numerous international design prizes. subject of a further successful funding Ed Town won the Design History Prize for application to the Centre for Excellence the best dissertation and was among four New Asian Design Specialism in Teaching and Learning through Design. graduating MA students who were In the coming year plans will be made to The project will explore the educational awarded distinctions for their second-year launch a new specialism in Asian Design potential of the database in a number of dissertation as part of the final examination. History to be run from October 2008. This art and design contexts. The database exciting new initiative will be developed can be visited at www..ac.uk/csdi/didb. All second-year students contributed to a by Dr Christine Guth, a leading scholar in much-admired display, part of The Great the field of Japanese visual and material In 2007 we said farewell to Dr Flora Exhibition 2007, and also presented their culture, who has joined the course team Dennis, Research Fellow in CSDI on her work at a successful symposium held in from Stanford University. appointment as Lecturer in History of June in the College lecture theatre. Art at Sussex University. Flora was also The Viennese Café and Fin de Siècle awarded a prestigious visiting scholarship at Ellie Herring has taken up the position of Culture I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Renaissance Editorial Assistant at Crafts magazine This multidisciplinary research project, Studies in Florence. In summer 2007, the and Natasha Awais-Dean was appointed funded by the Arts and Humanities department was able to welcome two new as Curator of Post-Medieval Collections at Research Council and run in conjunction research fellows, Dr Rebecca Arnold and the British Museum. Two MA students with Birkbeck College, University of Dr Lizzy Currie. were awarded places to embark on AHRC- London, began in October 2006. It aims funded collaborative PhD studentships – to investigate the social and artistic Ed Town at the University of Sussex in interactions that took place in the conjunction with the National Trust at Viennese café at the turn of the 20th Knole in Kent, and Olivia Fryman at the century and explore their lasting cultural University of Kingston in association with significance. The project, led at the RCA Hampton Court Palace. by Charlotte Ashby and Jeremy Aynsley, involves the preparation of an exhibition Among research students, Miya Itabashi and international conference to take has been awarded a second travel place in autumn 2008. scholarship by the Japan Foundation and Livia Rezende will receive a full Research and Publications research student scholarship from Several publication projects came to CAPES, Brazil from autumn 2007. fruition during the year and staff continued to present their work in an international Lisa Godson, final-year PhD student and context through lectures and contributions part-time tutor in Critical & Historical to conferences. Studies, was appointed Lecturer in History of Design at the National College of Art In spring, Design and the Modern Magazine and Design, Dublin, a position she took was published by Manchester University up in September 2007. Press. Edited by Jeremy Aynsley and Kate Forde, this is the second in a series of 1 Graduate Success books to draw from research of RCA/V&A Rachel King (MA 2006) won the Association History of Design graduates. of Art Historians Dissertation Prize for 2006 and is presently pursuing an AHRC- March 2008 will see the launch of the Journal funded PhD at the University of Manchester of Modern Craft (Berg, Oxford), which will on cross-cultural traffic, particularly in be co-edited by Glenn Adamson (Head amber, between Italy and the Baltic. of Course, V&A), Tanya Harrod, (Visiting Professor, RCA) and Edward S. Cooke Jr. 1: The Viennese Café and Fin de Siècle Deborah Landis (PhD 2003) wrote Culture, a new research project, funded Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Other Department News by the AHRC and run in conjunction with Costume Design, published by Harper Angela McShane joined the course Birkbeck College and University of Collins in November 2007 and is as Tutor at the V&A in December 2006. London, began in October 2006. It aims completing her second term as Dr McShane teaches early-modern visual to investigate the social and artistic interactions that took place in the President of the Costume Designers’ and material culture and her most recent Viennese café at the turn of the 20th Guild in Hollywood, California. research and publications address aspects century and explore their lasting cultural of 17th century print culture. significance.

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Critical & Historical Council scholarship to attend their Post-Experience Studies conference in Houston and she gave a Programmes paper at the New Craft, Future Voices College-wide Lecture Series international conference at Dundee There were nine Post-Experience The department maintained its strong University in July. Foreign Bodies, a Programme students in 2006/7. Three presence within the College in the delivery monograph on jeweller Christoph designers from Hyundai studied in Vehicle of a wide-ranging contextual programme Zellweger, which included an essay Design: Dai Sung Kim was researching for MA students. Staff lectures, seminars by Martina, was published by Actar the next generation in luxury car to come and dissertation supervision stimulated in Spain in February. up with a unique and successful styling students to broaden and deepen their solution; Ji Young Jang came to study critical knowledge and insight and to Research and learn about design for the future and develop self-confidence in the expression A successful academic year saw the first automotive trend design; and Jae Kyu of ideas. The popular college-wide MPhil graduation from CHS, Stewart Kim researched car design for the future lectures in the last academic year Geddes, whose work has recently been European market to propose a new styling covered several territories including the featured in the new Art World magazine. trend inspired by European culture. ‘Image and Time’; ‘Slowness’; ‘The Design Two new MPhil students have joined CHS's of Everyday Life’; ‘Democracy and Life’; three current PhD students, one of whom, Kinya Hasegawa from in ‘Culture at the Edge of Existence’ and Cecilia Jardemar, has won an AHRC grant. Japan spent time in Design Products included Grayson Perry, Carl Honoré, Jon researching and designing home audio Snow, General Sir Mike Jackson, Paul The Humanities Research Methods systems. For the second consecutive year Watson and Jean Matthee amongst a course, convened by Martina Margetts, a Post-experience Programme in Design distinguished range of guest speakers. CHS Research Coordinator, was very Products was sponsored by the Art & well received. Design Elite Scholarship from the The dissertation became more central Taiwanese government; this year’s to the MA student experience. A new successful designer, Yu-Chiao Wang timetable and structure was fully embedded from Taiwan, focused her research for students, allowing for an extended on embroidery as a design element supervision period, more research time and application of traditional Oriental art, more opportunities for formal feedback on in order to find an alternative way of submitted written texts in progress. The design that could represent her culture. MA dissertation offers an opportunity to put studio work in context and to develop Throughout the academic year other research subjects and capabilities which candidates were also based in Vehicle can be carried through to MPhil studies. Design and Design Products and others were working in Photography and The writing culture at the RCA was further Communication Art & Design. supported by a summer term course of seminars on writing, delivered by CHS staff and visiting lecturers.

Staff Success Qualified Routemaster bus driver Joe Kerr drove a Routemaster for Tate Britain and for the RATP transport authority in Paris. 1 Joe also made a programme for Radio 4 on the architecture of new mosques and a Radio 4 series entitled Invisible People, on the staff who organise and supervise our crucial national infrastructure.

Juliet Ash received RCA sabbatical term and AHRC research-leave funding to write a book for I.B. Tauris entitled Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality.

Martina Margetts' biography of the designer Tord Boontje, published in May, has sold worldwide and gone into a second edition. 1: Martina Margetts published a biography She was awarded an American Craft of the designer Tord Boontje

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Research at Richard Mawle, Industrial Design prototypes that could provide significant Engineering and Rachel Philpott, Textiles. value to business and industry); and the RCA historical, critical, cultural and studio 2006/7 also saw new developments in the research (where this relates to, and/or The academic year 2006/7 was a year of applications of digital, electronic and informs art, media, design, production and external validation. During the course of computer-based media for research. SRIF- practice). Preparations for the College’s the year the Research Office received finding has continued to facilitate the formal submission to RAE2008 in November commendation for the College’s research consolidation of traditional studio facilities 2007 proceeded throughout the year. degree programmes (MPhil and PhD) at the RCA with new digital, and from the Quality Assurance Agency: information and communications research leadership and management, technologies. The small size of the College and high-quality research training were enables us to take a needs-based approach noted as instances of national good to the provision of individualised research practice. The Research Office also saw training, with an emphasis on student-led continued success in winning major learning, in which digital and virtual research grants from the UK research environments are playing an increasingly councils and other funders. significant role. ‘Hybrid’ research using emerging technologies that challenge This year’s funded projects include conventional subject boundaries and Patrick Keiller’s AHRC ‘Landscape and approaches to practice, has resulted in Environment: The Future of Landscape redefinition of the research landscape, and and the Moving Image’; Jeremy Myerson’s collaboration across all disciplines. The AHRC ‘Designing for the 21st Century: RCA VRC (Virtual Research Community), The Welcoming Workplace’ and Freddie launched this year, provides an international Robins’ AHRC ‘knitted sculptures for platform for researchers to access public exhibition’ project. Both Juliet Ash information, and to present and develop and Viviana Narotzky received funding their work. through the AHRC Research Leave scheme. Evidence, the UK higher Research now underpins the academic life education research funding league tables, of the College. The strength of the College’s 1 placed the RCA as a leader within the research culture is reflected in an annual visual and performing arts sector of the increase in research student numbers, and national research base for funding from in the number of academic and technical industry, charity and the UK research staff engaging in doctoral study themselves councils in 2006. In September 2007, both and training to supervise research. Allied to the THES and Research Fortnight listed this, there has been strategic development the RCA as the institution with the of key research fields in collaboration with greatest incremental increase in external researchers, funders and partners, and funding nationwide with a 60% success referenced in accordance with new rate last year – a true validation of the thinking and new knowledge, based upon research environment of the College. changing technological, material and social possibilities. The tradition of being in the 2006/7 saw two other firsts: the publication vanguard of new research disciplines as of Research RCA, the first-ever book about well as the research methodologies within research at the College, and a vibrant them is characteristic of the Royal College research student presence in the Summer of Art. Research staff and students work Show: the work of Stuart Geddes in as individuals and in groups, and develop Critical & Historical Studies was the only extensive partnerships with world-class research student in the country selected academic and commercial institutions. by The Independent in its review of the best of the summer degree shows in 2007. Current research at the College falls The 2007 round of AHRC Doctoral Award broadly into the following three areas: funding was our most successful yet: six developmental research (including out of 11 applications were successful, with projects that explore new techniques and five students taking up their awards. The processes, and develop new and modified following received funding: Heike Brachlow, materials with a range of applications); 1: Research RCA, the first-ever book about Ceramics & Glass; Jocelyn Cammack, applied research (including design for research at the College was published in Communication Art & Design; Cecilia manufacture, inclusive and sustainable 2007. The cover image is Hals Über Kopf Jardemar, Critical & Historical Studies; design and strategic design concepts and (2006) by Wiebke Leister

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Royal College of Art ‘Resus:station’, a redesign of the standard Conferences Helen Hamlyn Centre hospital resuscitation trolley, a collaboration The Audi Design Foundation was the between the HHC, Imperial College with headline sponsor of the Include 2007 The Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and the conference held at the RCA in April. Centre gives students and graduates of National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Delegates representing education, the College the opportunity to explore won the Overall Award in Anaesthesia and business, design and policy came from design that improves people’s lives, through Critical Care and was shortlisted for Best 16 different countries to discuss all practical research and projects with National Health Innovation Award at this aspects of human-centred design. industry. The Centre is endowed by the year’s Medical Futures Innovation Awards. Helen Hamlyn Trust. Its programme looks A 48 Hour Inclusive Design Challenge at how an inclusive and people-centred Research Associates was organised as part of last autumn’s approach to design can create more 12 RCA design graduates joined the Helen International Conference for Universal accessible and innovative products and Hamlyn Research Associates programme Design, held in Kyoto, Japan. Five services, improved standards of patient this year and were teamed with various designers from member firms of the DBA safety and better workplaces, in partnership industry partners including BT, Toyota, – all of them veterans of the full-scale with business. Lloydspharmacy, Ideal Standard and version of the DBA Inclusive Design Intel. Projects on the programme addressed Challenge – were invited to lead five teams New Developments three important design challenges for of in-house designers drawn from many In February 2007 the centre was given a ageing populations: independent living in of Japan’s leading companies, including new name – the Royal College of Art Helen the home, patient safety and mobility. Nissan, Toyota, and Panasonic. Hamlyn Centre – with an enhanced focus on design for healthcare and patient safety. Exhibitions Publications The decision to change the name reflects Industry-funded projects by the Research Significant publications by the Helen the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s multiple activities Associates were showcased at a show Hamlyn Centre team during the year in knowledge transfer, business outreach and symposium, as part of the London included Future Ambulances, a report and design tools and methods, as well as Design Festival. The exhibition of projects, on the future of emergency care vehicles formal research. entitled Vital Signs, was held at the RCA in in partnership with the NPSA and the the autumn. The symposium featured Maria Helen Hamlyn Trust. The Centre also Roger Coleman, the RCA’s first-ever Benktzon of Ergonomidesign in Sweden, worked with Intel to publish Connections: Professor of Inclusive Design, relinquished one of the world’s pioneers of inclusive Mobility, Ageing and Independent Living. his Co-Directorship of the Centre to design, as guest international speaker. concentrate on leading a research group in design for patient safety. Jeremy Myerson Collaborations became the sole Director of the Centre. This year’s DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2007, a collaboration between the Centre Designer and engineer Ed Matthews and the Design Business Association joined the centre as a Senior Research (DBA), focused on two briefs; one set the Fellow in Healthcare and Patient Safety NPSA to find ways to reduce accidents from PA Consulting Group. Jo-Anne caused by slips, trips and falls. The winner, Bichard also joined in the role of Research Wolff Olins, chose to address the issue of Fellow, as the Centre’s first-ever social how to create a more mobility-aware anthropologist. society and developed an awareness- raising communications campaign Awards called Go Steady, based around a new The Design for our Future Selves Awards logo to replace the international attracted more than 102 student entries in disability symbol. 2007. Award-winning projects included an interactive playground that encourages The Centre also collaborated with Finnish kids to exercise outdoors and a redesign giant and of the standard hospital cardboard tray Japanese manufacturer Toto on Challenge that holds needles safely. There were Workshops that demonstrated how inclusive 1 also two new awards this year. The first, design can be a tool for innovation. sponsored by Michael Peters of Identica, encouraged interdisciplinary projects in A new web-based Inclusive Design Toolkit, inclusive design; the second by CABE, the result of a three-year collaboration 1: ‘Resus:station’, a redesign of the standard the government’s adviser to improve between the Centre and BT, the Engineering hospital resuscitation trolley, won the Overall Award in Anaesthesia and Critical building design, made an award for Design Centre at Cambridge University and Care and was shortlisted for Best National inclusive environments. Sagentia Ltd was launched. To see the Health Innovation Award at this year’s website visit www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com. Medical Futures Innovation Awards.

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Exhibitions response was overwhelming – so much so Telegraph claiming it the birth of a new that the proposed second day of the sale renaissance in fine art. Along with The Show had to be abandoned. increased student coverage, staff have This year’s exhibition of graduate work also been very prominent in the media, was a very special one. Named The Great Also for the first time, a raffle was held to both broadcast and print. Exhibition 2007 in homage to The Great win a chance to be one of the first 50 Exhibition of 1851, an event which led to through the door. The raffle was a huge Development the establishment of the Exhibition Road success and meant that eager buyers The Development Department continues area and the Royal College exactly 150 hoping to snap up an original Damian Hirst, to engage with the long-term supporters of years ago, the College chose to hold the Paula Rego or a work by any of the other the College and to support their work with Summer Show in a specially erected tent, 1,000 artists who contributed to the event different schools at the Royal College of Art. located opposite the College, in Kensington were able to avoid camping outside the Gardens, as well as in the College galleries. College in the days leading up to the sale Bank of America, for example, enjoyed It was the first time in living memory that as had happened in recent years. Even so, the tailored-made exhibitions of the Fine Art, Design, Architecture, Humanities, there were hundreds of people lined up Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork Communications and Fashion & Textiles outside the RCA’s South Kensington & Jewellery and the Photography were all exhibited concurrently, offering headquarters before the doors opened Departments at their premises in Canary graduating students a rare opportunity and many more throughout the day. Wharf. The main objective of the Bank is to show art in a design environment and to provide their employees with a taster of design in an art environment – a philosophy This year’s sale raised £85,000 and as in the up-and-coming artists and designers that lies at the heart of the RCA. There’s previous years all monies raised went to within the London arena. The photography more about the Great Exhibition on page 6. the Royal College of Art Fine Art Student exhibition alone represented 12 nationalities Award Fund, which helps support emerging and the display of human perceptions The Sculpture Department still held its artists during their time at the College. of everyday objects through their own show – the last in its Howie Street photography work. building, before its refurbishment. The works ranged from processed material External Relations The Deutsche Bank Pyramid Awards objects to inventive projected film; from celebrated their 15th year with a special collaged installations of found objects to Media Relations & Marketing party in July at The Circus Space. The crafted surreal icons; from small humorous One of the major focuses of the department College was their first partner and it is kinetic worlds to large aesthetically in 2006/7 has been the redesign of the very proud to have developed a competition organised assemblage, and a skilfully College website by RCA alumni design which contributes to the professional painstaking structure of thousands of consultancy Jannuzzi Smith. The new development of its students in their final cast human bones. website will be completed in the new year year and gives them the backing (with skills will offer many enhanced features and be and money) to initiate their new careers Curating Contemporary Art’s exhibition able to communicate student and staff as artists and designers. The annual award Various Small Fires took the concept of the work more effectively. For a taste is £16,000 together with a business mentor exhibition back to basics – interrogating of what to expect see the Summer Show for a year. This year’s winners are Andrew the materiality of its spatial support, the website www.show2007.rca.ac.uk. Parker from Printmaking and Tithi gallery. Kutchamuch from Design Products. Jannuzzi Smith have been involved on The Fashion Show was once again well a project to redefine the College . MAN Group Charitable Trust’s invaluable attended and guests at the Gala included A new logotype has been created, and contributions were their annual scholarship Sir Terence and Lady Conran; fashion new College stationary has been printed. for three of our students from Painting, designer Hussein Chalayan; artist Sir Sculpture and Printmaking. They also Peter Blake and singer Holly Johnson. The department was also responsible sponsored their 7th annual MAN Group for the production of the College’s key Drawing Prize which distributed £5,000 in RCA Secret publications including the Prospectus, cash among six students. This year’s new It took just one day to sell over 2,500 which was designed by alumni, Happily addition to their portfolio of prizes is the postcard-sized works of art in RCA Secret Ever After, and The Great Exhibition Show first-ever MAN Group Photography Prize 2006. Amongst the contributors were Catalogue, designed by Draught Associates, open to present students and alumni of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Quentin Blake, also RCA alumni. the College during the autumn term. Paula Rego, David Bailey and Terry Gilliam. Once again national and international press South Square Trust kindly supported four In a break from tradition, the doors to the coverage has increased on previous years students with their annual scholarship Royal College of Art’s annual fundraising with The Great Exhibition in particular donations, now on their fifth year running. event opened to the public on Saturday generating immense interest, with the In the commission area, Chatham House 25th November (previous years have seen Independent calling it the best degree selected a first-year printmaker to carry the event take place on Fridays) and the show they’d viewed for a decade and the out the commemoration piece for the

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celebration of the 50th years of the are more details about the new Battersea Architecture, a membership association European Treaty. Kenneth Clarke did the campus on pages 8–9. which explores issues around public art. unveiling of the artwork and the event was attended by well-known figures from the Sculpture Building Refurbishment AlumniRCA UK and continental political circles. Work on the refurbishment of the Sculpture AlumniRCA membership grew to over Building, including adjoining properties at 3,000, in part due to our first-ever flyer Corporate enquiries and other projects 7 and 9 Parkgate Road started in summer mailout and internal poster campaign. made up for the rest of another busy year 2007. Sculpture students are being housed The first 'virtual' event for members – in the Development office. across the road in a former factory space. 'To Infinity & Beyond (The RCA)’– was held in the spring term. During the Events & Catering Kensington Site summer, printmaking classes were added Over the last academic year the College CCTV has been installed throughout to those already available to AlumniRCA galleries were used for 12 work-in-progress the whole Kensington campus meeting members and the College's first official shows, the final degree shows for Curating modern day judicial evidence requirements. printed magazine for alumni, Generation, Contemporary Art, Fashion and Fine Art There are now 21 cameras covering every was also produced. during The Great Exhibition 2007, as well entrance and exit. as other College functions such as Registration, Portfolios and Convocation. The complete refurbishment of the Student s’ Union In addition to College functions, 47 Drawing Studio was completed and commercial shows were hosted including work is currently underway to convert A third sabbatical officer joined President major art shows such as the British Art the former shop into a new office suite Pooja Pottenkalam and Vice President Fair and Ceramic Art London as well as for the Quality Assurance Department. Christopher Eales for the first time in major events such as the National 2006/7. Will Bishop-Stephens’ appointment Awards and the launch of a new range of The cooling capacity for the Gulbenkian as Deputy-Vice President was approved products for Heal’s. Galleries has been reinstated and has in a bid to balance the officers’ workload had extensive use since. and to allow them to provide more events The Catering Department provided daily and activities for students. catering for students, staff and visitors as well as supplying the catering for Information & The move proved to be a success. New events, exhibitions and shows for internal activities offered to students included yoga departments and external clients. During Learning Services and Tai Chi classes, while a refurbishment the last academic year 48 external events Services of the RCAfe saw the venue adapted to were catered for and 55 internal events, A new online ‘pre-student’ service, allowing host evening events, including bar games including The Great Exhibition, Convocation, newly accepted students to use a range of and live-music events. On 4 July the Henry Fashion Gala, Misha Black Dinner, Consort online resources up to three months before Moore Galley was transformed into a venue Club and AlumniRCA events. This catering arriving at the RCA, was established. Better for the Midsummer Masquerade, the annual provided the College with an essential deals were negotiated with suppliers for Convocation Ball. and professional service, as well as discounted and/or free software, including valuable income. establishing the RCA as part of the On a more serious note, the Union’s Autodesk Student Community (covering campaign for international students to most major graphics and design software). be granted a visa to remain in the UK Buildings & Estates upon graduation was given a boost from With funds from CETLD, Computing the Senior Management Team. The SMT Battersea North Site Services developed a cross-college video suggested that the Union puts its proposal One of the major developments over the conferencing service. In addition, papers to the Home Office, with letters from last year was to sign a 125 year lease for were given by CS at two major e-learning alumni such as James Dyson, who support a site opposite the existing Sculpture conferences in London. this cause, and a rough draft has been Department in Battersea. Over the next drawn up for approval. Questions of five years the College has exciting new Library Service providing extra funding to attract the plans to increase the College’s physical A new exhibition space was created within best international students to the College space by 50% through the development of the Library, launched in February 2007 with continue to be raised. this new site. Fine and Applied Art will be the exhibition Between Clothing and Bespoke, housed there, along with start-up incubator featuring famous RCA alumni from Elsewhere, the recycling scheme that units for young craftspeople and designers, the School of Fashion & Textiles. This was so successfully initiated in 2005/6 a large lecture theatre and gallery space. It exhibition coincided with the presentation was further developed. Dedicated bins is hoped that work will begin in summer to Zandra Rhodes, at the RCA, of the are now placed right across the College 2008 with the creation of a new Painting Colour Group of Great Britain’s Turner to collect everything from used CDs, building, followed by new space for some Medal, an event ILS helped to organise. batteries and aerosol cans to paper of the fine and applied arts courses. There The Library acquired the archive of Art & and toner cartridges.

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The RCA’s in-house creative magazine, aspects of being an artist or designer. ARC, was given a revamp. By improving the Workshops have included Sculpture, magazine’s production values and making it Drawing, Design Interaction, Graphic available for purchase outside the College Design, Photography, Ceramics & Glass (at a charge of £4 per issue) it has become and Architecture and took place both in a quality publication in its own right. schools and at the RCA. There were four Students are now eager to contribute workshops in schools for ‘The Big Draw’, and it is anticipated that ARC will culminating in an exhibition of pupils’ continue to go from strength to strength. work in the Hockney Gallery, complete with live drawing on the private view night, and a workshop for teachers from Erith, 1 College-wide Initiatives Marylebone, Park View Academy and Westminster City schools. FuelRCA FuelRCA, the College-wide professional Partnerships continued with Imperial practice service, launched in 2005 in College London working on collaborative art response to a growing demand from and science projects and the V&A, where students and alumni for an up-to-date Design Interaction student Andreas resource of information and opinion on Molgaard and CA&D students, Catherine how to thrive (and not just survive) as an Guiral and Robert Sollis, devised workshops RCA student and graduate has expanded using the V&A archives as inspiration. its programme during 2006/7. Funding decreases in forthcoming years so external and internal funding will be FuelRCA events have included ‘I Didn’t sought in order to maintain the programme. Say That, Did I Say That?’ on confidence in presentation skills and ‘Because You Are LearnRCA Worth It!’ on confidence in pricing, as well LearnRCA gives staff at the College as the seminars ‘You’ll Be Fine’ and ‘Hello opportunities to reflect on and improve World, What Happens Next’ both focusing on how and what they teach through a on helping students to get the best out of programme of services, ranging from staff their shows and dealing with post show development workshops to project funding. blues. 2006/7 also saw the inception of a series of small group workshops with During 2006/7 two new Teaching Fellows coaches helping students improve their were appointed, £11,000 of funding was presentation skills through action learning. awarded to six projects, new coordinators Last year’s events and seminars were for e-Learning and Interdisciplinary were extremely popular but certainly the highlight appointed and a number of staff attended of last year’s programme for many of the the inaugural ‘Teaching at the RCA’ event students was the RDI mentoring scheme, held during staff development fortnight. launched by FuelRCA in conjunction with the Royal Designers, and the One to One Tax Surgeries. A further nine mentoring programmes and more tax surgeries will take place in 2007/8.

ReachoutRCA ReachoutRCA began the year with generous start-up funding from the Man Investment Group. Deutsche Bank also sponsored a high-profile series of workshops, and education space in the tent during The Summer Show.

12 state schools from across the London area attended an exciting range of workshops led by current students and alumni. All pupils 1: Pupils from Cardinal Pole School, Hackney with ReachoutRCA workshop leaders, toured the Show and teachers expressed Jessica Layton (Photography) and that it was an invaluable experience for Adam James (Printmaking). Photo by contextualising the creative and vocational Michele Panzeri

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InnovationRCA In the College galleries, Vital Signs featured Design London collaborative inclusive design projects InnovationRCA played a lead role setting InnovationRCA is a network set up to with business by Helen Hamlyn Research up a joint venture between the RCA and provide innovation opportunities for Royal Associates. Design for older people and – a major new College of Art graduates and business patient safety were prominent themes. Slow multidisciplinary innovation centre called partners. It works in three main areas: Water showcased new design concepts by Design London. The establishment of new knowledge, creating the insights on Platform 10 from Design Products, exploring Design London builds on the success of which successful innovation is based the potential for more sustainable domestic the joint Triangle Projects initiative between through applied research; new products, water use. There was also a joint lecture with InnovationRCA and Imperial Innovations, bringing bright ideas and innovations to the Royal Institution on the ‘Slow Water’ which continued during the year with the market; and new practice, providing theme and a business seminar with D&AD. development of new medical and fitness training and development support to help devices. Design London has the potential to College graduates and external companies The annual Innovation Lecture was take the College’s innovation programme to innovate more effectively. given this year by Bruce Nussbaum, a new level. For more information about who has spent the past 30 years writing Design London see page 10. Applied Research on design, innovation and economics for Commercial innovation projects by the Business Week in New York. Nussbaum Other News RCA Research Associates in 2006/7 spoke on a range of global innovation InnovationRCA continued to collaborate included the ‘Two Tone’ phone for BT, which trends in a witty and wide-ranging address. with the British Library and the Cordless resulted in three patent applications, and Group on an annual conference to explore the development of two new surgical tools New Collaborations the impact of new technology on the design for DePuy, a leading orthopaedic systems InnovationRCA worked closely with of workplaces and cities. Jeremy Myerson company owned by Johnson & Johnson. James Dyson to establish an innovation chaired Worktech 06 at the British Library. fellowship with an award of £100,000 from The keynote speaker was management Selected Works his charity, the James Dyson Foundation. guru Charles Handy. Four graduate innovations were chosen for The James Dyson Innovation Fellowship patenting and commercial development by aims to foster innovation by supporting InnovationRCA runs the College’s central InnovationRCA’s Selected Works panel. talented RCA designers in protecting and professional practice provision for They included a folding bicycle wheel commercialising their work. The award students ‘FuelRCA’. It continued to provide developed by Duncan Fitzsimmons of IDE supports an annual intellectual property workshops and seminars for graduating and a ‘Magic Light’ technology that employs seminar for students and a fellowship students and set up a pilot mentoring gestures to reposition the light to where programme for graduates with innovative scheme with the Royal Designers for it is needed by Adrian Westaway and ideas. The first seminar took place at the Industry so that students and graduates Stephanie Chen, graduates of the same RCA in February 2007 and first the James can get advice from some of the world’s department. An innovative Dyson Innovation Fellow is Adrian leading practitioners. (See page 42.) technology by Westaway was also selected. Westaway of IDE.

The fourth Selected Work was a footwear InnnovationRCA was also a prime mover in technology designed to make it easy to put the formation of the government-backed on and take off shoes without the need to Materials and Design Exchange (MADE), use hands or to bend down. Named which aims to encourage designers and ‘hera.miko’, this project is named after the materials scientists to work together. initials of its collaborators – Komal Vora, MADE is a collaboration between the Rachel Tomlinson and Michael Korn from RCA, Institute of Materials, Minerals & IDE and RCA Fashion student Helen Wilde. Mining, Institute of Engineering Designers, Design Council and This year, the Selected Works panel, the Engineering Employers Federation. College’s very own Dragon’s Den comprising The initiative was first announced at experts in design, business and intellectual the House of Lords in summer 2006. property, considered 45 applications from students and alumni of the College. An alliance with contemporary design retailer Heal’s to link the famous Heal’s Exhibitions brand heritage with graduate College 1 The third Innovation at the RCA exhibition talent in design and applied art continued in was held in the College galleries in 2006/7. Students from Textiles worked under September 2007, as part of the London the direction of InnovationRCA Business Design Festival. The programme of Fellow Professor Clare Johnston to develop 1: Adrian Westaway’s ‘Magic Light’: one of exhibitions and events had a special focus new designs based on reinterpreting the this year’s Selected Works. Adrian is also – innovation that is socially responsible. Heals’ archive in the V&A. the first James Dyson Innovation Fellow

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Donors and Sponsors Centre Insurance International Sony (Germany) The Concrete Centre Basil Taylor Memorial Prize The Royal College of Art gratefully Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group Varley Memorial Award acknowledges the substantial help and Deutsche Bank Kenny Yip Award support we have received – in cash, in Man Group Charitable Trust Graham Young Award kind and in many other ways – from our Henry More Foundation patrons, donors and sponsors. A number Swarovski Donors to Departments 2006/7 of those listed below – in particular those The late Jean C. Watson who have provided college-wide support, Matthews Wrightson Charity Trust Animation endowments and capital funding – have UNIQLO made a long-term commitment to us over £1,000 – £5,000 a number of years; others have supported Nat Cohen Scholarship us during the current academic year. Major Donors to Departments Nexus Passion Pictures Prize We are also grateful to those patrons, £50,000+ Sherbet donors and sponsors who wish to remain Arts and Heritage anonymous and to those who have Arts Council England £500 – £1,000 supported the College in previous years, Dyson British Council: Films & Television who are also included on this list. Anthea and Thomas Gibson Department Geoff Lawson Jaguar Scholarship Fuji Photo Film (UK) Ltd John Lyon’s Charity Motion Picture Imaging Major College-wide Donors Marks & Spencer Th1ng Sir Alistair and Lady Pilkington ToonBoom Animation Inc £1,000,000+ Qatar National Council for Culture Arts Mr Basil H. Alkazzi and Heritage In Kind Ford Motor Company Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Dazzle Garfield Weston Foundation Sir Po-Shing Woo Slinky Helen Hamlyn Trust Soho Images College-wide Prizes and Scholarships £200,000 – £500,000 2006/7 Architecture The late Tom Bendhem Clore Foundation £5,000 – £25,000 £5,000 – £25,000 Conran Foundation British Standards Institution Awards EPSRC London Development Agency Conran Foundation Awards Woods Bagot National Endowment for Science, Villiers David Foundation Technology and the Arts (NESTA) £1,000 – £5,000 Sir Jocelyn Stevens £1,000 – £5,000 Future Systems Tom Bendhem Drawing Prize £50,000 – £200,000 Clerkenwell Green Association Award £500 – £1,000 Kay Cosserat Folio Society Award CLAWSA Sir James Dyson Jardine Insurance Prize Keppie Design House of Fraser Madame Tussauds Award for Art New London Architects Wolfson Foundation Augustus Martin Award Sir Po-Shing Woo National Magazine Company Award Ceramics & Glass P&O Art Prizes £25,000 – £50,000 Parallel Prize £50,000 – £200,000 The late Nancy Balfour Sapient Scholarship Sir Alastair and Lady Pilkington Bank of America South Square Trust Scholarship Golden Bottle Trust Snowdon Award for Disability Projects Sir Po-Shing Woo Graham & Brown WWF SITA Suez UK £1,000 – £5,000 £500 – £1,000 Behrens Trust Visa International Helen Chadwick Memorial Prize Charlotte Fraser Prize for Ceramics Jeremy Cubitt Prize & Glass £5,000 – £25,000 Alastair Grant Prize Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Scholarship Adobe Systems Inc Edward Marshall Prize South Square Trust Tom Bendhem Drawing Prize Desmond Preston Prize for Drawing British Standards Institution Rowney Prize for Drawing Sir John Cass’s Foundation Royal Mint Prize David and Serenella Ciclitira Peter J. B. Sabara Travel Scholarship

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Communication Art & Design Design Interactions Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery £5,000 – £25,000 £5,000 – £25,000 Royal Mail Intel £5,000 – £25,000 O2 Bank of America £1,000 – £5,000 Yaho o ! I nc. Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths Quentin Blake Boots plc Design Products £1,000 – £5,000 Augustus Martin Theo Fennell Awards Oberon Books £5,000 – £25,000 Royal Mint Parallel Artemide Nicole Stöber Memorial Award W H Smith Ya maha WPP £500 – £1,000 £1,000 – £5,000 ESG Robinson Charitable Trust £500 – £1,000 Great Eastern Hotel Worshipful Company of Armourers Hugh Dunn Award House and Garden Award and Brasiers Valey Memorial Award UMBRO Worshipful Company of Painter Worshipful Company of Carpenters The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre Stainers Busary £0 – £500 £5,000 – £25,000 £0 – £500 Ruth Drew Award 3D Reid Chris Garnham Memorial Prize Arup Fashion Audi Design Foundation Conservation BT £50,000 – £200,000 Child Graddon Lewis £5,000 – £25,000 Kay Cosserat Scholarship Communities and Local Government Friends of the Victoria & Albert Museum Marks & Spencer Scholarship DePuy Ideal Standard £1,000 – £5,000 £25,000 – £50,000 Intel Ronald E. Compton Scholarship Claremont Garments Scholarship Lloydspharmacy NADFAS Mansfield Cache D’Or National Patient Safety Agency Ossie Clark Scholarship Sheppard Robson Curating Contemporary Art Spillers Thomas Pocklington Trust Umbro International To y o t a £50,000 – £200,000 Arts Council England £5,000 – £25,000 History of Design International Flavours & Fragrances (GB) £25,000 – £50,000 Ltd Award £5,000 – £25,000 John Lyon’s Charity Laura Ashley Foundation Oliver Ford Foundation Oasis Friends of the V&A Scholarship £1,000 – £5,000 Todd & Duncan Beck’s United Arrows £500 – £1,000 Brian Boylan (Monique Beudert Fund) Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgesesia Spa History of Design Award Embassy of the of America Basil Taylor Memorial Prize Paperback £1,000 – £5,000 Clive Wainwright Memorial Prize Specialblue Ltd Bill Amberg Bower Roebuck & Co Ltd Information & Learning Services £500 – £1,000 Conde Nast Austrian Cultural Forum Dover Street Market Adobe Cover it Up Janey Ironside Travel Award Apple Embassy of Denmark Levi Strauss Astro Communications Goethe-Institut London MAC Cosmetics Autodesk UK Ifa (Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen e.V) Manolo Blahnik Imperial College London Missoni Spa Institut Francais Jane Packer Industrial Design Engineering Royal Netherlands Embassy Sputnik Communications Ltd Spanish Embassy Vidal Sassoon £50,000 – £200,000 Worshipful Company of EPSRC £0 – £500 Framework Knitters Proctor & Gamble Ministerul Culturii si Cultelor (Romanian) Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

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£5,000 – £25,000 Sculpture Fagor Brandt O2 £50,000 – £200,000 Ted Power Awards Eric and Jean Cass Scholarship Unilever £25,000 – £50,000 £1,000 – £5,000 first2office Ltd Dyson Foundation Bursaries Dyson RCA Centenary Scholarship £1,000 – £5,000 Anthea and Thomas Gibson Scholarship Serenella Ciclitira Scholarship TK Maxx Remet (UK) Limited – Shaping the Future Award InnovationRCA Tex t i l e s £50,000 – £200,000 James Dyson Foundation £1,000 – £8,000 Materials and Design Exchange (MADE) Collette Christmas Award for Spirit The Clothworkers’ Foundation £5,000 – £25,000 Timney De Villenuve Award Acco Europe The Drapers Company Heal's John Dunsmore Award The Dyers Company Painting The Grocers Company The Habersdashers’ Company £50,000 – £200,000 Althea McNeish Award Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation Award Paul Peilly Scholarship Gus Robinson Travel Award £5,000 – £25,000 Marian Straub Award Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award The Worshipful Company of Fanmakers Amlin plc The Worshipful Company of Weavers Alexander de Brye Scholarship Stanley Smith Scholarship Vehicle Des ign

£1,000 – £5,000 £50,000 – £200,000 Fatima and Faiza H. Alkazzi Award Geoff Lawson Jaguar Scholarship Sheldon Bergh Award Neville Burston Award £25,000 – £50,000 John Minton Scholarship Corus Steel NADFAS (London Area) Award Rosta Stephenson Harwood Prizes Worshipful Company of Painter £5,000 – £25,000 Stainers Bursary Pilkington Glass

Photography £1,000 – £5,000 Worshipful Company of Carmen £1,000 – £5,000 Worshipful Company of Coach and Davis Langdon Award Harness Makers Hoopers Gallery Prize

£500 – £1,000 Photographers’ Gallery Prize Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers Bursary

Printmaking

£1,000 – £5,000 20/21 British Art Fair Prize Augustus Martin Prize Tim Mara Trust Prize

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College Honours and Senior Staff Appointments Deaths Appointments Professor Hans Stofer: Head of Professor Dick Guyatt: Former Department, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Professor of Graphic Design 1947–1981 At Convocation 2007, the following Metalwork & Jewellery and former Rector of the College 1978–81, Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships Professor David Rayson: Head of died October 2007 were conferred. Department, Painting R.B. Kitaj: Former student and painter, died October 2007 Honorary Doctors Other Teaching Appointments Vico Magistretti: Senior Fellow and Tracey Emin: Artist Jurgen Beij: Senior Tutor, Design furniture and lighting designer, died Brian Eno: Musician and Sound Artist Products September 2006 Peter Schreyer: Vehicle Designer Roberto Botazzi: Tu t o r, A r c hi t e c t ur e Professor Bernard Myers: Former tutor Clare Carolin: Tu t o r, C ur a t i ng and Professor of Design Education at Senior Fellows Contemporary Art Brunel University, died October 2007 David Adjaye: Architect Jean Fisher: Tu t o r, C ur a t i ng Naomi Sargent: Honorary Fellow and Sir Ian Hay Davison: former Chairman Contemporary Art former Commissioning Editor of Channel of the College Council John Frankland: Tutor, Sculpture 4’s education programmes, died July 2007 Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chris Smith: Darla Jane Gilroy: Accessories Tutor, Hans Wegner: Honorary Doctor and former Secretary of State for Culture and Fashion & Textiles furniture designer, died January 2007 arts champion Naomi House: Tutor, Critical & Historical Deyan Sudjic: Director of the Design Studies Museum and writer on architecture Monika Parrinder: Tutor, Critical & and design Historical Studies Elizabeth Price: Tutor, Sculpture Honorary Fellows Jonathan Ree: Tu t o r, C ur a t i ng Sebastian Conran: Creative Director, Contemporary Art Conran and Partners Fernando Rihl: Tu t o r, A r c hi t e c t ur e Penny Egan: Executive Director of The Tristan Webber: Senior Tutor, Fulbright Commision and former Fashion & Textiles Director of the Royal Society of Arts Richard Winsor: Senior Tutor, Bill Green: Emeritus Professor of Vehicle Design Industrial Design, University of Canberra 1 Lynda Relph-Knight: Editor, Design Week Senior Staff Left or Retired Carolyn Sargentson: Head of Research, Barbara Campbell-Lange: Tu t o r, Victoria and Albert Museum Architecture Auriol Stevens: former Vice-Chair of the Kim Chang: Deputy Director of Finance, College Council Finance Diana Cochrane: Tu t o r, A r c hi t e c t ur e Fellows Fenella Collingridge: Tu t o r, A r c hi t e c t ur e Felicity Aylieff: Senior Tutor, Ceramics & Flora Dennis: Research Fellow, History Glass of Design Ann-Marie Baptiste: Administrator, Helen Evenden: Tutor, Vehicle Quality Assurance Design/Critical & Historical Studies Jenny Brown: Administrative Alex Farquharson: Tutor & Research Officer, Registry Fellow, CCA Mark Hampson: Senior Tutor, Joan Farrer: Senior Research Tutor, Printmaking Fashion & Textiles Anna Miles: Senior Common Room Chef Lisa Godson: Tutor, Critical & Historical Professor Mark Nash: Head of Studies Department, Curating Contemporary Art Shona Kitchen: Tutor, Design Products Professor David Rayson: Head of Francesco Manacorda: Tu t o r, C ur a t i ng Department, Painting Contemporary Art Mary Robert: Tutor, Photography Dawn Mellor: Tu t o r, P a i n t i ng Professor Hans Stofer: Head of Fiona Nouri: Student Support Officer, Department, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Registry Metalwork & Jewellery

Tim Stroud: Night Security Manager/ 1: The Rector with this year’s Honorary Beadle Doctors, Brian Eno, Tracey Emin and Peter Schreyer

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Student Statistics

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Applications 2006/7

Number of Total started Applied Art Applicants 2006/7 Oct 2006 Ceramics & Glass 72 22 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, 62 19 Metalwork & Jewellery School Total 134 41

Architecture & Design Architecture 164 27 Design Interactions 64 19 Design Products 165 35 Industrial Design Engineering 79 33 Vehicle Design 56 17 School Total 531 131

Communications Animation 80 15 Communication Art & Design 308 47 School Total 388 62

Fashion & Textiles Menswear 37 14 Womenswear 127 25 Constructed Textiles 70 22 Printed Textiles 54 14 School Total 288 75

Fine Art Painting 357 20 Photography 173 21 Printmaking 84 20 Sculpture 170 15 School Total 784 76

Humanities Conservation 24 8 Critical & Historical Studies 4 2 Curating Contemporary Art 113 17 History of Design 58 18 School Total 199 45

Grand Totals 2324 430

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Students 2006/7 Graduate Destinations

Applied Art To t a l A major survey of graduates who studied Ceramics & Glass 46 at the RCA from 1997 to 2002, revealed Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, 41 that prospects for RCA graduates are Metalwork & Jewellery exceptionally strong. The percentages School Total 87 below indicate the proportion of graduates in directly related employment/activity. Architecture & Design Architecture 57 School of Applied Art Design Interactions 34 Ceramics & Glass 91% Design Products 68 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Industrial Design Engineering 62 Metalwork & Jewellery 93% Vehicle Design 44 School Total 265 School of Architecture & Design Communications Architecture 90% Animation 31 Design Products 92% Communication Art & Design 98 Industrial Design Engineering 98% School Total 129 Interaction Design 88% Vehicle Design 92% Fashion & Textiles Menswear 24 School of Communications Womenswear 50 Animation 93% Constructed Textiles 46 Communication Art & Design 90% Printed Textiles 26 School Total 146 School of Fashion & Textiles Fashion Menswear 95% Fine Art Fashion Womenswear 90% Painting 48 Constructed Textiles 92% Photography 49 Printed Textiles 92% Printmaking 44 Sculpture 39 School of Fine Art School Total 180 Painting 90% Photography 87% Humanities Printmaking 91% Conservation 20 Sculpture 85% Critical & Historical Studies 6 Curating Contemporary Art 33 School of Humanities History of Design 56 Conservation 100% School Total 115 Curating Contemporary Art 95% History of Design 90% College Total 922 College Total 91%

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Overseas Students’ Nationalities Number of Nationality students

Argentine 3 Australian 2 Austrian 5 Belgium 6 Brazilian 9 Bulgarian 2 Canadian 9 Chinese 5 Colombian 2 Cypriot 2 Danish 21 Dutch 19 Estonian 1 Finnish 8 French 33 German 34 Ghanian 1 Greek 19 Hungarian 2 Indian 8 Iranian 1 Irish 13 Israelii 4 Italian 19 Japanese 15 Lebanese 1 Lithuanian 3 Maltese 1 Mexican 3 New Zealander 1 Norwegian 6 Polish 7 Portugese 15 Romanian 4 Russian 1 3 Slovenian 2 South Korean 30 Spanish 10 Swedish 19 Swiss 8 Ta iw anes e 6 Thai 3 Tur k i s h 2 Ukranian 1 United Arab Emirates 1 US American 32

To t a l 402

Number of Nationalities 47

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