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INCLUDE London 2026: Call for Submissions
17 Feb 2026
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and the RCA announce the launch and call for submissions for INCLUDE London 2026
INCLUDE London 2026: A Call for Inclusive Design
17 Feb 2026
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and the RCA announce the launch and call for submissions for INCLUDE London 2026
Dalal Al Mutairi on the power of personal narrative
16 Feb 2026
Dalal Al Mutairi (Photography MA, 2025) is a Multidisciplinary Artist from Saudi Arabia, whose work is rooted in themes of memory, emotion and identity. Here, she reflects on her creative process and
Critical skills for the future of business: Creativity, collaboration and human centred leadership
12 Feb 2026
RCA's Executive Education equips leaders with the creative capabilities that are shaping the future of work.
Building a creative workforce: lessons from art and design education
12 Feb 2026
Seb Murray, a journalist and consulting editor who writes for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian and The Economist, explores how arts and creativity can be used for a future-ready workforce.
How we’ll work: the shift to a skills-based economy
12 Feb 2026
Professor Emeritus Jeremy Myerson, former Director of HHCD, founder of Worktech Academy, author of Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office, argues that how we will work is the most pressing question when looking at the future of business.
IN SESSION: What if futures feel less faraway... when you can hold them in your hand?
11 Feb 2026
Free RCA online talk with leading industry experts exploring what makes Foresight and Design increasingly inhabit the same spaces.
Royal College of Art alumnus Samuel Domínguez unveils 'Apparition' sculpture in Battersea Park
10 Feb 2026
RCA alumnus Samuel Domínguez unveils 'Apparition' sculpture in Battersea Park
From the RCA studio to the spotlight: Show-stopping women artists, then and now
06 Feb 2026
We revisit the student work of RCA alumnae now staging major UK exhibitions, tracing how experimentation, risk and early ideas shaped their practices.
Five RCA artists shape New Contemporaries 2026
05 Feb 2026
This year’s New Contemporaries features five RCA artists, continuing a long lineage that links the college to the UK’s most exciting emerging talent.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
