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Highlights of 2025 at the Royal College of Art. | Royal College of Art
22 Dec 2025
2025 was a year of awards, research, new partnerships, new scholarships, exhibitions, student and staff success, and incredible teaching and learning at the world's leading university for art and design.
Royal College of Art achieves increased score in 2025/26 People & Planet University League
16 Dec 2025
The RCA has achieved a 2:1 classification in this year’s People & Planet University League, and improved its position from 2024/25.
From ballroom dancing to boundaries of light: Inside the practice of Maki Takato
09 Dec 2025
Former dancer turned multidisciplinary artist Maki Takato -an Information Experience Design MA alumna - explores light, perception and tradition through immersive works that merge the ephemeral with the enduring.
How ONELAB is giving a voice to SEND learners through design
04 Dec 2025
ONELAB college was founded by RCA alumna and puts creativity at the heart of SEND education; offering young learners new ways to communicate, gain confidence and enter the creative world.
Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ announces recipients of third funding round
04 Dec 2025
Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ announces recipients of third funding round
Celebrating the unfinished: Inside 'draught', a new journal about works-in-progress
28 Nov 2025
draught is a new online journal from the RCA's Writing MA, celebrating the creative in-between — the vulnerable, revealing space where ideas form before they’re finished
RCA x Design For Good Academy Masterclass: Inclusion by Design
25 Nov 2025
In conversation with Dr Pattie Moore, one of the founders of the inclusive and universal design movement, this Design For Good x RCA masterclass talk explored the gap between design aspiration and the
RCA’s Materials Science Research Centre becomes the Centre for Materials Science & Culture
24 Nov 2025
The new name reflects seven years of research shaping sustainable futures through culture and community
How the RCA shaped Harriet Zhang’s ethical and political approach to curation
19 Nov 2025
The Curating Contemporary Art graduate recently co-curated 'From Allegory to Algorithm' for RCA Photography’s participation at Jimei × Arles, featuring around 20 Chinese RCA alumni artists
Royal College of Art announces final close of the RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund I
19 Nov 2025
The Royal College of Art is delighted to announce that the RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Investment Fund I, managed by Infinity Asset Management LLP, has successfully closed.
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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.
