The world's most influential postgraduate university of art and design, shaping artists and designers in London since 1837.
13 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and Vice-Chancellor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Thank you for leading the RCA with a scholar's understanding of cities and visual culture, and for stewarding a college where art and design research serves the wider world.
Professor of Communication
Communication
Thank you for rewriting the visual language of magazines with The Face and for FUSE, which set type free, and for pushing RCA communication students to break the rules knowingly and remake them beautifully.
Head of Programme, MA Fashion
Fashion
Thank you for bringing BOUDICCA's fearless independence to the leadership of RCA Fashion since 2015, and for teaching designers to ask who they are before they ask what to make.
Professor, Senior Tutor (Research), Ceramics & Glass
Ceramics & Glass
Thank you for the monumental porcelain you make in Jingdezhen, metres tall and held by the V&A, and for co-founding the Red House Design Studio that opened China's porcelain city to a generation of makers.
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
School of Architecture
Thank you for curating the first Sharjah Architecture Triennial around the rights of future generations, and for teaching architects that the discipline's real client is the world to come.
Professor in Urban Aesthetics, Senior Research Fellow
Photography
Thank you for photographs of the city after dark that changed how we see urban night, including the image that became the face of The Streets' Original Pirate Material, and for teaching photographers to love the overlooked.
Head of Sculpture, Professor of Critical Spatial Practice
Sculpture
Thank you for leading RCA Sculpture with a practice that reads the city as critically as any text, and for showing students that where art happens matters as much as what it is.
Director, Professor of Design & Materials
Design
Thank you for building bridges between materials science and design so that new materials arrive in the world with makers' intelligence already inside them.
Professor of Philosophy & Fine Art
Fine Art
Thank you for insisting that philosophy belongs in the studio, and for giving artists the conceptual tools to think matter, technology and embodiment together.
Professor of Animation Aesthetics
Animation
Thank you for scholarship that took animation seriously as art, from your landmark study of the Quay Brothers onward, and for giving animators a critical language for their own magic.
Professor of Interactive and Immersive Art and Senior Tutor (Research)
Digital Direction
Thank you for a practice at the live edge of immersive and interactive art, and for helping students make technology something the body wears, performs and feels rather than just uses.
Research Leader, Professor of Design Research
Design Research
Thank you for research that traces how time itself came to be drawn, and for leading design research at the RCA with a historian's depth and a designer's eye.
Professor Emeritus of Cultural History; Rector, 1996-2009
Cultural History
Thank you for making the cultural history of design and the spaghetti western equally serious subjects, and for the 1993 essay on research in art and design that gave a whole field its vocabulary.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Royal College of Art, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.