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Last updated 30 July 2024

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Our Studio Projects enable companies to explore innovation horizons and blue sky thinking through research led projects undertaken by RCA Master’s and research students.

Explore innovation

With design and creativity at their core, our Studio Projects help organisations to re-ignite their innovation potential, challenge conventional assumptions and identify business growth opportunities. These research-led knowledge exchange projects deliver creative solutions through a unique workshop-based approach that brings together business partners, academics and students to explore long-term horizons and develop speculative design concepts.

Studio Projects are delivered with students from a wide range of degree programmes across the RCA, usually lasting a term. Recent projects include a collaboration with CERN exploring how science technology and design can propose solutions to international sustainability challenges; a project on the future of work as a result of AI disruption with Microsoft; and architecture design projects in partnership with British Land.

Case studies

Matrix

CHANEL Next Prize award designed by Royal College of Art Sculpture student

Discover the RCA studio project with CHANEL, which offered Sculpture MA students the opportunity to create tabletop sculptures for CHANEL Next Prize winners.
Behaviours

Luminous with LG Display

Information Experience Design students from the Royal College of Art participated in a 12-week project competition with LG Displays, with the purpose of generating transformative experience of information that challenges or disrupts perspective.
HHCD PALLS project

Pioneering Architecture for Later Life Sector (PALLS)

Our aim is to develop an inclusive, socially and economically sustainable Later Living housing model in town and city centre avoiding age segregation.
RCA students partner with Rainbird and EY to develop AI banking apps that help vulnerable customers

Developing AI banking apps for vulnerable customers

The RCA’s MA Service Design Programme collaborated with Rain-bird (intelligent automation platform) and EY (global consultancy) to develop cutting-edge AI-enabled apps that will help vulnerable banking customers better manage their finances and navigate the complex financial services industry.
Soundscape Interior

Future of British luxury

Recent Intelligent Mobility MA graduates envisage the future of British luxury in collaboration with Bentley Motors.
Fujitsu IDE Hackathon

Fujitsu Hackathon

Custom executive education hackathon for Fujitsu employees to collaborate with ten Innovation Design Engineering MA students.

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tatiana.schofield@rca.ac.uk
CERN Workshop at the RCA