Studio Projects - work with our students

Studio Projects connect organisations with Royal College of Art students and academics to explore new ideas and innovation opportunities. Through research-led knowledge exchange collaborations, participants use design and creativity to challenge conventional assumptions and identify potential business opportunities.

Projects bring together students, academics and partner organisations in workshop-based collaborations that explore long-term horizons and develop speculative design concepts.

Studio Projects bring together multidisciplinary teams of RCA students from a wide range of degree programmes. Working alongside academics and partner organisations, students explore complex challenges and develop creative responses using design-led research methods.

Projects focus on experimentation, idea generation and speculative thinking, helping organisations explore future opportunities and alternative approaches to innovation.

Studio Projects are typically delivered over the course of an academic term. Projects involve collaboration between partner organisations, RCA academics and students, often through workshop-based sessions that explore research insights and design concepts.

Students work across disciplines to investigate challenges and develop creative responses that help organisations explore long-term innovation opportunities.

Recent Studio Projects have included:

• A collaboration with CERN exploring how science, technology and design can address global sustainability challenges.
• A project with Microsoft examining the future of work in response to AI disruption.
• Architecture design projects developed in partnership with British Land.

• Access RCA talent: Our postgraduate art and design students bring diverse expertise and professional skills to approach your needs from new perspectives.
• International insights: Our students typically come from over 70 countries. Work with them to access a wide variety of innovative approaches.
• Bespoke solutions: From day long intensive hackathons with students from across the whole College, to sustained projects with more focused groups - we facilitate collaborations with impact.
• Blue sky thinking: enhance your business with transformative ideas from our students.