AcrossRCA

Director of his own practice, Judah is a multi award winning designer operating in the world of social impact, focusing on the phenomena of homelessness and the criminal justice system.

Jesse is an artist, researcher and educator. Jesse works both in the studio and directly with active evolving landscapes to address issues of political ecology, language and communication.

Katerina is an artist-researcher working with CGI Animation for screen, gallery space, and online. She is interested in the interplay between spaces, bodies, and archives as performed through immersive technologies, including VR and AR.

Dr Barbara Brownie is a design theorist who considers the relationship between clothes and the body, most recently concentrating on the dressed body in microgravity.

Emily is a design scholar and sound researcher, exploring relationships between design, science and their histories, and the role of sound in history practice.

Lisa Chang Lee is a multimedia artist and curator.

At the intersection of architecture, anthropology and filmmaking, Cyan traces the entangled flows of people, life forms, matter and the built environment to unpack the interconnectedness and interdependency of our time.

Philip is a practicing designer, researcher and futurist looking at posthuman identity and the future internet.

Sandra is an architect and National Teaching Fellow. Her research addresses the complex relationship between architectural practice and education.

Rebecca is a practising silversmith, metal artist and researcher exploring possibilities for innovation in the use and display of handmade contemporary domestic silverware.

Amy is a praticing artist, researcher and programmer, with specialist knowledge in textiles, film and video, and live performance.

Matt is an interdisciplinary artist, creative director, and educator, sharing important stories via emerging technologies.

Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar is a biologist and design researcher. Her practice is concerned with ecological thinking, reflective systemic practices, regeneration, more than human approaches and alternative futures. Delfina worked previously as a Senior Tutor (Research) at the MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering and as a Tutor (Research) at the Design Products Programme.

Fernando’s interdisciplinary background ranges from Product Design, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Sociology. His work investigates the social, technological, and political implications of Trust Design.

Born in a crossfire hurricane in Chicago, Illinois, Pamela studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her cross-cultural work has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and America.

Artur is an architect and urban planner committed to design and architecture, practice, education and research.

Gonzalo is a curator, educator and architect. His work explores the impact of the climate crisis and digital technologies on the world around us through design, architecture and art practices.

Alice is an underwear designer and commons researcher exploring new models for producing enhanced fit in the context of a fashion commons for clothing provision.

Graham Hudson is an artist working with ideas relating to fitness, wellness culture and the body as a psychological, cultural and physical subject.

Juliet is a writer, filmmaker and podcast host who is interested in modernist and postmodernist art, literature, film and music, radical politics and LGBTQI+ issues.

Alana is a multi- and inter-disciplinary artist and writer, writing theory of art about the role and value of art in society from the perspective of a contemporary practitioner.

Pil is an artist, writer and curator; he works collaboratively with Dr Galia Kollectiv to make work which explores the relationship between art and politics.

Chooc Ly Tan is a French-born Afro/Vietnamese/Cambodian artist, DJ and Fine Art lecturer.

Dr Joshua Mardell (he/him) is an architectural historian.

Marko Milovanovic is an architect, artist and journalist. He is the founder of the knowledge and space production practice Mylomark and the educational conversational platform Free School Of.

Gareth is a writer and artist.

Louise is a writer and activist whose work is devoted to understanding the material culture of everyday life and interpreting the landscapes of extractivism, incarceration, exploitation and migration.

Vidhya is a founding director of VILAA, a design practice experimenting with adapting existing architectural typologies to accommodate the everchanging social demographics within contemporary cities.

Dilusha is a printed textile design practitioner, researcher and educator with over a decade of professional experience in providing design education for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students.

Jennifer’s research explores the intersections of Fashion and Visual Culture.

Claudia is a practice-based researcher and architect. Her work is concerned with exploring conflicted ecologies through performative fieldwork, storytelling and cross-cultural collaboration.

Bjorn’s interdisciplinary background ranges from Computer Science over Visualization towards Design. Bjorn is Tutor and Year 1 Lead for Innovative Design Engineering (IDE).

John’s diverse academic and industry experience is reflected in his commitment to design across disciplines and cultures. He researches humanitarian innovation through impactful NGO partnerships.

Finlay’s work explores natural phenomena and landscape, often engaging with specific sites and species.

Dr Nazlı Terzioglu is a design researcher and educator, whose research focuses on interdisciplinary design methods to enhance people's understanding and engagement with environmentally responsible behaviours.

Federico is a designer and design researcher. His work centres on design-driven innovation management in the public sphere to co-develop policies and services for more equitable futures.

Adam is an artist and writer. Their practice is research-led, critically and reflexively considering structures of inequality, not least their own complicit position amidst these.structures of inequality and the speculative envisioning of other ways of being.

Dr Cecilia is a research associate with experience in urban regeneration and interdisciplinary collaborations. Her interests focus on design processes and their cultural, social impacts within cities.