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We offer a wide range of courses on our London campuses.
Upcoming on campus short courses
“The location of the College is remarkable because it is in central London, the V&A and the Design Museum are close. There’s so many galleries and exhibitions that one can visit. London is amazing. It's big so you can never get bored!”
Creative Leadership
10 & 11 April 2025 | Final places
"Empathy is increasingly seen as the most important leadership quality. But what other values sit beside it and activate it? New research from the Royal College of Art shows how. You have worked on your business. Have you worked on yourself?"
Rama Gheerawo, Course Leader and Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Design Thinking & Innovation in Practice
15 & 16 May 2025 | Book now
"We want people to come away from our executive education courses with achievable insights and a critical path to making change in their organisations and to their own individual working lives."
Adrian and Clara Gaggero Westaway, Course Leaders, Design Thinking & Innovation in Practice
Futures through design (on campus)
7—9 July 2025 | Register interest
"For over a decade, the RCA has been a leader in design futures research and practice, and today offers a one year MDes in Design Futures. Now we are looking to create more opportunities with this short course. This in-person, intensive three-day experience is designed for organisational leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals and high-performing recent graduates who are seeking to transform strategic uncertainty into innovative opportunity."
John V Willshire and Dr Robert Phillips, Course Leaders, Framing design futures
Architecture Summer School
14—17 July 2025 | Applications now open
"An intense and immersive architecture, art and design summer school focusing on observation, developing key skills and offering design studio experience, lectures and visits."
Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri, Short Course Leaders
Building a Globally Successful Creative Business
17—19 September 2025 | Applications now open
"Post-Covid, creative businesses need to rebuild, reimagine themselves and find new global markets. This new short course is an unmissable three days to meet, talk and learn from those who have built businesses and institutions, knitted together a tight and effective team and found markets from Europe, the Middle-East and China."
Philip Dodd, Course Leader and Chairman of Made in China (UK) Ltd
Building a Globally Successful Creative Business 2023, photo by Ezzidin Alwan
Teaching Spatial Design
8, 15, 23 October 2025 | Register interest now
"For anyone considering bringing teaching into their practice, this isn’t just a how-to guide; it’s an invitation into a much bigger dialogue about what spatial design is, and what it could be."
Kevin Haley, Tutor / Kevin Haley Studio (ex-aberrant architecture)
About the RCA
New Battersea Campus designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Photo: © Iwan Baan
“The top floor spaces have been specifically designed for the delivery of Executive Education. It's an incredible space with windows all around and 360 degree views across London - simply put, it's a really lovely, immersive, inspiring place to learn.”
Executive Education Manager
Founded in 1837, today the RCA is located across a three-site campus:
- Kensington
- Battersea
- White City
Our state-of-the-art facilities and collaborative learning spaces, combined with our central London location, create an exciting environment that supports both personal and professional growth, and maximises learning potential.
In 2022 we celebrated the opening of the RCA’s new state-of-the-art research and innovation campus designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Battersea and the return of in person executive masterclasses and short courses.
Back to the main Short Courses page“London is diverse, vibrant and inspired... With so much happening in this city, there’s always something to do, see or experience. When I’m not busy working in the studio or library, I find myself visiting many museums and sampling new cuisines. What a place to be!”
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Get in touch with us if you'd like to find out more about this or any of our other short courses.
short-courses@rca.ac.uk
