The Constance Fairness Foundation has given RCA students and alumni the opportunity to express themselves on the recent economic crisis and the ramifications for society at large. Short listed entries exhibited and most works will be available for sale. For more information please go to http://www.fairnessfoundation.org.uk.

Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Exhibition open from 12.00pm — 5.00pm. Admission is free.

To mark the end of 2011 and the 125th anniversary of the death of King Ludwig of Bavaria, If Not Now presents a special screening of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King, introduced by writer Ken Hollings.

This event is part of If Not Now… a series of events curated by RCA's School of Communication and its students. This new initiative presents the work of national/international creative practitioners and RCA students. Visit www.ifnotnow.rca.ac.uk for more details.
Tickets are free but need to be booked by emailing cecilia.wee@rca.ac.uk

Professor David Rayson, Head of Painting at the College, shares his adventures of his time at sea. The Voyage is a new body of work documented through drawings, paintings, photographs and writing. Rayson explores and reflects upon the romance, mythology and our often delusional relationship to solitude, the ship, the island and the studio.

6pm, Lecture Theatre One. Free admission, please book a seat in advance by email: hardeep.virdee@rca.ac.uk.

Students from the Ceramics & Glass and Visual Communication programmes will present a work-in-progress exhibition.

The theme for the 2011/12 RCA Architecture lecture series is Future Frontiers and focuses on five crucial themes that will shape the architecture and urbanism of this century. Each lecture includes two high-profile speakers who will present their cutting-edge research into the subject to offer critical thinking for critical times. The first lecture will look at Consumption and will include Ricky Burdett and Joseph Rykwert, hosted in partnership with The Architectural Review. Lectures are free but seats need to be booked in advance by emailing: boris.cesnik@rca.ac.uk.

7pm, Lecture Theatre One

RCA Secret is an annual contemporary art exhibition and fundraising sale consisting of original postcard-sized artworks made and donated by professional artists, designers and illustrators, as well as students and graduates from the College.  The cards are sold to the public at a one-day sale on 26 November, with every postcard costing just £45, regardless of whether it has been made by a famous name or a young art student. What’s the Secret?  Each postcard is signed on the back, so collectors don’t know the identity of the artist until they have made their purchase. All proceeds go to the RCA Fine Art Student Award Fund, which helps support emerging artists during their time at the College. RCA Secret is sponsored by Stewarts Law.

For further information visit the RCA Secret website here.

Exhibition open 18 – 25 November 11am–6pm daily, (Thursday 24 November until 9pm). Sale day 26 November, 8am–6pm.

Artists from Culture Lab, Newcastle University's centre for experimental and multi-disciplinary creative arts and interactive technology will present creative projects and sound performances. The event is part of If Not Now, the RCA Communication School's Cultural Programme, a series of events curated by the Communication School and its students. This new initiative presents the work of national/international creative practitioners and RCA students. Over the coming year, there will be discussions, workshops, performances and screenings.

6–8pm, Performing Arts Lab in the Stevens Building.

The Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon (APEAL) presents a collective exhibition featuring 33 Lebanese Contemporary Artists, for more details visit www.apeal-lb.org.

There is a panel discussion on Thursday 3 November at 7:30 pm, moderated by Monita Rajpal, CNN Correspondent titled  'Art, Testimonial or Impulse to Looming Change?' To book a place please email jskhalaf@gmail.com

Exhibition open daily 10am–7pm

Works selected by contemporary artists Nigel Rolfe, Franko B, Leah Capaldi and Jack Tan will be exhibited in a night of Performance Art at the RCA Battersea campus. Following a week-long programme of intensive coaching and development, proposed work by students will be selected for an evening of performance. As part of the College’s interdisciplinary initiative, students from design, curating, animation, visual communication and fine art will be taken through a process of proposal, development, refinement and selection.

6.30pm–10pm, Royal College of Art, 15-25 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11 4AS                                          

Since its inception ten years ago, the Battle of Ideas has sought to interrogate orthodoxies and debate the challenges facing society, and to make these things public activities. There is an emphasis on audience participation, and the festival is open to anyone with intellectual curiosity and the courage to think critically. For full details of the programme and to buy tickets visit: www.battleofideas.org.uk

Polish artist Ewa Partum will be in conversation with curator Dorota Monkiewicz, followed by a Q&A with the artist. Partum and Monkiewicz will present and discuss the artist’s most important works created between 1969 and 2000s. The talk is presented by the RCA Curating Contemporary Art programme in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute, London and the City of Wrocław, Poland.

6pm, Lecture Theatre 1 (please use Jay Mews entrance). Free admission, booking not required.

Folio is an exhibition of prints from the RCA Printmaking programme, created in response to Shakespeare and to celebrate the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 50th birthday. The exhibition includes two bodies of work – the first, a collection of original lithographs made in 1964 to mark Shakespeare’s quarto-centenary including work by Joe Tilson, Allen Jones, Elizabeth Frink, Norman Ackroyd and Sandra Blow. The second part features a new set of prints created by Printmaking students and staff, as well as invited artists such as Bob & Roberta Smith, Adam Dant and Christiana Baumgartner. Most of the prints will be for sale.

Free talk on Friday 21 October, 2.30pm: artist and RCA graduate Tom Hunter will discuss his recent collaboration with the RSC and Tom Piper, Associate Designer at RSC will talk about his role.

Now entering its 24th year, Art for Youth is UK Youth's flagship fundraising event and has so far generated almost £1 million for the charity. Over 1,000 pieces of art (valued from £100 - £3,500) by new and established artists go on display each year in aid of Art for Youth London. Works include oils, watercolours, sculpture, ceramics, photographs and jewellery. Artists donate 35% of sales and 100% of all proceeds go to the charity. For further information visit the Art for Youth website here.

Opening times: 6–9pm (19 October); 11am–3pm & 6–9pm (20 October)

The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) is the first contemporary art prize of its kind for emerging Iranian artists. MOP CAP is a global search for the most talented contemporary Iranian artists in the four categories of Painting, Sculpture, Photography and New Media.  Now in its second year, the prize is open to Iranian artists living and working both inside and outside of Iran. For more details visit: http://mopcap.com

The RCA will be hosting four exhibitions as part of the 2011 London Design Festival reflecting the diversity and depth of innovative design thinking from the across the College. The Problem Comes First is an exhibition of design research projects from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the RCA; Sustain showcases sustainable objects and projects by 2011 graduates; Innovation Design Engineering students present Foroba Yelen design concepts for a self-sufficient public lighting project in Mali; and Give Me More is an exhibition on augmented reality by EPFL+ECAL Lab (this exhibition closes on 25 September).

A group of Design Products students will create an interactive exhibition in the Lower Gallery at Christie’s South Kensington during the London Design Festival. ‘Copying’ and ‘design’ usually implies plagiarism or the theft of design ideas, but copying and imitation are also constructive ways to learn. Visitors to The Copy Kitchen will be able to participate in activities designed by the students to explore design and their own creativity.

Christie's, 85 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3LD

Opening: 10am-6pm Mon-Fri; 11am-5pm Saturday; 11am-3pm Sunday

FENDI are celebrating the opening of their new Sloane Street store with a special collaboration with the RCA. Students from the Design Products programme were invited to create temporary window and in-store displays incorporating innovative uses of Fendi’s signature craftsmanship techniques along with discarded materials. The project has been under the guidance of British designer and RCA graduate Simon Hasan who has worked on several Fendi design projects. The designs will be unveiled on 17 September to coincide with the opening of the London Design Festival.

181 - 182 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9QP

Open 10.30am-6pm, Mon-Sat

Students from the Visual Communication programme present Falling Short; a series of unique investigations into the multiple social, cultural, political, and philosophical scopes of reality. Seen through the eyes of visual communicators, all seeking new perspectives and enlightening interpretations of our world. See http://fallingshort.rca.ac.uk for more details.

Her House Gallery, 26 Drysdale Street, Hackney, London, N1 6LS UK
Open 11am – 6pm daily

RCA Design Products students and Yamaha Design Studio London have been looking at and developing devices that enable the audience and performer to achieve greater intimacy. Yamaha has always believed that musical instruments are not only things that stimulate the musician, but also devices that encourage the audience members themselves to participate in the performance. The interactive exhibition is taking place in one of London’s oldest music shops and will reveal how this relationship can be achieved.

Chappell of Bond Street, 152 - 160 Wardour Street, London W1F 8YA

Open weekdays 9.30am-6pm; 10am-5.30pm Saturday

The art fair includes 56 of the country's leading dealers selling work by the great artists of the 20th century including Bacon, Freud, Frink, Frost, Hepworth, Hockney, Lowry and Moore. Alongside will be a selection of contemporary work by established names such as Hirst, Emin and Banksy as well as emerging artists and recent graduates. For more details and to book tickets visit: www.britishartfair.co.uk

In Tandem presents Silver-where? an exhibition exploring a maker’s experience of the everyday through an installation of reinterpreted and remade domestic objects. We are surrounded by a mass of stuff and our relationship with it is often complex, irrational and always personal. What is precious to one person is someone else’s junk. All participating makers have recently graduated from the RCA Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery programme. Whilst their skills may lie in traditional craft techniques, they are using new concepts and applications that are radically changing the perception of the discipline.

Gallery S O, 92 Brick Lane, London E1 6RL                                  

Open 12-6pm, Weds-Sat; 12-5pm, Sunday

Artifact is a collaborative project between the Royal College of Art and Imperial College Student Unions in an attempt to harness potential in the scientific and creative talent of both institutions. Staff and students teamed up through a scientific/artistic speed dating event, in order to produce a series of artworks and design pieces around themes in science and engineering. The results will be exhibited at Imperial College's public exhibition space.

Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, 5th Floor, Sherfield Building, London SW7 2AZ

Open Monday to Saturday, 9am-10pm

The RCA Students Union in collaboration with the African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora (AACDD), is proud to present RCA Black, an exhibition celebrating art and design by African and African Caribbean graduates. More than 20 artists, designers and makers are confirmed, including bespoke tailor Charlie Allen, photographer Eileen Perrier, painter Frank Bowling RA, contemporary artists Harold Offeh and Faisal Abdu’Allah and designer Simone Brewster.


Students from the Royal College of Art Photography MA course will be exhibiting across five venues during the 2011 Folkestone Triennial. Construct will feature 22 emerging contemporary artists coming from distinct perspectives, each tackling their subject matter with care and earnest. The exhibition features work created predominantly by lens based mediums, but will also include installation, performance and objects. Work is on display in the creative quarter along Tontine Street and the Old High Street in Folkestone, Kent. This is the city’s most historic area, a formerly neglected part of town that is now a hub for creative regeneration.

Construct is open each weekend from 25 June to 31 July, 11am - 6pm at the following venues in Folkestone:
44 & 46 The Old High Street; 8 Strange Cargo Cellar, The Old High Street; 64 & 73 Tontine Street.
Free admission.

Wallspace presents a group of nine emerging ceramic and glass artists currently undertaking MA studies at the Royal College of Art. The selected works represent the results of their first year working alongside each other at the College, evolving simultaneously through shared experience and continued exploration of materials.

Wallspace, All Hallows on the Wall, 83 London Wall, London, EC2M 5ND

Open: Monday - Friday, 12pm – 6pm; Saturday 11am – 4pm.

Show Kensington includes work by graduating students from Applied Art, Architecture and Design, Communications, Humanities and Fashion and Textiles. Students will exhibit in the College galleries, as well as the Stevens building, with students taking over studios, staircases and corridors. Some work will be for sale or commission.

Open from 11am – 8pm daily (closes at 4pm on 28 June; closed 1 July).

Show Battersea, features graduating students’ work from the Fine Art departments of Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture, exhibiting together for the first time at our campus south of the river. Both the Sculpture and Painting buildings will be used as gallery spaces, with some students exhibiting in the dramatic Testbed 1 gallery, located just around the corner. Most work will be for sale or commission.

Sculpture Building, 15-25 Howie Street, London SW11 4AS
Sackler Building, 14-22 Howie Street, London SW11 4AY
Testbed 1, 33 Parkgate Road, London SW11 4NP 

Open from 11am to 8pm daily (closed 1 July).

Sum Parts brings together works by eight contemporary artists currently on residencies at Acme Studios, London. The exhibition is curated by first year students on the Royal College of Art’s Curating Contemporary Art Inspire MA. Inspired by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd’s Penrose Triangle – an impossible object that gains its form and unity through the viewers’ physical positioning and perspective - the exhibition explores how we might comprehend something as a whole while simultaneously understanding its composite parts. The artworks and commissions by Acme artists articulate the various complexities and possibilities of this idea, through a variety of media: from sound installation and film, to photography and performance art.

Acme Project Space, 44 Bonner Road, London, E2 9JS
Open Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm

A group of first year MA Ceramics and Glass students have been developing work which explores the concept of ‘home’ - either through the theme of the home itself, or designed pieces which would be a welcome addition for use in the domestic interior. Tricia Guild, the founder of Designers Guild, has personally selected the work which will go on display in the window of their flagship store in Chelsea.

Designers Guild, 269 Kings Road, London SW3 5EN
Open: Monday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 12 noon–5pm

The RCA Fashion Department will be hosting its annual MA graduate fashion shows to the public on Wednesday 1 June at 4pm (£15) and 7pm (£30 - includes glass of champagne and canapés), and to press and trade on Thursday 2 June. The Show culminates with the Fashion gala on the evening of 2 June.

The RCA Design Products department are presenting a small selection of designs that were recently shown at the Milan Salone. We Do Studio will be installing their bag machine and will be making Kvadrat fabric bags for visitors. Other pieces include tables made from tree trunks and lighting. All works are for sale.

The Garage, 1 North Terrace (off Alexander Square), London SW3 2BA

Open from 10.30am to 6.30pm daily. Free admission.

This exhibition presents the work of nine artists across three spaces in the College: the Hockney Gallery, the Lecture Theatre and the RCA Library, organised by first year MA Curating Contemporary Art students. The exhibition invites viewers to follow a chain of translations and correspondences across and between the three spaces and to consider the specific modes of display associated with them. The works presented act within and against the exhibition formats in question. Visitors should arrive at the Hockney Gallery located on Jay Mews to begin the first part of the exhibition.

Open 1pm – 8pm

Interim Show by first year students from Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture courses. Some work will be available for sale or commission.

Street Lights is an artistic collaboration with Vogue magazine and Bond Street’s fine jewellers. RCA students and graduates from Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery department are taking over some of the world’s top jewellery stores, including Asprey, Tiffany & Co and Chopard to create imaginative and anarchic displays in the stores’ windows.
The initiative has been led by Vogue Jewellery Editor, Carol Woolton with help from in tandem curators.

Bond Street, London W1

To coincide with Collect at the Saatchi Gallery, in tandem presents Flash, an exhibition of jewellery and objects in a shop in the Brompton district of South Kensington. The concept of Flash is inspired by street hawkers who used to peddle goods from their coats. The participating makers will display their designs from coat linings hanging around the shop space. in tandem is a new initiative from the RCA Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery department to help promote innovative craft and create a platform for selling graduates’ work.

235 Brompton Road, London SW3 2EP
Exhibition open 11am to 6pm daily (Sunday 12 noon to 4pm)

An exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, an iconic event that showcased British achievement in the immediate aftermath of WW2. The Royal College of Art's Lion and Unicorn Pavilion was the centrepiece for the celebration of design, and this unique exhibition features a recreation of the spirit of the Pavilion and its contents, through photographs, films, artifacts and souvenirs. Includes work by Edward Bawden and David Gentleman.

Exhibition open:
2–5pm Tuesday 3 May
10am – 5.30pm Wednesday 4 May and Thursday 5 May.

The Royal College of Art Printmaking Department is selling a range of prints at the London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy. Work by up and coming students will be available, as well as guest artists such as Chantal Joffe, Adam Dant, Peter Blake, Eduardo Paolozzi, Susan Hiller and Paula Rego. The new 2011 portfolio of prints, called Folio will be launched, created in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company to celebrate their 50th birthday. More than 50 galleries will also be showing and selling work.

The Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD. For further information visit the London Original Print Fair website.

Folio is an exhibition of prints from the RCA Printmaking programme, created in response to Shakespeare and in celebration of the RSC's 50th anniversary. In 1964 RCA Printmaking published a series of lithographs to mark Shakespeare’s quarto-centenary. Now almost five decades later, this work including prints by Joe Tilson, Elizabeth Frink and Norman Ackroyd will once again be exhibited alongside new artwork created especially for the exhibition by Printmaking students, staff and invited artists. A print publication will be for sale.

PACCAR Room, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BB
Free admission. RSC website.

Professor Herbert Lachmayer was born in Vienna in 1948. He studied philosophy, sociology and art history in Vienna, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin. Since 1991, Lachmayer has held a Professorship at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Department for “Staging Knowledge and Imaginative Rhetorics”, Institute of Fine Art and Cultural Theory. In 2009 he became a Visiting Professor in the Department for Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and has taught in Berlin, Vienna and London.
Places are free but seats need to be booked in advance by emailing: architecture@rca.ac.uk

The RCA Drawing Studio invites all students to submit drawings for the annual Man Group drawing competition. This exhibition will display a selection of the shortlisted drawings, with the winning student receiving a prize of £5,000.

The RCA Photography Department is holding a fundraising exhibition and sale at the HotShoe Gallery in Farringdon. Twenty limited edition box-sets, containing two different sets of eleven 10x12 inch prints, are available to purchase at £250 per set. All work has been made by first year students on the RCA Photography MA course. Funds raised from the sale will facilitate the students to stage five exhibitions during the 2011 Folkestone Triennial this summer.

HotShoe Gallery, 29 – 31 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8SW

Shadowboxing brings together projects by four international artists, Mariana Castillo Deball, Sean Dockray, Marysia Lewandowska and Wendelien van Oldenborgh, in an exhibition developed in collaboration with the graduating students from Curating Contemporary Art. Using different strategies – from tinkering to direct confrontation – each of these artists considers how media and institutions that control our behaviour and ideology can be disrupted. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of publications and a programme of events, including film and video screenings, panel debates and lectures, that explore the various threads running through the project.

For more information on the exhibition and related events visit the Shadowboxing website.

Can craft be a tool for achieving sustainability in your creative work? And just how crafty do you need to be to make a success of it?

Cyndi Rhoades, multi-award-winning social entrepreneur who’s refashioning approaches to textile waste and ethical clothing, Lizzie Harrison, whose ReMade project is upskilling a community of women and producing a recycled clothing brand and Sophie Thomas, co-founder of the UK’s leading sustainable graphic design studio and passionate advocate for sustainable materials use, apply their collective design skills to unpicking how rethinking materials use and traditional skills can help us to create a more sustainable approach to making. Chaired by Sarah Teasley, Tutor, Critical & Historical Studies/History of Design, with student graduate speaker Dejan Mitrovic, MA Innovation Design Engineering (2010)

16 March 2011, 6.30pm, Lecture Theatre 1, RCA Kensington
Free, no reservations, places allocated on a first-come, first-served basis

John Gray is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. He has taught at Oxford, Harvard, Yale and the Autonomous University of Madrid. He now writes full time. His recent books include The Immortalization Commission (Penguin); Gray’s Anatomy: Selected Writings (Penguin) and Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Penguin). He also writes articles and reviews for The Guardian,The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The New Statesman and other journals.

Places are free but seats need to be booked in advance by emailing: architecture@rca.ac.uk

The Parfitt Gallery in collaboration with the Royal College of Art Student Union is hosting an art auction in aid of the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS). It has been organised as part of a series of fundraising events to coincide with the exhibition Call me Ishmael, at the Parfitt Gallery in Croydon. Work has been donated from all over the world with the full proceeds being donated to OPS. The OPS is a non-profit organisation that creates film, photography and media to inspire people to save the oceans.
The donated work is on view from 10am, the auction starts at 7.30pm.  Free admission.

Leading selling exhibition in the ceramics calendar, presented by The Craft Potters Association with Ceramic Review magazine. The event provides a unique focus on excellence in contemporary studio ceramics based on the work of leading makers from the UK and from overseas. RCA Ceramics students will be exhibiting new work along with 75 leading contemporary ceramic artists who will be selling their work. There will be a programme of talks, demonstrations and films. For further on admission charge and opening hours visit the website here.

Thomas Heatherwick is the founder of Heatherwick Studio, a design studio formed in 1994 to make unique design projects happen. Current projects include a monastic building in Sussex, a bio-mass power station in Stockton-on-Tees and the RIBA Lubetkin prize-winning UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo. Heatherwick graduated from the RCA in 1994 and in 2010 he was awarded the London Design Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to design.

TALK NOW FULLY BOOKED.

Venue changed to: Lecture Theatre, Imperial College, Blackett Building, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington.

This selling fair features modern and contemporary art from the UK but has a significant number of dealers who specialise in work from China, India, Japan, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine.  Artists include Matisse, Miró, Picasso and Chagall (all works on paper), urban art from the States, plus British 20th-century favourites such as Henry Moore, David Hockney, Mary Fedden, together with many emerging artists.
For admission charges and opening times visit the website here.

Jonathon Porritt, writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development, former director of Friends of the Earth and co-chair of the Green Party and co-founder of Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity, talks to Lindsey Parnell, CEO and President of InterfaceFLOR in Europe, who is deeply immersed in the corporate mission to make Interface a sustainable corporation through worldwide effort to design sustainable manufacturing and development processes. Chaired by Clare Brass, Senior Tutor, Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art.

6.30–8pm, Lecture Theatre G16, Imperial College London
In association with Design London. To reserve a place, visit Design London Stir Lectures

As a playful look into the complexities surrounding the tokens that are given on Valentine’s Day, Something for the Weekend? is a selling exhibition at space fiftyfour in Shoreditch.  A selection of recent graduates from the Royal College of Art’s Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery course have been invited to create limited editions of jewellery and precious objects that can fit into the size of a condom box. The pieces will be packaged and sold through condom vending machines installed in the gallery. Prices start from £50. 

Space fiftyfour, 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN.

Open: 11am-6pm daily. For further information click here.

Students from Animation, Architecture, Design Interactions, Innovation Design Engineering and Vehicle Design exhibit their work in progress.

Collaboration between students from MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art and the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths College, which seeks to make visible the processes involved in exhibition-making and its accompanying notions of scale and duration. This changing display of works from the Zabludowicz Collection will be punctuated by a programme of artists’ commissions and interventions. 

Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT. 11am-7pm daily. Visit website here.   

Marc Frohn trained as an architect in Germany, Italy and as a Fulbright scholar in the U.S.  In 2004 he co-founded FAR frohn&rojas, an architecture and urban planning office working as a network between Germany, Chile and the U.S. Frohn will be in conversation with Professor Nigel Coates, RCA Head of Architecture.
Places are free but seats need to be booked in advance by emailing: architecture@rca.ac.uk

Ezio Manzini, designer, author, Professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic and one of the long-time leading thinkers in the field of design and sustainability, and Julian Vincent, Professor in Biomimetics and Natural Technologies at the University of Bath, explore the opportunities inherent in the social and natural world all around us, and ask how the the creative world can engage with them to design a more sustainable way of life. Chaired by RCA tutor Sarah Teasley.

6.30pm, Lecture Theatre 1, RCA Kensington
Free, no reservations, places allocated on a first-come, first-served basis

A free one-day conference chaired and convened by Martina Margetts, Senior Tutor, Critical & Historical Studies. The conference aims to inform a UK-based audience about Brazil's visual culture, with a focus on areas of craft, design and social change. Speakers include Tristan Manco, designer and author of Graffiti Brasil, Frederico Duarte, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Scholar and Justin McGuirk, award-winning design writer. Keynote address is by leading Brazilian design writer and curator Adélia Borges.

Pre-registration is essential: email julia.bunnage@formingideas.org or call +44 (0)7909 963509. Please note places are limited, so you are advised to book as early as possible.

Students from Fashion, Textiles, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery and Photography exhibit their work in progress.