Discover the Royal College of Art’s online graduate showcase

The RCA's showcase of 2024 graduating students is now online. If you missed the opportunity to visit one of the RCA2024 exhibitions or events, or want to take a deeper dive into this year’s graduating students’ work, visit the RCA 2024 student profiles. Here you can explore the work of artists, designers, writers, thinkers, innovators and disruptors shaping the future.

Browse profiles from over 1,600 postgraduate students across the RCA’s four schools – Architecture, Arts & Humanities, Communication and Design – as well as programmes run by the Intelligent Mobility Design Centre and Academic Development. Find a collaborator, discover your new favourite artist, and be inspired.

The platform offers the opportunity to read excerpts from our graduating Writing MA student’s work. From a study of idiolect changes and the fluidity of cultural identity, to an exploration of fictive film as a tool to hasten consciousness of injustice, a choral answer to how and why people decide to enter civil resistance, a narrated diary of a journey between three different art schools, and an exploration of Bond Street at the intersection of cultural history and memoir. These diverse outcomes show how the Writing MA programme nurtures students to bring together different subjects, forms, and approaches to create the most intriguing, extraordinary, compelling work that they can.

Our Strange House, Salomé Mercier (Writing MA)

The student profile platform also introduces our Curating Contemporary Art MA students. Responding to a brief set by this year’s external partner, the Triangle Network, students created ten projects informed by questions of how relations, meanings and experiences are made and unmade at the interface between the hyper-local and the hyper-global.

From the creation of wearable sculptures to a plant pot shaped by the growing patterns of plants – encounter designers pushing the boundaries of their disciplines in the School of Design through new methods of making and production.

Moving Sculptures, STARSEN KOO Moon (Fashion MA)

On the Design Futures MDes programme, students envision preferable futures through design-led interventions that are grounded in research and understanding of complex systems. Discover some of there global visions of the future, from a planet positive metaverse to a mobility ecosystem for e-vehicle business in Shenzhen, China, and nature based urban regeneration solutions in Bogotá, Colombia.

Bogotá, Distrito Natural, Rafael Franco Bernal (Design Futures MDes)

The RCA School of Architecture imagines alternative modes of existence expressed in form, matter, structure and organisation. Students from the Environmental Architecture MA this year developed projects related to three scenarios: the ways in which the diverse peoples of the Sahara resist the desert’s ongoing colonial exploitation; the environmental impact of monoculture in Alentejo, Portugal; and wind as a catalyst for architectural innovation. Through diverse methods and outputs, students prioritised engagement with communities on the frontlines of these environmental struggles to co-develop transformative approaches to environmental and climate justice.

Diving Pollinators, Yuxuan Zhu, Yujia Zhou and Jiayu Dai (Environmental Architecture MA)

The Interior Design MA considers how the built-environment, in particular the interior, can respond to the ongoing challenges of the 21st century. Across three platforms, superREUSE, superMATTER and superFUTURES, students propose radical, transformative approaches to the space we inhabit. From a project highlighting the significance of creating empowering environments for survivors of domestic abuse, to a speculative design project imagining humans inhabiting underground shelters to survive a future ice age.

Why did(n't) You Leave, Sam Joseph (Interior Design MA)

The necessity for communicating new narratives across multiple platforms could not be more relevant today. In the School of Communication students do just that. The RCA’s Communication MFA is an interdisciplinary programme that challenges students to expand the boundaries of communication. From an interactive VR game to an olfactory installation this year’s graduating students have explored communication and storytelling to their limits.

Individual experiencing the game 'What is the point of this?', Shravan Sunil (Communication MFA)

The outcomes of the Information Experience Design MA programme are no less diverse. Ranging from a multimedia installation that explores new ways for mothers to experience support and nurturing, to an AI model taught with voiced experiences of yearning; these graduate projects exemplify the programmes mission to design meaningful experiences of information, informed by the desire to cohabit compassionately with those with whom we share our complex world.

Machine Yearning, Yashika Goel (Information Experience Design MA)