Textiles MA students at the RCA employ traditional and innovative skills while exploring constantly evolving materials and technology. They create diverse solutions that span many disciplines and design applications, including fashion, interiors, automotive design and gallery installation.
The interface between materials and making creates a challenging and dynamic environment, frequently employing multidisciplinary and collaborative methods to express the breadth of textiles through the contexts of ‘Body’ and ‘Space’.
Personal research and an individual design philosophy are at the heart of the Textiles postgraduate programme. Students are required to apply to one of the four MA Textile specialisms of Print, Knit, Mixed Media and Weave.
Textiles at the RCA has a thriving research community with 12 research students supervised by staff who are international experts in their field. The programme houses the interdisciplinary ‘Materials for Living’ Research Hub which hosted the ‘Inspiring Matter’ conference at the RCA in April 2012.
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The programme offers:
- excellence of teaching by leading practitioners and one-to-one tutorials
- specialist technicians for all programme machinery and processes
- opportunities for collaborative and interdisciplinary work in the world's leading wholly postgraduate art and design institution
- a combination of set/industrial projects and self-directed study
- a vibrant staff and student research culture
- world-leading industry collaborations, including Intel, Audi, Marmite, Swarovski, IFF, Airbus, Crown Paints, WGSN, Rowan, LG, Skopos, Bicester Village, Marks & Spencer, Monsoon and Daks
- excellent graduate destinations include Stella McCartney, Jaguar Land Rover, H&M, Toyota, Nokia, Thierry Mugler, Missoni, Burberry, Paul Smith Tom Ford and All Saints
- recent high-profile alumni including Orla Kiely, Alice Temperley, Donna Wilson, Timorous Beasties, Lisa Stickley and Wallace Sewell
+44 (0)20 7590 4362
textiles@rca.ac.uk
6 December, 2012, 3pm & 16 January 2013
Open Days are held at the College between October and January of each academic year, to enable applicants to explore teaching programmes and meet staff and students.