The RCA Design Products programme recognises that design is an activity that fundamentally shapes our world and influences the processes of change. We aim for our students to find their own place, from where they can lead or contribute to these processes.


Although there is a focus on product and furniture design, we do not see any limitations to our field, understanding very well that most of tomorrow’s products and services do not yet exist today. As we are living in a rapidly changing world, we want to be forward-thinking and engage with new possibilities. We aim to engage with design as a cultural activity in the context of art, society, the environment, humanity, technology, and diverse forms and scales of production. The programme has a strong culture of experimentation, innovation and debate. We see these as tools or systems to develop our thinking about design, and – even more – about what design can be.


The MA course is arranged in small study groups that we call Platforms, tailoring the tuition programme to focus on the individual student. For 2011/12 the Platforms were:


Platform 8, Rosario Hurtado, Gabriel Klasmer


Platform 10, Roberto Feo, Stuart Bannocks (Daniel Charny on sabbatical)


Platform 13, Onkar Kular, Sebastien Noel


Platform 14, André Klauser, Ben Wilson


Platform 15, Sebastian Wrong, Harry Richardson


Platform 16, Sofia Lagerkvist, Kieran Long


Platform 17, Ian Ferguson, Martin Postler