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Welcome to the Royal College of Art Podcast.
Listen in on conversations with RCA staff, students and alumni to find out about our programmes, research and initiatives happening at the College. Find out how the work of architects, artists, communicators, designers and researchers affect the world at large.
🎧 Listen on SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcast and YouTube Podcasts.
Episode 1: Between art and humanity
Hear from Martin Newth, Assistant Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities on highlighting our humanity and the new MFA Arts & Humanities. Read the show notes.
You can also play this episode on 🎧 Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Episode 2: Creative education through uncertainty
Hear from Chris Mitchell, Deputy Director of Academic Development, and how this form of education and the new MEd Creative Education can help people respond to the challenges of living with uncertainty. Read the show notes show notes.
You can also play this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Episode 3: The boundaries of communication
Hear from Barbara Brownie, Assistant Dean of the School of Communication, a distinguished design theorist - from space wear to 3D animations, and the new MFA Communication. Read the show notes.
You can also play this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Episode 4: Doing, undoing and imagining futures
Hear from Thandi Loewenson, Senior Tutor in the School of Architecture, on this year's Venice Biennale, education's place in the act of Decolonising, and the new MArch Design Practice. Read the show notes.
You can also play this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Episode 5: Addressing local and global design challenges
Hear from Dave Webster, Assistant Dean of the School of Design, on the role of designers in finding creative solutions based on research data that help solve the world's grand challenges. Read the show notes.
You can also play this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Episode 6: Loo-topia: Designing Inclusive Public Toilets
Hear from Gail Ramster and Professor Jo-Anne Bichard, lead researchers in the Public Toilet Research Unit in The Helen Hamlyn Centre, as they unravel the world of public toilets. From the challenges of finding a decent public toilet to broader implications on business and public life, Gail and Jo-Anne share insights into their research.
Listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Episode 7: Behold our power - celebrating the RCA’s Black community
Benji was joined by Emily Moore (Painting MA, 2020) – co-chair of RCA BLK, the association of Black Students, Alumni & Friends – and Ekua McMorris (Photography MA, 2009), former RCA Student Union President and current tutor on the Graduate Diploma Art and Design at the College. Together, they discuss initiatives to support the RCA’s Black community.
Listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Episode 8: Investing in women - Entrepreneurship at InnovationRCA
Dr Nadia Danhash, Director of InnovationRCA, speaks to Dr Melanie Flory, Associate Director of Research at the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, about the ways InnovationRCA champions diversity amongst a cohort of start-up businesses, as well as highlighting the importance of investing in women, and discussing InnovationRCA's new Design & Impact S/EIS Fund.
We also hear from some of the extraordinary RCA graduates who have journeyed through InnovationRCA's incubator themselves, in a conversation led by Annetta Snider, InnovationRCA’s Entrepreneur in Residence.
Hear the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Podcasts and Soundcloud.
Episode 9: Being a working-class creative
We chat to Christoph Jones and Melanie King from the Working Class Collective (WCC) - a student-run society at the RCA that aims to uplift and provide solidarity for working-class students at the RCA.
Listen to the episode on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Podcasts and Soundcloud.
