Strategic Pillar Three
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Convening transformational exchanges of art and design expertise and ideas.
Our ambition
The RCA’s perspectives and relationships are global, with our history and heritage grounded in London. We create mutual partnerships that benefit communities, boost the economy and advocate for the arts. We champion the international exchange of thinking around art and design, creating cultural and societal value and addressing challenges and opportunities for people and planet.
To achieve this, we will:
- Create meaningful international partnerships to grow our global outlook and impact.
- Drive purposeful collaboration to boost the economy and benefit people and planet.
- Expand professional support for successful global art and design education, innovation and research.
- Be a positive local and global neighbour.
Examples of how we will work towards this in the next five years:
Establish new international RCA “hubs” in support of wider objectives for recruitment, consultancy, revenue diversification, Knowledge Exchange, Executive Education, philanthropy and alumni support.
- Trial progression agreements with world-leading international education partners.
- Engage with the art, design and cultural professional worlds and communities, shaping the future of these sectors through high-quality knowledge exchange and integrated cross-College research approaches.
- Drive UK economic growth by enhancing support for creative start-up incubation through InnovationRCA and by supporting early stage start-ups through attracting additional investors to the RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund.
- Deliver an annual programme of art and design education outreach – including the launch of the RCA Saturday Club and a Biennial Community Festival.
- Support local training and employment through paid interns and apprenticeships.
- Scale up capacity to share new practice in art and design education development and creative start-up implementation.
- Minimise the impact of our activities on the wider world through reducing the environmental impact of our buildings and operating model, working towards a zero carbon future.
This work will be enabled by:
- Rolling out a new Global Engagement Strategy.
- Establishing an RCA Consultancy Unit to support long-term financial sustainability.
- Embedding ethical guidelines for partnerships to ensure that our work is in line with our values.
- Supporting RCA staff with volunteering and community engagement.
- Opening up our campuses, and bringing the public in to experience student and academic work and events.
- Championing the positive impacts of our UK and international students.
- Celebrating the end of the RCA’s time in White City together with the local community, and maintaining links with the area.
