RCA x London Design Festival 2025

Slow Moments

Design Products MA, class of 2025

Exhibitor: The Royal College of Art Design Products cohort of 2025 presents Slow Moments, an exhibition of work by 21 graduating designers exploring the quiet power of material, interaction, and meaning.

Kaalchakra कालचक्र

Exhibitor: OSA Studio (LaunchPad Partner) - Daksh Goel (Design Products MA, 2025) & Oishi Roy Dutta (Contemporary Art Practice MA, 2025)

This show, brings together 24 artists responding to The Asylum Chapel in London, exploring time as cyclical through immersive installations inspired by South Asian cosmologies and ecological rhythms.

ONELAB

Exhibitor: InnovationRCA founders Elsa Ellies and Miles Dunphy

Find Your Voice Through Design" invites you into a new kind of creative college — a live design studio where education is reimagined, creativity is power, and young people shape the future. Step into an immersive space where voices long overlooked rise and design becomes a force for change.

Tender Revolution

Exhibitors: Design Products MA, class of 2025

An exhibition that responds to the rigid systems shaping our lives with practices of care, attentiveness, and renewal. Working across fashion, textiles, and product design, the participants explore how design can move gently yet radically.

Meet After

Exhibitors: Zhaochuan Fang and Zixiang Feng (Design Futures MDes, 2025)

By 2100, traditional burial methods will have been largely replaced by sustainable practices like promession, transforming cemeteries into ecological and cultural spaces. These future burial sites serve not only as places of remembrance, as climate infrastructure, supporting biodiversity and environmental restoration.

Remembrance Chair

Exhibitor: Subin Seol (Interior Design MA, 2023)

Retrouvius presents The Remembrance Chair, a limited-edition collaboration with Korean artist, Subin Seol, designed using salvaged architectural teak handrails from the Fawley Power Station.

Object 74

Exhibitors: Britney Lee, Alexandre P. Manko, Maxim Lester, Natalie Dubrovska, Caden Hao, Yumeng Wang, Ruichen Xu, Jasmine Prime, Sofia Ortmann, Eleanor Pickin, Max Zhu.

Object 74, a group of emerging designers and graduates of the Design Products MA, launch a three-day exhibition as part of LDF in Shoreditch. The group which formed studying under the same tutor, has produced a range of furniture and art objects that present diverse perspectives on the role of design objects in our homes.

Luca Bosani

Exhibitors: Luca Bosani (Contemporary Art Practice MA 2017) presented by Know & Love

Bosani will bring to the Dalston to Stokey Design District their iconic shoe-sculptures, known as ‘UPOs’ and unique collectable artworks such as hand-painted caps, paintings, and mini sculptures.

Rowena's House Warming

Exhibitor: Rowena Liangru Lu (Design Products MA, 2023).

A very homy exhibition in artist's own home, and an actual Housewarming. Experience design where it belongs: “After all, where else should furniture live, if not in a home?”

Reimagining Demolition

Exhibitor: Prima Materia and RCA resident designers

Prima Materia's first project to help divert materials, otherwise destined for landfill, from the redevelopment of a 17-storey former Travelodge. During the phased demolition we are salvaging high quality materials that would otherwise be downcycled and re-imagining them into this first capsule collection, with our team of ex-RCA resident designers:

• Blake Carlson-Joshua, Design Products MA
• Freddie Keen, Design Products MA
• Jeremy Hulse, Innovation Design Engineering MA/MSc

Building a Globally Successful Creative Business masterclass

Offered by: RCA Executive Education.

Offered in partnership with LDF2025, this three-day masterclass gives a unique look inside the processes behind some of today’s brightest creative entrepreneurs and leaders, RCA academics and founders of successful start-ups from the award-winning incubator InnovationRCA.