The Royal College of Art’s highlight events and displays include the Sustainable Market’s Terra Carta Design Lab exhibition featuring the RCA’s finalists, an exhibition from RCA’s new research and innovation projects including AiDLab, Ecological Citizen(s) and the Textiles Circularity Centre, and an exhibition from RCA’s MA Design Products students in partnership with Brompton Design District.
Located at RCA’s Battersea Campus, the public will have the opportunity to discover the Royal College of Art’s 10 finalists for this year’s edition of the Sustainable Markets Initiatives Terra Carta Design Lab. The exhibition will be open from 5 - 8pm, Wednesday 18 September, 12 - 6pm, Friday 20 September, 12 - 6pm, Saturday 21 September.
Following on from the global success of the 2022 edition, the Royal College of Art partnered for a second time with the Terra Carta Design Lab to invite designers and innovators from the world’s leading universities, to find solutions to the current climate and biodiversity crisis and produce breakthrough solutions for Nature, People and Planet. This year's shortlisted projects display high-impact solutions in strikingly innovative forms such as, a soluble-on-demand polymer composite, recyclable RFID tags and a new, novel textile made from truly regenerative fibres.
Over the course of London Design Festival, an exhibition at 200 Battersea Road will display projects from RCA’s AidLab, the first research platform to focus on artificial intelligence in design, alongside Ecological Citizen(s), a 4 year Network+ aiming to catalyse Ecological Citizenship for positive climate action, and the Textiles Circularity Centre, a programme working towards enabling a circular textiles economy through interdisciplinary research.
The RCA has also partnered with Brompton Design District to present Curious Habits - Design as Learning, a series of works from RCA’s MA Design Products students asking the question, is there design without learning? The exhibition explores themes of insight, learning and change, and the creative relationship between the designer and the object.
