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Contents2 Rector’s Review

8 Graduate Destinations Survey

9 School of Applied Art

9 Ceramics & Glass

10 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery

11 School of Architecture and Design

11 Architecture & Interiors

12 Design Products

12 Industrial Design Engineering

14 Interaction Design

14 Vehicle Design

16 School of Communications

16 Animation

16 Communcation Art & Design

18 School of Fashion and Textiles

18 Fashion Menswear and Fashion Womenswear

19 Printed and Constructed Textiles

20 School of Fine Art

20 Painting

20 Photography

22 Printmaking

22 Sculpture Department

23 Drawing Studio

24 School of Humanities

24 Conservation

24 Curating Contemporary Art

26 History of Design

26 Critical & Historical Studies

28 Research

29 Helen Hamlyn Research Centre

30 InnovationRCA

31 Donors and Sponsors

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This Review provides a survey of the manyachievements of staff, students and recentgraduates in the academic year 2004/5,divided up by departments. Many themesemerge; two of the most important are theCollege’s relationship with the businesscommunity, and its fast-evolving researchculture. Members of the Court may recallthat our Royal Charter, granted in 1967,refers to the three main means by whichthe College can achieve its objectives as‘teaching, research, and collaboration withindustry and commerce’.

A key feature of this year has been the closeworking relationship we have developedwith the London Development Agency –placing us near the heart of London’screative industries and helping us to investin expensive rapid prototyping technologies.InnovationRCA, created last year to extendthe reach and focus of the RCA’s relationshipwith the commercial world, has made anumber of significant advances under theleadership of Director Jeremy Myerson. Anew research and development programmein the area of design for disability, InclusiveBusiness RCA was set up. A joint innovationfund was set up with Imperial College tocombine Imperial’s science and businessexpertise with the RCA’s user-centreddesign skills. This initiative generated threenew patented devices for use in keyholesurgery. InnovationRCA also gave marketingand development support to RapidformRCAthe College’s rapid prototyping centrewhich was demonstrated at the Court twoyears ago; incubated a project in the areaof sustainable public transport with CapocoDesign and built a collaboration withcontemporary retailer Heal’s to create limitededition collections of the work of RCAgraduates. FuelRCA was launched – a newprofessional practice programme for RCAstudents designed to give artists anddesigners more business skills andconfidence. At the end of its first year,InnovationRCA launched its own magazine,Innovate and curated Innovation at the RCA,the College’s first-ever exhibition of innovationprojects – part of the London Design Festival– which showcased the achievements ofmore than 60 RCA graduates across a rangeof disciplines from architecture,communications and textiles to furniture,product, interaction and vehicle design. Thesedevelopments were made possible by theHigher Education Innovation Fund, the LDAand the Helen Hamlyn Foundation, amongothers.

The Secretary of State for Trade & Industry,Alan Johnson wrote to us of ‘the postgraduateexhibitions for which the Royal College ofArt is renowned’, praising us for our efforts‘in encouraging partners from business,industry, design and education to collaboratein promoting innovation’. And we contributedto the Cox Review of design and innovation,commissioned by HM Treasury.

On the College’s research culture, this yearsaw the creation of an Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council which will in future sit atthe high table of research councils withinthe Office of Science & Technology, andwill no doubt lead to interesting and fruitfulcollaborations of the kind we like. ProfessorDavid Watkins of Goldsmithing, Silversmithing,Metalwork and Jewellery has been amongthe first to benefit and has been awarded agrant of £202,000 – the first major awardby the AHRC to a studio discipline. ProfessorSandra Kemp, our Director of Research,has been shortlisted to the last four of TheTimes Higher Education Supplement’snational ‘Research Project of the Year’competition, with a project called ‘FutureFace’ which consisted of a major exhibitionat the Science Museum (plus tour overseas),a book and numerous education projects.Meanwhile, many individual members ofstaff have been awarded external researchfunding from public and private sources.

The departmental entries that follow providea thorough survey of the achievements ofthe past year, written by the Professorsand Heads of Department. They reveal thatthe College continues to perform its uniquerole as a crucible of the ‘creative industries’,and to perform it well. Our latest destinationsstatistics, covering the period 1997– 2001,seem to bear this out. In the Independent’s‘People to Watch’ survey of summer 2005,in the ‘Art’ category most of the profileswere of our Fine Art graduates; in the‘Design and Interiors’ category, all five ofthe designers were former RCA studentsand in the ‘Architecture’ category, a groupof 2002 graduates were cited. As publicdebate becomes more and more concernedwith the importance of the ‘creativeindustries’ and how to sustain and enhancethem – through such developments as theCox Review; the Regional DevelopmentAgencies; the Department of Trade andIndustry’s Innovation Review; theDepartment of Culture, Media and Sport’ssurveys of the arts in relation to thisburgeoning sector of the economy, and soon – the ways in which the College positionsitself have become increasingly importantas well. We are centrally placed as acrucible of innovation through art, designand communications – and it is importantthat this message comes over loud andclear to the worlds of higher education andindustry. Various delegations from Indiaand China have in fact visited the Collegethis year, to discuss how we do it and howsuch a relatively small institution managesto punch above its weight. Following a visitearlier this year, there will be an ‘outwardmission’ to China in early 2006 focusing onresearch and one to the United States inspring 2006.

Where learning and teaching are concerned,the departmental reports speak forthemselves. Themes of the year include newthinking about dyslexia support and linguisticability; about our relationship with schools;about parity of standards, betweendepartments, where assessment is concerned– a very complex issue in art and design;

and about multi-culturalism. On this lastissue, there have been important reportsabout why art and design as subjects are notmore successful in attracting applicationsfrom British students from black and minorityethnic communities, and the College hasbeen contributing its own researches tothis debate. Currently our students comefrom some forty nations, which is one ofthe acknowledged strengths of the institution’sconcentrated creative environment. InNovember 2005, the exhibition Oriki – thetitle, from Yoruba dialect, means a song ofpraise that immortalises artists in a ‘calland response’ mode – showed work bystudents and graduates with African rootsfrom ten departments.

Here are some individual highlights of theyear, from across the College.

A sculpture student was nominated for theprestigious Jerwood Prize (we’ve won it forthe past two years) and seven Printmakersshowed their work at the Royal AcademySummer Show, which was curated by ourHead of Printmaking, Professor Chris Orr.Many of the top galleries such as WhiteCube and Victoria Miro approached paintingstudents at The Show. Two Photographystudents were shortlisted for the influentialNew Contemporaries exhibition and YveLomax’s book Sounding the Event:Escapades in Dialogue and Matters of Art,Nature and Time was published by IBTauris. In the Applied Arts, tutors from theCeramics & Glass Department facilitated amajor new ceramic art fair, Ceramic ArtLondon, which was held in the RCA galleries.

History of Design graduates became curatorsat the National Gallery, the Getty Centre andthe Victoria and Albert Museum. Graduatesfrom Curating Contemporary Art joined theArnolfini, the Ikon Gallery, the South LondonGallery and La Galerie in Paris. One of ourConservation graduates, Emma Schmuecker,won the UK Student Conservator of theYear Award and Critical & HistoricalStudies admitted its own research studentsfor the first time.

At the Milan Furniture Fair, The DesignMuseum and Sir Paul Smith curated anexhibition showcasing the best creativetalent working in Britain today called GreatBrits: The New Alchemists. All five designerswere Design Products graduates from theRCA. Professor of Architecture Nigel Coatespublished his second book, Collidoscope.Interaction Design Research student TobieKerridge received funding to take hisBiojewellery project – rings grown fromdonated bone tissue – from the lab into thepublic arena.

A group of students from Industrial DesignEngineering relocated to China to collaboratewith their counterparts in Beijing and theproject was documented in Blueprint. Theannual Helen Hamlyn Research CentreAward – our most prestigious award forsocially inclusive design – went to PeterBrewin and Will Crawford of IDE. This wasin recognition of their pioneering Concrete

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Canvas project, which has won a total ofnine awards to date including the DeutscheBank Pyramid Award and the New BusinessChallenge and has also been nominatedfor a Saatchi & Saatchi Award for ‘WorldChanging Ideas’.

Vehicle design graduates became directorsof General Motors and Aston Martin. JoeKerr, Head of Critical & Historical Studiesloved the design of the old Routemasterbus designed by Douglas Scott so muchthat he qualified as a bus driver so he couldtake it on some of its last journeys before itis taken out of service on 9 December 2005.The red Routemaster has been a feature ofthe London landscape since 1956.

A film by Gaelle Dennis, a 2004 animationgraduate, was accepted at Cannes FilmFestival, one of only two British entries.Communications students created amultimedia performance called The RestlessEarth at Aldeburgh International MusicFestival and Catell Ronca designed a setof stamps for Royal Mail.

In Fashion and Textiles a 2003 Fashiongraduate, Erdem Moralioglu, won theprestigious Fashion Fringe prize; studentsexhibited and sold their work in Commedes Garçon’s Dover Street Market inLondon and Rowan Mersh of Textiles wonthe Mercury Music Art Design Prize.

The Helen Hamlyn Research Centreconsolidated its global leadership role ininclusive design by organising and hostingInclude 2005, an international conferenceattended by 170 delegates from 19 differentcountries. Earlier in the academic year, the centre’s annual presentation of work by research associates in partnership withbusiness was particularly striking.

The College welcomed tens of thousands ofvisitors to its annual exhibition of graduatingstudent’s work including members of thepublic, curators, collectors, dealers andassorted representatives from the worldsof industry and commerce. This year thetitle was ‘Like Nowhere Else’ and it certainlylived up to its name. Animated wallpaper; arevolutionary new shower that uses a thirdof the amount of water of existing devices;a fridge that also keeps pizzas warm; acomputer program that makes ‘ShadowMonsters’; an Antarctic exploration vehicle;temporary floating architecture for theforthcoming Olympic games, and a sculpturecreated from two tonnes of exploded lorrytyres were among the many highlights ofthis year’s show. As one national magazineflatteringly put it last year, ‘a visit to theshow is the closest thing you can get to acrystal ball for the future of art and design…there isn’t any better place’.

Numerous awards ceremonies featuredthroughout The Show, including awardsfrom BSI, the Helen Hamlyn ResearchCentre, National Grid Transco and Pilkington.The College website once again hosted afreely available online catalogue whichaccompanied the exhibitions.

Among this year’s leavers were Irene McAraMcWilliam, Head of Interaction Design whohas gone to Glasgow School of Art asHead of Design; Prue Bramwell-Davis, SeniorTutor in Industrial Design Engineering andJane Dillon, Design Products Tutor whohas retired after a 37 year relationship withthe College. Sadly, we lost forever thesculptor and printmaker Eduardo Paolozzi;Bernard Meadows, our Professor of Sculpturefrom 1960 – 1980; Bruce Archer, the world’sfirst Professor of Design Research; LordEsher, Rector of the College from 1971-1977; Gordon Brown, technician in theCollege workshop for 16 years; HumphreySpender – brother of Stephen, who taughtTextiles; Deryk Healy also from Textiles, aman who loved the College and what itstands for; and Patrick Caulfield, painterfrom the ‘young contemporaries’ generationof the early 1960s (he was in the PaintingSchool 1960-1963) who also had a decisiveinfluence on the ‘young British artists’ ofthe 1990s.

We are delighted to welcome ProfessorAnthony Dunne as our Head of InteractionDesign; and we have been joined by thedynamic Áine Duffy as the new Head ofMedia Relations & Marketing, and ChrisMitchell in the new post of Learning andTeaching Co-ordinator.

There are challenges ahead: among them,a HEFCE consultation on ‘the funding ofteaching’; the new round of the HigherEducation Innovation Fund – which is likelyto be spread more thinly than last time; thebuild-up to the Research AssessmentExercise (census date December 2007);and the implementation of our new HumanResources Strategy. But on the evidenceof 2004/5, the College is in excellent shapeto face them – including financial shape.My thanks go to all the staff of the College– academic, administrative, technical andmanual – and to all the members of theCouncil (especially the Provost, the Chairman,the Treasurer and the Chairman of theEstates Committee) for helping to achievethis. Above all my thanks to all the studentsfor making the College such a continuallyunpredictable, maddening as well asenergising place.

Professor Sir Christopher Frayling

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Animation tutor Tim Webb’s film A is forAutism has been released on DVD by theBritish Film Institute.

IDE graduates, Peter Brewin and WillCrawford’s Concrete Canvas project whichhas now won a total of nine awards andhas been nominated for the Saatchi &Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas.

The Artbar was refurbished over the summer.The new interior was designed by RCAstudents Phil Worthington and Eyal Burstein.

Catell Ronca of Communication Art & Designwon a competition to design stamps for theRoyal Mail. Celebrating the UK’s rich ethnicdiversity. The five stamps designed by Catellare currently in use.

Professor Wendy Dagworthy with BryanFerry, one of the Guests of Honour at theFashion Gala. Other guests included LordSnowdon, Suggs and Hamish Bowles ofAmerican Vogue.

InnovationRCA launched a new professionalpractice programme for RCA studentsentitled FuelRCA, designed to give artistsand designers more business skills andconfidence.

Two large-scale ceramic sculptures byCeramics & Glass tutor, Felicity Aylieff werepurchased by the Birmingham Museum andArt Gallery.

Gillian Carnegie, a 1999 Painting graduatewas shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Communication Art & Design students tookpart in a performance on the beach atAldeburgh as part of the International MusicFestival. Titled The Restless Earth, thismultimedia event with a strong environmentaltheme was the result of collaboration betweenthe RCA, the Guildhall School of Music, localschools, choirs and young offenders groups.

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Postcard Design by Grayson Perry – oneof the many famous artists and designersthat contributed to RCA Secret 2004.

Glass bottle vases by Ulrika Strömback ofCeramics & Glass, currently on sale in Heal’sas part of their ‘Heal’s Discovers II’ collection,aimed at fostering young talent. Thecollaboration was initiated by InnovationRCA.

Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design, oneof three books published by Sir ChristopherFrayling this year.

In its first year InnovationRCA made a numberof significant advances, building a new brandand a new programme to extend the reachand focus of the RCA’s relationship with thecommercial world. At the end of its first yearthe department curated the College’s first-ever exhibition of innovation projects as partof the London Design Festival.

The £5,000 NGT Award for sustainabilitywas awarded to Architecture graduate JoelDunmore for his ‘Grief or Relief’ project.This proposed an elaborate park situatednear the Olympic site in Stratford wherevisitors would take a journey through agarden designed to invoke sadness. Thesite culminates in a DNA predestinationlab, where visitors can be given their futuremedical profile.

David Kelley, a founder of IDEO – one of theworld’s most innovative design firms, beingpresented with the Sir Misha Black Award fordistinguished services to design education.

Future Face, curated by Professor ofResearch, Sandra Kemp completed a majortour of South East Asia and was one of fourshortlisted projects in the Times Higher Awards2005 for ‘Research Project of the Year’.

Maja Kecman’s Home-Use Smear Test Kitis part of InnovationRCA’s Selected Worksprogramme – graduate innovations earmarkedfor patent protection and commercialization.It also won a Helen Hamlyn Design for ourFuture Selves Award.

James Connolly from Painting produced abook of comic drawings involving andworking with the residents of the TachbrookPeabody Trust estate, Westminster. This bookis part of a two-year community project,which involves fine art students working withresidents from Peabody Trust estates tochallenge preconceptions in answeringthat eternal question: What is art?

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Delegates gather for the Include 2005international conference on inclusive design,organised and hosted by the HHRC.

Helen Hamlyn Research Associate, TobieKerridge and Goldsmithing, Silversmithing,Metalwork & Jewellery student Nikki Scottreceived a Partnership for Public Awarenessaward funded by the EPSRC to developtheir Biojewellery project (rings grown fromhuman bone) and take it from the lab intothe public arena.

The Rector with (from left to right) SeniorFellows, Anne Sutton, Charles Jencks, RichardSeymour, Jun Kaneko and Basil H Alkazzi.

Sounding the Event: Escapades in Dialogueand Matters of Art, Nature and Time byPhotography Research Tutor Yve Lomaxand published by IB Tauris.

A re-circulating shower by IDE graduate PeterBrewin, which is as easy to install as anelectric shower, has the power of a mixershower, will never run cold, and yet uses 70%less water and 40% less energy. The projectwon first prize in the British StandardsInstitution Awards for its potential applicationsin countries such as Western Australia wherefresh water is in short supply.

The Royal Academy’s Summer Show wasco-curated by Professor of Printmaking,Chris Orr and featured the work of severalPrintmaking staff and students.

The Show was well attended this year withover 37,000 visitors. The marketing campaignwas designed by 2004 RCA graduates SaraCarneholm and Leah Harrison of ‘HappilyEver After’.

Teresa Collard (Textiles) won the GarradDesign Competition with this bracelet design.

Rowan Mersh, Mixed Media Textiles wonthe UK Mercury Music Design Award forhis dramatic design incorporating recycledCDs. His work featured on the cover of thecompilation CD.

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The Show: Fashion showcased the Swarovskisponsored Costume Society RubyAnniversary project. Fashion andGoldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork &Jewellery students collaborated to create afusion of fabric and gem. This design is byEudon Choi (Fashion) and Tomasz Donocik(GSM&J).

Dagenham East by Steffi Klenz, Photographywho won a National Grid Transco Award.

Critical & Historical Studies admittedresearch students for the first time. Fromleft to right, MPhil students Helene Martin,Cecilia Järdemar, Filipa Vaz Monterio.

The Industrial Design Engineering Departmenttook an entire year of students to Beijingfor a collaborative project which also sawChinese designers coming to the UK.

Tomek Rygalik and Jorre Van Ast’s winningentry in the Bombay Sapphire Designer GlassCompetition.

One of a huge number of press articles aboutstudents, staff and alumni. This articlefeatures fashion student, Rui Leonardes’high heels for men that won much pressattention at The Show: Fashion.

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Course/Department(grouped by School)

Applied ArtCeramics & GlassGoldsmithing, Silversmithing,

Metalwork & Jewellery

Architecture and DesignArchitecture & InteriorsDesign Products*Industrial Design EngineeringInteraction DesignVehicle design

CommunicationsAnimationCommunication Art

& Design**Film and Television (1997 only)

Fashion and TextilesFashion MenswearFashion WomenswearConstructed TextilesPrinted Textiles

Fine ArtPaintingPhotographyPrintmakingSculpture

HumanitiesConservationCurating Contemporary ArtHistory of Design

Total

Total number of graduates1997-2001

9884

94151816073

54259

35

431079160

106779294

256284

1830

Number and proportion ofgraduates in directly relatedemployment/ activity

89 91%78 93%

85 90%139 92%79 98%53 88%67 92%

50 93%232 90%

32 91%

41 95%96 90%84 92%55 92%

95 90%67 87%84 91%80 85%

25 100%59 95%76 90%

1666 91%

Proportion of graduates inrelated employment recordedin the previous survey (1992/96)

81.2%95.8%

92.6%87%/92.2%*89.2%100%98.3%

95.3%95.2%/94.5%**

90.2%

98.2%98.2%93.5%93.5%

92.3%94.3%97.7%91.6%

83.3%82.8%83.3%

92.5%

*Design Products was created through theamalgamation of the Furniture andIndustrial Design courses. The far columnshows figures for these two coursesrespectively

**Communication Art & Design was createdthrough the amalgamation of the GraphicDesign and Illustration courses. The farcolumn shows figures for these twocourses respectively

Graduate Destinations Survey ResultsDuring the academic year 2001/2 the College carried out anextensive survey, monitored by a senior independent statisticiancovering the careers of graduates from the preceding five years.

The figures are presented here alongside the results from theprevious survey, conducted in 1996/97 and covering the period1992/96 (in the far column).

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Ceramics & Glass

Our new exchange programme with theceramics and glass department of Konstfackin Stockholm took off with the exchange offirst year students, one each way. One ofour students has been selected for twoconsecutive years of the Kyoto Exchange;In autumn 2004 research student BonnieKemske was chosen and Heike Brachlow wasselected in autumn 2005. The departmentstrongly felt the loss of Eduardo Paolozzi inApril 2005.

Once again, the department welcomed alarge number of high profile visiting tutors.These included Sue Halls, Richard Slee,Alexander Beleschenko, Neil Brownsword,Takeshi Yasuda, and Marianne Buus. Thelecture series on Word and Image includedthe poet Lavinia Greenlaw.

Collaborations with industry were furtherdeveloped. Darlington Crystal ran a studentproject and their design team worked closelywith students at the RCA. The prize winnersand some other students are now workingwith Darlington to develop their designsfurther. Esther Adesigbin in collaborationwith a PhD student, researched the highlyspecialised water jet cutting of glass shownin her degree show at the Glass Centre ofthe University of Sunderland. Establishedfurniture store Heal’s struck up apartnership with the department, throughInnovationRCA. The ‘Heals’s Discovers II’project is aimed at fostering young talent,and Ceramics & Glass and Textiles studentscollaborated on this initiative.

In May, the RCA was the venue for the launchof a new ceramic art fair – Ceramic ArtLondon – facilitated by tutors EmmanuelCooper and Felicity Aylieff. Grayson Perrywas the keynote speaker.

There were record sales at The Showincluding a large blown glass sculpture byHaruko Nakagomi to the designer PhilipTreacy for installation in an Irish hotel. JamesDyson bought a large cast glass sculpturefrom Geoffrey Mann. Major purchases werealso made by Heal’s for work by GeoffreyMann, Esther Adesigbin, and KuldeepMalhi. For final year students, The Showled to many opportunities and contacts.Anne Vibeke has won a British CouncilFellowship to work with glass in the CzechRepublic. Stine Jesperson is in Jingdezhenin China as an Artist-in-Residence at thePottery Workshop Experimental Factory.Anders Ruhwald has gone to a residencyin the USA. Lucy Whiting is making workfor DKNY. Mimi Joung is taking up a CraftsCouncil ‘Next Move’ placement in theGlass Centre at the University of Sunderland,where Naoko Tagai will also be an Artist-in-Residence.

Ceramics & Glass students made gooduse as usual of the Drawing Studio, andNaoko Tagai won a Man Group Prize forthe second time. The Eduardo PaolozziTravel Scholarship was awarded to FianAndrews to go to China during the summerincluding a two week stay at the PotteryWorkshop Experimental Factory inJingdezhen. Aimee Lax won the CharlotteFraser Prize, and also worked with SirTerence Conran on the Chelsea ‘Peace’garden. She has a current exhibition at theRoyal Overseas League. National GridTransco prizes were awarded to PhoebeCummings and Anne Vibeke.

Heike Brachlow attended a summer schoolat Pilchuck Glass School USA, part-fundedby a scholarship. Laura Birdsall assistedSimon Moore in his demonstrations at theNorthlands International Glass summerschool in Scotland. Geoffrey Mann won amajor prize at New Designers. GeoffreyMann and Esther Adisigbin were shortlistedfor the prestigious Bombay Sapphire Prize.Ruth Dupré, Ann Brodie, and Louise GilbertScott were joint winners of the BombaySapphire Prize with their film Roker Breakfast,made when they were Artists-in-Residenceat the Sunderland Glass Centre last year.Zeita Scott and Elli Wall were chosen toexhibit in Setting Out at ContemporaryCeramics in January and Zeita won a travelaward. Chun Liao had a solo exhibition atBarrett Marsden in October. Taslim Martinwas one of eight contemporary Africanartists in a group show, Mixed Belongingsat the Crafts Council, from which theBritish Museum acquired a piece of his work.

Staff also continue to maintain a high profile.Simon Moore’s project ‘Salviati MeetsLondon’, in collaboration with Britishdesigners including Ross Lovegrove, JaneDillon, and Thomas Heatherwick, came tofruition with an exhibition at Vessel Gallerylast autumn. Valerie Olleon received afellowship from the Yorkshire Craft Centrein Bradford. Gitta Gschwendtner exhibitedin Them Indoors at the Geffrye Museumlast autumn, and curated Import Export, atouring exhibition for the British Councilwhich went to Japan, Australia, India andFinland and culminated at the V&A inautumn 2005. She is also working on designsfor a permanent exhibition at the WellcomeTrust; Medicine Man and Medicine opensin February 2007.

Annie Cattrell received an AHRC Art Scienceand Technology fellowship for sculpturefrom De Montfort University. She exhibitedin Art, Science and the Body at the NationalMuseum in Stockholm, and EinfachComplex at the Design Museum in Zurich.Martin Smith was on sabbatical duringautumn 2004 and a solo exhibition of hisnew work incorporating glass as well asceramic was shown at the Barrett MarsdenGallery, London in March. EmmanuelCooper had a solo exhibition at the CraftStudy Centre at the Surrey Institute of Artand Design in April. Alison Brittoncompleted a lecture tour of Canada andthe USA in autumn 2004. She had a solo

exhibition of new work and in June the EdWolf Collection of 70 of her pots from thepast 29 years was on display in the BarrettMarsden Gallery. A catalogue of thecollection was also produced. Two large-scale ceramic sculptures by tutor FelicityAylieff were purchased by the BirminghamMuseum and Art Gallery. She spent sixweeks in the summer as Artist-in-Residence in the Pottery Workshop –Experimental Factory set up by TakeshiYasuda in Jingdezhen, China.

School of Applied Art

Student Aimee Lax won the CharlotteFraser Prize, and also worked withTerence Conran on the Chelsea ‘Peace’Garden.

Phoebe Cummings was a runner up inthe National Grid Transco Awards.

Polydactyl I by Kuldeep Mahi. One of thestudents whose work is being sold byHeal’s through an InnovationRCA initiative.

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Jewellery by Gregor Anderson who wasawarded a Special Prize in the new TheoFennell Awards.

Patterned Bowl with base by SîanMatthews who won both the NewDesigners DKNY Award 2005 and TheArmourers and Braziers Chambers Prize.

Research student, Leon Williams hasbeen awarded an Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council Studentship to supporthis ‘Medically Assistive Jewellery’ PhDproject.

Elastic Gold I by Hyun Kyung Park whowas awarded The World Gold CouncilGrima Award.

Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery

MA students received a number of awardsand prizes. The Goldsmiths’ CompanyBursary went to Alastair Hamer and theWorld Gold Council Grima Award to HyunKyung Park. Sîan Matthews received aSouth Square Trust bursary 2004/5 andSara Richards the Sir Po Shing Woo Award.

The new Theo Fennell Awards were wonby Gregor Anderson (Special Award 2005),Sîan Matthews (Best Silver 2005) and RuthTomlinson (Best Jewellery 2005). Gregorwas also runner-up in the BDC New Designerof the Year Award 2005 and Sîan won boththe New Designers DKNY Award 2005 andThe Armourers and Braziers ChambersPrize. Carla Nuis won the Nicole StöberMemorial Award for her research into photo-etching and objectified ornament.

Royal Mint Medal Design Prizes wereawarded to Michiyo Tsuzaki and Ai Morita.The ESG Robinson Charitable Trust Prizesfor medal design were awarded to ElizabethGilmour and Tae-Whan Kim. In thecompetition to design integrated jewelleryand fashion, organised by the CostumeSociety and sponsored by Swarovski, JanineArnold and her Fashion partner won first prize.

In the Partnership Project, students completeddesigner internships with Benney Ltd (So-IMoon), Solar Ltd (Fiona May Nichol) andPaul Spurgeon Design (Ruth Tomlinson).Teaching internships were conducted atBuckinghamshire Chilterns University (LouiseMiller), Coventry University (Elizabeth Gilmour),Glasgow School of Art (Sîan Matthews),Sheffield Hallam University (Fiona May Nichol)and Surrey Institute of Art and Design(Nanna Beckmann Jensen).

Our International Master Class hostedCastello Hansen (Denmark), Peter Bauhuis(Germany), Bettina Speckner (Germany)and Felieke van der Leest (Netherlands).This was an exceptionally positive andlively combination of visitors in the 18thyear of a distinguished series.

The department recorded a very positiveyear in terms of research. Following asuccessful bid to the Science ResearchInvestment Fund we acquired a significantrange of digital and related equipment,from micro-milling and rapid prototyping tolaser cutting and immersive virtual realitycapability, and a Research Assistant (David Turtle) was appointed to supportProfessor David Watkins’ process research.

We followed up with two successfulapplications for major research grants, which,commencing on 1 September 2005 andrunning for three years, will have a significantimpact on our research culture andresearch standing. ‘Deployable, AdaptiveStructures’, funded by the Arts andHumanities Research Council will providefor a Post-Doctoral Researcher (Dr DavidHumphrey), a Research Assistant (David

Turtle) and a Project PhD Student. ‘SimulatingSplendour’ funded by the Leverhulme Trust,will be the personal project of Dr DavidHumphrey. Professor David Watkins will bethe principal investigator for both projects,which will be heavily reliant on digitaltechnology and expertise.

Towards the end of the year, we receivednews that Leon Williams had been awardedan Arts and Humanities Research CouncilStudentship to support his ‘Medically AssistiveJewellery’ PhD project.

Staff work was included in a number ofnational and international exhibitions inBritain, Europe and the USA and MichaelRowe received an honorary doctorate fromBuckinghamshire Chilterns University College.

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Architecture & Interiors

Work within the department continues tobe based in London. It reflects a culturallydriven approach to architecture, one thatrecognises and amplifies the layers thatcombine people and places. As is reflectedin the title of last summer’s architectureannual East of Eros, in 2004/5 we placedparticular emphasis on the context ofregeneration towards the east of London,including the Thames Gateway and theforthcoming Olympics. Currently there is nooverall plan, rather a series of disconnectedinitiatives. What is likely to get built is apatchwork of mediocre housing projects thatare dumbed down enough for the developersto sell – which is where we came in, andengaged with a different form of speculation– one that in good RCA tradition pushesthe boat out without ever losing sight ofthe shore.

When ADS2 (Clive Sall and Bobby Desai)set their programme in the autumn of 2004for Olympic projects with a brand drivenslant, they could only have dreamed thatLondon would be selected. Their projectsin The Show were testament to thecombination of viability and experiment forwhich the department is known. Onestudent, Sophie Goldhill was awarded theAlsop prize for drawing for her ‘Great BritishOlympics’ project.

For the second year running, Architecturetook the largest prize offered at the RCA.The £5,000 NGT Award was awarded toJoel Dunmore of ADS4 (Fiona Raby andGerrard O’Carroll) for his ‘Grief or Relief’project. This proposed an elaborate parksituated near the Olympic site in Stratfordwhere visitors would take a journey througha garden designed to invoke sadness. Thesite culminates in a DNA predestination lab,where visitors can be given their futuremedical profile. Other projects in ADS4had similarly dark predictive qualities – likeJordy Fu’s Family®, an open city for singleparent families, and David Pierce’sMiraculous IVF Clinic and the Basilica ofthe Immaculate Conception with which it isfused. Both of these received prizes, theKeppie Prize for Detail and the HamiltonAssociates Award for Design Processrespectively.

ADS1 (Diana Cochrane and Mark Prizeman)penetrated deep into the wilds of the ThamesEstuary, and came up with new livingmodels for its future inhabitants. ADS3(Barbara Campbell-Lange and FenellaCollingridge) worked with ‘middle ground’phenomena, and how new urban conditionscan combine the territories of normallyopposed groups. All the study trips were toambitious destinations: ADS1 went to the

border lands between Mexico and the USA;ADS2 travelled to the most rapidly changingcity in the world, Shanghai; ADS3 took offto Beirut where they researched extremeborder conditions. ADS4 also went toShanghai as an example of a city with abooming self-obsessed population.

This year’s open lecture series ‘Masterfarians’,featured some of the feistiest and wellknown architects in the world, includingZaha Hadid and Amanda Levete, togetherwith Mark Goulthorpe, Kas Oosterhuis andthe funky Japanese duo Atelier Bow Wow.Aaron Betsky, Head of the ArchitectureMuseum in Rotterdam contributed fromthe critics angle, while Jefferson Hack,founder of Dazed & Confused, performed a visual blast with literally hundreds of samplepages commissioned for the magazine.Guest critics included Charles Jencks, DougBranson and Fred Manson. The departmentalso welcomed new external examiner PhilTabor, an ex-professor from the Bartlett atUCL.

Students Socrates Yiannoudes and ThomasModeen were both awarded their MPhildegrees, while the Helen Hamlyn ResearchCentre developed two engaging projects:Sheila Qureishi and Juri Nishi completedtheir work into luxurious kitchens, with MFIand Suzi Winstanley and Harriet Harriscontinue their work into interactive knowledgemanagement interior designs for offices,with DEGW, IDEO and Steelcase.

Professor Nigel Coates second book,Collidoscope was published by Laurence King.With his practice Branson Coates Architecture,he developed a theoretical masterplan fora wi-fi sustainable community at Rainhammarshes in the Thames Gateway. This wasalso turned into a short film (with fundingfrom the RCA) which was shown in theexhibition ‘Avenirs de Ville’ in Nancy, France.

Former RCA Architecture student DianaCochrane from Urban Salon Architects wonthe Bermondsey Square HousingCompetition. Graduates Vincent Lacovara,Geoff Shearcroft and Tom Coward of practiceAOC (Agents of Change) joined AlsopDesign, Branson Coates Architecture andFAT in the newly formed ‘G4’ consortiumof architectural practices.

As a means to reflect the work we do here,from this year we will be known as theDepartment of Architecture (instead ofArchitecture & Interiors). Interiors designersare still welcome and continue to constitutea significant number of students, but theproportion of architect to interior designershas gradually risen. We wanted our title toreflect this.

School of Architecture and Design

David Pierce’s Miraculous IVF Clinicand the Basilica of the ImmaculateConception which was awarded theHamilton Associates Award for DesignProcess.

Joel Dunmore’s Grief or Relief projectwhich won a £5,000 National GridTransco Award.

Sophie Goldhill: A Great British Olympics.Sophie was awarded the Alsop Prizefor Drawing.

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Design Products

Themes investigated within the DesignProducts Department this year included:new conceptual and critical approaches fordesigning products and services in relationto the human condition; research intomanufacturing techniques; the home andwhat this might mean today; the inventionof alternatives to existing producttypologies and furniture design.

There were numerous collaborativeprojects throughout the year. Platform 6travelled to Japan to collaborate on aproject with office furniture manufacturer,Kokuyo. Platform 5 worked with Braun inGermany. Platform 11 spent time in LasVegas and on the West Coast of the USAwhilst tutors gave lectures at UCLA, andPlatform 2 exhibited work in a group showwith Åbãke at Studio Canuffo in Venice.

Last year’s graduates enjoyed successduring 2004/5. Claudio Ripol who won aKokuyo Design Award has his ‘Snail Desk’mobile storage and desk space chosen byInnovationRCA as a Selected Work, as didNatalie Woolf and her ‘Illuminating FloorTile’ project. Featured in Paul Smith’sexhibition at the Milan Furniture Fair, GreatBrits – The New Alchemists, weregraduates Julia Lohmann, (2004), PascaleAnson (2000), Matthias Megyeri (2003) andPeter Traag (2003). Daniel Charney alsocurated an exhibition Two Liners at theAram gallery, London featuring the work ofgraduates Sam Buxton (1999) and AssaAshuach (2003).

Students benefited from a number ofprojects, prizes and scholarships in2004/5. In the Graham & Brown Wallpapercompetition several Design Productsstudents were short listed including PeterMarigold, Oscar Narud, FabrizioCocchiarella and Hye-Young Kim. SunMicrosystems sponsored the ‘Solaris’competition which was won by TomasAlonso, Hisao Sato, Bo Young Jung, ShayAlkalay, Andrew Haythornwaite, Ed Swanand Kok-Chian Leong. Icon magazine’sBusiness Card competition was won byJason Iftakhar, Ed swan, Gen Suzuki andOscar Diaz Melon. In the WWF T-shirtcompetition Kinu Kano won second prizeand Jason Iftakhar was short listed.Hannes Koch (2004) and Florian Ortkrasscame third place in the Garrardcompetition. Shaki Akram was awardedthe Paul Reilly Travelling scholarship,Tomek Rygalik won the BSI Design TravelAward and Tomek Rygalik and Jorre VanAst won the prestigious Bombay SapphireDesigner Glass competition.

Staff, students and recent graduates havedesigned, curated or shown their work inexhibitions, museum and trade fairsworldwide including the InternationalFurniture Fair in Milan, and 100% Designat Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London.Professor Ron Arad had two exhibitions inNew York; A retrospective of his work was

shown at Barry Friedman Ltd and RonArad: Architectural Installations was held atPhillips, de Purt & Co. He also exhibited atthe Aram Gallery in London in theexhibition Darkness curated by tutor DanielCharney; Fatto in Italia, Metamorph at theVenice Biennale and at the Milan FurnitureFair along with Tom Dixon and 2002graduate Paul Cocksedge. Michael Marriotalso unveiled a new shelving system inMilan and students Tomek Rygalik, EelkoMoorer and Roger Arquer showed theirwork at a British Council exhibition.

Tutor Jane Dillon retired this year aftermany years at the RCA. A 1968 graduatefrom Furniture Design, Jane taught at theRCA, on and off, since then. We havewelcomed Kenneth Grange as a newvisiting professor and Tomoko Azumi andTom Lloyd have joined the part timetutorial staff.

Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design Engineering had a verysuccessful year in 2004/5, incorporatingmuch change. IDE students won a recordnumber of prizes, several student designswent into manufacture, and thedepartment had both an interim show anddegree show for the first time ever. Thedepartment took an entire year of studentsto Beijing for a collaborative project whichalso saw Chinese designers coming to theUK. Part and parcel of these events wasthe continued implementation of changesin line with the three year strategicprogramme of improvements started mid-2004.

A number of students won prestigiousawards. Peter Brewin and Will Crawfordreceived the Deutsche Bank PyramidAward (first prize); Imperial College and theTanaka Business School New BusinessChallenge (first prize); European BusinessPlan of the Year Innovation Award, and aBSI Environmental Design Award (firstprize). Robin Chilton won the ImperialCollege Ideas Challenge competition andAnthony Clough’s work was selected foran InnovationRCA Selected Works Award.

IDE continued to work closely withInnovationRCA and the Helen HamlynResearch Centre, where many graduateIDE students become ResearchAssociates. The department ran aworkshop with Design Products ondomestic robot design, co-hosted a joint‘singles night’ with the Textile andCommunication Art & Design Departments,to allow students to find project partnersfrom around the college; and ran a jointsummer project for Sony with collaborationbetween IDE, Design Products andInteraction Design students. A shortproject with the Painting Department andDesign Products was also exhibited in theHockney Gallery.

The department’s Ambient and AugmentedArchitectures Research Network continuedto develop, and seminars were held duringthe year. A large international symposiumtook place in November 2005. The networkis joint with Imperial College and theArchitectural Association.

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Work by 2004 graduate Julie Mathiasat the Great Brits – The New Alchemistsexhibition, part of the Milan Furniture Fair.

Platform 10 students showed their workat the Milan Furniture fair.

Bowl by Yael Mer. One of the results ofthe Platform 5 collaboration with Braun.

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Overseas projects will now be a feature ofthe masters programme and the Chineseproject run in May 2005 was pioneering.This is part of the department’s Go Globalinitiative and includes a comprehensive setof web working tools developed by VasiliStoumpakos of the ArchitecturalAssociation.

The department was successful inacquiring sponsorship. Projects were runwith the funding of Unilever, Sony andB&Q. The Dyson Foundation provided sixbursaries for final year projects, now anannual commitment. IDE was alsosuccessful in gaining an Engineering andPhysical Sciences Research CouncilCollaborative Training Account grant,valued at over £600,000.

A lecture series ‘Multidisciplinary Design’launched last year, and hosted by IDE inthe main school theatre continued toattract a full house of students from allover the College. The series had a diverserange of speakers and subjects andincluded an industrial designer who wasgrowing ears of human flesh on the backsof mice and a scientist hypothesising onthe human need and origins of art. Theseries continued to help introduce IDE toother students around the College.

The IDE studio refurbishment programmewas completed. New scanning/formingtechnology funded by the RoyalCommission for the Exhibition of 1851 wasinstalled and now allows students tocombine hand-modelling techniques withcomputer methods for the first time.

The department appointed Karla Bell as aSenior Research Fellow in sustainabilityand environmental design and her firstactivity a zero energy or hydrogen vehicleseminar and research programme was runwith the Vehicle Design Department. RogerHibberd from Imperial College increasedhis time with the course to three days aweek which is helping to develop strongerconnections with Imperial.

Professor Tom Barker featured on CNN todiscuss innovation and design and in 2006he will appear in a Channel 4 programmeabout his Smartslab technology company,to be screened in 2006 which has enabledSmartslab – an architectural digital displaysystem to be produced in China anddistributed worldwide. His book aboutdesign is due for publication in early 2006.

An entire year of IDE students went toBeijing for a collaborative projectwhich also saw Chinese designerscoming to the UK.

Industrial Design Engineering at The Show.

Peter Brewin and Will Crawford withtheir ‘Concrete Canvas’ project whichhas won a total of nine awards to date.

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Michael Golembowski’s scanner camera:a new type of digital camera. Thisproject explores the use of a scanneras a digital camera to create uniquerepresentations of motions over time.

Phil Worthington’s Shadow Monsters, ascreen that turns shadow hand puppetsinto live animations was a popular exhibitat The Show: Two.

Stuart Wood and Florian Ortkrass’sPixel Roller, a paint roller that usesdigital images.

Vehicle Design

The contribution to industry made by theVehicle Design Department continues to berecognised at the highest levels. RogerPutnam of Ford Motor Company Ltd recentlycommented that ‘There is no doubt thecontribution made by the department tothe advancement of global car design issignificant. One cannot ignore the additionalimpact on social mobility. This contributionis borne out by the numbers of thedepartment’s alumni who head up theworld’s automotive design studios.’

The pathway curriculum is proving verysuccessful and development of thedepartment’s research strategy has led toan increase of research applications atMPhil and PhD level. Current researchersare looking into several areas. We havetwo Brazilian students investigating issuesrelated to public mass transit options andSheila Clark, Textiles, is looking at innovativenew fabrics and processes for interiors.The Post Experience Program this year hasincluded students from Hyundai, Toyotaand Fuore.

Links with industry continue to flourish andMA Students engaged in a major industryproject with General Motors, ‘Future MPVfor the New Global Culture’ – anothercross-disciplinary project hosted by theVehicle Design Department with studentsfrom Textiles. It culminated in a publicationand exhibition in the College galleries.Design staff from General Motors, headedby Simon Cox a former graduate, were soimpressed with the quality of the work theyawarded a total of four prizes whichincluded internships for both a Textiles anda Vehicle Design student as well as otherindividual cash prizes. The departmentcontinues to grow new links andcollaborations particularly with public andmass transit organisations, such asTransport for London, Bombardier and theWorshipful Company of Carmen, whoawarded a prize for the best piece of pubictransport in the ‘Urban Flow’ project.

The department continues to benefit fromgenerous scholarships and sponsorshipsfrom organisations including Bentley andJaguar. General Motors, Nissan, Jaguar,Bentley and Volkswagen amongst othersoffered students from the departmentemployment.

Many students completed internships duringthe summer vacation period as far a fieldas Daihatsu and Toyota in Japan to Audi inGermany, and also Ford and Bentley in theUK.

The department has continued to workclosely with the HHRC and InnovationRCA.Over the last year we have jointly incubateda revolutionary new driverless bus conceptwhich began as an HHRA project, and nowwith a consortium of specialist partners, isseeking funding for production development.Helen Hamlyn Research Associate Serge

Interaction Design

Interaction Design students have exploreda wide range of topics and issues in thepast year from ingenious games and toysto disturbing reflections on surveillance, piracyand dysfunctional family life.

In The Show, Pixel Roller, a collaborativeproject between Stuart Wood and FlorianOrtkrass (Design Products) was one of thisyear’s big hits and has since featured inexhibitions in the UK, Europe and Asia. PhilipWorthington’s Shadow Monsters were alsovery popular and both projects received agreat deal of press and media coverage.

Students have won a number of prestigiousawards and participated in major exhibitions.Louise Klinker’s ‘CrimeWire’ project won aNESTA Design Award in the RSA DesignDirections Re-designing States of Mindsection and was shortlisted in the 2005National Grid Transco Award. Anab Jain andStuart Wood won a Design for Our FutureSelves Award. Theo Humphries and PhilipWorthington’s Lapjuicer was included inTouch Me, an exhibition of interactive designheld at the Victoria and Albert Museumduring summer 2005.

Staff and research students had anotheractive year. The four graduates whobecame Helen Hamlyn Research Associatesin 2004 continue to work on their projectswith excellent success. Megumi Fujikawais developing her interactive lighting projectwith Philips Design. Tobie Kerridge andAndy Law have developed Media Mediatorsalso in collaboration with Philips Designand Michael Golembewski received anAudi Design Foundation grant to develophis scanner camera. Tobie Kerridge, anInteraction Design Research student andNikki Stott (Goldsmithing, Silversmithing,Metalwork & Jewellery) together with IanThompson, a bioengineer at King’s CollegeLondon, received a Partnership for PublicAwareness Award funded by the Engineeringand Physical Science Research Council.This was to develop their Biojewellery andtake it from the lab into the public arena.Bas Raijmakers presented his PhD researchinto the use of documentary as a designtool at conferences in the UK.

The department has been succesful inacquiring sponsorship. Orange, FranceTelecom and Mattel all sponsored studentprojects in the past year. Students have also completed projects run incollaboration with the Serpentine Gallery,Science Museum, and Grizedale Arts.

The year saw significant changes in staffing.Irene McCara-McWilliams left, andProfessor Anthony Dunne was appointedas the new Head of Department. Over thesummer the course has been restructuredand new teaching staff have been recruited.

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MA Students engaged in a major industryproject with General Motors FutureMPV for the new Global Culture.

James Moon worked with the BritishAntarctic Survey to develop thisenvironmentally safe, lightweight vehiclefor use in Antarctica.

e+ Project by Kyung-Min Lee who wonthe Seat European Automotive Designcompetition.

Ojea Membrana by Jacobo Dominguez,winner of the Interior Motives DesignAwards 2004.

Porcher, is working with Visteon on the re-design of the car cockpit. The departmentalso continues in its work with variousliveries and guilds, such as the WorshipfulCompany of Coach Makers and HarnessMakers and the Worshipful Company ofCarmen, to focus on city transportationissues. The department once again exhibitedat the MPH 04 Show in Earl’s Court andHot Wheels at the Bank of America in CanaryWharf. London’s Transport Museum hasalso asked staff from the Vehicle DesignDepartment to propose ideas for their new‘Future London’ galleries. The departmentsecured funding for ‘Mobile HealthcareStrategy and Provision’ in collaboration withthe Helen Hamlyn Research Centre andthe National Patient Safety Agency, to workon a project re-designing mobile healthcare.

The year saw another memorable lectureseries. Participants included Ian Callum fromJaguar, Giles Chapman, an author andjournalist at a leading motor magazine,Carl Henderson from Silvertip Design, SamLivingston – Automark tutor, Phil Porter anautomotive historian, and Jonathan Glancey,architecture critic at the Guardian.

Student visits included Pilkington Glass, theGeneva Motor Show, the McLaren exhibitionat the Design Museum, London TransportMuseum's Acton Bus Depot and the RollsRoyce plant, all of which gave an invaluableopportunity for students to see design workand production technologies.

Frank Heyl made a presentation of hisgraduating projects at the HamburgInternational Aircraft Show. Students of thedepartment were strongly represented ininternational prizes. Graduating studentJacobo Ojea won the Spanish Zigoitia TownHall Ideas Contest to create a new building,and was the overall winner of the InteriorMotives Design Awards 2004, as well aswinning Best Innovation. Other InteriorMotives magazine winners included AnttiSavio, Best Materials Innovation and OriolMogas Bartomeu, Best Use of Technology.Julio Lozano Benlloch and Leslie Lau wonthe Pilkington Glass Awards for innovativeuse of glazing and Best Design InterpretationAward respectively, and James Moonreceived the Motor Centenary Bursary Awardfrom The Worshipful Company ofCoachmakers and Harness Makers and alsowon the Worshipful Company of CarmenTransport Design Award, presented at theannual Cart Marking event in July. KyungMin Lee won the Seat EuropeanAutomotive Design competition.

Head of Department Dale Harrow was invitedby the DTI to speak in Japan and Chinaand judged the RSA Design DirectionsAwards. He also spoke to the ArchitectureClub along with fellow guest speakers,including Peter Hendy from Transport forLondon (now Chairman of the IntergratedTransport Commission). He has beenregularly featured on television and radioprogrammes as an expert advisor on carrelated issues and has just finished a ten

week television series with the DiscoveryChannel as an expert presenter.

David Ahmad continued work with Fiat todevelop conceptual designs, and wasawarded a Teaching and Learning Fellowshipfrom the RCA to develop innovative methodsand practices for teaching in this field.

Helen Evenden curated two exhibits for theDesign Museum. She was responsible forthe concept and selection of material for aroom about the design achievements ofMcLaren F1 (including a racing car, a windtunnel model, an engine, exhaust pipes,film footage etc) which featured in theEuropean Design Show. She also selectedexhibits for the Best of British Car Designat the Designing Modern Britain exhibition.Exhibits included Mini, Morris Minor, BondBug, Jaguar e-type, Moulton bikes and theChopper bike. Helen is currently writing abook on transport design for the Victoriaand Albert Museum, intended for the V&AContemporary Series which is due to bepublished in 2007. A most enjoyablecommission for her, as when she was astudent at the RCA she was the Friends ofthe V&A Scholar on the History of Designcourse. The Research Development Fundhas supported the project with funding forresearch assistance.

Helen Evenden and Dale Harrow worked ona multi-disciplinary studio project lookingat future designs for London’s transport, incollaboration with the ArchitectureDepartment.

Visiting Professor Dr Andrew Nahum, SeniorCurator from the Science Museum curatedan exhibition entitled Inside the Spitfirewhich opened at the beginning of August.He has also written two books – the revisededitions of Frank Whittle and the JetRevolution, and Alec Issigonis and the Mini.

The influence of the department’s graduatescontinues to be felt in the industry at itshighest levels. Max Missioni (2002) a leadingyoung designer is at Volkswagen; MorayCallum (1982) remains Chief Designer,Mazda, Japan; Jeff Upex (1975) remainsHead of Design, Landrover premiered thenew Discovery and concept Storm Troopermodels; Alex Melville (1993) and MarkLloyd (1986) were credited with the CitronAirlounge concept, and ex-graduates werepromoted into senior positions in theindustry including Martin Smith (1973) whobecame Chief Designer of Ford Europeand launched Jaguar’s ALC at Geneva,Marek Reichman (1991) who became Headof Design at Aston Martin. Also two studentslaunched a new consultancy – Fenomenon– with their redesign of the Stratos at theGeneva Motor Show; it is now in pre-production with a launch date in 2006.

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Communication Art & Design

Students benefited from a number ofprojects, prizes and scholarships in 2004/5.Sophie Clements won first prize in theprestigious international Adobe Partners byDesign Awards, and travelled to New Yorkto receive the prize of cash and software.The Quentin Blake Narrative IllustrationAward was won by Salvatore Rubbino, andthis year’s prestigious Parallel Prize wasawarded to Jonathan Houlding. Secondyear student Hannah Murgatroyd won thecollege-wide Man Group Portfolio Prize forDrawing; Chris Pearson won the Graham &Brown Wallpaper competition with atechnically innovative animated wallpaper.Catell Ronca won a competition to designstamps for the Royal Mail celebrating theUK’s rich ethnic diversity; the five stampsdesigned by Catell were subsequentlyselected for issue, and are currently in use.

Students visited a wide variety of placeson study-leave, funded by the department,including Hong Kong, California, Italy, Berlin,Russia, Scandinavia and the Canary Islands.Second year students Alex Bettler andHelen Walker visited Belorus, where theyran workshops at the University of Art andCulture in the capital Minsk.

2004 graduate Thea Swayne worked as aHelen Hamlyn Research Associate, on aproject focused on information design forpatient safety.

Students took part in a performance on the beach at Aldeburgh as part of theInternational Music Festival. Titled TheRestless Earth, this multimedia event witha strong environmental theme was theresult of collaboration between the RCA,the Guildhall School of Music, local schools,choirs and young offenders groups. Thedepartment also contributed an electronicperformance at the Dana Centre on ExhibitionRoad Music Day.

Head of Department, Professor Dan Ferncontributed a number of works to an ArtsCouncil-funded exhibition titled In AllDirections, organised by the Tate Gallery;

Animation

The Animation Department has been veryactive this past year. Staff and students’work has been used by high profile clients,institutions and screened at internationalfilm festivals. 2004 graduate Matt Abbis’new film, Invasion was shown on Channel4 recently, just after the 7pm news. MonikaForsberg’s film His Passionate Bride wasalso screened on Channel 4 and won afirst prize at the Granada Film Festival aswell as being nominated for a BAFTA award.Sean Miles, Jason Jameson and RobertMilnes’ collectively known as ‘Model Robot’,produced clips for Nickelodeon’s recent re-branding. They are also working on a videofor the band Alfie and a music promo forPsaap.

Milo Waterfield, Max Hattler and RichardJousiffe won the discreet 2D prize at the E-magiciens Festival in France, for theircontribution to Chained Animation. LauraHeit and Alys Hawkins were awarded theAIR scheme (Animator-in-Residence) atBradford Museum of Film and Photography.

Fish Never Sleep by Galle Denis a 2003graduate and Poor God by Matt Abbis,were shown on a big screen at London’s‘Reclaim The Beach’ party hosted by KenLivingston. Graduate Steve May is currentlymaking a new film and directing a seriesfor BBC3. Other graduate successes includeEbba Erizon’s film Catgirl which was usedby the band Radiohead for their MostLying Mouth DVD and was screened duringtheir concerts at the Royal Festival Hall.

Animation students have worked on a newcollaborative project, partly funded byUNESCO titled ‘Big Small People’. This hasresulted in a series of short films aboutchildren’s rights and these films will bepremiered in Tel Aviv in November. First yearstudents worked with the National SoundArchive and used the resources of the OralHistory Dialects catalogue in their projects,with excellent results.

Staff also continue to maintain a high profile.Tutor, Ruth Lingford has been invited toHarvard as a visiting artist where she willbe teaching as well as developing a newproject. Tim Webb’s film A is for Autismhas been released on DVD by the BritishFilm Institute. Professor Joan Ashworth’sfilm How Mermaids Breed continues to beshown at festivals worldwide. Tutor JoeKing’s film Survey has also screened atvarious international festivals and he hasalso had a solo exhibition of film and printsin Brick Lane, London.

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Tutor, Tim Webb’s film A is for Autismhas been released on DVD by the BritishFilm Institute.

Ebba Erizon’s film Catgirl was used bythe band Radiohead on their Most LyingMouth DVD and was screened duringconcerts at the Royal Festival Hall.

Sean Miles, Jason Jameson and RobertMilnes collectively known as ‘ModelRobot’, produced clips for Nickelodeon’srecent re-branding.

Moron by Milo Waterfield who won a2D prize at the E-magiciens Festival inFrance.

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the exhibition, which will tour a number ofvenues in the UK, features work by artistsand illustrators whose work draws inspirationfrom the experience of travel. Artists includeEdward Ardizzone, Honore Daumier,Giandomenico Tiepolo, Pierre Bonnard, LindaKitson and Huntley-Muir, as well as VisitingProfessor Quentin Blake, who selected theimages for the exhibition.

Professor of Illustration Andrzej Klimowskiexhibited alongside four other Polish graphicartists in a show titled Topor et Cie: atribute to Roland Topor’s black humour, inAix-en-Provence, as part of the Polish Yearof Culture.

Deputy Head of Department Jeff Willisdesigned a book titled Shakespeare’s Adviceto the Players for Oberon Books; the book,written by the eminent director Sir PeterHall, explains Hall’s directing approach toactors performing Shakespeare’s work.

Senior Tutor Jon Wozencroft collaboratedwith contemporary electronic musicianFennesz as well as classical composersMusiques Nouvelles at the STUK festival inLeuven, Belgium.

Taxis in New York by SalvatoreRubbino who won the The QuentinBlake Narrative Illustration Award

Hannah Murgatroyd won the college-wide Man Group Portfolio Prize forDrawing.

One of the five stamps designed byCatell Ronca for the Royal Mail.

Look at Your Walls – animated wallpaperby Christopher Pearson which alsoincorporates a design by William Morris.

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A 2003 graduate, Erdem Moralioglu wonFashion Fringe this year. Erdem received aprize of £100,000, support and the chanceto present a collection at London FashionWeek in February 2006. Other high profilecompetition winners include Marcus Wilmont,a 2005 Menswear graduate who won aninternational graduate competition ‘Its #4’in Trieste, Italy. His prize is 20,000 Eurosand the chance to show his collection nextyear. Also 2004 graduate Jennifer Whittywas a finalist at Mittelmoda in Grado, Italy.

The department built a strong profilethrough the work of both students and staff.Student work was exhibited in the UK andinternationally including, Trieste Italy, V&ALondon, and Comme des Garçon’s shop,Dover Street Market in London. Visitingpracticing professionals included DavidBradshaw, Sheilagh Brown, Giles Deacon,Betty Jackson, David Kappo, ColinMacDowell, Uscha Pohl, Ted Polhemus,Charlie Porter, Andrew Tucker, and TristanWebber. Several members of staff workedwith other institutions as external examinersand guest lecturers, building links withinthe Higher Education Sector in the UK andinternationally. The expertise of staffcontinued to be recognised and resulted innumerous invitations to serve on competitionjuries. Members of staff raised the profileof the department through involvement at:Premier Vision Fabric Fair, Paris; Pitti FilatiYarn Fair and Linea Pelle, Florence. ProfessorWendy Dagworthy judged designcompetitions in Shanghai, as well as visitingother international colleges.

Staff continued to be active in both researchand professional practice. Henrietta Gooddenpursued her own research into ‘TheCamouflage Directorate and its Relationshipwith the RCA’, which will culminate in abook to be published next year. SarahDallas worked with the Bath Museum ofCostume Knitwear Archive and on a newbook, titled Sarah Dallas: Knitting publishedby Rowan in 2005. Professor WendyDagworthy is embarking on new research –‘The Forgotten Generation: A Study of theLondon Fashion Industry Between1968–1989’, which will hopefully culminatein an exhibition and publication. Ike Rustwas an invited panel member of the‘Monsieur! Style Lounge’ evening at theV&A. He researched approaches to learningmenswear design at postgraduate leveland was awarded a Teaching and LearningFellowship by the RCA. He is currentlydesigning menswear for the launch of anew outerwear collection by Gloverall.Along with Heather Holford, he also designsfor Anne Tyrell Design. Professor WendyDagworthy worked as a consultant for BettyJackson, Karen Boyd designed womenswearfor Jaeger and Henrietta Goodden actedas a consultant to Pentagram.

Fashion Menswear and Fashion Womenswear

The last year has been an excellent year forcollaborations. The Fashion Department hasmaintained its impressive links with industryand developed new strategic partnerships.A particularly beneficial partnershipestablished last year was with ImperialCollege London and Umbro; Menswear andWomenswear students worked incollaboration with Material Science PhDstudents from Imperial to create new andinnovative sportswear technologies. Otherprojects include the Miss Selfridge designcompetition. This year the theme was ‘GoingBack to Our Roots’ and was won by EudonChoi who will have his winning designproduced and sold in stores. The Show:Fashion showcased the Swarovski sponsoredCostume Society Ruby Anniversary project,for which first year Fashion Womenswearand Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalworkand Jewellery students created designswith a fusion of fabric and gem. Thewinners were Sooin Lee of Fashion andJasmine Arnold of GSM&J. The departmentcollaborated again with United Arrows. Theproject titled ‘Sincerely Yours’ was won byWomenswear student Stuart McMillan whoalso won the International Flavours &Fragrances Project. Bower Roebuck alsoset another tailoring project and producedindividual fabrics for the two winners.

This year a new relationship began withPhilips who presented an award at theFashion Gala for the Best Collections; wonby Tove Christensen for Womenswear andMarcus Wilmont for Menswear. Philips willalso be sponsoring a major new project inthe coming year. Other sponsored projectswere the Fashion & Textiles joint Unilever‘Dirt is Good’ project, in which Niall Sloan,Lorna Burt, Emma McCorqodale andLouise Shewry were winners. Fashionstudents were finalists in the college-wideprojects for UNIQLO and Garrard, and aspart of the Levi’s project Joanne Kay andAitor Throup exhibited their winning workat the Levi’s Cinch Store in London.

The Show: Fashion was once again wellattended and Guests of Honour at theFashion Gala included Bryan Ferry, Suggs,Giles Deacon, Lord Snowdon and HamishBowles of American Vogue. Graduatescontinue to be successful in gainingemployment with high profile names in thefashion industry. 2005 saw Womensweargraduates going on to work with labelsAlberta Ferretti, Max & Co, Nike, Burberry,Michiko Koshino and Christopher FischerNY. Menswear graduates are now workingwith Puma, Balenciaga, Levi’s and Valentino.Rui Leonardes, whose collection of highheels for men won much press attention atThe Show: Fashion, is now working forAlexander McQueen and David La Chapelle.

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Tove Christensen won BestWomenswear Collection in a newaward sponsored by Philips.

Marcus Wilmont won a Philips awardfor Best Menswear.

Design by Eudon Choi who won theMiss Selfridge competition.

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Lodge and Emma Hayward, and Osbourneand Little gave their bursary to KatherineLoudoun-Shand.

As in previous years, the Textile Departmentwas delighted to have the opportunity tocollaborate with Vehicle Design in theGeneral Motors Design project. The studentsfound it challenging and stimulating to workin teams, and Priti Veja from first year WovenTextiles was awarded a special prize tovisit General Motors in Detroit as a result.

In June, five of the second year studentswere nominated for Texprint 2005 and wereinvited to exhibit in the London preview.Kanako Kajihara, Nancy Kelly, RebeccaShaw, Tamasyn Gambell and Maxine Suttonalso exhibited at the Indigo Design Showin Paris. During the show Kanako andNancy were awarded special prizes for‘Breaking New Ground’ and ‘Knitted Textiles’with a subsequent trip and opportunity toexhibit at Interstoff Asia in Hong Kong.

We were delighted to welcome Dr JoanFarrer as Research Tutor in January 2005and she has already generated an energyand passion for research amongst bothstaff and students. Anne Toomey wasappointed as Deputy Head of Textiles andProfessor Clare Johnston was made aBusiness Fellow of InnovationRCA. Shealso presented a paper at the SixthInternational Shibouri Symposium in Tokyolast year and worked as a Design Consultantfor Liberty Fabrics, B&Q and Castorama.Karen Nicol had a solo exhibition inChicago at SOFA, courtesy of the RebeccaHossack Gallery. Freddie Robins curatedthe ‘Knit 2 Together’ exhibition for theCrafts Counci which brought in the highestnumber of visitors for any contemporaryshow by the Crafts Council. Freddie alsohad a residency at the SPHN Galerie inBerlin. Anne Toomey travelled extensivelyvisiting international textile shows includingTextil & Premiere Vision. Sarah Dallascontinued to work with Bath CostumeMuseum. Philippa Watkins in her role asTextile Editor of WGSN travelled extensivelyvisiting international trade fairs and theUSA to investigate the cotton process.

We were proud to honour important textiledesigners at Convocation this year. AnneSutton was made a Senior Fellow, MaryRestiaux, an Honorary Fellow and SheilaClark was made a Fellow.

The year culminated in an excellent exhibitionof student work at The Show:Two,demonstrating the breadth of skill, depth ofknowledge and extraordinary creativity oflast years talented group of students.

Printed and Constructed Textiles

In autumn 2005 members of the departmentattended an away-day event to re-evaluatethe direction of Textiles at the RCA. Theresult was a re-energised department witha new vision and strategy for the future ofthe course. The focus of the department’swork and research will be on ‘Design forBody and Space’ and the aim is to givepostgraduate Textiles a clearer relevanceand a broader context.

The department celebrated studentachievements in college-wide competitionsthis year. The first prize in the Graham &Brown Wallpaper Competition was awardedto Erica Wakerley from second year PrintedTextiles. The outright winner of the GarrardDesign competition was Teresa Collard,second year Knitted Textiles student, witha special award to Claire Canning fromsecond year Printed Textiles for the printedbackdrop she created for Garrard’s WestEnd shop window. Kanako Kajihara, WovenTextiles, was a winner of the UNIQLO T-shirtcompetition and Rowan Mersh, Mixed MediaTextiles won the UK Mercury Music DesignAward, for his dramatic design incorporatingrecycled CDs.

There were many industry projects includingthe ‘George Spencer Woven Furnishing’project won by Jonathan Michaud and PritiVeja. The ‘Dorma Bedroom Textile’ projectwas won by Caroline Till from PrintedTextiles and Angela Cassidy, from KnittedTextiles. We were delighted to have SirTerence Conran as the judge for this award.The ‘John Lewis Partnership Interior’ projectwas won by Graham Tait and NicolaLagan. Worth Global Style Network alsoset a fashion fabric trend project for thefourth consecutive year which was won byPrinted Textiles student, Alexandra Stasic.

Charitable awards for achievement weregiven by the Dyers Company to CorinnaTriantifylldis, Vicky Fong, Scarlet Oliver andKatie Barton. The Haberdashers Companyawarded prizes to Aleksandra Stasic, Alice

High heels for men by Rui Leonardes

Nancy Kelly, Constructed Textiles whowas awarded a Knit prize at Texprint.

Rowan Mersh, Mixed Media Textileswon the Mercury Music Design Award.

Claire Canning, Printed Textiles createdthis print for Garrard’s West End shopwindow.

Erica Wakerley, Printed Textiles wonthe Graham & Brown WallpaperCompetition.

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Photography

Amongst the achievements of thePhotography Department’s 37 MA and eightResearch students were Katrin Greiner andAmuzuam Quawson who were shortlistedfor the influential New Contemporariesexhibition: Amuzuam was also selected forthe forthcoming Tate Triennale. Runa Islam,an MPhil graduate participated in the 2005Venice Biennale with a film work whichwas critically well received. MA studentsSarah Pickering and Carrie Levy wereselected for the 2005 East exhibition, curatedby the well known iconoclastic artist GustavMetzger. Carrie also completed a substantialphoto essay entitled 51 Months, publishedby Trolley Ltd. Ricarda Roggan had a oneperson show in the new galleries of theLeipzig Art Museum, accompanied by thepublication of a substantial monograph. JoLonghurst , PhD student, had a one personshow as part of the well established ArlesPhotography Festival and was nominatedfor the Discovery Prize, showcasingemerging artists.

Alice Finbow won the European Leica Prize,a competition and thematic exhibition entitledLa Lenteur (Slowness) made in collaborationwith the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifsin Paris. The Jury included independentcurator Mark Haworth Booth, artist, SarahJones and writer David Campany.

Danielle Mourning won the IT’S4 PhotographyPrize in Trieste, an international photographyaward with entries from selected art anddesign schools. The jury includedrepresentatives of the agency Art andCommerce, New York and of the designresearch institute Fabrica in Italy.

Sponsored by Nikon UK, a group ofstudents worked as research assistants onthe archive and exhibition of Jim Lee, afashion photographer who made significanteditorial work in the 1960s and 70s. Aportfolio of the work is now in the collectionof the Victoria and Albert Museum. MartinClark was selected for a student exchangewith the Photography Department of theNew York School of Visual Arts. This is anew annual exchange opportunity for aperiod of six to eight weeks, which in itsinaugural year proved particularly successfuland productive.

As in previous years, Land Securities andthe Grosvenor Estate offered photographiccommissions, followed by an exhibition tostudents selected by a jury. For the secondtime the Hoopers Gallery curated an RCAphotography summer show, which wascomprehensively reviewed in The Timesnewspaper. All graduating students produceda catalogue available for The Show, whichincluded a text by psychoanalyst andwriter Darian Leader. They also secured asponsorship from Barclays Bank Ltd whichcovered the printing costs.

Painting

The Painting Department had another activeyear with students exhibiting in high profileprojects nationally and internationally. TheShow again attracted interest from several‘premier league’ galleries in continentalEurope as well as London.

Shortly after convocation Varda Caivanohad a solo exhibition at Victoria Miro, whereshe was heralded as a ‘major new talent’.Many other convocants have solo andgroup exhibitions coming up at gallerieswhich specialise in emergent art in Londonand abroad. Lali Chetwynd was one of theshortlisted artists selected for the BecksFutures competition. Three of the fourfinalists for the Royal Overseas LeagueInternational competition 2005 had PaintingDepartment connections. Professionalpractice continues to be a vital element ofthe department. Current students have‘self-curated’ several shows in temporaryspaces in London.

Probably the most prestigious achievementthis year is the shortlisting of Gillian Carnegiefor the 2005 Turner Prize. Gillian left thePainting Department in 1997.

Due to the generosity of John Minton thedepartment was able to organise andsubsidise a study visit to Madrid. We havealso received support for our forthcomingInterim Show from Amlin PLC who haveawarded two very generous purchase prizesfor the past six years.

Staff achievements have been many anddiverse. Dawn Mellor exhibited in Milan,David Rayson was in the Garden Show atTate Britain and John Strutton had anotherexhibition in Zurich. John Strutton is co-founder of the ‘cult’ space ‘39’ in Londonwhich had much media attention recently.John is also still involved in the influentialBand of Nod. Professor Graham Crowleyhad a solo exhibition at Beaux Arts in London.He was again selected for the prestigiousJohn Moores 23/Liverpool Biennale. ProfessorCrowley also visited New Zealand wherehe undertook a lecture tour of art schools,colleges and universities. We are also veryexcited by the appointment of the renownedphilosopher, writer and broadcaster JonathanRée as Visiting Professor to the PaintingDepartment.

Over 350 people applied to the departmentfor one of 23 places. Time Out carried afeature advising potential investors to visitour Final and Interim Shows. Various media(broadsheet, radio, television etc) have oftenreferred to the department as ‘pre-eminent’at a time when it is generally accepted thatstandards of education at undergraduatelevel are declining.

School of Fine Art

Night Theatre, Bull and Dog(oil on canvas) by Elinor Evans

Hut (gloss on board) by Adam Latham

Me, Me, Me (oil on canvas) by Thomas Kratz

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Nahoko Kudo was an associate researcherin the department, as recipient of an artistfellowship awarded by the JapaneseGovernment Overseas Study programme.She investigated the relation between touch,language and photography and researchedthe possibilities of representing theexperience of seeing the Northern Lights.

Academic staff’s research output includedthe book Sounding the Event: Escapadesin Dialogue and Matters of Art, Nature andTime by Yve Lomax, which was publishedby IB Tauris; a portfolio of prints by PeterKennard was acquired by the Victoria andAlbert Museum; Rut Blees Luxemburgcollaborated with a composer andphilosopher to create the opera My Suicideswhich was performed at the Institute ofContemporary Arts, London; FrancettePacteau had the Turkish translation of herbook The Symptom of Beauty published;Olivier Richon showed his PhotographicAllegories in the exhibition Trilogia at theGalleria Civica, Modena, alongside painterMimmo Paladino and sculptor RichardArtschwager.

The department’s research culture promotesthe relation between practice, theory andcriticism. Thanks to our ongoing Theoryseminars and to the Critical & HistoricalStudies programme, seven graduating MAstudents received a distinction for theirdissertation.

Carrie Levy completed a substantialphoto essay entitled 51 Months,published by Trolley Ltd.

Kathrin Griener was shortlisted for the influential New Contemporariesexhibition.

Rut Blees Luxemburg collaboratedwith a composer and philosopher tocreate the opera My Suicides whichwas performed at the ICA, London.

Alice Finbow won the European LeicaPrize, a competition and thematicexhibition entitled La Lenteur (Slowness)made in collaboration with the EcoleSupérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

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The impression of Miss Isotopeby Stine Ljungdalh (Lightjet Photograph).

In Between an Eye and a Piece OfPaper by Japanese woodcut master,Katsutoshi Yuasa who studied at theRCA last year.

Installation: Bananas & Sweetcorn byJonathan Narachinron.

Dwelling by Doug White who wasshortlisted for the Jerwood SculpturePrize and has been commissioned bySculpture at Goodwood to make awork for the park.

Sculpture

Students from the Sculpture Departmenthad considerable success winning a numberof high profile awards and contributing toleading exhibitions and collections. DougWhite was shortlisted for the JerwoodSculpture Prize, exhibited in the JerwoodDrawing exhibition and has beencommissioned by Sculpture at Goodwoodto make a work for the park. Boo Ritsonwas taken on by the David Risley Galleryand has shown there. Peter Maltz currentlyhas an exhibition and commission in Spainand Matt Golden exhibited at Flowers Centralin the Artist For a Day series.

In The Show, students presented sculptureranging from the intimate and small-scaleto very large. Highlights included PeterMaltz’s piece made of 300 white tiles, 200bars of soap, 80kg of grout, 15 bath towelsand two large mirrors, entitled Lying in theBath thinking of Massacre of the Innocents.Doug White used two tonnes of explodedlorry tyres from Belize in his sculptureDwelling and a tree-fern stump from NewZealand in Fibrosa. There were installationpieces and screen-based works as well asnumerous 3D sculpture objects.

The year was a busy one for Sculpturestaff as well. Kate Davis had a solo showat Fred Gallery,and the Economist Plaza inLondon. Keith Wilson had large solo showsat Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon, MiltonKeynes Gallery and Kells Priory in Kells,Ireland. He is currently showing at theEconomist Plaza. Professor Glynn Williamsalso showed work in the Survey of BritishSculpture at Beaux Arts Gallery London;Sculpture, Time & Process at the StudyGallery in Poole; Sotheby’s newContemporary Sculpture Park in Billingshurst;Sculpture in the Planning, Sculpture in theMaking, an exhibition of sculptors’ maquettesat the Atkinson Gallery, Somerset; and Toand For, an exhibition of Sculptors’ drawingsat the Metropole Gallery, Folkestone.Richard Rome showed work at the HighlandsUniversity, Las Vegas, New Mexico;Sotherby’s Contemporary Sculpture Park,Billingshurst and at the Royal Society ofBritish Sculptors’ Inside Annual at the RBSGallery, London.

Printmaking

The Printmaking Department achieved ahigh profile throughout 2004/5 and madesignificant progress with its ambitions.Highlights included the lecture and visit byeminent American printmaker Ken Tylerwho, through his Gemini workshop publishedmany of the great names of Americanprintmaking including Rauschenberg, Stella,Lichtenstein and Rosenquist. He hassubsequently agreed to become our VisitingProfessor and will be with us in January 2006.

In April 2005 the department took a standat the London Original Print Fair at the RoyalAcademy of the Arts, Burlington Gardensto launch three new lithographic editionsdonated by Paula Rego as well as Tra-Digital,a set of prints by staff and students. Thefive day event was an outstanding successin terms of sales and promotion of theCollege. We also published a print byJapanese woodcut master KatsutoshiYuasa who was a student at the RCA lastyear and was subsequently awarded aprize at the Clifford Chance Print Awards.The audience for the London Original PrintFair is international and we were exhibitingalongside the world’s major print galleriesand dealers. A set of our Paula Rego LifeRoom prints were purchased by the Museumof Modern Art in New York.

Professor Chris Orr was co-curator of theRoyal Academy Summer Show which hada special emphasis on print and the multiple.Over 30 artists (students, alumni, visitorsand staff) who are connected to thedepartment were included in the show,reaching an audience of over 75,000 visitors.

The Show was rated as one of the best ofrecent years and generated a lot of interestfrom individuals and corporate collectors.There was a high degree of professionalismin presentation and an amazing variety ofcontent and method from hand-producedwoodcut to light jet computer generatedimagery. The department’s aim to exemplifythe dialogue between traditional printvalues and new electronic processes waseloquently displayed. Many of thegraduates achieved exhibiting opportunities,and Amanda Couch won the JerwoodDrawing Prize.

Staff had an active year with their own work.Dick Jewell exhibitied at the Venice Biennale,Bob Matthews had a solo show in SanFrancisco, Mark Hampson had an exhibitionat the Kaze Gallery, Tokyo, Jo Stockhamshowed in Ways of Seeing curated byMarina Warner at Compton Verney, Ann-Marie LeQuesne organised her annualgroup photograph Double Exposure inLondon and Helsinki. Chris Orr had a soloshow, Shark Fin City, in London andexhibited work in Beijing and Shanghai.

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Peter Maltz’s Lying in the Bath Thinkingof Massacre of the Innocents.

Low Council (wood, perspex,paper,paint) by Owen Bullet.

Drawing London, a new addition to theDrawing Studio programme was verysuccessful and has become a regularDrawing Studio event.

Esemplastic Tuesdays, where freeimprovised music, poetry, drawing and sound interact is an establishedand popular Drawing Studio class with students and guests.

Drawing Studio

The number of students making use of theDrawing Studio continues to increase. Duringthe course of 2004/5 the studio provided awide range of workshops and events aspart of its remit to raise the awareness ofthe importance of drawing and its relevanceto art and design practice. Course specificworkshops were carried out in consultationwith Heads of Department or Senior Tutorsalongside well-attended college-wideworkshops and evening classes open to allstudents and staff.

The evening classes were in high demandthroughout. The Restart class, an introductionto the basic elements of drawing designedfor those students who feel the need tobuild up confidence in drawing was aparticular success. The Drawing the Bodyfigure drawing classes were in particulardemand and were kept interesting by thevariety of tutors and their differentapproaches.

Esemplastic Tuesdays, where freeimprovised music, poetry, drawing and soundinteract is an established and popular DrawingStudio class with students and guestsmaking visible the sonic and atmosphericlandscapes with enthusiasm and sensitivity.Ben Watson’s radio programme, ‘Late LunchWith Out To Lunch’, on Resonance FM(104.4) continues to broadcast the sonichighlights of this class.

The Natural Forms drawing class run byJohn Norris-Wood continues to generateinterest and like all of our classes has aninclusive and warm atmosphere. TheAnatomy course was again popular withstudents. Taught by experts in anatomy for

artists, with its mixture of off-site visits andstudio workshops, continues to deliver aninteresting and engaging programme. TheFacial Reconstruction course was verypopular and was over subscribed.

Amelia Johnstone’s Monday drawing classwith its Le Gun days was a successful newaddition and will be continuing. DrawingLondon, another new addition to the DrawingStudio programme was very successful.This was an experiment and has nowbecome another regular Drawing Studioevent. This class is off-site, so leaves theDrawing Studio free to run other classes inparallel. We also liaised with the Students’Union to put on occasional drawing gigs inthe RCafé and we continue to put onoccasional experimental workshops suchas Tactile Impressions and Stitching Time.

The Man Drawing Prize was successful witha diverse range of work submitted and theexhibition of entries was popular with thestudents. Also the prize was raised by £500to £5,000.

This year the Drawing Studio also welcomeda new Drawing Research Tutor, MargaritaGluzberg.

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formerly Head of Conservation at the BritishMuseum, was appointed as external examinerfor the MA final exams.

The Friends of the V&A continued theirfinancial support for the department andtheir bursary was awarded to Louise Parris,a first year MA student from Barbadosstudying the conservation of metalwork withother materials in the V&A. The Ronald ECompton Scholarship was awarded toMelissa Gunter, a second year MA studentfrom the USA.

Curating Contemporary Art

The opportunity to realise curatorial projectsin the real world is an essential part of theexperience offered by the MA programme,Curating Contemporary Art. Each autumnstudents moving into their second and finalyear on the course work together topresent a small-scale exhibition or projectin a venue or venues outside the College,with support from a fund set up in memoryof the curator Monique Beudert (1950-99).In October 2004 the 13 CCA studentsworked with the Mexican artist PabloHelguera and the Instituto de la Telenovelato develop an exhibition for the LawrenceO’Hana Gallery in Hoxton and a lectureperformance at the Old Operating Theatreof St Thomas’s Hospital. Through thesetwo events Helguera extended hislongstanding investigation of Latin Americansoap operas, ‘telenovelas’ to embraceBritain’s own more gritty and downbeatversion of this phenomenon, EastEnders.The exhibition, Los del Este/EastEnders (amodest proposal) included models thattransposed the world of Albert Square intothe cities of Latin America, Asia, India andEastern Europe – all enthusiasticconsumers of the telenovela.

The Monique Beudert project leads directlyinto preparations for the final CCA exhibition,which is again curated collaboratively by allsecond year students, and which occupiesthe RCA galleries for a month each year.From 8 April – 1 May 2005, the exhibitionDo Not Interrupt Your Activities presenteda range of work that addressed thepossibility of actions to change, or at leastamend, the world. As in previous years,the selection of artists was international,introducing many artists whose work islittle known in Britain. Video work byJohanna Billing, Pavel Braila, DeimantasNarkevicius and Jesper Just was presented,with interventions by Leopold Kessler,Michael Rakowitz, Giorgio Sadotti, RomanOndák and Emily Jacir, and installations byDavid Hatcher and Song Dong. This wasalso the first CCA exhibition in whichperformance and live art played a centralrole, presented as an integral part of theexhibition and of the accompanyingcatalogue. Sachiko Abe’s strikingperformance installation occupied thegalleries for the duration of the exhibition andan energetic programme of live eventsopened with Harrell Fletcher’s day-longCome Together and included performancesby Lali Chetwynd, Robin Deacon, RichardDedomenici, Kim Coleman and JennyHogarth, Reader, Yara El-Sherbini, ChristianSievers, Kate Stannard, Talkaoke and MarkWayman. The substantial exhibition catalogueprovided the first published text for manyof the younger artists working in live art andperformance and was especially welcomedfor this reason.

In 2003/4, during Teresa Gleadowe’sabsence on sabbatical, CCA introducedthe idea of engaging a visiting curator tomentor the curatorial group through the

Conservation

The academic year was marked by therelatively large number of graduates fromthe department – five MA, one MPhil andone PhD. These included our first specialistin the conservation of natural history collections.The quality of the department’s teachingand the place it occupies within the professionwas recognised again by the shortlisting ofEmma Schmuecker, a 2004 graduate forthe UK’s Student Conservator of the YearAward. Emma’s studies were carried out incollaboration with The Museum of London.

The department continued to address theneeds of the profession by offering practisingconservators the opportunity to study andincorporate their employment within theirpractical training. Additionally a new MAcollaboration was developed with HistoricRoyal Palaces and discussions are underway to develop specialist courses inpreventive conservation and in conservationscience.

During the year staff continued to reviewand improve the quality of teaching andsupport provided. A one day training eventwas held for our collaborating supervisors,led by a tutor from the Centre for Learningand Teaching in Art and Design. Teachingon the MA course was augmented bypractical science workshops based in theVictoria and Albert Museum’s studios andelements were introduced to the course tohelp address students’ perception ofdistance from the rest of the College – acontinuing problem. And the timing ofexams within the academic calendar wasalso adjusted to make better use of studyand teaching time available towards theend of the year.

Students delivered a lively and successfulsymposium to an invited audience ofconservation professionals. This wasreviewed in Conservation News of theUnited Kingdom Institute for Conservationand students contributed papers andpresentations to a number of journals andconferences. One of our V&A based MAstudents appeared, thinly disguised, inLeslie Forbes’ ‘Given Leave to Remain’ inthe V&A Magazine in Summer 2005. Thefirst year study trip to Rome coincided withthe death of Pope John Paul II. Studentsundertook a full programme, includingmeetings at Capitoline Museums, theIstituto Centrale per il Restauro, NationalMuseum of Etruscan Art, and the InternationalCentre for the Study of the Preservationand Restoration of Cultural Property.

Dr Vincent Daniels was employed for afurther two years as a Research Fellow tostudy the fading of black-dyed wool andDr Bracker completed her appointment asa Research Fellow. Dr Andrew Oddy,

School of Humanities

Melissa Gunter, Conservation’s firstspecialist in the conservation of naturalhistory collections.

Emma Schmuecker, a 2004 graduatewon the UK’s Student Conservator ofthe Year Award.

Martina Margetts contributed to thebook Re:form – the New ScandinavianCrafts, published in Sweden.

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conception and realisation of their exhibition(in that first year the Swedish curator AndersKreuger was invited to join the departmentfor four months). In 2004/5 this precedentwas followed with an invitation to the Berlin-based curator and writer Astrid Mania, whojoined the department in November 2004and stayed until May 2005. As Anders haddone, Astrid contributed new perspectivesand expertise, generously sharing with thestudent group her experience of exhibitionmaking, writing and editing, her knowledgeof artists and of exhibition protocols.

As a result of research undertaken by TeresaGleadowe during her sabbatical, CCA thisyear developed two exemplary publicevents with external partners. The first,entitled Curating in the Black Diaspora,was a symposium held on 14 June 2005 atTate Modern, organised in collaborationwith Dominic Willsdon of Tate Modern andincluding presentations by Thelma Golden,Simon Njami and David A Bailey. The second,at the Royal College of Art on 8 July 2005,was a public conference on Art in the PublicRealm, organised in collaboration with theSerpentine Gallery and with funding fromthe Fondation de France and Arts CouncilEngland, with presentations by fourdistinguished international curators, Tomvan Gestel of SKOR in Amsterdam, NelsonBrissac of Arte/Cidade, São Paulo, FranckLarcade of Consonni, Bilbao and AnastassiaMakridou-Bretonneau of Eternal Network,Tours, chaired by Professor DeclanMcGonagle of the University of Ulster.

CCA graduates of July 2005 have alreadysecured internships and jobs thatdemonstrate the impressive internationalreach of the CCA programme. Ali McGilprecently completed an internship workingon the catalogue of the Istanbul Biennale;Rose Lejeune is currently working forChannel 4, developing a project tocommission contemporary art for publicsites; Cassandra Needham was engagedby the Whitechapel Art Gallery to organisethe recent exhibition, Short History ofPerformance III; Gair Boase is working atTate Britain, on the development of thenext Tate Triennial; Aaron Moulton hasjoined the staff of Flash Art; Alejandra Aguadois completing an internship in Amsterdamwith the Manifesta Foundation; LillianDavies is undertaking work for Tate; GiselleRichardson is developing a career in pressand marketing; Anna Colin is currently anintern with IASPIS in Stockholm; SarahMcCrory is in New York, undertaking aplacement at White Columns; RebeccaMarston is also in New York, working on thecity’s first biennial of new visual artperformance, ‘PERFORMA05’, directed byRoseLee Goldberg (who, in the 1970s, wascurator of the RCA Gallery); Carmen Juliais working at the new Blow de la BarraGallery in London, and James Lindon hasbeen appointed to develop special projectsfor Victoria Miro Gallery.

CCA staff have also celebrated significantachievements this year. In October 2004 Dr

Claire Bishop embarked on a two year full-time Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship,awarded in June 2004 while she was alsovery successfully directing the CCADepartment during Teresa Gleadowe’sabsence on sabbatical. Claire’s influentialessay, Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,was published in October no 110, inautumn 2004, and her book Installation Art:A Critical History was published this yearby Tate Publishing. In the autumn of 2004CCA’s Senior Tutor in Critical Studies, DavidBatchelor, was commissioned to produce asite-specific work for the main hall of theBienal de São Paulo, as part of the 26thBienal de São Paulo, and this year a largescale work in the Platform for Art series atGloucester Road underground station. Hiswork has also been included in groupexhibitions in London, Los Angeles, Santiago(Chile), Mexico City, São Paulo and Buffaloand he is currently making work for a soloshow in São Paulo, a lighting festival inGlasgow, and a group exhibition at theLowry in Salford. The curator and writerAlex Farquharson has been teaching inCCA on an occasional basis since December2001; in April 2005 he accepted a contractas a part-time tutor. Alex Farquharson’sexternal commitments have this yearincluded co-curating The British Art Show6, currently on show at Baltic in Gateshead.Dr Dominic Willsdon, Curator of PublicEvents at Tate Modern and a part-timetutor with CCA since 1999, resigned fromthe department this summer following hisappointment as Curator of Education andPublic Events at San Francisco Museum ofModern Art. We are deeply grateful for thecontribution he has made to Critical &Historical Studies teaching on the CCAprogramme and look forward to maintainingcontact with him in his new role. We shouldalso like to record our appreciation of thework of CCA’s visiting tutors: MichaelaCrimmin, Head of Arts at the Royal Societyof Arts, Frances Morris, Senior Tutor,Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern,and Professor Jean Fisher.

Fiona Key continues to fulfil her role asCourse Administrator with outstandingintelligence and professionalism. TeresaGleadowe resumed her duties as Head ofDepartment in September 2004, but alsofound time during the year to acceptinvitations to participate in panel discussionsabout contemporary curating and curatorialtraining in Bucharest, Moscow (at the firstMoscow Biennale), at ARCO Madrid, andin Limerick. In October 2004 she completedwork on a commission by the Lithuanianartist Deimantas Narkevicius for the Parishchurch of St Peter in Brighton, under theauspices of Art in Sacred Places and withspecial funding from the Fondation deFrance. This work, a film entitled The Roleof a Lifetime, featuring an interview withthe British film director Peter Watkins, hasrecently been purchased for the Tatecollection.

Do not Interrupt Your Activities: Chineseartist Song Dong finds oblique ways toexpress political dissent; for many yearshe has kept a diary written in water onstone. In his installation ‘You Can WriteAnything with Water On Stone’ (2004)he invites visitors to write their secretsand watch them evaporate.

Harrell Fletcher’s artistic practice engageswith people and their everyday activities.For Do Not Interrupt Your Activities heasked the curators to organise a seriesof short lectures by people from outsidethe art world. The event ‘Come Together’(London 2005) embraced a wide rangeof topics from city farming to cookeryto sword fighting.

In his video Recalling Events (2000)Pavel Braila distils the history of hisnative Moldova, as her records theevents of his life with chalk on ablackboard, simultaneously rubbingthem out with his body.

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History of Design

Major changes for the joint V&A/RCAprogramme in History of Design in the lastyear came with the appointment of newstaff to teach on the course. At the end ofthe academic year, Dr Glenn Adamsonarrived as the new Head of Graduate Studiesat the Victoria and Albert Museum. Glennwas previously curator at the MilwaukeeArt Museum and Chipstone Foundation,where he also taught Material Culture atthe University of Wisconsin at Madison.Glenn is joined by Ann Matchette, whotook up the post of Renaissance CourseTutor. Ann, previously a Research Fellow inthe AHRC Centre for the Study of theDomestic Interior at the RCA, replaces DrDonal Cooper, who left to join the Historyof Art Department at Warwick University.We welcome both new staff and look forwardto their contributions to future teachingand research directions of the course.

During the year, two research students, HarrietAtkinson and Lisa Godson organised ahighly successful interdisciplinary conferenceon international exhibitions and world fairs,which attracted a wide range of speakersfrom many different countries. The conferencewas delivered to a packed Lecture Theatreat the V&A in March 2005. Among otherstudent successes, Katie Feo, a first yearstudent was awarded the Design HistorySociety 2005 Prize, for the best MA essay– an award that students from the coursehave now won on several occasions. Studentson the Renaissance specialism receivedthree out of a total of six scholarshipsoffered by the Italian government, toundertake research into primary sources inarchives and libraries, which will contributetowards their second year dissertations.Also, Trevor Keeble and Victoria Kelleysuccessfully completed their PhDs duringthe year. Finally, Interior Design and Identity,(edited by Susie McKellar and PennySparke) was launched in autumn 2004.This is the first of a series of books drawingon the work of staff and students on thecourse. The series is published byManchester University Press.

Staff continue to participate in internationalconferences, to prepare articles, essaysand books for publication, and to worktowards exhibitions. In November 2004,Juliet Ash and Viviana Narotzky gave papersat the international conference on designhistory in Guadalajara. Other invitations tolecture took staff to Finland and Denmark;Amsterdam, Paris and Tokyo. Jeremy Aynsleyreceived funding from the British Academyto complete research towards a forthcomingbook on German design. David Crowleyembarked on the early stages of researchtowards the exhibition Cold War Modern,while V&A Course Tutor, Ulrich Lehmanncurated the exhibition Auto-Nom: DasAutomobil in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst(The Car in Contemporary Art), in Düsseldorf.

The AHRC Centre for the Study of theDomestic Interior, now in its fourth and

penultimate year, provides other researchopportunities. In the autumn, the centreorganised two international conferences,on ‘Literature and the Domestic Interior’,and ‘Domestic and Institutional Interiors’. Italso ran a third Postgraduate Researchday, where new scholars, many of thempursuing PhDs, presented new work in thefield of the domestic interior from a variety ofperspectives, including fine art, photographyand design. The first publications arisingfrom the centre’s work appeared during theyear, while work continued on the majorexhibition, The Renaissance at Home,curated by Marta Ajmar and Flora Dennis,which opened at the Victoria and AlbertMuseum in October 2006. This exhibitionand its accompanying publication,together with the book Imagined Interiors:Representing the Domestic Interior Sincethe Renaissance, also completed in theyear, will form some of the major outcomesof the research centre.

Interior Design and Identity edited bySusie McKellar and Penny Spake. Thefirst in a series of books to be drawnfrom work of staff and students on thecourse.

Domestic and Institutional Interiors inEarly Modern Europe: A major conferenceorganised by the AHRC Centre thatwas held at the V&A in November 2004.

History of Design Students on a studyvisit to the cubic houses designed byPiet Blom in Rotterdam in the late 1970s.

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Critical & Historical Studies

A key event for Critical and HistoricalStudies this year was confirmation that thedepartment could admit its own researchstudents for the first time. CHS’s researchculture is cross-disciplinary and groundedin the critical and theoretical exploration ofvisual and material culture within an urbanframework. Four students were acceptedto undertake an MPhil for autumn 2005.

The department maintained its strongpresence within the College in the deliveryof a wide-ranging contextual programmefor MA students. Staff lectures, seminarsand dissertation supervision stimulatedstudents to broaden and deepen theircritical knowledge and insight and developself-confidence in the expression of ideas.The popular college-wide lectures in thespring covered the territories of War, Play,Immateriality and Interventions, andincluded Irit Rogoff, George Melly, LucyOrta, Sean Griffiths, Patrick Wright and IanChristie amongst a distinguished range ofguest speakers.

The dissertation became more central tothe MA student experience. For the firsttime this year, a new timetable andstructure was fully embedded for students,allowing for an extended supervisionperiod, more research time and moreopportunities for formal feedback onsubmitted written texts in progress. TheMA dissertation increasingly offers anopportunity to put studio work in contextand develop research subjects andcapabilities which can be carried throughto MPhil studies. The writing culture at theRCA was further supported by a summerterm course of seminars on writing,delivered by CHS staff and visitinglecturers.

All CHS staff have been productive in thenational and international researchcommunity this year, as writers, speakers,curators and consultants. The majorHussein Chalayan retrospective atHolland’s Groningen Museum benefitedfrom Juliet Ash’s curatorial and catalogueadvisory role; Joe Kerr and Helen Evendenworked with the London TransportMuseum and Transport for London onRoutemaster projects; new staff memberLisa Godson gave papers on materialculture in the Irish Free State and onlearning strategies in design education (anarea for which she was awarded an RCATeaching Fellowship in the summer term);Martina Margetts contributed to the bookRe:form - the New Scandinavian Craftspublished in Sweden, and was a memberof the Steering Group for Arts CouncilEngland’s major Visual Arts PresentationReview. David Crowley gave papers atOsaka University and to the nascentDesign History Society in Japan and theInstitute of Art History in Paris while JohnStezaker had solo shows of his work at theKunstverein in Munich and The ApproachLondon, and was the subject of an article

in Frieze by Michael Bracewell. Finally,extending into the virtual environment forresearch, Monika Parrinder co-foundedtwo web based platforms for discussion,writing and experiment in the field of visualcommunication: www.limitedlanguage.organd www.livelanguage.org.

Critical & Historical Studies admittedresearch students for the first time.From left to right, MPhil studentsHelene Martin, Cecilia Järdemar, FilipaVaz Monterio.

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and Immersive Sound Research Laboratory’,providing research environments for projectsinvolving digital technology, includingdigital manufacture and tooling and digitalimaging and print. The creative applicationof digital technologies to design, and researchinto design-led technology transfer are centralto the College’s research.

In the past year, the development ofInnovationRCA has enhanced support anddevelopment for RCA applied research andfor research projects affiliated with businessand industry.

At the end of May 2004, the RCA submittedits bid to the third round of the ScienceResearch Investment Fund (SRIF 3) for whichthe College has been allocated £1,390,393.SRIF 3 funding will be used to address pastunder-investment in research infrastructure.These funds will be used to contribute tothe refurbishment of Howie Street as a FineArt Research Facility.

Professor Sandra Kemp’s research project‘Future Face’ funded by the EPSRC andthe Wellcome Trust, was exhibited in theWellcome Trust Gallery of the London ScienceMuseum from 1st October 2004 to 13February 2005. This exhibition, whichexplores the enigma of the face and attemptsby artists and scientists to unravel its mysteryfrom its earliest representations to-date,drew more than 126,000 visitors in London.It also inspired a series of seminars fundedby the AHRC and the Nuffield Trust whichconsidered future multi-disciplinary projectson the face.

‘Future Face’, also toured South-East Asia,and was one of four shortlisted projects forThe Times Higher Awards 2005 ‘ResearchProject of the Year’. Recognition for thework of Professor Kemp as RCA Directorof Research is also evidenced in her electionto membership of the Research AssessmentExercise 2008 Panel and the QualityAssurance Agency (QAA) Special Reviewof Research Degree Programmes.

In 2004/5 the first RCA Research Ethics Codeof Practice was published in the ResearchHandbook. This version has subsequentlybeen revised by the RCA Research EthicsCommittee to incorporate more detailedprovision for user research, and is constantlyupdated.

In order to bring RCA provision of researchdegree programmes in line with the newrequirements of the QAA Code of Practicefor the assurance of academic quality andstandards in higher education, a series ofamendments to the College regulationswere introduced this year. These amendments,which are now reflected in the 2005/6regulations, expand the definition of criteriaand standards for the award of both MPhiland PhD through the incorporation of aseries of key attributes that a candidateshould demonstrate in order to achieve thestandard required. They also include othernew requirements such an independent

Chair for MPhil and PhD Final ExaminationBoards, mandatory training for all researchsupervisors and the provision of mockvivas before final examinations.

In 2004/5, there were just over one hundredMPhil and PhD students and around thesame number of staff engaged in researchat the RCA. This rapidly developing andvibrant research culture contributed to thesignificant increase of 13% (£2.5 million) inthe research element of the HEFCE (HigherEducation Funding Council for England)recurrent grant for 2005/6.

ResearchResearch

The College’s principal research aim remainsto develop its contribution to scholarshipand applied research in art and design atnational and international levels, to act asa catalyst to stimulate industry at nationaland international level, and to act as aresearch crucible for innovation and newcognitive practice in the creative industries.

The academic year 2004/5 has seen thefurther consolidation and development ofresearch college-wide within four areasidentified for strategic development: newmaterials and technologies; the interface ofart and design with society and theenvironment; the interface of art and designwith science, and critical and historicalreflection on practice.

During 2004/5, the RCA submitted 21applications to external funding bodies theArts and Humanities Research Council(AHRC), the Engineering & Physical SciencesResearch Council (EPSRC), the LeverhulmeTrust, the British Academy, Intel and theGetty Foundation), and was awarded£382,190 in externally funded research grants.This represents an increase in our researchrevenue of 64% in comparison with the lastacademic year.

Professor David Watkins was awarded over£250,000 over three years under the AHRCResearch Grant Scheme for his project onDeployable and Adaptive Structures onTextiles in the Goldsmithing, Silversmithing,Metalwork and Jewellery Department. Thisis the first RCA award which includes adoctoral studentship as part of the project.In the same department, Dr David Humphreywas awarded a Leverhulme ResearchProject grant for £65,000 for a project onvirtual modelling of historical jewelleryresearch. Dr Humphrey had formerly secureda small grant from the British Academy topilot this project.

Other successful funding applicationsincluded a recurrent EPSRC ResearchProject grant for Professor Roger Colemanin association with the EngineeringDepartment of the University of Cambridgefor research into inclusive design, a grantfrom Intel for Professor William Gaver inInteraction Design Research and a BritishAcademy Small Grant for Professor JeremyAynsley. The College was again successfulwith the AHRC Collaborative DoctoralResearch Training Scheme. Al Rees andProfessor Joan Ashworth were awarded£10,000 to set up the Research MethodsCourse on the Moving Image, in collaborationwith the School of Media, Arts and Designat the University of Westminster.

In 2004, the College opened its two newresearch facilities funded by the ScienceResearch Infrastructure Fund (SRIF). Thenew ‘Design Laboratory’ and the ‘Creative

David Watkins was awarded over£250,000 over three years under theAHRC Research Grant Scheme for his project on Deployable and AdaptiveStructures on Textiles.

The entrance of Professor SandraKemp’s Future Face exhibition in the London Science Museum. Imagescourtesy: Peter Menzel, SecondGeneration Face Robot, Michael Najjar,Dana_2.0, National Heritage, WhiteMan, Black Mask.

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Helen Hamlyn Research Centre

The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at theRCA is an international centre for inclusivedesign. Its practical research and projectswith industry are central to the charteredmission of the College to address ‘socialdevelopments’. It is funded by an endowmentfrom the Helen Hamlyn Foundation, acharity dedicated to improving the lives ofolder people through design, and it plays akey role as a node for applied researchwithin the InnovationRCA network.

In April 2005, the centre consolidated itsglobal leadership role in inclusive designby organising and hosting ‘Include 2005’,an international conference attended by170 delegates from 19 different countries.

The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre worksto advance inclusive design in partnershipwith three design communities – students,new graduates and professionals. Atstudent level, the centre’s Design for OurFuture Selves Awards attracted more than80 entries from 12 departments of theCollege. Award-winning work included akeypad for visually impaired people, asmall car for the older driver and a rockingteapot that aids pouring.

At the new graduate level, the Helen HamlynResearch Associates programme took inits largest ever cohort of new RCA designgraduates. A total of 17 designers wereteamed with industry partners including MFI,B&Q, Ideal Standard, Steelcase, Thorn,and GlaxoSmithkline. Projects related tothree important design challenges for ageingpopulations: independent living, patientsafety and access to work. The collaborativeprojects from 2004/5 were presented at ahigh-profile show and symposium at theRCA just after the summer break 2005 aspart of the Innovation at the RCA exhibition.

At the professional level, the centre was activeon a number of fronts; writing the first everBritish Standard in inclusive designmanagement, and developing an Engineeringand Physical Sciences Research Councilfunded project, to provide professionals inbusiness and industry with an evidencebase for inclusive design. Its collaborationwith the Design Business Association onthe DBA Inclusive Design Challenge, featureda radical rethink of the sticking plaster byPearson Matthews and was extended intoa 24 Hour Challenge, run as part of the Include2005 conference.

Bo-young Jung’s keypad for visuallyimpaired people was one of the winnersof a Design for Our Future Selves Award.

The DBA Inclusive Design Challengefeatured a radical rethink of thesticking plaster by Pearson Matthews.

Thea Swayne, a Helen HamlynResearch Associate is working onpackaging and labelling for patientsafety – a communication projectpromoting patient safety throughthrough better pack design.

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Laura Weatherley’s 3D knitwear, aninnovative knitwear technology protectedby the Selected Works programme.

Poppa®, a simple medical devicedesigned by RCA graduate HugoGlover (Design Products 2002) to helpolder people with limited dexterityremove pills from blister packs. ThePoppa® is being made anddistributed by licensee Moss PlasticsProducts, and endorsed by Help TheAged which will carry the product in itscatalogue and 375 shops worldwide.

Serge Porcher, InnovationRCA ResearchAssociate, explores the future of thecar cockpit in collaboration with Visteon.

InnovationRCA curated the College’sfirst-ever exhibition of innovationprojects which was part of the LondonDesign Festival.

InnovationRCA

InnovationRCA is a new network which wasset up by the Royal College of Art in summer2004 to provide innovation opportunitiesfor RCA graduates and business partners.It works in three main areas: applied research,creating the insights on which successfulinnovation is based; product development,taking bright ideas to market; and creativebusiness, providing training and support tohelp College graduates and externalcompanies innovate more effectively.

In its first year InnovationRCA made anumber of significant advances under theleadership of director Jeremy Myerson,building a new brand and a new programmeto extend the reach and focus of the RCA’srelationship with the commercial world.

In applied research, the RCA’s ResearchAssociates programme was expanded toinclude commercial innovation projectsrelated to interactive lighting and digitaltechnology (with Philips), scanner photography(Audi Design Foundation) and the future ofthe car cockpit (Visteon).

InnovationRCA also launched a new researchand development programme in the areaof design for disability, entitled InclusiveBusiness RCA, and stepped up itscollaboration with the Faraday Packagingknowledge transfer network.

In product development, the Selected Worksof the College – graduate innovationsearmarked for patent protection andcommercialisation, were rationalised into threeportfolios: architectural and interiors; healthand medical; and home and leisure. Fivenew innovations were selected, a numberof licenses were sold to industry and spin-out companies were explored.

A joint innovation fund was set up withImperial College London to combine Imperial’sscience and business expertise with theRCA’s user-centred design skills. This initiativegenerated three new patented devices foruse in keyhole surgery. InnovationRCA alsogave marketing and development supportto RapiformRCA, the College’s rapidprototyping centre; incubated a project inthe area of sustainable public transportwith Capoco Design, and built a collaborationwith contemporary retailer Heal’s to createlimited edition collections of the work ofRCA graduates.

In creative business, InnovationRCAlaunched a new professional practiceprogramme for RCA students entitledFuelRCA, designed to give artists anddesigners more business skills and confidence.It also organised a week of innovation withBraun and the Design Management Instituteand set up an annual conference on materialsin design with the RCA’s Textiles Departmentand the Institute of Materials.

At the end of its first year, InnovationRCAlaunched its own magazine, Innovate, to

communicate to its audiences, curated theCollege’s first-ever exhibition of innovationprojects as part of the London DesignFestival, and announced a research linkwith BOX, EDS innovation at the LondonSchool of Economics.

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The Royal College of Art gratefully acknowledges the substantialhelp and support we have received – in cash, in kind and in manyother ways – from our patrons, donors and sponsors. A number ofthose listed below – in particular those who have provided college-wide support, endowments and capital funding – have made along-term commitment to us over a number of years; others havesupported us during the current academic year.

We are also grateful to those patrons, donors and sponsors whowish to remain anonymous and to those who have supported theCollege in previous years, who are also included on this list.

Donors and Sponsors

Major College-wide donors

£1,000,000+Mr Basil AlkazziFord Motor CompanyGarfield Weston FoundationHelen Hamlyn Foundation

£200,000 – £500,000The late Mr Tom BendhemClore FoundationLondon Development AgencySir Jocelyn Stevens

£50,000 – £200,000Kay CosseratThe IndependentHouse of Fraser Wolfson FoundationSir Po-Shing Woo National Grid Transco plc

£25,000 – £50,000The late Nancy Balfour Golden Bottle TrustGraham & BrownBank of AmericaSun MicrosystemsVisa International

£5,000 – £25,000Adobe Systems IncThe Concrete CentreBritish Standards InstitutionSir John Cass's Foundation David and Serenella CiclitiraCentre Insurance International Deloitte & Touche Consulting GroupDeutsche Bank Man Group Charitable TrustHenry More FoundationSwarovskiThe Tom Bendhem Drawing PrizeThe late Ms Jean C WatsonMatthews Wrightson Charity Trust UNIQLO

Major Donors to Departments£50,000+

Arts and HeritageArts Council EnglandDysonAnthea and Thomas GibsonGeoff Lawson Jaguar ScholarshipJohn Lydon’s CharityMarks & SpencerSir Alistair and Lady PilkingtonQatar National Council for Culture

Arts and HeritageRoyal Commission for the

Exhibition of 1851Sir Po-Shing Woo

College-wide prizes andscholarships 2004/5

£1,000 – £5,000Fatima and Faiza H Alkazzi AwardTom Bendhem Drawing PrizeBritish Standards Institution AwardsClerkenwell Green Association AwardFolio Society AwardJardine Insurance PrizeMadame Tussauds Award for ArtAugustus Martin AwardNational Magazine Company AwardP&O Art PrizesParallel PrizePerstorp Flooring Design AwardsSapient Digital Media ScholarshipSouth Square TrustSnowdon Award for Disability ProjectsWWF

£500 – £1,000Helen Chadwick Memorial PrizeJeremy Cubitt PrizeAlastair Grant PrizeEdward Marshall PrizeDesmond Preston Prize for DrawingRoyal Mint PrizeRowney Prize for DrawingPeter J B Sabara Travel ScholarshipSony (Germany)Basil Taylor Memorial PrizeVarley Memorial AwardKenny Yip AwardGraham Young Award

Donors to Departments 2004/5

Animation£5,000 – £25,000Moving Picture Co

£1,000 – £5,000Colour Film ServicesDe Lane LeaThe Passion Pictures One MinuteFilm PrizeSherbetStudio Aka

£500 – £1,000British Council: Films & Television

DepartmentKodak Motion Picture Imaging

Architecture and Interiors£5000 – 25000EPSRCAHRB

£1000 – £5000CorusGenslerBecksIndependentThe British Council

£500 – £1000Alsop ArchitectsDin AssociatesApple

Ceramics and Glass£50,000 – £200,000Sir Alastair and Lady Pilkington

ScholarshipSir Po-Shing Woo Scholarship

£5,000 – £25,000National Grid Transco Ltd

£1,000 – £5,000Behrens TrustCharlotte Fraser Prize for Ceramics

and GlassSir Eduardo Paolozzi TravelScholarshipRoyal Over-Seas League

Communication Art & Design£5000 – £25000Hewlett PackardRoyal Mail Stamps

£1000 – £5000WPPOberon BooksEclipse TDAugustus MartinThe Print RoomG&B PrintersQuentin BlakeBoots plcW H SmithParallelWorshipful Company of Painters

and Stainers

Conservation£1,000 – £5,000Ronald E Compton ScholarshipEngish Heritage Friends of the Victoria & Albert

Museum

Curating Contemporary Art£50,000 – £200,000Arts Council England

£1,000 – £5,000Beck’s Monique Beudert FundJohn Lyon’s CharitySpecialblue Ltd

£500 – £1,000Austrian Cultural ForumChinese Arts CentreEmbassy of the United States ofAmericaEuropean Union 2005Goethe InstitutIASPISJapan FoundationLaura Bartlett GalleryPommeryPremier Paper

Design Products£25,000 - £50,000Qatar National Council for Culture

Arts and Heritage

£5,000 – £25,000LG Electronics

£1,000 – £5,000KokuyoThe Science Museum

£500 – £1,000Worshipful Company of Furniture

Makers

Drawing Studio£500 – £1000Desmond Preston Drawing PrizeTom BendhamThe Man Group

0 – £500Daler-Rowney Prize for Drawing

Fashion£50,000 – £200,000Kay Cosserat ScholarshipMarks & Spencer Scholarship

£25,000 – £50,000Claremont Garments ScholarshipMansfield Cache D’OrOssie Clark ScholarshipSpillersVranken Pommery

£5,000 – £25,000International Flavours & Fragrances

(GB) Ltd AwardMiss SelfridgeNext PLCSwarovski UK LtdUmbro International Ltd.United ArrowsWorshipful Company of DrapersZegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia SpA

£1,000 – £5,000bie barzaghiBodin JoyeuxBower Roebuck & Co LtdCerrutiClothworkers’ Foundation, The Clothworkers’ CompanyFenland SheepskinFilatura di Grignasco SpAJaney Ironside Travel AwardLanifico Ing. Loro Piana & C SpALevi StraussSaga Furs of ScandinaviaTodd & DuncanWorshipful Company of Framework

Knitters

Goldsmithing, Silversmithing,Metalwork and Jewellery£5,000 – £25,000Worshipful Company of GoldsmithsWorld Gold Council

£1,000 – £5,000Metalor LtdRoyal MintNicole Stöber Memorial Award

£500 – £1000Worshipful Company of Armourers

and BrasiersESG Robinson Charitable Trust

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The Helen Hamlyn ResearchCentre£5,000 – £25,000 Audi Design FoundationB&QDEGWGlaxoSmithKlineIdeal StandardKinnarpsIDEOMFINational Patient Safety AgencyOsaka GasPhilipsScopeSteelcaseThornVisteon

£1,000 – £5,000 BigIdeaFuture FoundationMobility ChoiceGMWHelp the AgedNottingham Rehab Supplies

History of Design£5,000 – £25,000Oiver Ford FoundationFriends of the V&A Scholarship

£500 – £1,000Basil Taylor Memorial PrizeClive Wainwright Memorial PrizeDesign History Prize

Information & Learning ServicesApple

Industrial Design Engineering£50,000 – £200,000Dyson RCA Centenary ScholarshipEPSRCAnthea and Thomas Gibson

ScholarshipTed Power AwardsRoyal Commission for the

Exhibition of 1851

£5,000 – £25,000COBiRD LtdPDD ScholarshipRoyal Academy of Engineering

Interaction Design£5,000 – £25,000 Hewlett-Packard IDEO Intel Phillips Orange

Painting£50,000 – £200,000Basil H Alkazzi Foundation Award

£5,000 – £25,000Amlin plcPaule Vezelay AwardStanley Smith Scholarship

£1,000 – £5,000Basil H Alkazzi TravellingScholarshipFatima and Faiza H Alkazzi AwardSheldon Bergh AwardNeville Burston AwardNADFAS (London Area) AwardWorshipful Company of PaintersStainers Bursaries for Painting

£500-£1,000Jeremy Cubitt Prize

Photography£1,000 – £5,000Hoopers Gallery Prize

£500 – £1000Worshipful Company of Painter-

Stainers PrizePhotographers’ Gallery Prize

Printmaking £5,000 – £25,000Linklaters & AllianceThe Henry Moore FoundationA Schroeder

£1,000 – £5,000Alf Dunne AwardGay HutsonTim Mara Trust PrizesAugustus Martin Ltd

£500 – £1,000Michael HillJ Moate PrizeWaterloo Wine Company

Sculpture£50,000 – £200,000Eric and Jean Cass Scholarship

£1,000 – £5,000Serenella Ciclitira Scholarship

Textiles£1,000 – £16,000DormaSanderson Trust

£1,000 – £8,000Thomas Arno BequestThe Clothworkers’ FoundationCollette Christmas Textiles AwardThe Drapers CompanyJohn Dunsmore AwardThe Dyers CompanyThe Grocers Company The Habersdashers’ CompanyHouse of FraserJohn Lewis Partnership plcLevehulme AwardAlthea McNeish AwardOsborne & Little ScholarshipGeorge Spencer CompanyMarianne Straub Travelling

ScholarshipThe Worshipful Company of

FanmakersThe Worshipful Company of

Framework KnittersThe Worshipful Company of

Weavers

Vehicle Design£50,000 – £200,000Geoff Lawson Jaguar Scholarship

£25,000 – £50,000Fiat Advanced Design

£5,000 – £25,000BentleyFaberFiatThe Ford Motor CompanyJCBLand RoverMouldlifeNissan JapanPilkington GlassToyota Motor Corporation Europe HuntingOnassis FoundationPure

£1,000 – £5,000Worshipful Company of CarmenWorshipful Company of Coach and

Harness Makers

£500 – £1000Alwick Patterns BendywoodDenaco Dial PatternsGB Paint Refinishers Lechler PaintMP Artware

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