RCA2023 Battersea & Kensington

Encompassing over 1,300 postgraduate students across the RCA’s four schools – Architecture, Arts & Humanities, Communication and Design – as well as our Intelligent Mobility Design Centre students, RCA2023 at Battersea and Kensington features an international cohort of emerging artists, designers, architects and creative practitioners.

Each programme has taken a different approach to what you will see and experience – some presenting a collection of finished works, others sharing the thinking behind a process, or engaging visitors through talks and activities.


30 June – 3 July

Open to the public from 12–6pm daily, with a late opening on Friday 30 June until 7.30pm

Plan your visit

Participating Programmes

Venues

Map of Battersea venue location

Battersea

Dyson, Painting, Rausing, Studio and Woo Buildings
Royal College of Art
Howie Street
London SW11 3AN

Map of Kensington venue location

Kensington

Darwin and Stevens Buildings
Royal College of Art
Jay Mews
London SW7 2EU

For information on getting to the RCA, and the accessibility of our campuses, see Visiting the RCA.

Spotlight Theme : Interactiveness See all 5 Themes

Discover students, collections and events through four overarching Themes that contextualise the work on the platform within the here and now. They are tied together by the suffix -ness, which is used with an adjective to say something about its state, condition, or quality of being.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

Saturday 15 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Interactiveness
  • Textiles
Textiles tour guided by graduates Charlotte Karin, Xiaoyu Zhu and Monika Dolbnaik.

Sunday 16 July 15:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Interactiveness
  • Textiles
Practical workshop delivered by textile graduate Isabel Fletcher. Limited spaces, bookable via eventbrite.

Board, Video and Party

Magic, folklore and myth

Friday 30 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Consciousness
  • Interactiveness
  • Togetherness
  • Contemporary art
  • Curating & culture
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice

Music makes the people come together

Collections

Explore Collections that take a deep dive into work in a given discipline, or connect practices with shared concerns across the College’s Schools and programmes.

Fiction, narrative and storytelling

Personal stories and perspectives