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FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR
DR PAUL THOMPSON
The Royal College of Art is an extraordinary institution, an inspirational factory of ideas for art and innovation that has nurtured some of the greatest creative talents of the last two centuries.
Founded during the first Industrial Revolution, the RCA represents a unique balance of tradition and future-facing invention, of history and contemporaneity. We stand at the vanguard of what has been described as the fourth Industrial Revolution.
GenerationRCA
GenerationRCA is a celebration of every past, present and future generation of talented RCA students and staff – whose successes make us the world’s pre-eminent university of art and design. It is about the generation of new ideas, new solutions, new visions, new fine art, and the new cross-disciplinary studios, workshops, and research and knowledge-exchange labs in which they are spawned.
GenerationRCA will secure the future of the RCA: a vision rooted in our historic identity, founded on a research-intensive academic framework and embodied in the expansion of our campus in Battersea and revitalisation of our iconic Kensington home. It will support new investigations – embedding cutting-edge technologies alongside the traditional disciplinary practices that make us who we are.
By giving to GenerationRCA, your generosity will open a new chapter for the College.
You will enable the Royal College of Art to move into an exciting and vital new era, supporting development in three key areas:
1. Places – the new flagship Battersea South campus, and the refurbishment of the Darwin Building on Kensington Gore
2. People – creating the scholarships that will support talented individuals, no matter what their background, to study at the RCA
3. Projects – investment in research and knowledge exchange that will inform and inspire a new generation of visionary practice in the creative industries.
I urge you to invest in all our futures by supporting the Royal College of Art and being GenerationRCA.
Dr Paul Thompson
Vice-Chancellor