Curating Contemporary Art and Design, Typography, The Graphic Novel, Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Futures Through Design
June 3–August 8, 2025
Royal College of Art (RCA) executive education attracts a global mix of designers, artists, architects, and entrepreneurs from over 50 countries. Whether you’re looking for a step-change in your career, considering embarking on one of our MA Programmes or want to transform your current practice with world class thought-leaders, our courses offer an insight of studying at the College.
This summer, join us at the number one university for art & design in the world (QS World Subject Rankings 2015–25). Book your spot with a discount of ten percent, available until the end of April.
Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Theory and Practice, July 7—18, 2025 (online)
Together with the inspiring workshop leaders who bring creative expertise and critical perspectives, we offer two weeks of intensive debate with high profile artists and curators providing a unique insight into the urgency of curating and publishing in art and design today.
Our 2025 theme is ‘Why Publish? Publishing as Expanded Curatorial Practice’ and explores publishing as a significant creative and critical mode in contemporary curatorial practice. Organised around different curatorial motivations – such as documenting and archiving, constructing (new) histories, collaboration and radical collectives, self-organisation and activism – the course offers an overview of contemporary approaches to curatorial publishing practices in different global contexts.
“I was amazed of how much we covered and learned in just 2 weeks! I was so sad when it ended, I was ready for more. The program is extremely well organised, I would highly recommend this course.” - Eliana Hidalgo Vilaseca, EACHEVE Founder
Contemporary Art Summer School, July 21–August 8, 2025 (online)
Led by performance artist and academic researcher Dr Despina Zacharopoulou since 2017. This course examines the rich array of positions, methods and materials that artists use, as well as exploring the questions raised by contemporary art and its production.
“The course was a rigorous and extremely insightful exercise in exploring ways to expand one’s artistic practice. It is very well structured, the course leader and tutors pushed me outside my comfort zone while still being supportive and gave me very valuable feedback that will help me refine my work going forward.” —Aninda Singh, Ceramic Artist and RCA 2025 scholarship winner
Typography, June 3–27, 2025 (online)
Develop your typographic expertise in this open and experimental online short course environment, under the expert guidance of RCA tutor Adrian Shaughnessy and Jack Llewellyn.
The Graphic Novel: Visual Storytelling, June 30–July 24, 2025 (online)
Unleash your imagination and master new methods of self-expression via visual storytelling, live online under the expert guidance of RCA tutor Professor Andrzej Klimowski and RCA alumnus and illustrator Miguel Angel Valdivia.
Architecture Summer School, July 14–18, 2025 (on campus, London)
This is an intense and immersive summer school focusing on observation, developing key skills and offering design studio experience, lectures and visits. An ideal introduction to the studio teaching model at the RCA and will give participants an opportunity to experience the environment and methodologies of the MA programmes in the School of Architecture.
“Participating in the Architecture Summer School was a transformative experience. As an international student, it was my first time studying abroad, which broadened my perspective and provided me with new skills and approaches. […] This course was extremely helpful as I consider further education at RCA’s Master’s programme, helping me better understand the exact standards and expectations. - Alexander Yusipov, Entrepreneur
Futures Through Design, July 7–9, 2025 (on campus, London)
For over a decade, the RCA has been a leader in design futures research and practice. This intensive three-day experience is designed for organisational leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals and high-performing recent graduates who are seeking to transform strategic uncertainty into innovative opportunity. Led by RCA academics, John V Willshire and Dr Rob Phillips.
