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Royal College of Art - Design Products

Founded in 1837, the RCA is the world’s oldest art & design institution. Ranked the world's number one university of art & design for eleven consecutive years (2015-2025) by the QS World University Subject Rankings, the Royal College of Art offers 40 specialised postgraduate programmes in Art & Design, with students from over 80 countries making up our diverse community. Design Products explores new terrain for designing products aiming to evolve new design disciplines and practices. We question ‘what is a product?’ and the assumption of adding products to uncover critical questioning to inform cutting edge creative practices for designing better futures. Our programme ethos focuses on a range of ideas for exploring these new areas for product design practice. These evolve over time and currently include design subtraction, multi-species design, circularity, questions for action, products delimited, design doing, design justice and decolonising design.