Conferences

RCA Research Biennale 2025 showcases PhD Research at the college through a six day exhibition and three day Symposium.

The Sonic Architectures research programme investigates the auditory possibilities embedded within architecture and the built environment, including reverberations, echoes, decays, sonic histories, material and spatial conditions, and feedback loops. Sonic Architectures seeks to explore, develop, and critically engage with existing conversations in the architectural discipline regarding the use of sound as a form of research, analysis, and generative possibility.

This series brings together guest speakers, RCA research staff and PhD students to present their work and research in progress. These events are open to all students and researchers at the RCA. Guests and candidates interested in the PhD Programme are warmly invited to join. For details or questions please contact Ines Weizman, Head of the Architecture PhD Programme.

The conferences will take place in the Hockney Gallery, Stevens Building on Kensington Campus.

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This series of panel discussions, workshops and screenings brings together archaeologists, theorists, artists and architectural practitioners to reflect on archaeological sites that at certain moments in time have revealed a particular laboratory or theatrical field of analysis that mediates micro- and macro-history, from the microscopic detail of materials to the problem of global climate change. The event of archaeology refers to the event of discovery: an artefact or an archaeological field is revealed through natural processes, large-scale engineered extraction projects, or through new insights and research. It also comprises the moment of preserving and manufacturing replicas and imitations of artefacts, with or without the impact of war or violent conflict on archaeological sites. In such situations, artefacts and architecture are precariously revealed within political and economic frameworks that disguise their interests behind concerns for climate action.

The series at the School of Architecture is organised by Ines Weizman and research students of the MPhil/ PhD Architecture Programme. The series has been funded by the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art and London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP).

The Event "Pompeii and Volcanic Geography" on 9th May 2024 was organised in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut London.

This series brings together invited guest speakers, RCA research staff and PhD students to present their work and research in progress. Students and staff of the RCA, and candidates interested in the PhD Programme are warmly invited to join.

This series brings together invited guest speakers, RCA research staff and PhD students to present their work and research in progress. Students and staff of the RCA, and candidates interested in the PhD Programme are warmly invited to join.

Two postgraduate research conferences will be held during Term 1. In this series PhD students present papers about their latest research findings.

All students and staff of the RCA, as well as candidates interested in the Postgraduate Research Programme are warmly invited to join.

The Documentary Research Seminars are part of the PGR Documentary Research & Writing Programme. They are meant to introduce students to research methods through photography, film, mapping and archival research.

This is the second of a series of postgraduate research conferences at the School of Architecture, RCA that take place during the first two terms of each academic year. The conference invites students, staff and critics to discuss their research. In this series students were asked to present a key-protagonist of their research.

This is the first of a series of postgraduate research conferences at the School of Architecture, RCA that will be held usually in Term 1 and 2 of each academic year. The conference invites students, staff and critics to discuss their research. In this series students were asked to reflect on micro-histories, focusing their presentations on a specific location and moment in time.

This lecture series invites speakers to reflect on the recent challenges to curatorial practices, particularly concerning an arguably new kind of architecture for research that has gained urgency during the recent pandemic.