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‘Content free’ means just that: the content on this site is free. Free at the point of demand, and free in expression and opinion. It is a portal into a world of thinking and making. It is a living archive of reflection and activity. It is the place where the students and staff from the Visual Communication programme at the RCA can freely place ‘content’, and where visitors are free to browse and interact with what they find.

In the electronic era, with its always-on, limitless landscape to fill, content has become a weasel word – a generic flavourless noun that relegates words, images, sound and film as placeholder material. Our use of the word is of course, ironic. We take the view that content has to have meaning and offer engagement. Without meaning and engagement, it is just that … content.

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‘Content free’ means just that: the content on this site is free. Free at the point of demand, and free in expression and opinion. It is a portal into a world of thinking and making. It is a living archive of reflection and activity. It is the place where the students and staff from the Visual Communication programme at the RCA can freely place ‘content’, and where visitors are free to browse and interact with what they find.

In the electronic era, with its always-on, limitless landscape to fill, content has become a weasel word – a generic flavourless noun that relegates words, images, sound and film as placeholder material. Our use of the word is of course, ironic. We take the view that content has to have meaning and offer engagement. Without meaning and engagement, it is just that … content.

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Common Market

Céline Strolz

early hours of the morning. the day before; “grab a stall”. one merchant next to the other displaying our goods. “this is not another exhibition!” a tour of rye lane, news on demand, or a loaf of bread worth half a month’s rent. depicting 1950s Napoli, i am pouring coffee. lunch break. the place is buzzing.ti...

A School of Our Own or How to Teach in Translation

Sandra Sordini

On the 7th of April, Richard, Cerise and myself - two Viscom students, one IED - were anxiously waiting for our flight to Seoul from Heathrow airport, with suitcases full of chocolate eggs and British tea, and heads full of recommendations and thoughts from our Korean friends at the RCA. We were about to exchange our ...

The Reader

Debbie Cook, Ken Hollings

The Reader knows that the story is never over, that the text is never complete. The Reader knows that we always move our lips when we read. The Reader sees what the words don’t say. The Reader knows that there is more to the story than the words. The Reader can read the words behind th...

Foodstuff by Design Without

Christopher Smith

Our event for Design Without went through multiple different forms in a very short period of time before finally becoming ‘Foodstuff’. One thing was certain throughout the entire process leading right up to the final hour that this was explicitly not about us and was not a showcase of our work. This was an opportunity for us t...

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Julia Mahrer

‘I Like your work’ acts as a…to…your… Discovery Channel is one of the Royal Collage of Art’s School of Communication Electives and is situated in the Experimental Communication pathway. 
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Close Encounters under the Arches

Alexis Demetriades, Sheena Calvert

…a list creates a site, something like the logician’s universe of discourse, a place where everything on the list can co-exist, a common space. I’ve Got a Little List by William Gass1 What is this place? A partial inventory of the contents of The Arches under Putney Bridge, where the Close Encounters Elective held its en...

Frame

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Thoughts on Ice

David McAllister

The Franz Josef Glacier is one of many major glaciers slouched on the western side of the Southern Alps, some hundred or so kilometres north across the Main Divide from Mount Cook. While neither the largest nor longest glacier, what may make Franz Josef of particular interest are the limitless opportunities it provides for making loads ...

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Robert Hetherington, Ken Hollings

The following statements were developed, for the most part, during a series of workshops conducted with Year 2 Visual Communication students over the Spring and Summer Terms. Under the title ‘Explain Yourself’ these sessions were dedicated to producing a concise statement of roughly 250 words about some key aspect of their individual practice – an overall strategy, a specific projec...

Walking the Long Way Home

Lily Jones

How, in their everyday life, do women navigate public spaces, like walking home or travelling from one place to another? One night, after a night-out with friends, I got on the bus and took the long way home alone. I didn’t even think about it, it was a no-brainer, that would be the route I to...

Distributed

Joshua Trees

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Ken Hollings

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