My first PTN post! Last weekend I paid a brief visit to The Great Exhibition, this year’s modestly titled RCA Summer Show which marks the 150th birthday of South Kensington institutions such as the V&A and Imperial College with a homage to the original Great Exhibition of 1851.

Housed in a specially erected pavillion in Hyde Park, the work on show from students across the school of architecture and design eschews the departmental separation typical of so many degrees shows in favour of a fitting cabinet of curiosities-style layout. Pockets of work from the various departments jostle for the viewer’s attention.

As ever, some definite themes are in the ether this year. Here are some of my pics:

Design Interactions
Students from the Design Interactions department such as Marei Wollersberger, Michiko Nitta and Tamsin Fulton posed questions about the many ethical, moral and social issues surrounding our relationship with technology through a speculative, scenario-based approach.

Design Products
Meanwhile, over at Design Products Il Hoon Roh and Luka Stepan took inspiration from nature to explore the potential application of self-generating processes that allow objects to be ‘grown’ by computer, then manufacturered using rapid manufacturing technologies.

Photography
As a big fan of Andreas Gursky-style minimalism, Gerd Hassler and Marco Bohr’s work in the main RCA building also caught my eye.

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