The Building a Globally Successful Creative Business course at Royal College of Art enables students to work with globally successful designers such as principal at Zaha Hadid Architects, Patrik Schumacher.

School: The Royal College of Art
Course: Building a Globally Successful Creative Business
Location: London
Course dates: 18, 19 and 20 September 2024
Application deadline: 4 September 2024

Providing unparalleled access to globally successful creative entrepreneurs, artists and designers, this short course at the world's number one university for art and design is your gateway to build your business, markets and team.

Learn from globally successful creative entrepreneurs, artists and designers, alongside RCA academics and the founders of successful start-ups from the award-winning incubator InnovationRCA, who will share how they successfully initiate, drive and manage creative projects and businesses.

The 2023 programme included Patrik Schumacher (principal, Zaha Hadid Architects), Trino Verkade (director, Sarabande Foundation), Calum Sutton (founder, Sutton PR) Hongyi Yang (deputy director, Sotheby's), Eva Guerra (chief design officer, Profylr), Neil McConnon (director of International Partnerships, Tate), Chelsea Chen (co-founder, Emotech). Guest contributors for the 2024 programme will be announced soon.

This course is based at the RCA's Rausing Research and Innovation Building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with off-site visits to studios, galleries and creative spaces across London.

The course has been developed in collaboration with Philip Dodd and Enrica Costamagna from the award-winning agency Made in China UK and Nadia Danhash, Director InnovationRCA, the RCA's centre for entrepreneurship and commercialisation, providing incubation, IP and business support.

Early bird discount for this course ends 29 February 2024.

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Image by Ezzidin Alwan courtesy of the Royal College of Art.

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