Festival of the Future 2026 — Friday: Schools Day
About this Event
Bring your class to a day built to open up the built environment. Festival of the Future returns to the Royal College of Art's Battersea campus with a full day of hands-on workshops, live talks and studio experiences led by some of the country's leading practices — architects, engineers and planners — and the organisations opening up the profession.
Teachers book a class, tell us your year group and numbers, and we'll build a timetable of activities around your students. This is a day of doing, not watching — your students step inside the professions, meet the people who work in them, and discover the many routes in.
Who's taking part — a taster:
Foster + Partners · ZHA · RSHP · AHMM · DSDHA · dMFK · Heyne Tillett Steel · Hawkins\Brown & Build the Way · Matt + Fiona · RIBA Learning · the Architectural Association — with more to be announced.
Expect everything from a structural engineering bridge challenge and a live AI design experiment, to exclusive studio tours and hands-on making workshops.
Part of Festival of the Future 2026 — see the full programme at https://www.beyondtheboxcic.com/festival-of-the-future-2026
Who it's for: secondary-school students, ages 11–16, booked as a class by a teacher.
When: Friday 9 October 2026, 10am–5.30pm (please arrive for 9.45am).
Where: Royal College of Art, Battersea — Studio Building, Howie Street, London SW11 4AY (///shirts.mirror.pitch).
Cost: Free.
Good to know: please arrive for 9.45am (there may be a short check-in queue); everyone gets a wristband to wear all day; bring food and a refillable water bottle (water stations throughout the building); step-free access and accessible toilets throughout; no parking on site — please travel by public transport (nearest bus stop Battersea Bridge / Hester Road: 19, 49, 170, 319, 345; nearest Tube Battersea Power Station).
When you book, we'll ask for: school name · teacher name & contact · year group · number of students · number of accompanying staff · any access, BSL or dietary needs · activity interests.
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