One-to-one meetings with the RCA in Los Angeles

Studying at the Royal College of Art places you in London: a city internationally renowned for its creativity, culture and diversity - the perfect place to develop your creative career in. What do prospective students need to know about living and studying in the UK?

You’re invited to meet Dr Claude Dutson (Tutor Research, Digital Direction MA) in Los Angeles for an in-person conversation about studying at the RCA.

Wednesday 8 October 2025, 4.30-9pm

4.30pm - Start of a series of one-to-one or portfolio review meetings

9pm - End

Please only book 1 session per person to allow other the opportunity. If we see you have booked two sessions then we may cancel the latest booking in order to free up the space.

• Those interested in postgraduate study at the Royal College of Art
• Current RCA applicants and offer-holders
• Friends and family are also welcome to join, though they do not need to have a ticket

You don't have to specialise in any discipline to attend this event: we welcome guests planning to apply to all subject areas.

Due to the postgraduate nature of RCA study, all attendees must be over 18.

The event is free to attend, but please note that places are limited. Pre-booking is essential to guarantee your spot.

Yes! We're delighted you're thinking of starting your RCA journey. Please book a portfolio appointment during the registration process.

(Tutor Research, )

Claude is an interdisciplinary practitioner and researcher whose work investigates architecture, power and technology through a critical spatial practice of architectural drawing, model-making and virtual reality.

Claude trained in Architecture at the University of East London (2005) and the Royal College of Art (2008), completing a PhD (RCA) by practice in Architecture in 2016. She has a background in Media Studies, working in new media consultancy at the height of the dotcom boom – and subsequent bust – in the 1990s.

Her research focus is the architecture of Silicon Valley, a historical investigation into evolution of the campuses of Apple, Facebook and Google, the spatialisation of their management cultures and what the architecture says about corporate power, and the ethical, socio-political and environmental consequences of the technical imaginary of these companies. She explores these through architectural drawing, 3D models and Virtual Reality recreations of the tech company campuses. Using only Publicly Available Information (PAI) drawn from the internet, she inverts the surveillant technologies of three tech companies to investigate the publicly inaccessible architectures of power. She is writing a book Proprietary Polis: Architecture and Silicon Valley (forthcoming).

Claude’s other research includes queer spaces, queer bodies, and spaces of alterity (VR). She leads the RCA research cluster Virtual Realities and Alterities to investigate immersive media from a standpoint of alterity: sexuality, race, gender, nationality, class.

Claude is an experienced design studio tutor; she ran the Object Mediated Interactions (OMI) platform on MA Design Products from (2018–23), and has been a specialism lead for the Experimental Design Pathway (XD) on the MA Information Experience Design. She also teaches on the MArch Cinematic and Videogame Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and previously taught BA and MA Architecture (RIBA parts I and II) at the Canterbury School of Architecture, UCA.

Claude’s work is published in Disegno #35 (2023), Architecture and Collective Life (Routledge, 2021), Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies Economies Technologies (Routledge, 2018), Industries of Architecture (Routledge, 2016), and she co-edited a special issue of Architecture and Culture, with Igea Troiani:‘Space to Learn/Think/Work: The Contested Architectures of Higher Education’ (2021). She regularly lectures on architecture and design courses in the UK and Europe, including School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), and Chelsea College of Art. She is an experienced public speaker participating in public talks and panels including at London Design Week, Design Museum, V&A Museum, IKON gallery, and at industry events.

We are continually adding to our diverse programme of events: conversations on key topics such as funding advice and portfolio development, symposia, exhibitions, open days and more. Many are free and open to the public.

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