"Tutor (Teaching) Design Products (0.2FTE, Fixed-term)"

Date advertised

5 August 2024

Closing date

25 August 2024

School/Area

School of Design

Programme/​Department

Design Products

Required hours

Part Time

Site

Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Salary

£52,350 - £58,395 per annum pro rata

Fixed Term until 13/12/24

Founded in 1837, the Royal College of Art is the world’s largest community of postgraduate art and design students. It is also the oldest art and design university-level institution in continuous operation and has been ranked as the world‘s number one art and design university for a remarkable ten consecutive years, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 – the worldwide survey of academic and industry opinion.

We are seeking a Tutor (Teaching) Design Products at the School of Design. 

Programme

Design Products explores new terrain for designing products aiming to evolve new design disciplines and practices. We question ‘what is a product?’ and the assumption of adding products to uncover critical questioning to inform cutting edge creative practices for designing better futures. Our programme ethos focuses on a range of ideas for exploring these new areas for product design practice including design subtraction, multi-species design, circularity, questions for action, products delimited, design doing, design justice and decolonising design. We anticipate that these areas will evolve and adapt year to year.

We work in collaboration with industry but also explore new locations and relationships for designing products: the experiences and impacts they generate whether these are design interventions or working with start-ups, governments, or global agencies. We measure the success of our design impacts against the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal’s and the design territory of products within systems.

Purpose of the post

We are seeking an outstanding practitioner in the expanded field of Design Products to contribute towards the ongoing work of the School of Design and the Royal College of Art more broadly.

The successful candidate will demonstrate enthusiasm for working with students and alongside colleagues with the high levels of commitment and energy required by a world-leading environment. As well as being able to support and respond to the work of postgraduate students, the successful candidate will also be expected to teach through the delivery of lectures, workshops, seminars, and crits across the Design Products programme as well as work alongside colleagues in all aspects of the organisation of exhibitions and events. They will also be expected to undertake administration around their teaching as required by the well-established structures present across the school.

Apply now and contribute to shaping the future of service design at the Royal College of Art!