THE PROJECT

AcrossRCA, an annual programme at the Royal College of Art (RCA), brings together students from diverse disciplines for innovative workshops and collaborative projects. This initiative offers students fresh perspectives, helps them build connections, and fosters future collaborators that shape their time at RCA and their careers beyond. 

John Stevens of RCA commissioned Holis to develop a five-day workshop on Collective Intelligence Design, a field that combines people, technology, and data to predict future events better and coordinate large-scale activities.

THE OUTCOME

Through this workshop, students learned about Collective Intelligence Design to drive social and environmental change. Using the Collective Intelligence Design Canvas, students from disciplines such as Architecture, Digital Direction, Global Innovation Design, Information Experience Design, Innovation Design Engineering, Intelligent Mobility, Photography, Service Design and Visual Communication worked on projects addressing peer learning, loneliness, food waste, and international relations at RCA.

To ensure the best learning experience, Holis collaborated with Roland Harwood from Liminal and Johannes Mutter from neu.is.