Typology in Action: Diagram, Image and Type as Collective Method
RCA Typology Workshop Series
📅 17 Apr 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
📍Copeland Gallery, London SE15 3SN
💬 English
This workshop series consists of three sessions, treating publishing as a collective and material method for thinking through perception, system and form. Each session runs 30–40 minutes with around 15 participants.
You are welcome to register for one, two, or all three sessions. Please select your preferred session(s) when booking.
Part A — 15:00–15:35 Led by Elina Resch
This session examines internalised expectations surrounding “the ideal woman.” Through writing, drawing, and zine-making, participants are invited to translate words into images and reflect on how visual culture reinforces gendered norms.
Part B — 15:40–16:20 Led by Anna Korbel
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concept of reterritorialization, this session guides participants through diagramming, collage, and discussion to transform existing visual structures into new speculative blueprints.
Part C — 16:25–17:00 Led by Bruce Zongyao Ma
The Running Type workshop investigates how movement, repetition, and the body can generate new letterforms.
Together, the workshops emphasize publishing as an active process for intervening in and reshaping visual systems.
👤 RCA Typology
RCA Typology is a course and collective led by Can Yang within MA Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. It brings together designers, visual artists, and researchers who examine how systems shape form, language, and meaning. Through typological thinking, the group investigates classification, repetition, and visual structures across typefaces, diagrams, objects, and printed matter. Combining critical research with material experimentation, Typology approaches publishing not only as a vehicle for dissemination but as a mode of inquiry in its own right. The work explores how categories construct perception and how visual communication operates across cultural and social contexts.