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The RCA Disabled Students’ Network (DSN) is a self organised group of disabled students and Alumni at the Royal College of Art. We were established 10 months ago with the aims of providing peer support for disabled students, highlighting and improving disability access at the RCA and most importantly promoting disability arts and the social model of disability.

We have membership from students and Alumni across the RCA who define as disabled people. We have arranged a series of events this year from celebrating Disability History Month, to promoting accessibility issues in branding and researching funding sources.

It has been our privilege to curate this collection. This has provided the Disabled Students Network with the opportunity to highlight the importance of disability access, disability equality and disability arts across the RCA community. Curating the collection has enabled the Network to connect with a wider range of disabled students and to showcase their practice. The #socialmodelofdisability is central to our work so we begin the collection with work using this most political of hashtags. The wider collection includes a selection of work that responds to disability access and equality issues and images that respond with a personal perspective.

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Image of a spiral bound notebook with black text on a white background, and three small round yellow stickers with images stuck on it, on a black background.
Kaiya Waerea
Image of what looks like a round wooden table, with a square cut out of the middle, with four wooden seats, which sit flat on the ground, attached to the table with curved metal bars.
Adri São Bento
Grainy black and white photograph of the edge of a curved solid shape, against a black background, with short lines of white text running top to bottom of the image.
Mandi Stewart
Image of a diagram of a figure sitting in a wheelchair, with further close-up diagrams of arms, in black on a white background.
Zhan Qu
Image of a figure, made from what looks like felted wool, from the waist up, holding a white mug, with a surface behind holding models of flowers in a vase, a plastic carton of milk and a toaster.
Molly Hellman
Image of four photographs showing three wheeled bicycles, and people using them, on an outdoors track.
Emma Naylor
Image of a dark red flame-like shape in a black background.
Sebastian Roeck
Image of some sort of electronic notebook or computer tablet, with a hand holding a stylus poised above it, on a wooden work surface on which there are scissors, tape and a ruler.
Serra Umut
Image of large black text on a pink lined, beige background, with elements of the font labelled.
Karin von Ompteda
Photograph of a person with their back to the camera, standing on grass in front of a brick garden wall, wearing a long flowing coat or cape made from large squares of different patterned materials.
Katrine Lyck
Image split into two horizontally different blue images, that both look like either the sea or the sky.
Mattie O'Callaghan
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