LANA light installation suspended in a dark space

Spatial practice · Manchester / Salford

RC Studio is a spatial practice creating installations, environments, workshops and objects, alongside design support for retail and interiors.

LANA · light, structure and temporary space

01 / Selected work

Space as experience, system and encounter.

Illuminated LANA installation suspended above a performance space
Light Monster installation glowing blue and green inside The Peer Hat

Light Monster · The Peer Hat, Manchester

LANA / creatures and installations

LANA belongs to an ongoing family of creature-led installations. Light Monster, Electric Monster and articulated movement studies develop the same questions through different scales: light, structure, behaviour and encounter.

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Selected retail environments

Concept-to-delivery experience across global retail environments: customer journey, brand systems, materiality, 3D development and technical coordination.

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Photography courtesy of JD Sports Fashion plc.

JD Sports retail environment in Makassar

02 / What RC Studio does

Bring RC Studio a space, an early idea or a delivery problem.

RC Studio helps turn rough spatial material into a direction worth developing. The spatial thinking is the same; the scale and form change with the work.

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Spatial concept and design development

Take an early spatial idea and make it visible, discussable and actionable.

Layout and flow, concept development, atmosphere and material direction, SketchUp / 3D, quick visualisation, design development and practical problem solving.

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Installations and temporary environments

Develop a spatial intervention through testing, making and collaboration.

Concept, modelling, light, material and structure, prototyping, practical coordination and collaboration for installations, pop-ups and temporary environments.

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Retail and interior project support

Experienced, flexible support when a project needs extra spatial thinking or delivery capacity.

Concept adaptation, layouts, SketchUp / 3D, technical and design coordination, production and rollout support.

Supporting capabilities SketchUp · 3D modelling · visualisation · design coordination · materials · suppliers · production · rollout

03 / Workshops & experiences

Make, observe and take part.

A freshly printed drypoint image made using a pasta machine press

Pasta Maker Printing Workshop

Create small drypoint prints using an everyday pasta machine as a compact press. A practical, small-group session with materials included.

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Participants drawing a staged performance at Theatre Life Drawing

Theatre Life Drawing

A distinct live drawing and performance experience — not a conventional workshop — giving artists a scene to observe rather than a sequence of static poses.

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Photography: Jess Robinson / @jessrphoto_

Minor Fauna VII, a monochrome creature-like drawing

04 / Artworks

Available by enquiry

Minor Fauna VII

Part of an evolving family of drawn forms: small creatures, material tests and speculative organisms.

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05 / About & contact

A practice between useful design and independent making.

RC Studio is Ruggero Chiminazzo's spatial practice at Islington Mill, Salford. It combines long-term experience in retail and interior environments with installations, workshops, drawing and editions.

Islington Mill is the working base for developing installations, models, artworks and workshops. If you have a space, brief, collaboration or workshop in mind, start with a short email.

Studio notes and current work also appear on Instagram @ruggkta