| Ravensbourne University | |
| Motto: | Designed for industry. |
| Established: | 1962[1] |
| Faculty: | 140[2] |
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| City: | North Greenwich |
| State: | London |
| Country: | UK |
Ravensbourne University London (formerly Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication) is a digital media and design university, with vocational courses in fashion, television and broadcasting, interactive product design, architecture and environment design, graphic design, animation, moving image, music production for media and sound design.
Ravensbourne was established in 1962 by the amalgamation of Bromley School of Art, Sidcup School of Art and Beckenham School of Art. It was originally at Bromley Common and later at Chislehurst and on the Greenwich Peninsula in Inner London, where it opened a new campus in autumn 2010. The college is named after the River Ravensbourne, which flows from Bromley Common to Greenwich.[3]
Bromley School of Art opened in 1878 in a new building in Tweedy Road, Bromley that later became Bromley Library;[3] after the Second World War it became Bromley College of Art.[4] In 1959 it became Bromley Technical College after a merger with the Department of Furniture Design of Beckenham School of Art, which dated to the turn of the century as a technical school, had become an art school in purpose-built accommodation in 1908, and had expanded after the war with crafts trades.[5] In July 1962, the remainder of Beckenham School of Art merged with Bromley College of Art and Sidcup School of Art (founded in 1898 and by then also known as Sidcup Art College) to form Ravensbourne College of Art and Design.[1] In 1965 the college moved to Rookery Lane, Bromley Common.[5]