RCA Design Products - Whats the deal?

If I was a trustafarian and didn’t have mouths to feed and bills to pay I’d love to spend two years there or SAIC, meditating on the space between the subject and the object, the nuances of how homo sapiens respond to the manufactured environment, having deep conversations with heavily accented chain smoking eastern European talents.

I know zero people like this, but then again I run in the ‘classical design’ circles.

Is anything actually BUILT in the UK any longer? Aside from some Formula One cars? Does the removal of the ‘hard’ facts of product manufacturing lead to schools teaching more of the abstract?