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An adult and child in front of a wall of different portrait styles
An adult and child in front of a wall of different portrait styles
Camden Schools Art Biennale, Summer 2024. Photo: Jamie Johnson

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Through CSM Public we turn the studio ethos ‘inside-out’, working with a variety of academic, corporate, non-profit, citizen-led and government organisations to actively engage with societal issues and co-design more optimistic futures.

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Camden Schools Art Biennale vinyl design on gallery doors

Camden Schools Art Biennale

The inaugural Camden Schools Art Biennale:
Lethaby Gallery, July 2024

A partnership project with Camden Council and Camden Learning, with generous support from John Lyon’s Charity and King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership. A vibrant celebration of creative education, our week-long exhibition and engagement programme featured over 350 artworks from every school in the borough.⁠ ⁠ From sculpture, drawing and painting to collage and mixed media, students at each stage from Early Years, Primary, Secondary, Special Education to A-Level demonstrated their ability to tell meaningful stories, to look differently, and to transform simple materials into powerful ideas. ⁠ ⁠

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Patterns of Perception: Talking about Parkinson's Dementia

Problems with memory and thinking are common in Parkinson’s. But both people with the condition and health professionals can find it hard to broach the subject. Neurosurgeon Dr Rimona Weil and artist and CSM academic Anne Marr led a creative collaborative project to encourage conversations about Parkinson’s dementia.

  • Photo if a wood project with wood work outside
    T-Factor, Photographed by Adam Razvi.

    T-Factor

    Unleashing future-facing urban hubs through culture and creativity-led strategies of transformative time

  • A man in the process of pottery
    Image courtesy of Anthony Quinn

    CRAFT  

    Activating Pedagogy for Ceramic Education Future

  • Man holding furniture over toilet
    Sloot, Alfred Low Wei Leong BA Product Design

    Prison cell furniture for the future

    Students from BA Product Design work with the Design Against Crime Research Centre to improve prison cell furniture

  • People sitting with coloured blocks on table
    Work in progress

    Unblocking prison conversations

    How four BA Product Design students worked with Design Against Crime to create a game reconnecting inmates and their children

  • Furniture design as part of workshop to alleviate overcrowded housing
    Overcrowded Housing Project. Photo: Liliya Galabova, Barbara Guoth, Elora Pierre, Zoe Kahane, Giorgia Rossi, Yin Wang

    Overcrowded Housing

    Customisable furniture to alleviate overcrowding created through collaboration between Camden Council, the Public Collaboration Lab, MA Industrial Design students and local authority housing residents

  • Woman painting
    Tate Exchange, 2018 (Photo: Belinda Lawley)

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Stories

  • Spreads from the Inga Kaugsay publication. Graphic design: Abbie Vickress

    Reawakening Inga ancestral living knowledges

    A multicultural, multilingual collaboration between Inga indigenous architects, Colombian architects, and the Spatial Practices programme at Central Saint Martins makes rich layers of Inga habitation practices accessible to many.

  • Creative work: Robert Blair School Year 4 and 5. Photo: Jamie Johnson

    Central Saint Martins x Robert Blair School

    We recently welcomed children from Robert Blair School in a project called Shapeshifters at the Lethaby Gallery. This year BA Architecture students will present their designs for outdoor classrooms at the school as part of a live curriculum project.

  • Photo: Gareth Johnson⁠

    It’s time to talk about Parkinson’s dementia

    CSM Programme Director and artist Anne Marr and neurosurgeon Dr Rimona Weil on a project to support conversations around Parkinson's dementia - and 2 new booklets, one for clinical settings and one for people with lived experience and their families.

  • Workshop

    Tackling technology-facilitated domestic abuse

    Through a practice-based PhD, Roxanne Alves Leitāo co-designed a chatbot with the charity Refuge providing information and advice to protect individuals' digital privacy. Since July 2020, it has been used by 6,650 people.