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Camden Schools Art Biennale
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.
Unleashing future-facing urban hubs through culture and creativity-led strategies of transformative time
Activating Pedagogy for Ceramic Education Future
Students from BA Product Design work with the Design Against Crime Research Centre to improve prison cell furniture
How four BA Product Design students worked with Design Against Crime to create a game reconnecting inmates and their children
Customisable furniture to alleviate overcrowding created through collaboration between Camden Council, the Public Collaboration Lab, MA Industrial Design students and local authority housing residents
Explore more CSM Public projects from recent years
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.
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.
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.
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.
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