World-making through practice, art and design-based research.
Central Saint Martins is a diverse community united by a shared commitment to practice as a way of understanding, making, and acting in the world. Research at CSM values curiosity, risk, and collaboration. Through practice, we disrupt, play, and exchange to imagine fairer, more regenerative futures. Our work embraces multiple perspectives to generate knowledge with impact – shaping culture, informing policy, and enabling change through creative inquiry.
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Fashion's entanglements with nature
Design Speculations about Fantasies of Care
Experiments in Dance/Law Research
Prototyping participatory urban futures
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Over the spring of 2025, Dr Betti Marenko, Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at Central Saint Martins (CSM), UAL, visited the Institute of Science Tokyo as part of a significant collaborative research initiative, supported by the CSM
Professor Carole Collet participates in the 13th edition of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial, open from 22 May to 6 July 2025.
In the heart of Central Saint Martins, the college’s street, usually a thoroughfare of hurried students and staff, transformed into what organizers called a "Play-Ground." For ten continuous hours, from morning until evening, 17 PhD researchers
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