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A large wall panel with a map of the world and red thread and the words 'Design Transforms Borders' and 'Where is home' and 'Territorial Empathy'
A large wall panel with a map of the world and red thread and the words 'Design Transforms Borders' and 'Where is home' and 'Territorial Empathy'
Design Transforms at NYC with CSM Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design. Photo: Kisha Bari

World-making through practice, art and design-based research.

Research at CSM

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.

Selected projects

  • A slightly grainy digital image of a colourful plant scene from nature against a black background
    Wonderwood, The Brothers Quay, courtesy of the filmmakers.

    GROUNDED: Fashion in Film 2025  

    Fashion's entanglements with nature

  • A composite image of a baby's bottle of milk with what appears to be a breast pump attached; side by side with a baby's toy or rattle, which is block shaped with a tan brown boucle outer layer, a pull string attached, and wording printed in the centre with the text 'a baby's first poo is usually black and sticky, like tar, and is called meconium'.
    Image courtesy of Paulina Yurman

    Maternal Machines

    Design Speculations about Fantasies of Care

  • A table and chairs next to a wide screen with a person's face projected. Other light effects are visible on the image, suggesting an exhibition installation.
    Installation view: Constellations exhibition, Pink Gallery, Manchester, Anna MacDonald, 2024

    Choreography of Consent:

    Experiments in Dance/Law Research

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

    T-Factor

    Prototyping participatory urban futures

Visitors interact with the exhibition
Design Transforms, Lethaby Gallery2023. Photo: Paul Cochrane
Our research environment

Research with us

  • A sheer screen curtain featuring a Greek statue bust
    MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, November 2024. Photo: Razvan Dragos
  • Two people sitting on opposite sofas working on laptops, with a table in the middle.
    Mycelial Networking' by Tessa Ditner Amorosi & Sara Vanore Rewkiewicz (a board for discarded ideas
  • A wall hanging with an embroidered hand pointing down
    MA Culture Criticism and Curation November 2024. Photo: Razvan Dragos

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