Making Time: Every Prison A Creative Hub showcased recent creative design education initiatives inside UK prisons. Co-curated by Lorraine Gamman, Professor of Design and Director, Design Against Crime Research Lab at Central Saint Martins, in collaboration with Love Print.
A narrated walk through the Making Time exhibition with Carlotta Allum. Download the audio description [MP3, 426KB] for this film.
"Who do you admire? Who are your heroes? Who might inspire you to change?" These are the questions we asked inmates at HMP Isis. Then we worked with design agency Here to bring this list of heroes to life in a series of posters shown during Black History Month.
Drawing on their experience of writing and delivering curriculum at Central Saint Martins, Lucy Alexander and Tim Meara designed two pilot courses in design for textiles and fashion that they delivered to a group of eight young men at HMP Isis, working alongside CSM students.
Young men at the HMP ISIS Young Offender Institution in South East London designed an award-winning brand identity for the charity Untold.
An output of the 2018-2023 Cell Furniture project, Flip Chair was co-designed by the Design Against Crime team with prisoners and prison staff from HMP Standford Hill.
This kimono jacket was designed and made by a prisoner on the Making for Change training and production programme established in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and London College of Fashion, UAL in 2014.
Cards that Communicate encouraged prisoners at HMP Isis and HMP Pentonville to send a hand-made tangible item to a loved one, designed using low-tech approaches such as cut and paste collage techniques and simple mark-making.
Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, Open Book is a hub for education, support, and research, with the goal of making teaching and learning - at all levels - open and accessible to everyone.
Watch the trailer for a series of films co-created by Carlotta Allum with individual prisoners from HMP Thameside, HMP Peterborough, HMP Isis and more recently with prisoners from the Neurodivergent wing at HMP Pentonville.