Welcome to CSMplayer. Here, we gather together the latest discussions, lectures and recordings from across Central Saint Martins for you to explore.
The Scientist in Residence (SiR) programme offers CSM postgraduate students the opportunity to collaborate with leading scientists from Tokyo Institute of Technology and London universities.
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Typeface designers Julie Janet and Azza Alameddine discuss the challenges of text across multiscript typography.
Artists, practitioners and designers discuss their work.
Dr Nina Trivedi speaks about their practice and research, which covers intersections of design and race, migration and borders, New Materialisms, critical re-appraisals of art history, fandom as methodology, critical race studies and intercultural communication.
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Practice is Critical: Sameer Kulavoor
Sameer Kulavoor is a visual artist living and working in Mumbai, India whose works often address how and why cities look and work the way they do.
Musician and producer Adam Bainbridge, otherwise known as Kindness, speaks to the GCD community about their practice.
Katie Stotter is a creative practitioner specialising in strategy, innovation and transformation. As Strategy Director at CINT and a trustee at Pancreatic Cancer UK, she is experienced in people management, company leadership and serves as a board member. She's particularly interested in the ethical challenges of emerging technologies.
Hanna Kops co-leads Transport for London's digital team, the team behind the TfL Go app. Hanna is also a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and has led design teams, innovation projects, wide ranging culture change programmes, and was the cofounder of a design studio.
Ruth Annett-Sixta, an Employability Practitioner at University of the Arts London. Through discussion, Ruth speaks to uncertainty surrounding students as they engage with and position themselves in relation to the creative industries.
Will AI, machine learning and automation succour our existence and survival or threaten it further? Explore the future, with non-human photography, the automation of global labour, and generative AI essays.
Spatial Practices: Maintenance, The Planet and AI
Stephanie Sherman asks, what are the ethical challenges and design opportunities posed by AI in the context of planetary melt-down?
Watch more of the Spatial Practices Autumn series on YouTube
Planetary Sensing and The Perception Machine
Writer and artist Joanna Zylinska works through a performative method across planetary scales. This planetary perspective is anchored in the socio-political concerns of today: from the ecological and economic crises through to the problem of our existence and survival, as a society and species.
Part of Digital Innovation Season 2024
Hybrid Futures Symposium: Re-Imagining Human-Machine Encounters
The Hybrid Futures symposium brings together thinkers, researchers and creative practitioners to illuminate the impact of digital technologies on the human and the nonhuman.
The Wizard of AI
A video essay about generative AI, focusing on the real impacts generative AI technology has on artists and designers around the world. The film is comprised of images and videos created with Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Runway and Pika.
Current systems demand infinite growth on a finite planet. How can creative practice prioritise contribution and regeneration over extraction? How can we advocate for nature?
Professor Tony Ryan OBE shares his experiences collaborating with refugees, using hydroponics to grow fruit and vegetables.
The Forest School: Constructive land
Why is forestry and land management relevant, and how we can adapt as designers to existing and future ecological challenges within our landscape?
Watch more of The Forest School series on YouTube.
Planetary Sensing and Whole Earth Codec
Observatories have traditionally gazed outwards, towards the cosmos. The recent proliferation of planetary sensor networks has inverted this gaze, taking the earth itself as its object of focus. Could we configure the entire earth as a distributed observatory, using a foundation model to compose a singular, synthetic representation of the planet?
A collection of dialogues and broadcasts on creativity, solidarity and community across the globe.
Spatial radio host a 24 hour broadcast during COP27, exploring, through conversation, sound, and music, calculation and computation in developing a plan for surviving the contemporary climate crisis.
Designer Mary Katrantzou, photographer Campbell Addy and Harper’s Bazaar China fashion features director Yoanna Liu consider the CSM global community and the importance of diversity and cultural difference.
A student-led radio broadcast from MA Narrative Environments in solidarity with Ukraine. Exploring misinformation on the war, and featuring conversation, music and sounds from Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian diasporas.
Formerly dominant socio-cultural norms and political structures are being questioned, critiqued and dismantled. How can new systems and practices create more equitable futures?
Decolonising the museum, with Victoria Noorthoorn and Elvira Espejo Ayca
Conversations on the stakes, problematics and possibilities of decolonising institutions. A symposium series organised by Afterall and Museu de Arte de São Paulo, together with UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute and Goldsmiths Department of Visual Cultures.
Watch more of the Decolonisation in the 2020s series on YouTube.
DESTRUCTION: The toppling of public monuments
Statues erected to venerate public figures and the systems of power have become a potent symbol of oppression. This talk looks at the toppling of public monuments in the UK and Latvia due to recent public unrest. What happens when a statue falls?
Rethinking the theory and practice of commons
For this MA Cities public lecture, Dr Marina Chang highlights the importance of co-operative institutional structures through which grassroots initiatives can self-organise for a better future, taking Calthorpe Community Garden as a case study.
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