We are committed to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency.
Our relationship with the planet's resources calls for urgent and lasting change. If the global population reaches 9.6 billion by 2050, the equivalent of almost three planets with be required to sustain current lifestyles.
Artists and designers are uniquely placed to meet these challenges. All forms of creative practice combine the ability to imagine new futures with the means to deliver them. Our work isn't defined simply by what we produce, but what comes before and after – how those things are made and how they are used.
We understand that the world is shaped through creative action. Read the UAL Climate Action Plan.
Maison/0
Maison/0 is the Central Saint Martins-LVMH creative platform for regenerative luxury. Our partnership is committed to leveraging the agency of creativity and education to help regenerate our climate and biodiversity and to empower emerging talents to design a better future.
The climate and ecological emergency
Designing the future
Celebrating the power of artistic practice to advocate for nature, nearly 50 student works were considered across Fine Art, Art and Science and Contemporary Photography, Practices and Philosophies.
Graduating MA Biodesign students Christopher Bellamy and Shijia Huang have developed advanced, future-facing projects in collab with The Francis Crick Institute: a bioluminescent living material that responds to touch and human architecture habitats
The Maison/0 Green Trail highlights projects that champion and innovate for nature by our graduating students across design disciplines at Central Saint Martins. Five winners and two commendations are celebrated in 2024, out of sixty students
We're excited to name the 2023 MullenLowe NOVA Award winners. The chosen work spans product and industrial design, fine art, jewellery, fashion and material futures.
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A resource of innovative materials reflecting the trends in manufacturing
An annual series of public debates chaired by Oliver Wainwright for the Spatial Practices programme
A public space for creative collaboration with, and by, the local community
Organised by the Culture and Enterprise programme, exploring what ethical circular practice looks like, and how it might change our relationship to objects, people and ourselves
A lasting, free resource for designers championing creativity and collaboration as a driving force for sustainable development, delivered in partnership with the Jewellery, Textiles and Materials programme
Changing our experiences of climate change by encountering data in physical forms
Exploring biological living systems to develop new ecological knowledge through creative practices
Developing a new category of raw material for fashion – fish leather