Sustainability and climate 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
Leading courses
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Maria Macc, Maria Macc
Sustainability stories
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Flock, Chloe Farrell, BA Fine Art Maison/0 This Earth 2024
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.
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Marama Ora project, Chris Bellamy, MA Biodesign x Francis Crick. Virihei modelling a prototype swim suit on the coral reef. Central Saint Martins MA Biodesign x Francis Crick Institute
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
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Ram-Mix: Playful Ramie Wear, Beibei Tang, MA Biodesign Maison/0 Green Trail 2024
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
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The 2023 NOVA Award winners, l to r: Asa, George, Bocen, Liz, Arianna and Luke. Photo Harry Cole. The 2023 MullenLowe NOVA Award winners
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.
College projects
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Material Library (photo: Alys Tomlinson)
Materials and Products Collection
A resource of innovative materials reflecting the trends in manufacturing
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Fundamentals
An annual series of public debates chaired by Oliver Wainwright for the Spatial Practices programme
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Image: Paul Cochrane
MAKE @ Story Garden
A public space for creative collaboration with, and by, the local community
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Alternative Futures
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
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A close up of MA Material Futures student Sean T. Ross' Solar Forge created for the Swarovski Conscious Design project. Image: Bruce Basudde
Swarovski Conscious Design Hub
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
Climate Emergency in Research
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Image courtesy of Tom Corby
Materializing Data, Embodying Climate Change
Changing our experiences of climate change by encountering data in physical forms
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Living Systems Lab
Exploring biological living systems to develop new ecological knowledge through creative practices
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Tokushima indigo dye museum, Indigo dyeing on fish skin. Image taken by Takayuki Ishii, 2019
Fishskin
Developing a new category of raw material for fashion – fish leather