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Maintenance and joy

Central Saint Martins, UAL

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From the scale of the human body to that of the planet, we ask what methods spatial practitioners use to connect maintenance with joy in times of crisis, how do they contribute to repairing the world while committing to make new? Image: Katarina Heeckt

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Maintenance, the planet and AI: Stephanie Sherman
Thu, Nov 30 • 6:00 PM
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Maintenance, innovation and ethics of housing: Helena Rivera
Thu, Nov 16 • 6:00 PM
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A Common Thread Event Programme

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'A Common Thread' celebrates a hands-on relationship to materials, in an exhibition of process-driven work by students. Join us for a public programme that celebrates the participatory and physical aspects of contemporary crafts.

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Apparition: Ecstatic Visions of Future Art School

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Our Art Schools are haunted by the ghosts of studios past: phantasmagorical echoes of teaching from long ago, now stuck in the present, mis-figured and unable to pass on to the other side.

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Art that Moves

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Art that Moves, 20 -24 April 2026. A conference on Mobility and Migration in art production, curation, and creative authorship in relation to our lived worlds.

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BA Architecture Lecture Series 2025 Demonstrations

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Join BA Architecture for the 2025 autumn series of lectures Demonstrations, convened and curated by Adriana Cobo-Corey, Senior Lecturer in Ethical Practice and Carlotta Novella, BAA Stage 1 Leader.

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BA Architecture Lecture Series 2026 Demonstrations

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The ‘Demonstrations’ lecture series invites speakers to explore approaches to design within the current global poly-crisis.

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Camden Schools Art Biennale

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Alongside the Biennale exhibition, join us for a free events programme with a range of activities developed with families, young people, and art teachers in mind.

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Crossroads: Being Human Festival

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This event series is CSM's contribution to Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.

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Design Transforms

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Join Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design for this lecture series where expert practitioners to share their thoughts on the idea of transformation.

Design Transforms 2026–27

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Design Transforms is a lecture series from the Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design programme at Central Saint Martins, where expert practitioners are invited to share their thoughts on the idea of transformation examined through the lens of their work.

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Digital Innovation Season 2025: Earthsuits

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Earthsuits is a CSM-led initiative exploring the history and future of wearables, encompassing augmentations, devices, materials, sensors and beyond. The project will launch in February 2025 as the theme of CSM’s fourth Digital Innovation Season.

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Digital Innovation Season: Planetary Sensing

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The Digital Innovation Season is Central Saint Martin’s flagship programme for the exploration of new and emerging technologies and their impact on creative practice, the industries linked to our institution, and the planet.

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DIS: Earthsuits Plastic Extinction

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Digital Innovation Season returns for its fifth iteration: Earthsuits - Plastic Extinction in February 2026.

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Live @ CSM

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We bring to you a vast landscape, welded together by BA Performance Design and Practice final year students. Using 3 divergent shows to dive into the chaotic, find meaning and explore the human experience through the expanse of different practices.

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Live@CSM

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Live@CSM is a festival of new work created by BAPDP - join us across the two weeks for all Stage 3 BAPDP have to share of their LiVE work.

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MA Applied Imagination Graduate Symposium

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Join us for Weaving Worlds, a symposium celebrating the next generation of changemakers and researchers emerging from MA Applied Imagination! Please click into each day to view the agenda and book tickets.

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MA Performance Screen: Major Project

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Showcasing MAPS final projects at Central Saint Martins, King's Cross through exhibitions, performances and screenings. We invite you to experience, indulge and enjoy the work of the next generation of screen-based artists from Central Saint Martins.

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MA Performance: Screen - Unveiling Connections

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Join MA Performance: Screen for Unit 4A & 4B screenings, installations and performances.

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MA Performance: Screen major projects at CSM

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Showcasing MAPS final projects at Central Saint Martins, King's Cross through exhibitions, performances and screenings. We invite you to experience, indulge and enjoy the work of the next generation of screen-based artists from Central Saint Martins.

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Poetics of Care: a festival of creative health

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How might creativity help us imagine new ecologies of wellbeing in times of crisis? This festival is much more than a showcase — it is an open laboratory for co-creation, critical discourse and embodied practice. Part of Creativity & Wellbeing Week

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process

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Showcasing work by recent graduates spanning art, design and performance, process explores not only final outcomes, but the often-spontaneous and unexpected ways of getting there. process is open from 16 September - 25 October 2026.

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Re:generating Creativity School Takeover Weeks

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In these Takeover Weeks, each of CSM’s Schools of Thought, C School (Culture), S School (Systems), M School (Material), alongside Research, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (RKE), will transform the gallery into a site for collaboration and dialogue.

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Scenoworks

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Scenoworks: Adventures in contemporary performance from graduating students of MA Performance: Design and Practice.

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Scenoworks

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Scenoworks: Adventures in contemporary performance from graduating students of MA Performance: Design and Practice.

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Scenoworks

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An MA P:DP Presentation

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Soil, Toil & Table: public programme

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Soil, Toil & Table reimagines the natural produce of the land through a radical lens on the human-nature bond, in an exhibition curated by and featuring Central Saint Martins staff, students and alumni in the Lethaby Gallery.

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The Observatory

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Look. Look again. Look differently. Alongside the exhibition, join us at The Observatory for a series of events looking further, deeper, closer at the exhibition's themes and approaches.