Research at CSM
Central Saint Martins is a diverse community united by a shared commitment to practice as a way of understanding, making, and acting in the world. Research at CSM values curiosity, risk, and collaboration. Through practice, we disrupt, play, and exchange to imagine fairer, more regenerative futures. Our work embraces multiple perspectives to generate knowledge with impact – shaping culture, informing policy, and enabling change through creative inquiry.
Selected projects
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Wonderwood, The Brothers Quay, courtesy of the filmmakers.
Fashion in Film Festival
Where Cinema, Fashion & Art Come Together
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Image courtesy of Paulina Yurman
Maternal Machines
Design Speculations about Fantasies of Care
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Installation view: Constellations exhibition, Pink Gallery, Manchester, Anna MacDonald, 2024
Choreography of Consent:
Experiments in Dance/Law Research
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T-Factor, Photographed by Adam Razvi.
T-Factor
Prototyping participatory urban futures
Research with us
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MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, November 2024. Photo: Razvan Dragos
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Mycelial Networking' by Tessa Ditner Amorosi & Sara Vanore Rewkiewicz (a board for discarded ideas
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MA Culture Criticism and Curation November 2024. Photo: Razvan Dragos
News and updates
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Image courtesy of Afterall. Reintroducing Afterall: publishing, practice and rethinking global art narratives
At Central Saint Martins, Afterall operates at the intersection of research, publishing, and teaching. Afterall publishes the bi-annual Afterall journal as well as four series of books: Exhibition Histories, One Work, Two Works and Critical Readers.
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Image credit: Jamie Johnson, 2026 -
Creativity Moves: Hybrid Innovation. January 2026. Photography by Joy Kirigo. Creativity Moves: transdisciplinary practice in action at CSM
Central Saint Martins welcomed Institute of Science Tokyo for Creativity Moves - a day of workshops, dialogue and experimentation that brought together design, science and embodied practice in a shared space of inquiry.