Our Schools
Building on our core spirit of interdisciplinarity as an art school, CSM has 3 Schools of Thought: C School (Culture), S School (Systems) and M School (Material).
CSM Schools are open, adaptive and (re)generative. Grounded by our disciplines, they foster communities – of staff, students and collaborators – with a shared sense of purpose, practice, pedagogy and enquiry.
The naming strategy highlights the whole (C + S + M = CSM). This transformation allows space for working across schools and adapting to societal and planetary conditions as called for in our University’s ambitious strategy.
Schools are also the foundation for our 8 academic programmes at Central Saint Martins.
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Yuqing Hou, Rooted, MA Fine Art 2025
C School
C School explores culture as a vital form of enquiry and expression, developing thinking and practice across art, performance and curation.
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Memento, WENYI GU, MA Narrative Environments 2025
S School
S School is concerned with the complex systems that support and shape our world – systems of people, technology, capital, communication, resources, nature – which are hybrid and interdependent.
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Feranmi Eso, BA Fashion Communication and Promotion
M School
M School embraces an expansive understanding of materials, from traditional craft to emerging technologies, from text and film to cutting-edge digital interfaces and living systems.