M School

M School is a multi-dimensional global community of students, staff and alumni. We are designers, makers, communicators, theorists, scientists, alchemists and storytellers.

Our courses embrace an expansive understanding of materials, from traditional craft to emerging technologies, from text and film to cutting-edge digital interfaces and living systems.

Each material offers unique possibilities and challenges, waiting to be discovered, reimagined, regenerated; cared for. Making is how we evolve these discoveries. We celebrate both the richness of making traditions and the new processes and practices that arrive with breakthrough technological innovations, seeing no opposition between the two.

M School investigates radical approaches to materials, making and the construction of meaning, through fashion, textiles, jewellery and material innovation. We generate innovative perspectives and solutions to global, societal, environmental and commercial challenges.

Hywel Davies, Dean of M School

We are M School

At M School, we delve into the historical and cultural meanings of our existence as humans, intertwined with our materials, processes, and tools—how we create, connect, enact, exhibit and thrive as a community.

We believe our work must actively regenerate, restore, and reimagine both our relationship with the material world and our connections with each other. Our approach is simultaneously experimental and critically aware, engaging hands and minds in equity. We constantly question not just what we can make, but how it should be made, by whom, for whom, and to what end.

M School is a dynamic creative community that empowers students to express a unique voice and practice, driving meaningful change to inspire a better world.

Industry placements

Our Diploma in Professional Studies facilitates over 1000 placements worldwide each year for students from Fashion, Jewellery, Textiles and Materials, Product, Ceramics and Industrial Design, Fine Art and Performance. Students test, develop and exchange knowledge and skills working with partner organisations who shape their industries: from micro and small-to-medium sized brands and studios, laboratories, start-ups, NGOs and agencies; to multinational corporations and charities.

Find out more about Diploma in Professional Studies at CSM

Research

Schools are the disciplinary foundation of our research and knowledge exchange culture, with research emerging from our centres and labs and across projects and communities of practice. Academic and technical staff, professoriate members and doctoral students come together as subject leaders, aligning research activity with curriculum development and advancing how we approach our disciplines. M School fosters inquiry grounded in our subject specialisms.

Research at CSM