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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The STADHI core team, from left to right: Prof Kayoko Nohara, Director STADHI and Visiting Researcher at CSM; Kohei Kanomata, Hybrid Innovation Assistant Director; Betti Marenko, Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures, CSM; Dr Giorgio Salani, Dr Betti Marenko’s groundbreaking visit to the Institute of Science Tokyo
Over the spring of 2025, Dr Betti Marenko, Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at Central Saint Martins (CSM), UAL, visited the Institute of Science Tokyo as part of a significant collaborative research initiative, supported by the CSM
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Harvested Assemblies exhibited at the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial. Image courtesy of Carole Collet. Mycelium growth research project Harvested Assemblies exhibited at design biennale in France
Professor Carole Collet participates in the 13th edition of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial, open from 22 May to 6 July 2025.
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PhD Project 'Play Dead' 2025. Image courtesy of Xiangyu Dong Play Dead: How CSM's PhD Community Reimagined the Academic Symposium
In the heart of Central Saint Martins, the college’s street, usually a thoroughfare of hurried students and staff, transformed into what organizers called a "Play-Ground." For ten continuous hours, from morning until evening, 17 PhD researchers