Normal to Dissent.
2018 marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which extended voting rights to women who met certain, limited criteria, but left 60% of the female population […]
Research at Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins has an established and thriving research community. Our staff are curious and innovative and their research ranges from practice driven investigation to theoretical study.
The results of our research take many forms including artefacts, designs, patents, catalogues, exhibitions, digital resources of various kinds, as well as published work such as books, journal articles and commissioned reports.
Much of our work crosses disciplinary boundaries and is carried out in collaboration with industry, commerce, museums and galleries, governmental organisations and other academic institutions.
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Life After Makeright: The Power Of Patchwork
Makeright is a ground-breaking design course for prison inmates, run by The Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central Saint Martins. The project is devised to break the cycle of […]
Temporalities: Celebrating Central Saint Martins’ moving image history
Since the 1960s Central Saint Martins has played a crucial role in artists’ moving image culture in the UK – from feminist practice to the avant-garde. Celebrating this rich history, Temporalities, […]
I Don’t Know Her Name, But I Know Her Work
Museum & Study Collection curator Sarah Campbell introduces I Don’t Know Her Name, But I Know Her Work, a display that questions the lack of representation of women in graphic […]
Olly Wainwright on Fundamentals
With the second Fundamentals lecture series beginning on Thursday 25 January, Guardian architecture and design critic Olly Wainwright looks back at last year’s series and introduces the key themes for […]
Central Saint Martins returns to Tate Exchange
Following the inaugural residency in January that saw 4,000 members of the public join Fine Art students to turn the art school upside down, Central Saint Martins returns to Tate […]
Research on Twitter
@csmresearch: 9 August 2018
CSM's Andrea Luke Zimmerman is in Gallery 9 - showing a film and poster installation tracing activism in Newcastle and resistance movements around in the UK. Until 26 August. https://t.co/EObfUzvUkO
@csmresearch: 8 August 2018
Caroline Dakers - CSM Professor of Cultural History - explores the ‘master mind’ of painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – part of @PaulMellonCentr conference ‘Alma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and on Screen’: https://t.co/hfOFogGFgi (30:13)
@csmresearch: 7 August 2018
Fascinating contribution to the "Conversation Piece" on Lawrence Alma-Tadema, from CSM's Caroline Dakers - read here: https://t.co/RYWq1SKsX1 https://t.co/LgSGG8n54Y
@csmresearch: 7 August 2018
CSM's Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone will be screening 'For an Open Campus', shot on the 1960's campus of Aichi University of the Arts, Japan, at Keio University Art Centre, Tokyo. Monday 27 August 7pm @EllardJohnstone @KeioArtCentre https://t.co/yNikK8vScD