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Research projects

Find out how our art and design research at Chelsea College of Arts is tackling global issues and effecting change.


  • Beyond the Visual

    Changing blind people’s experience of art in museums.

  • A statue of a chip inside a glass bottle
    Credit: The Fourth Plinth, 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' by Yinka Shonibare, Trafalgar Square, London. 2011. Author: Brian Gillman. Creative Commons.

    Worlding Public Cultures

    Building on work around the decolonisation and internationalisation of museums and universities.

  • Pineapple farm.
    Piñayarn project: pineapple farm.

    Piñayarn

    Developing sustainable alternatives for COVID-19 PPE.

  • Old black and white photograph of a rally
    C.L.R James speaking at a rally in Trafalgar Square in 1935

    Black Artists and Modernism

    Uncovering hidden works by Black British artists within the UK’s public collections.

  • Graphic symbols used in Trash-2-Cash project workshops..
    Trash-2-Cash project: workshop graphics.

    Trash-2-Cash

    Responding to the problem of textile waste in the European Union.