Earth Week
- Written byStudent Communications
- Published date 24 March 2026
Earth Day takes place annually on 22 April, providing an opportunity to demonstrate support for and celebrate the environmental movement seeking to raise awareness of the need to protect Earth’s natural resources for future generations.
Taking place from 20–26 April and surrounding Earth Day, Earth Week gives us the opportunity to dedicate a full week to raising awareness of what we can all do to help combat the climate crisis.
How can I get involved?
The Climate Emergency Network, which recently re-launched as a staff network, put a call out earlier this year for staff and students to pitch activities to facilitate as part of our Earth Week programme. The UAL community did not disappoint, with over 100 proposals put forward.
Explore the full programme of activity on Eventbrite.
Monday 20 April, CSM
- Carbon Literacy Training Course for UAL Students | 9.30am - 3.30pm
- CSM Swap Shop x ReCreate UK: Stretching the life of exhibition materials | 1 – 3pm
- Transformation and challenge in materials and objects | 1 – 2.30pm
- Bio-ceramics: Shells as Biomaterials | 1.30 - 3pm
- Ecotechnic-metabolics: prototyping biosensors for urban gardens | 2 – 4pm
- A Forest School | 6 – 7.30pm
- Earth Night with the Climate Emergency Network | 6.30 – 9pm
Tuesday 21 April, CCW
- Tears in our Fabric: A Climate Circle| 1.30 – 3pm | Camberwell
- Mini Orchard Planting | 1.30 – 2.30pm | Camberwell
- Polyester Protest | 2 – 4pm | Chelsea
- Working With Nature: A Natural Materials Workshop | 2 – 3.30pm | Wimbledon
- Fixing design’s existential crisis with Phineas Harper | 6 – 7.30pm | Camberwell
Wednesday 22 April, LCF
- Fibre Frequencies: Spinning Fashion Back to Land | 1 – 2.30pm
- Futuring a Garden of Beehives at LCF | 1 – 2.30pm
- Common Threads: Accelerating Circularity in the Fashion Industry | 6 – 7.30pm
Thursday 23 April, LCC
- See your Waste Become Soil at the LCC Community Garden Launch | 1 – 2.30pm
- The Carbon Walk | 1 – 2pm
- Samoota: EN1SE | 2 – 3pm
- Field Notes | 3.30 – 5pm
- Climate Art & the Crises of AI + Afterparty | 6 – 7.30pm
Friday 24 April, HH
- Lines of Flight – an EARTH research symposium | 10am – 4.45pm
Explore biodiversity at UAL with iNaturalist
Download the iNaturalist app to help you document biodiversity across UAL. Simply take a photo of any wild species (plants, fungi, insects, animals) you see on a UAL campus, upload it onto the app and it will identify what you’ve captured.
If you want to see what others have captured at UAL in the iNaturalist app, go to Menu → Projects, search for ‘University of the Arts London’ and join the UAL Campus Biodiversity Network Collection Project.
Not only is it a fun, hands-on way to get outdoors, you’ll also be making a meaningful contribution to conservation at UAL as all campus observations support our long-term biodiversity monitoring.