CSM Architecture MArch

What might the forest make visible in times of ecological breakdown?
Forest School is a platform and network out of the S (systems) school at Central Saint Martins. It closely considers the forest as a way of understanding the causes and implications of climate and ecological emergency.

As part of UAL’s Earth Week and in response to the Fault Lines theme supported by , the Forest School will convene a panel discussion including:

Dr. Alemayehu Wassie is a forest ecologist who has spent the past decade on a mission to preserve, document and protect Ethiopia’s church forests.

Andreas Lang is Reader in Situated and Ecological Design Practices and co-founder of public works, a non-profit critical design practice that occupies the terrain between art, architecture and research.

Carlotta Novella is an artist, architect, teacher, experimental cook and host. Carlotta will explore her rural school in Italy,  , a knowledge exchange and cultural project which takes the form of a diffused network of classrooms.

Catalina Mejia Moreno is a Senior Lecturer in Climate Studies at CSM. She is a spatial practitioner and architectural historian interested in practices of resistance, situated and critical spatial practice, environmental, racial and spatial justice, feminist and decolonial/anticolonial practice and thought.

Judith Van De Boom is a design researcher, educator and practical idealist working with ecosystems through situated practice. As Course Leader of MA Regenerative Design at CSM, she develops activated cohorts focused on regenerative practice and place-based transformation.

Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based in London. Her work investigates the continuum of extractivism, which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production, ecological collapse, and climate chaos; traces constellations of solidarity; and imagines paths to ecological reparations.

The session will be convened by Rebecca Wright, Dean of S School and design educator, writer on design and co-founder of GraphicDesign& with Lucienne Roberts.

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PRACTICE TALK
Wednesday 24.02. at 17:00

Judith Lösing, Director at East, will share insights from her practice spanning architecture, landscape and urban design. She conceived and edited London Arboretum, a book exploring the role of trees in urban design. The publication marks the culmination of the Architecture Foundation’s inaugural research fellowship.

All CSM students are welcome!
Join us in the LVMH Lecture Theatre (E002)


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Unit 1 Studio: Bless This Q***r House (Kleo Kyriakou)

Bless This Q***r House engages with q***r theory, performance actions and improvised craft processes to invent new imaginaries of intimate spatial production and domesticity.

Student Work:
Blue Williger (Image 2)
Dominique Ducasse (Images 4, 6)
Niya Kankapadan (Image 5)

Unit 1 Studio: The House is Crying (Bushra Mohamed)

The House is Crying focuses on home in London and challenges the accepted typologies and forms of housing in the context of a global city home to many diasporas and many forms of domesticity currently underrepresented in housing design.

Student Work:
Eve Murray (Images 4, 5)
Hannah Keen (Image 6)

Unit 1 Studio: Hybrid Monuments (Krish Nathaniel)

Hybrid Monuments centres contestation, joy, and tension at the intersection of multiple cultures: reflecting on memory, rootedness, and creolisation, and how these can be made manifest in civic and private life to form new rituals, traditions, and spaces.

Student Work:
Eduard Valenzuela (Image 2)
Rhiannon Williams (Image 4)
Hannah Mathew (Image 6)

Unit 1 Studio: Unearthing (Catalina Mejia Moreno)

Unearthing, as an architectural inquiry, calls to earth, ground and soil, imagining spatial practice within the entanglement and multiplicity of earth as metaphor and material act, while uprooting Modernist and imperial architectural lineages marked by erasure, extraction and dispossession.

Student Work:
Oscar Chainey (Images 2, 4)
Rhea Samaha (Images 5, 6)