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Join us to design stories for the future of technology, science, society and culture that traverse space and time.
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Showreel Original Content: projects by MA Narrative Environments class of 2025. Showreel edited by Sanne Winderickx. Additional music credits: Supersonic by Ombré: Artlist Original Music, Repeat by Metre: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 via Free Music Archive, Mirror by CXR ATK: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 via Free Music Archive, Island in the Sky by Psychadelik Pedestrian: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 via Free Music Archive
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This December MA Narrative Environments held our annual party for industry partners and friends of the course. Designed collaboratively by the Year 1 cohort, NightShift translated the essence of PlayTime, the 1967 film by Jacques Tati, into a party format, exploring privacy, transparency and the invisible thresholds that govern social behaviour.
Drawing on the film’s modernist architecture and choreographed institutional life, NightShift took its audience through a three-act spatial journey where light, sound, scenography, food, drinks and live performance traced the subtle systems of control and observation that guide how we gather today, moving guests from structured order to orchestrated chaos.
Thank you to all our Year 1 student teams, project tutors including @vrebosstan@nicoalexandroff@bethany.rigby , the @csm_news Learning Technology Support team, Specialist Technicians, Events and Hospitality teams, and @lizzievickery@good_makes@xllarch + our wider @spatial_csm crew for support with event production and planning. And to all our amazing industry partners, friends of the course and alumni who joined us for the NightShift!
Images: ty documentation team & classmates for BTS w/ #classof2027 #narrativeenvironments #csm #andwiththatthe2025seasoncomestoanend #happywinterbreak
Thinking of applying to MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins?
Join us to design stories for the future of technology, science, society and culture that traverse space and time.
🪐ADMISSIONS ARE OPEN
🔗Info on how to apply at LINK IN BIO
#NarrativeEnvironments #SpatialPractices #CSM
Imagining a future without plastic, MA Industrial Design students Nakshatra Premkumar @_._nakshatra_._ , Ornella Romagnoli @di.oromagnoli , and Marianne Proops @marianneproops , alongside MA Narrative Environments students Alya Kanibelli @alyakanibelli and Zoe Ooi @ zo___irl, explore how environmental data in flood-prone zones around the Thames Barrier can be felt through the body. Through a haptic wearable and responsive micro-architecture, their proposal transforms risk awareness into an embodied, sensory experience that both alerts and protects.
This provocation forms part of ‘Earthsuits: Plastic Extinction’, a collaborative research project delivered in partnership with LVMH Maison/0, positioning design as a practice of world-making.
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Exhibiting at Alcova.
‘Bird Up’ is a playful prototype that disconnects users from modern technology, imagining birds perched on your shoulder and their songs becoming the medium for listening.
From MA Industrial Design students James Cooper @jcooper__design , Siki Cao @atlasatty and Anthony Shen @buchijiuca7 , and MA Narrative Environments students Ella Middleton @ellamiddx , Murray Taylor and Marie Thellier @mnt1s_ .
This project forms part of ‘Earthsuits: Plastic Extinction’, a collaborative research project delivered in partnership with LVMH Maison/0, positioning design as a practice of world-making.
At Alcova, MA Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins presents a series of material propositions, objects and systems that expose trade offs, re-distribute agency, or refuse ‘business as usual’. They make alternatives tangible.
Alcova @alcova.milano
Monday 20 – Sunday 26 April 2026
Baggio Military Hospital Complex
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Currently exhibiting at Alcova.
Alcova @alcova.milano
Monday 20 – Sunday 26 April 2026
Baggio Military Hospital Complex
In a world where plastic is extinct, MA Industrial Design students James Cooper @jcooper__design , Siki Cao @atlasatty and Anthony Shen @buchijiuca7 , and MA Narrative Environments @narrativenvironments students Ella Middleton @ellamiddx , Murray Taylor and Marie Thellier @mnt1s_ rethink electronic headphones as “birdphones”, a playful prototype that disconnects users from modern technology, imagining birds perched on your shoulder and their songs becoming the medium for listening.
This provocation forms part of ‘Earthsuits: Plastic Extinction’, a collaborative research project delivered in partnership with LVMH Maison/0, positioning design as a practice of world-making.
🙂 What would you sacrifice to keep plastic?
Kicking off a collaborative unit between MA Industrial Design and MA Narrative Environments, students were challenged to critically examine the hidden trade-offs behind our dependence on plastic. Working from the (provocative) position that plastic must be preserved at any cost, students designed speculative helmets that protect the continuity of plastic by explicitly sacrificing something in return.
What if soil could become a social network?
As part of the Postgraduate Work in Progress Show, MA Narrative Environments student Ioanna Lamprou @ioannalamprouart is exploring how soil might become a living interface for interspecies communication.
Her project, World.Wild.Web, imagines a new kind of digital social system between humans and soil. Pushing back against extractive systems in agriculture and social media alike, the work looks to the ground as a narrative machine, asking how digital interaction could be shaped by care, connection and organic growth.
The prototype combines a physical soil structure with a digital visualisation controlled by human touch, generating unique imagery and sound through interaction.
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What if instead of speakers, we listened to the birds?
Transforming isolation into ecological reconnection, the collaborative unit between @csm_maid & @narrativeenvironments explores wearables in a plastic extinction as part of @earthsuits.space for @maisonzero
‘Bird Up’ is part of a collection of works ranging from portable bird boxes for messenger pigeons to seed packets designed to attract specific song birds. Absurdity plays a leading role in reconnecting people to nature through a commentary on consumerism.
Designers:
@jcooper__design@mnt1s_@ellamiddx@buchijiuca7@atlasatty@csm_news
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3D scanning stone tools during the Cognitive Archaeology workshop.
Thank you to all of the students that attended and thank you to Fred the 3D Capture Specialist Technician.
#3dscanning #lithics #stonetools #centralsaintmartins
3D capture is about turning the real world into digital geometry�. It's a brilliant way to preserve the form of objects in museum collections.
Structured light scanning has accuracy up to 0.05 mm, so can reveal details that cannot be seen by the human eye. Helping us learn more about these amazing unique objects.
Mahal de Man and Victoria King will be 3D scanning stone tools from The Worthing Museum with Specialist Technician Fred Woodward and students at Central Saint Martin's on Tuesday 23rd February.
@narrativeenvironments@mahaldeman@victoriakinglondon
#lithics #3dscanning #centralsaintmartins #museum
Tuesday 24 February 2–5pm
CSM STUDENTS ONLY
In collaboration with Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, 3D Make Technician Victoria King and her creative partner Mahal de Man will guide students through a hands-on exploration of Neolithic stone tool artefacts from the museum collection.
Working with the objects both physically and digitally in the Photogrammetry Lab, students will develop photogrammetry skills while thinking through how stone tools have shaped human cognition – making, thinking, and perception over time.
@victoriakinglondon is a London based jeweller and designer-maker whose practice explores material innovation, storytelling, and technology.
@mahaldeman is artist-in-residence at Research Art Lab on Orford Ness – a collaboration between the National Trust and University of Suffolk.
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