A manifesto for Spatial Practices 1 at Central Saint Martins 2 WE SEE THE WE SUPPORT PRODUCTION OF NOT ONLY THE SPACE AS FUNDA- DEVELOPMENT MENTALLY SOCIAL OF RADICAL AND POLITICAL IDEAS, BUT ALSO THE RADICAL 3 POTENTIAL OF WE USE OUR MAKING AND NAME TO RETHINK BUILDING OUR PROFESSION, IMAGINING ROLES BEYOND DISCIPLINARY LIMITS, AND ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN OUR ART SCHOOL 4 SETTING WE ENGAGE CREATIVELY WITH 5 THE REALITY WE PROVIDE OF THE CITY FLEXIBLE, AROUND US, AND ALTERNATIVE ITS LEGISLATIVE PATHWAYS AND ECONOMIC FOR STUDY CONSTRAINTS ENCOURAGING BY UNDERTAKING DIVERSE CAREERS LIVE PROJECTS AND INNOVATIVE THAT HAVE FUTURE PRACTICES AGENCY A manifesto for Spatial Practices BA (Hons) Architecture at Central Saint Martins Part Ⅰ This course explores design for the human environment through the buildings and spaces we inhabit, engaging in the technical, material, cultural, social and political concerns of the contemporary world. It offers the first step towards becoming a registered architect yet drawing from its critical context in an art and design school, remains open to a range of practices. Live Spatial Practices projects, mentorships and industry collaborations embedded in the fabric of London enrich the student The contemporary city is subject to ever-increasing fixity and control. Faculty experience through the course of study. Its physical spaces and places are constrained by regulation and Jeremy Till Contact the powerful forces of commodification, and this rigidity renders Mel Dodd Alex Warnock-Smith, Course Leader the city incapable of responding to the social, the temporal, and Tricia Austin [email protected] www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/undergraduate/ the political aspects of everyday life. Spatial Practice offers an Andreas Lang ba-architecture alternative for spatial education, addressing these dilemmas. Our Alex Warnock-Smith critical approach focuses on the production of space, where space Oscar Brito is a social construction. This shifts the emphasis from space alone, Gregory Ross to the processes of its creation. We value indeterminacy and fluidity, Amanda Hopkins and open up our practice to experimentation, uncertainty, risk and Ruth Lang surprise. To complement this approach, we embrace the radical Adrian Robinson MA Narrative Environments potential of engaging in the world outside the university. Through live Shumi Bose projects with external communities, agencies and organisations, we Andrew Sides nurture a constant negotiation between complicity and resistance; Bethany Shepherd Narrative Environments is concerned with the design a negotiation between the physical necessities of production, versus of not only spaces, but experiences and events for museums, brand, urban and community environments. the temporal acts of social and political agency. Students work in small multidisciplinary teams to People tell stories through combining text, image, sound In our art school environment, richly endowed with workshops, Alicja Borkowska and physical space to create original engaging and immersive experiences. The course pioneers and specialist technicians, our emphasis is on both the critical Giles Bruce collaborative practice among communication and the cultural but also the practical and organizational arts of Susanne Buck designers, curators and architects enabling students, making, which have powerful potential. The project work of students David Chambers who benefit from strong industry links that provide live, funded projects, mentors and placements. and researchers, whether in the form of physical structures, user Ursula Dimitriou experiences, design methodologies or critical actions, is always Matthew Duckett Contact underpinned by working within collaborative, multidisciplinary Alberto Duman Tricia Austin, Course Leader [email protected] teams. Running through all of these agendas is the key premise that Ruben Everett www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/postgraduate/ the human environment is alive with agency, and as we shape our Sarah Featherstone ma-narrative-environments environment, our environment shapes us. Spatial Practices develops Jes Fernie critical and creative practitioners who can design for, and reflect Liza Fior upon, the human environment as an ever-changing crucible of ideas, Kevin Flude places, needs and desires. Ashley Fridd Andrew Friend MA Architecture, Our courses: BA Architecture (Part Ⅰ), MA Narrative Environments, Adam Nathaniel Furman Cities & Innovation MA Architecture: Cities and Innovation, and M ARCH Architecture Charlotte Grace (Part Ⅱ) provide a route from foundation, through undergraduate Cecilie Gravesen This course, in parallel to the professional routes and postgraduate study to doctoral research and professional Anna Hart of Parts Ⅰ & Ⅱ, explores the edges of the disciplinary boundaries of architecture and urbanism. Students practice. Each course has its own character, exploring, in its unique Takeshi Hayatsu test design approaches which respond to the way, the human environment as a living network of people, buildings, Matt Haycocks burgeoning need for contemporary city design to spaces, objects and stories. Nicolas Henninger focus not only on the traditional ‘hard’ infrastructures of buildings, transport and engineering, but also the Geraldine Holland softer infrastructures of social networks, organization Mel Dodd Ingrid Hu and human interactions. Programme Director, Spatial Practices Simon Jones Contact Stuart Jones Andreas Lang, Course Leader Tom Keeley [email protected] Julia King www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/postgraduate/ ma-architecture-cities-and-innovation Costandis Kizis Thomas Klassnik Torange Khonsari Andrea Lioy Maria Lisorsgakaya Xavier Llarch Font Jon Lopez MArch Architecture Stuart Mackenzie Part Ⅱ Dan Marmot Ciaran Malik This course is uniquely positioned at Central Saint Lottie McCarthy Martins to draw on the dynamic design thinking and making skills from a range of critical art and Noel McCauley design practices, while directing students along the Andy Merritt second degree in the professional pathway toward Douglas Murphy registration as an architect—commonly referred to as Part Ⅱ. Allan Parsons Jona Piehl Contact Adrian Robinson Andreas Lang, Course Leader [email protected] Michelle Salamon www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/postgraduate/ F or more information, please visit our website: Ahay Shah m-arch-architecture www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/our-programmes/ Tony Staples spatial-practices-programme Carlos Villanueva Brandt Woonying Wong graphic design: Bandiera, bandiera.co.uk Francesco Zuddas.