Spatial Practices CSM

Our Spatial Practices Show is part of the London Festival of Architecture programme again this year!

Join us at Central Saint Martins for the Spatial Practices Show 2026 public launch next week to see research-led, socially engaged and innovative work by our incredible graduating students from BA Architecture, MA Architecture, MA Narrative Environments and MA Cities, curated across four distinct installations.

Together, these works show how creative practice leaves it’s mark our communities and cultures and the futures we all share.

Our show is open daily from 18-21 June
12-8pm Thursday to Saturday and 12-6pm Sunday
More details at the LFA link in bio.

image: from the Spatial Practices Show 2023, designed by

Q***r Belonging: Past, Present and Future
part of

Sunday June 14
12-6pm
Q***r Britain, 2 Granary Square, London N1C4BH

Tickets via link in

Join Stage 2 MA Architecture Leader Ulrike Steven for the panel discussion ‘Q***r Belonging: Past, Present and Future’, part of the LFA programme, responding beautifully to the theme of Belonging.

Ulrike will be in conversation with and Lenny Rajmont, founder of - celebrating their brilliant contributions to the built environment, and the spatial queeries that sit at the heart of our industry and alternative modes of practice.

This will take place at the groundbreaking - the UK’s first national LGBTQ+ museum.

London Festival of Architecture Murray Lecture 2026:
Echoes, with Jayden Ali and Shumi Bose.

Monday 01 June
6:30-8:30 pm

The London Centre
3 Aldermanbury
London
EC2V 7HH

Tickets and more info at link in bio.

Join Founding Director of JA Projects , Jayden Ali, for this London Festival of Architecture’s keynote Murray Lecture, titled Echoes.

This years Murray Lecture will be delivered by Jayden Ali and kicks off LFA2026 with an exploration of the 2026 theme of ‘Belonging’, at the scale of the city, neighbourhood, high streets and projects.

The Murray Lecture is an annual event that brings leading voices in the built environment to discuss the future of cities and our industry. Ali will unpack the theme of Belonging, before sitting down with Shumi Bose for a conversation unpacking ideas shared further and inviting the audience into the discussion through a moment of Q&A.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Jayden Ali
Founding Director, JA Projects

Shumi Bose
Academic, curator and editor in the field of architecture and architectural history, UAL Central Saint Martins

How to mend Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS)? A panel discussion.

Tuesday 28 April
5:30-7pm
LVMH E003 Theatre
Central Saint Martins

Open to all UAL / CSM staff and students (no need to book)
External guests : book your spot via link in bio

Join Adriana Cobo-Corey , Senior Lecturer in Ethical Practice, and guest speakers for a panel presentation and discussion in celebration of Adriana’s recently published book ‘Mending Privately Owned Public Spaces: Works on Taste and Spatial Practice’ (Routledge, 2026).

Her book is motivated by a simple observation: Privately Owned Public Spaces are overlooked sites when it comes to explore the subject of taste in architecture and urban design. With a focus on collaborative practice and temporary interventions on POPS, the panel will address questions such as: why don’t we talk about taste in socially engaged practice today? Does a focus on aesthetics pose an ethical dilemma between superficiality and depth in the face of persistent social inequity?

On the panel:

Manijeh Verghese, CEO of Open City and a Mayor of London Design Advocate.
Anna Minton, Journalist, writer and academic. Author of Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City (Penguin, 2009)
Carl Fraser, Co-founder of Counter Mapping, designer, researcher and lecturer in architecture.
Shumi Bose, Curator; Chief Editor of KoozArch, Subject Leader on Contextual Studies, CSM, UAL
Adriana Cobo Corey, Writer and academic. Author of Mending POPS (Routledge, 2026). Subject Leader on Ethical Practice in Design, CSM, UAL

How to mend Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS)?
A panel discussion and book launch.

Tuesday 28 April
5:30-7pm
LVMH E003 Theatre
Central Saint Martins

Open to all UAL / CSM staff and students (no need to book)
External guests : book your spot via link in bio (free)

Join Adriana Cobo-Corey, Senior Lecturer in Ethical Practice, and guest speakers for a panel presentation and discussion in celebration of Adriana Cobo Corey’s recently published book Mending Privately Owned Spaces: Works on Taste and Spatial Practice (Routledge, 2026).

Her book is motivated by a simple observation: Privately Owned Public Spaces are overlooked sites when it comes to explore the subject of taste in architecture and urban design. With a focus on collaborative practice and temporary interventions on POPS, the panel will address questions such as: why don’t we talk about taste in socially engaged practice today? Does a focus on aesthetics pose an ethical dilemma between superficiality and depth in the face of persistent social inequity?

On the panel:

Manijeh Verghese, CEO of Open City and a Mayor of London Design Advocate.

Anna Minton, Journalist, writer and academic. Author of Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City (Penguin, 2009)

Carl Fraser, Co-founder of Counter Mapping, designer, researcher and lecturer in architecture.

Shumi Bose, Curator; Chief Editor of KoozArch, Subject Leader on Contextual Studies, CSM, UAL

Adriana Cobo Corey, Writer and academic. Author of Mending POPS (Routledge, 2026). Subject Leader on Ethical Practice in Design, CSM, UAL

The ’s new show, ‘ A Common Thread’ celebrates craft processes and material experimentation through the work of students, staff and graduate practitioners from Central Saint Martins.

Highlighting how craft and tactility remain central in the contemporary creative space, the exhibition explores hands-on processes across diverse disciplines, from the preservation of ancestral practices to experimentations with emerging technologies.

The exhibition showcases work from student Amalyn Evans and graduate Alys Hargreave.

A Common Thread
On now - until 26 April 2026
Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins

Head to link in bio for more details and opening times.

Congratulations to MA Cities graduate Tolu Faleti who has been shortlisted for the TET Inspire Future Generations Awards .

Stemming from Tolu’s MA Cities thesis, the ‘Primary City: Creative City Making & Urban Literacy for Children Project’ critically reviews policy interventions and design practices, conceptualizing infrastructure frameworks to support inclusive processes. It highlights the discourse around building capacity and agency in primary school year groups to engage with their built environment.

Born out of an interest in what voices are represented in planning, designing and executing regeneration and development schemes, alongside a keenness to punch holes through a sometimes seemingly opaque statutory system of consultancy and desire to integrate engagement, lessons learned and live project feedback into the process of development.
The project is situated in live research, combining creative education, tactile urbanism and school engagement.

📣 Open Call!

For our next student-led exhibition from February-May 2026, the Lethaby Gallery is looking for existing work by students, graduates and staff from Central Saint Martins whose work is grounded in a hands-on relationship with materials - aiming to celebrate projects centered around material origin, culture, history and responsibility.

The exhibition hopes to reflect the ecological wisdom, celebrating how generational knowledge is preserved and transformed through means of language, stories and craft.

Becoming an intermiediary space for the public to engage with CSM’s creativity, the gallery will showcase work from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, from that which focuses on the preservation of ancestral techniques to those pushing inherited knowledge into the future through emerging technologies.

Deadline for expression of interest: Tuesday 16 December, 12pm midday.

Image credit: Yucatan Photo Diary, Dieter Vlasich and Nimie Li

A full house for the 2025 AIA UK/ RIBA Keynote Lecture with architect Lina Ghotmeh last night, hosted by Spatial Practices with the AIA_UK .uk and RIBA .

Thank you to Lina Ghotmeh for the uplifting and eloquent talk sharing your work and practice, and to all of you who joined us at Central Saint Martins for the evening.

Images by

1. Lina Ghotmeh presenting her work and practice.
2. Shumi Bose & Lina Ghotmeh in conversation with the audience during the Q&A.
3. Valerie Vaughan-Dick, CEO RIBA introducing the lecture.
4. Lina Ghotmeh talking about her work and practice.
5. The audience attending the talk.
6. Side view of Lina Ghotmeh presenting her work to a full room.

11.11
BAA Lecture Series 2025: Demonstrations/ CELEBRATE with Manijeh Verghese

5:30 pm
LVMHE003 Theatre
Central Saint Martins

Open to all. Book you [free] ticket at link in bio.
CSM/UAL students and staff just show up

Join BA Architecture and Manijeh Verghese for the final Demonstrations lecture on Tuesday 11 November at 5:30 pm in the LVMHE003 Theatre.

Manijeh will talk about how to celebrate the city and its architecture in connection to culture and everyday life.

With extensive experience curating critical exhibitions and public programs on architecture, Manijeh will demonstrate how to celebrate the places where we live while exploring the potential cultural narratives have for positively transforming them and challenging the profession’s normative views on how to design our built environment.

Manijeh Verghese (she/ her) is the CEO of Open City . She is also one of the Mayor of London’s Design Advocates and an External Examiner at The Bartlett, UCL. She is on the Board of Trustees for the Architecture Foundation and a member of the advisory board for The DisOrdinary Architecture Project. She was co-curator of The Garden of Privatised Delights – the 2021 British Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale and was the interpretation specialist for the South Asia Gallery at the Manchester Museum that was co-curated by a collective of over 30 local experts.

image: Manijeh Verghese.
Image credit: Elena Andreea Teleaga