The Climate Forum is a research, curriculum and exchange platform that brings the urgent focus of the climate and ecological emergency into the core of the Spatial Practices programme at Central Saint Martins.

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CLIMATE FORUM engages with history, theory and practice at the intersection of ethics of care, environmental humanities, and the climate and biodiversity crisis to explore the creative potential in emergent and the emergence of socio-ecological futures.

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CLIMATE FORUM challenges contemporary knowledge production in spatial design and research and interrogates how Spatial Practices needs to rethink teaching architecture, cities and narrative environments under the lens of current injustices.

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CLIMATE FORUM platform draws together students, staff, spatial practitioners, academics, artists and activists to collectively respond and engage with the challenges and possibilities of the changing earth systems and ecologies.

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CLIMATE FORUM recognises that Western-centred symptomatic and technocratic solutions erase the entanglements of the crisis and therefore aims to act creatively toward a field of interconnected, relational and plural forms of practice. It therefore suggests directing our efforts to three modes of engagement: planetary, ecological and pluri-vocal.

CLIMATE CURRICULUM creates moments of pedagogical and student-led exploration and experimentation within the modules of the Spatial Practices programme. In this space you will find a repository of talks, events, conversations, and workshops that brings together voices and knowledges across BA and M-Arch Architecture, MA Narrative Environments and MA Cities.

CLIMATE NARRATIVES unpacks frameworks for critical thinking. It challenges the vocabulary used to address climate from a variety of perspectives. In this section you will find conversations on climate related terminology and storytelling, situated learning, and suggested reading material from invited guests, students and staff.

CLIMATE PRACTICE signposts to a diverse range of spatial practitioners working at the intersection of climate and critical spatial practice. It features projects and initiatives from a range of practitioners working at the intersections of climate and critical spatial practice. By fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations from both inside and outside of the Spatial Practices Programme at Central Saint Martins, it provides the space to find common grounds to facilitate knowledge, research and practice exchange.

Climate Forum is an initiative by the Spatial Practices Programme
at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

CURATED BY: Catalina Mejia Moreno, Senior Lecturer in Climate Studies at Spatial Practices CSM, in collaboration with Mariam Hava Aslam, Spatial Practices M-Arch Graduate Teaching Assistant and Climate Advocate Coordinator CSM

FEATURING: BA Architecture, MA Architecture, MA Cities, MA Narrative Environments.

DESIGN: Villalba Studio