24.01.2024
On Water Theft and Land Grab. Talk, Exchange.
F109, Central Saint Martins
On 24 January at 4:30 pm in F109 where we will have the honour to host the talk ON WATER THEFT AND LAND GRAB by the Afro Colombian environmental lawyer Adil Meléndez, who will be joined by the Catalan film collective ACATS (Media Collective Association for Social Transformation). Adil Melendez is an environmental and human rights lawyer. He mainly works representing afro Colombian peasant communities and Indigenous peoples.
Adil will be joined by the Catalan multimedia collective ACATS (Https://acats.cat/), whose work is characterised through cultural disobedience and solidarity as premises. They are now working with Adil in a documentary about his work in the Colombian Caribbean.
18.04–16.05.2023
Building from Building. Roundtables
Central Saint Martins, London
The roundtable talk series focuses on themes that are particularly related to techniques of working with existing material stocks. Speakers vary from recent graduates to teachers, practicing architects, historians to material contractors.
18.04.05.2023–28.04.2023
The Green House. Exhibition + Talks
Lethaby Gallery
An exhibition programme exploring climate justice. Bringing together as many voices and perspectives as possible to get involved in developing socially just responses to the impacts of climate change. Show up. Dig in. Compost the old and nurture the new.
19.09.2023–25.09.2023
Beneath The Veil: Indigo In Northern Nigeria.
Exhibtion, Exchange. Lethaby Gallery Windows
Discover the extraordinary craftsmanship, regenerative practices and the city behind the centuries old indigo dyeing traditions of Northern Nigeria. The project explores the regenerative practices of indigo growing, processing and textile production in the Northern Nigerian city of Kano and studies the supply chain in relation to its built and productive environment.
DATE | TITLE | TYPE | CATEGORY | WITH | HOST | LOCATION |
29/02/2023 | Sounding the Climate | Exchange | Narratives + Curriculum | Panelists: Antoinette Oni, Rayan Elnayal, Heba Tabidi, Akil Scafe-Smith and Nabil Al-Kinani | MArch Making Things Social | Lethaby Gallery, London, CSM |
04/02/2024 | Planetary Care Talks II | Lecture Series | Curriculum | Dorine Van Meel, Catalina Mejia Moreno | MArch | F109 CSM |
24/01/2024 | Planetary Care Talks I | Lecture Series | Curriculum | Adil Melendez, Catalan Multimedia Collective ACATS and Catalina Mejia Moreno | MArch | F109 CSM |
06/01/2024 | Imagining Climate Literacy | Exchange | Narratives | Spatial Practices Staff, Staff Development | Climate Forum | CSM |
15/11/2023 | Building Discourse: Should there be a moratorium on new build construction? | Talk | Narratives | Adriana Coco Corey, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Indy Johar, Joe Giddings, Jay Morton, Kudzai Matsvai | Climate Emergency Network, ACAN, Climate Forum | LVMH Theatre, CSM |
19/09/2023 | Beneath the veil. Indigo in Northern Nigeria | Exhibition / Exchange | Narratives/ Practice | CSM MA Cities and ThisIsUs with hFACTOR supported by LVMH Maison Zero and part of the London Design Festival | MA Cities | Lethaby Gallery, London, CSM |
06/06/2023 | Collective Earth Stories | Project | Narratives | Stephanie Romig-Orr | London, CSM | |
15/07/2023 | Cli-Fi Shorts: Speculative Storytelling from the microscopic to the planetary | Festival | Narratives | MA Narrative Environment students | The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge | |
28/06/2023 | Exchange | Narratives | John Wollaston, Stefan Sloneczny and Stephanie Sherman | MA Narrative Environments | London, CSM | |
16/06/2023 | Spatial Practices Climate Care award | Award | Curriculum | BA Architecture, MArch, MA Narrative Environments, MA Cities | London, CSM | |
02/05/2023 | Exchange | Practice | Ece Tan, Rachel Mandley, Saffie Pluck, Gaia Crocella, Carlotta Novella, Joe Mercer, Marius Munteanu, Holly Le-Var, Victoria King, Andreas Lang, Joy Mulandi, Mia Cormac, Jamie Johnson, Herni T, Cameron Bray, Heather Barnett, Judith Van Den Boom, Catalina Mejia Moreno, Fritto Misto, M-Arch students. | Forest School | Lethaby Gallery, CSM</td” | |
27/04/2023 | Climate Fictions: Black Fictions and Speculative Ecologies | Lecture series | Narratives + Curriculum | Jeremy Kamal | MA Narrative Environments | London + Los Angeles |
18/04/2023 | Lecture series | Curriculum | Gilli Hobbs, Maria Luiga, Colin Rose, Nitesh Magdani, Kat Scott, Luke Jones, Pete Collard, Roy Fishwick, Amaya Hernandez | BA Architecture, Enfield Council | London, CSM | |
13/04/2023 | Climate Fictions: LARP | Lecture series | Narratives + Curriculum | Adam James | MA Narrative Environments | London + Sweden |
08/03/2023 | Compostations: Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Material Cultures | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
05/03/2023 | Climate Fictions: Speculative realities: curating for a complex world | Lecture series | Narratives + Curriculum | Gonzalo Herrero Delicado | MA Narrative Environments | London, CSM |
24/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Collectives | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Bas Kools | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
22/02/2023 | Compostations: Earth Memory as Method | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Hannah Meszaros [Forensic Architecture] | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
22/02/2023 | Compostations: Making Things Social: Being Persons in a World of Objects | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Lucia Pietroiusti | MArch, Krish Nathaniel | London, CSM |
21/02/2023 | Compostations: Technologies and Ancestral Knowledges | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Barbara Santos [quiasma] | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | Colombia + London |
14/02/2023 | Compostations: Sacred Geometry | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Jaime Peña [Arquitectura Mixta] | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
13/02/2023 | Compostations: Listening to the Land | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Laura Burns | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
09/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Systems Communities | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Design Justice Network | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | |
09/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Systems Communities | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Andy Goldring | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | |
08/02/2023 | Compostations: Compost and Collaboration | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Compost Mentis | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
07/02/2023 | Compostations: Participatory Construction Processes | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Ana Gutierrez [Organizmo] with Pedro Jajoy from the Inga AWAI population, Colombia | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | Colombia + London |
05/02/2023 | Inga AWAI Indigenous Community Collaboration: Sharing ancestral knowledges. Samaki Kutij film screening | Exchange / project | Practice | Pedro Jajoy from the Inga AWAI population Colombia | MArch, Spatial Practices | London, CSM |
03/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Collectives | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Bas Kools | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
03/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Systems Communities | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Alastair Fuad-Luke | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | London, CSM |
01/02/2023 | Compostations: Solidarity & Protest | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | AK/OK | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | U.S.A + London, CSM |
31/01/2023 | Compostations: Architecture Voicing the Territories | Lecture Series | Narratives + Curriculum | Ana Maria Gutierrez [organizmo] | MA Regenerative Design, MArch, Climate Forum and Forest School | Colombia + London |
26/01/2023 | Tropical Architecture? | Talk | Curriculum | Catalina Mejia Moreno | BA Architecture, Stage 2, Climate Forum | London, CSM |
16/01/2023 | Talk | Curriculum | Teresa Serrano Alviles, Hannah Millet, Fred Kavanagh | BA Architecture, Stage 2 | London, CSM | |
09/01/2023 | Talk | Curriculum | Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski [Loudreaders] | BA Architecture, Stage 3, Climate Forum | Puerto Rico + London | |
17/11/2022 | Production Studies: Production Pedagogies | Lecture series | Narratives | Sergio Ferro, Charlotte Malterre Barthes, Jeremy Till, Summer Islam, Paloma Gormley, Catalina Mejia Moreno, Andreas Lang, Silke Kapp, Marianna Moura, Lara Melotti | Spatial Practices + tf/tk | London, CSM |
17/11/2022 | Architecture after Architecture | Talk | Curriculum | Jeremy Till, Anthony Powis [Mould] | BA Architecture, Stage 2, Climate Forum | London, CSM |
04/11/2022 | Forest School: Learning From the Sacred Forest | Lecture Series | Practice | Debojyoti Das, Anagh Bali | MArch / Forest School | London, CSM |
03/11/2022 | Production Studies: Building Alliances | Lecture series | Narratives | Alex Wood, Aska Welford, Charlie Edmonds, Peggy Deamer, Tilo Amhoff | Spatial Practices + tf/tk | London, CSM |
27/10/2022 | Ethics and Care: Making Space Making Change | Unit | Curriculum | Carlotta Novella, Catalina Mejia Moreno, Adriana Cobo, Tilo Amhoff, Torange Khonsari. | BA Architecture. Stage 1, Climate Forum | London, CSM |
27/10/2022 | Production Studies: Separated Design | Lecture series | Narratives | Linda Clarke, Fran Bradshaw, Jane Hall, Katie Lloyd Thomas | Spatial Practices + tf/tk | London, CSM |
26/10/2022 | Forest School: Constructive Land | Exhibition | Practice | MArch Year 1 students, Forestry England, Forestry England’s Dalby Forest, SOM Foundation, Vastern Timber, Structure Workshop, Villalba Studio, Jez Ralph and Connie Beauchamp | Forest School, Material Cultures | London, CSM |
20/10/2022 | Production Studies: Emancipatory Practices | Lecture series | Narratives | Marianna Borel, Winnie Herbstein, Julia Heslop, Doina Petrescu, Marianna Moura, Christine Wall | Spatial Practices + tf/tk | London, CSM |
12/10/2022 | Production Studies: Concrete Experiments | Lecture series | Narratives | João Marcos de Almeida Lopes, Martin Hughes, Sol Perez Martinez, Alex Warnock Smith | Spatial Practices + tf/tk | London, CSM |
27/09/2022 | Inga AWAI Indigenous Community Collaboration: Mapping Inga Ancestral Inhabitation | Exchange / project | Practice + Curriculum | Taita Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, Musu Jacanamijoy, Juliana Ramirez, Pedro Jajoy, John Tisoy, Spatial Practices Student Body | BA Architecture. Stage 1, M-Arch | London, CSM |
07/07/2022 | Dialogue | Curriculum | Spatial Practices Staff. Invited lectures by: MOULD, Andrew Belfield, Ana Maria Gutierrez [Organizmo] | Spatial Practices | London | |
17/06/2022 | Project | Practice | Hannah Millet, Andreas Lang, Ralf Waterfield, Alexie Sommer, George Massoud, Krish Nathaniel, Marcos Villalba, Ulrike Steven, Amadeo Martini, Freddie Whiltshire, James Bromley, Hannah Burford-Thomas, Rebecca Smart, Daniel Bush, and Matteo Attanasio | MA Architecture, Climate Advocates | London, CSM | |
15/06/2022 | Forest School: Resilient Forests | Lecture Series | Practice | Dr Eleanor Tew | MArch / Forest School | London, CSM |
08/06/2022 | Forest School: Wilderness | Lecture Series | Practice | Mateo Hernandez Schmidt | MArch / Forest School | London, CSM |
24/05/2022 | Forest School: Constructive Land | Lecture Series | Practice | James Simpson, Summer Islam | MArch / Forest School | London, CSM |
22/04/2022 | Workshop | Curriculum | Curated by Sadia Rahman, Maolin Huang, Juliana Muniz Westcott Ribeiro | UAL Climate Emergency Network, MA Cities, BA Architecture, MA Architecture. | London, CSM | |
22/02/2022 | Forest School: Indigenous Knowledges | Lecture Series | Practice | Ana Maria Gutierrez [organizmo], Juliana Ramirez, Pedro Aparicio | MArch / Forest School | London, CSM |
16/02/2022 | Forest School: Regenerative Design | Lecture Series | Practice | Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn | MArch / Forest School | London, CSM |
19/01/2022 | Forest School: Nature/Culture | Lecture Series | Practice | Gilly Karjevsky, Hester Buck | MArch / Forest School | London, CSM |
06/01/2022 | Forest School: Forest Wilding | Lecture Series | Practice | Andrew Stringer, Heather Barnett | MArch / Forest School | London + Colombia, CSM |
11/11/2021 | ZERO. Numeracy Narratives for Urban Resilience | Broadcast | Narratives | Various contributors | MA Narrative Environments, MA Cities, British Council, Radio Espacio Estacion, Ain Shams University Cairo, Climate Forum | Egypt + London |
10/11/2021 | Carnival Of Crisis: What if? | Festival | Curriculum | Spatial Practices student body | UAL Climate Emergency Network, MA Cities, BA Architecture, MA Architecture | London, CSM |
24.01.2024
On Water Theft and Land Grab. Talk, Exchange.
F109, Central Saint Martins
On 24 January at 4:30 pm in F109 where we will have the honour to host the talk ON WATER THEFT AND LAND GRAB by the Afro Colombian environmental lawyer Adil Meléndez, who will be joined by the Catalan film collective ACATS (Media Collective Association for Social Transformation). Adil Melendez is an environmental and human rights lawyer. He mainly works representing afro Colombian peasant communities and Indigenous peoples.
Adil will be joined by the Catalan multimedia collective ACATS (Https://acats.cat/), whose work is characterised through cultural disobedience and solidarity as premises. They are now working with Adil in a documentary about his work in the Colombian Caribbean.
18.04–16.05.2023
Building from Building. Roundtables
Central Saint Martins, London
The roundtable talk series focuses on themes that are particularly related to techniques of working with existing material stocks. Speakers vary from recent graduates to teachers, practicing architects, historians to material contractors.
18.04.05.2023–28.04.2023
The Green House. Exhibition + Talks
Lethaby Gallery
An exhibition programme exploring climate justice. Bringing together as many voices and perspectives as possible to get involved in developing socially just responses to the impacts of climate change. Show up. Dig in. Compost the old and nurture the new.
19.09.2023–25.09.2023
Beneath The Veil: Indigo In Northern Nigeria.
Exhibtion, Exchange. Lethaby Gallery Windows
Discover the extraordinary craftsmanship, regenerative practices and the city behind the centuries old indigo dyeing traditions of Northern Nigeria. The project explores the regenerative practices of indigo growing, processing and textile production in the Northern Nigerian city of Kano and studies the supply chain in relation to its built and productive environment.
DATE | TITLE | TYPE |
19/09/2023 | Beneath the veil. Indigo in Northern Nigeria | Exhibition/ Exchange |
15/07/2023 | Cli-Fi Shorts: Speculative Storytelling from the microscopic to the planetary | Festival |
28/06/2023 | Exchange | |
06/16/2023 | Spatial Practices Climate Care award | Award |
02/05/2023 | Exchange | |
27/04/2023 | Climate Fictions: Black Fictions and Speculative Ecologies | Lecture series |
18/04/2023 | Lecture series | |
13/04/2023 | Climate Fictions: LARP | Lecture series |
08/03/2023 | Compostations: Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future | Lecture Series |
05/03/2023 | Climate Fictions: Speculative realities: curating for a complex world | Lecture series |
24/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Collectives | Lecture Series |
22/02/2023 | Compostations: Earth Memory as Method | Lecture Series |
22/02/2023 | Compostations: Making Things Social: Being Persons in a World of Objects | Lecture Series |
21/02/2023 | Compostations: Technologies and Ancestral Knowledges | Lecture Series |
14/02/2023 | Compostations: Sacred Geometry | Lecture Series |
13/02/2023 | Compostations: Listening to the Land | Lecture Series |
09/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Systems Communities | Lecture Series |
09/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Systems Communities | Lecture Series |
08/02/2023 | Compostations: Compost and Collaboration | Lecture Series |
07/02/2023 | Compostations: Participatory Construction Processes | Lecture Series |
05/02/2023 | Inga AWAI Indigenous Community Collaboration: Sharing ancestral knowledges. Samaki Kutij film screening | Exchange / project |
03/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Collectives | Lecture Series |
03/02/2023 | Compostations: Living Systems Communities | Lecture Series |
01/02/2023 | Compostations: Solidarity & Protest | Lecture Series |
31/01/2023 | Compostations: Architecture Voicing the Territories | Lecture Series |
26/01/2023 | Tropical Architecture? | Talk |
16/01/2023 | Carbon Calculations | Talk |
09/01/2023 | Talk | |
17/11/2022 | Production Studies: Production Pedagogies | Lecture series |
17/11/2022 | Architecture after Architecture | Talk |
04/11/2022 | Forest School: Learning From the Sacred Forest | Lecture Series |
03/11/2022 | Production Studies: Building Alliances | Lecture series |
27/10/2022 | Ethics and Care: Making Space Making Change | Unit |
27/10/2022 | Production Studies: Separated Design | Lecture series |
26/10/2022 | Forest School: Constructive Land | Exhibition |
20/10/2022 | Production Studies: Emancipatory Practices | Lecture series |
12/10/2022 | Production Studies: Concrete Experiments | Lecture series |
27/09/2022 | Inga AWAI Indigenous Community Collaboration: Mapping Inga Ancestral Inhabitation | Exchange / project |
07/07/2022 | Dialogue | |
17/06/2022 | Project | |
15/06/2022 | Forest School: Resilient Forests | Lecture Series |
08/06/2022 | Forest School: Wilderness | Lecture Series |
24/05/2022 | Forest School: Constructive Land | Lecture Series |
22/04/2022 | Workshop | |
22/02/2022 | Forest School: Indigenous Knowledges | Lecture Series |
16/02/2022 | Forest School: Regenerative Design | Lecture Series |
19/01/2022 | Forest School: Nature/Culture | Lecture Series |
06/01/2022 | Forest School: Forest Wilding | Lecture Series |
11/11/2021 | ZERO. Numeracy Narratives for Urban Resilience | Broadcast |
10/11/2021 | Carnival Of Crisis: What if? | Festival |