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Fish Factory is a collaboration between Icelandic design duo Mupimup and a group of students from Central Saint Martins.

Fish Factory is an abandoned factory that used to be the centre of Stöðvarfjörður,… Read more

A project worth sharing!

Via Thames21

Thames21 has long been interested in transforming waterway waste into more attractive creations, and now we have teamed up with two inventive MA students with a creative solution for unwanted plastic bottles.

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Pheromones. One ant puts down a substance, another picks up the scent. But why care about this minimal act?

Ants move according to few and fast rules: Go look for food. If you find food, increase the amount of pheromones placed on… Read more

Via Global Generation

As part of the Recent TEDx talks at Central St Martins Jane Riddiford, our Executive Director spoke with Amy Lee from Wolff Olins about the Honey Club. The theme of the day was Emergence in Business.

Jane… Read more

Ok, ok now were getting quite bashful… The people over at Nokia Connects have written a superb piece on the day, highlighting some key ideas. If you missed out, read here

One of our speakers, The Honey Club have done a write up of their experience speaking at TEDxCentralSaintMartins.

Read here

Our video of Tom Hulme at TEDxCentralSaintMartins was chosen to feature on the IDEO website.

Thanks guys!

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Thank you to all our speakers, guests and friends who made our event a success. Talks are online now.

All the TEDxCentralSaintMartins Team.

Via Jotta

It was a thoroughly entertaining Monday morning at Central Saint Martins’ sparkling new Kings Cross campus. Organised by a group of CSM MA Communication Design students, who are the brains and the brawn behind the… Read more

Film coming soon!

During the lunch break at TEDxCentralSaintMartins on March 28th Ije Nwokorie and Marina Willer hosted a session to roundup up some of the most interesting thoughts of the first half of the day.

Ije Nwokorie was born in America,… Read more

Join in and contribute a letter ‘E’ to our evolving ‘Emergence’ logo!

Graphic Designer Stefanie Schwarz has created a logo out of found letterforms and we’re inviting you to add your own!

Take part here and see your ‘E’ on… Read more

For those of you who can’t make it to TEDxCentralSaintMartins on the 28th of March, we are hosting a Google+ Hangout during our lunch break from approx 12:45 onwards!

Join us here and stay tuned for the details!

The problem with emergence, or rather, with trying to deal with emergence – whether in writing, speaking, or any other form of medium – is that it is by definition elusive. Something which is emergent at the time of writing/speaking, may be… Read more

Started by students from Central Saint Martins as an attempt to empower some bleak London housing estates through (guerilla) gardening, Urban Green Line has evolved into a guide to everything ‘green’ in the capital — co-created around a simple concept of the… Read more

‘Where the frozen edifices of order melt and the unkempt disorder of chaos coalesces, is the complex region where self-organisation occurs. This is the boundary at which creative emergence arises and dissipates, in a never ending dynamic. To open a closed system… Read more

The question of what sort of phenomenon classifies as “emergent” is an intriguing one. Is something emergent just because it is new and hasn’t been thought of before? Or can something established be emergent if it starts to bring about change, or… Read more

Nadia Berthouze is a Senior Lecturer in the UCL Interaction Centre at the University College London. The premise of her research is that emotion and subjective experience should be factored in the design of interactive technology… Read more

We want to help honeybees thrive by creating the biggest bee-friendly network in the world, starting right here in Kings Cross.

The Honey Club is a social enterprise set up by Wolff Olins (a brand and… Read more

Knowledge of the Third Kind: Science, Magic and Design

We assume that we are part of a continuum, a trajectory. We have a place in the world and in history. But just because we talk about what was, and what is, and… Read more

The Global Transformation: How the 19th Century Shaped our World

My theme is that the world underwent a profound transformation during the 19th century (the many revolutions that comprise modernity), and that these created a peculiarly unequal and intense power structure globally…. Read more

Tom is Design Director at IDEO in London, where he uses the innovation and design process to develop new business opportunities. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Tom has first-hand experience in building successful enterprises and, as a result, a… Read more

Michael Wolff is, in his own words ‘obsessively interested in everything’.

To some he’s known for co-founding and leading the London agency Wolff Olins in the 60′s (he left in the 80′s), a company that’s helped many great brands to express who… Read more