Spatial Practices CSM

📣 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

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