Architecture: Spaces and Objects
Three years full-time, this major explores the design of human settlements by studying buildings, spaces and materials used. On the basis of considering the relationship between architectural form and material culture, deepen the understanding of the following issues: the role of architects and designers in modern society; The space and objects inside and around buildings, understanding and use of buildings and cities; The relationship among buildings, spaces and objects in the human settlement environment.
Architecture is a collaborative profession, but modern practitioners need more and more design knowledge, and need to integrate the knowledge of other broader industries. The methods and materials used by people to build and maintain the environment are increasingly critical in reflecting and questioning people's impact on the natural environment. The issues of sustainability, environment, economy and community are the central issues of the design approach of this course. This major develops students' critical thinking on residential environment architecture design from all aspects. Students can understand their past and the future that the school may lead in relevant fields.
Ceramic Design
Three years full-time, ceramic design provides design courses led by experts in a wide range of professional backgrounds, bringing national design to market and manufacturing learners. This undergraduate course teaches students relevant skills and knowledge, so as to obtain a lifelong learning method and improve the personal and professional quality required for the development of ceramics and related fields.
The basic premise of the degree of this course is to explore the design potential in practical operation through the understanding and knowledge learning of materials and technology, and to show creative works sufficient to cope with the 21st century.
Ceramic design aims to explore and challenge the diversity of clay with creative and functional methods, which is a universal, unique, stable and durable material. This technology is the oldest and latest. Its classicality can explore infinite products and development space.
The school will help students to establish a basic network of contact methods and practice. The center of these networks is ceramics, which has the potential to integrate with other majors and disciplines. This links education with industry, commerce, art and science and technology, forming a unique model that reflects the way of life of the country and the world.
Culture, Criticism and Curation
Three years full-time, the major provides a wide range of arts education based on humanities, and the curriculum content spans history, art history, design, architecture, fashion, film, popular culture, performance, media and literature; It involves knowledge subjects, skills, output and artistic opportunities, which are all connected with each other. The core of this degree includes critical thinking, research ability, intelligence and creative problem solving ability.
Criticism is closely related to critical writing and critical thinking in cultural practice. Critical writing and thinking are key skills for students with this degree to develop into successful organizers, critics, artists, writers and teachers.
Curating involves specific skills and knowledge required by the exhibition, such as historical research and contextualization of art practice; It also includes the broad significance of organizing artistic activities, such as planning film festivals. Curatorial work is linked to critical writing and communication through publicity, news reviews and other activities.
Fashion
From 3 to 4 years, the fashion design major of the Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design (CSM) provides students with a creative learning environment. Mature and rigorous curriculum arrangement and benign competition have spawned many fashion design stars. The school trains hard working and highly confident fashion designers.
Fashion is a rapidly developing and highly diversified international industry, covering a wide range of markets and creative, production and communication practices. It also has historical and social significance for us to understand some important values of basic culture. Recognizing this diversity and cultural significance is the core of the basic principles and structure of the degree program. Through the development of corresponding knowledge and practical skills, this major enables students to benefit from this diversity and raise their ability to the level of challenges it brings.
The idea of this course is to create a learning environment that fosters innovation and creativity in different but closely related categories. Its goal is to cultivate all-round fashion experts who can creatively solve problems by making use of deep knowledge in professional fields and critical understanding in social, economic, cultural and other aspects.
This major has ten courses (identified by a separate UCAS code) to choose from. Fashion learning is its core, and these options are combined with fashion design, communication, historical research and theoretical research.
Fashion courses are flexible and offer a range of excellence in the network and fashion industry. Project based inquiry is the cornerstone of learning. Students can access collaborative projects and work with external professionals and sponsors (such as L'Oreal, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Liberty, Paul Smith, Victoria and Albert Museum). This can train the ability to cooperate with others, the ability to learn independently, and the further skills required by the future career. Guest lecturers include Wakako Kishimoto, Mark Fast, Emma Cook and Jean Pierre Braganza.
All design courses are three or four years long. After two years of full-time study, you can apply for work study course arrangement (subject to the approval of the college). If you meet the requirements, you can obtain relevant professional diplomas. This professional diploma is not available to students of fashion history and fashion theory.
Fine Art
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (CSM) is a 3-year full-time pure art major, providing a one-year diploma opportunity from the second year to the third year of the undergraduate degree, including a 20 week work study program;
On the basis of full-time and part-time study, provide opportunities for those who want to balance study and life, and maximize the integration of these two models; Carry forward experimental, investigative, historical, theoretical and critical artistic production methods; Emphasize collaboration and social practice, and develop negotiation, management and teamwork skills through external projects, alternative spaces and specific opportunities; There are a wide range of activities, a team of high research level personnel, and the support of guests and expert technicians; Develop a wide range of professional and teachable skills, including research, planning, documentation, evaluation writing, visual and oral presentation; Provide a variety of international and multicultural practice societies, and exchange opportunities between Europe and the United States; Cooperate with many art museums, museums and cultural centers in London to provide a wide range of resources and opportunities; Gradually improve the sense of personal responsibility for learning and developing professional identity, and provide options to support theoretical research and practical foundation direction in the last year.
Graphic Design
Three year full-time, plane graphics and communication design are developed from traditional commercial art painting, advertising and earlier printing industry. Its purpose is to record, identify, inform, guide, promote, persuade, and complete these by developing presentational, organizational, and promotional systems and structures. The existence of customers, together with the scope and form of disciplines, distinguishes this major from pure art.
Graphic designers also work for the media. They shape the media, and vice versa. The emergence of television in the 1950s, the transformation of photographic images in the 1960s, the transformation from relief printing to lithography printing in the 1970s, the emergence of Adobe PostScript page description language in the 1980s, Apple's first Mac, and the arrival of the World Wide Web era in the 1990s are all examples. Each of these is within the scope of this specialty.
The convergence of different media languages and physical environments has led the influence of graphic design to the world, dynamic, interactive and continuous experience. This shift allows people to reposition their personal and moral concerns.
The fast pace of transformation has led to thinking about the important issues of the future world form, resulting in the future goals and responsibilities of graphic design and communication design. This challenge requires employees to face the change directly and assume the responsibility as organizers of material and cultural resources, data and information. The core concepts of today's design community are rooted in a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to sustainability.
Jewellery Design
This 3-year full-time degree is designed for students who are interested in exciting and unique contemporary jewelry design. Its uniqueness lies in that it can promote the understanding of the methods and contents that can be used and operated in contemporary jewelry. The undergraduate degree in jewelry design provides a good learning environment. The school encourages and fosters innovation, creativity and excellence.
The school focuses on helping students find and develop their personal identity and identify appropriate ways to work after graduation. It also plans to launch awareness activities on jewelry culture issues, and encourage students to do surveys on the social responsibility and ethical significance of jewelry manufacturing.
Jewelry design has a good connection with industry. Students can participate in on-site projects, and their works can be seen by leading figures in the jewelry field. This is not only a useful learning activity, but also a valuable way to contact professional contacts.
Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design (CSM) develops learning activities through a series of unit structures that serve as a starting point, development and realization of ideas. These units provide a broad and in-depth introduction to observation, analysis, criticism and communication skills. The speech organized by high-level designers and practitioners enables undergraduate jewelry design students to combine professional practice with discussion opportunities. In the jewelry design major of Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design (CSM), students can use London's many resources, museums, galleries and shops. On the basis of the first and second stages of learning, the school will also organize international learning trips to galleries, exhibitions and trade fairs.
The school emphasizes visual awareness and observation, uses experiment as a tool to promote research, and uses painting as a means of observation and communication of ideas. Information and computer technology will gradually be incorporated into the curriculum, and more and more students will be able to use computer-aided design technology in their work. Through indoor and on-site projects, students can gain professional knowledge and practical experience.
Performance Design and Practice
Three years full-time, this course explores contemporary performance design and practice in the fields of drama, film and life art. The course is taught by experts and emphasizes collaborative performance. The student union will carry out personal projects in the last year of study, which will play a guiding role in the future career direction of students.
Product Design
Three year full-time, Central Saint Martin's product and industrial design courses not only include professional skills and practice, but also attach importance to creative experiments and critical evaluation. These help students dare to challenge design and design practice, as well as some related fields in the social, cultural, economic and environmental context.
Since 1938, college lecturers and alumni have been associated with breakthrough products. These include the first laptop (Bill Moggeridge), the original London double decker bus (Douglas Scott), Apple's iPhone (Daniele De Iuliis/Apple's industrial design team) and many other brands. Product design graduates should carry forward this tradition, be an innovator, have a good understanding of their potential and responsibility in contributing to the material world, and dare to be a skeptic.
Since it became an independent professional field, the professional practice of product/industrial designers has gradually reflected the changes in production, consumption and broader social concerns.
Design is about people - to meet the public's ideas and needs, designers need to first understand the public and their behavior. By considering ergonomics and usability, considering reading and explaining market driving factors and weakening factors, the college reduces tangible emotional reactions to the physical world to cultivate the ability of product design students to understand public behavior. This approach has been incorporated into increasingly complex projects, emphasizing the development of appropriate research methods. In some cases, this is also a working method to enhance collaboration. Through collective and individual activities, the program has strengthened students' in-depth learning ability.
Textile Design
Three years of full-time work, the textile design of the Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design (CSM) includes three major textile design practices: printing and dyeing, weaving and weaving, involving digital and non-traditional methods of textile design, trend prediction and description. The program also offers complementary workshops using alternative surface treatments, media, and technologies. In the first year, I will study two or three professional fields, and gradually enter the fields most suitable for my talent. At the beginning of the second year, it is necessary to decide the areas to be studied in depth.
The purpose of this degree program is to maximize creativity and intellectual potential by developing personal strengths and design concepts. Students will gain knowledge and practice of textile design professional category, establish personal creative identity and accumulate aesthetic vocabulary knowledge in history, culture and technology through practical experience in textile manufacturing.
Textile design graduates from the Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design (CSM) can choose from a wide range of professions, such as designers, decision-makers, researchers, purchasers, hairstylists and illustrators. They are engaged in concept and trend forecasting in the theater or journalism industry, and can accept a variety of job opportunities in the global textile and design industries, as well as continue their postgraduate studies. Through the project work, workshop practice, international professional research and practical experience of staff and visiting speakers, career, business awareness and cultural research programs, students will be introduced into complex professional fields and learn the required skills.
