CSM is the creative and inventive ambitions of our students, staff, and partners; CSM is the diversity and global reach of our community. CSM is committed to the imaginative and ethical engagement of the arts, design, and performance to effect real social, political, and environmental change. CSM and takes opportunities through curiosity, innovation, and enterprise. We take responsibility for the impact and agency of our work. We inspire and challenge new directions through agile ways of thinking, making, and doing. We question the cores of our disciplines. We encourage collision and exchange across boundaries. These actions produce unexpected and hybrid results.
We welcome others to share our physical and virtual worlds as platforms to initiate, test, and realize ideas and action. Saint Martins is a world-famous arts and design college. We are part of the University of the Arts London. Our main campus is located in the award-winning Granary Building at the center of London's King's Cross. We also have a campus at Archway. Alumni include artists and designers who have challenged and shaped the world around us. These include Turner Prize and Oscar winners, as well as Royal Designers for Industry and Royal Academicians.
The College's nine program areas: Art, Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design, Culture and Enterprise, Drama and Performance, Fashion, Graphic Communication Design, Spatial Practices, Jewellery and Textiles, Foundation, and Access to HE.
Our DNA comes from two art and design schools, Saint Martin's School of Art, established in 1854, and the Central School of Art, founded in 1896. The Central School grew out of the Arts & Crafts movement. Our first principal was the architect William Richard Lethaby. He removed the barriers between the intellectualism of design and practical skills of production. He likened learning through theory and scholarship alone to learning to swim out of water. Both Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School became known in the 20th century for radical visual arts practice. In 1989, the two merged to become what we are today, Central Saint Martins. We welcomed Drama Centre London in 1999 and the Byam Shaw School of Art in 2003.
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