.Monday 18 September 4pm – 9pm (panel discussion 5pm)

Design Transforms ’23, Lethaby Gallery 1 Granary Square Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA

Join us for a Private View for Design Transforms ’23, an exhibition and series of interactive events that unpack Central Saint Martins’ Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design programme manifesto of design as a practice that transforms.

We have reserved a limited number of tickets – sign up now to be added to our waitlist. You will be notified within 2 working days if you've secured a place.

During this event we will be:

Exhibiting thought-provoking designs

Hosting a panel talk, where we will discuss circularity and sustainability with:

Daniel Lismore - Artist, Designer and Campaigner, an ambassador of Cool Earth & Greenpeace and worked closely with Dame Vivienne Westwood on her Climate Revolution projects.

Dax Lovegrove - Sustainability Adviser, a steering committee member for the Institute of Positive Fashion for the British Fashion Council and a Trustee at Earthwatch

Max Fraser - Design Writer, Curator, Speaker and Consultant, currently the Editorial Director at Dezeen

Jane Penty - Sustainable Design Consultant, Educator and Designer, Sustainable Design Leader for BA Product Design at Central Saint Martins, UAL

Announcing the winning design concepts from UPM’s project with BA Product and Industrial Design

Connecting a diverse community of changemakers from industry, academia and media

Design has a vast transformational capacity. At the smallest level it can transform products. At a larger scale, design can transform thinking, beliefs, and society. A transformation at this scale is needed to establish an effective response to our planet’s biggest challenge: climate change.

This requires a collective effort, best driven by ingenious minds and disruptive ideas. In this spirit, Finnish bioeconomy front-runner UPM have partnered with Central Saint Martins, where generation upon generation of designers are educated to think disruptively and to design against the big challenges of our times.

Embracing a culture of sufficiency and innovation to decouple resource use and environmental impact, the brief was simple: design every-day products reducing material use and enabling concepts such as modularity, repairability, reusability and recyclability.

More than 50 talented students at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins reimagined a wide range of products.

UPM x CSM at Design Transforms '23