It began with a dress.
In 2013 UAL Prof Helen Storey's work began to capture public imagination towards an informed understanding of climate change.
‘For Our Time’, by David Betteridge, highlights the 10-year journey that followed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQD...
Moving Image in a Doctoral Frame
Mar 25 from 4:30 pm
London College of Communication
Why make moving image practice in a Doctoral frame?
What can film-making mean as research?
In association with MIRAJ
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UAL Professorial Platform: Taking Heart in a Time of Hatred.
Professor Pratāp Rughani asks what happens to art & education in a time of heightened polarisation?
Introduced by UAL VC, Professor Karen Stanton.
With Professor Mark Sealy OBE.
29 April 2026
17:30
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TrAIN Open Lecture
iLiana Fokianaki - Director Kunsthalle Bern
11 March 2026
6pm - 7.30pm
Online
Further detail and RSVP: www.arts.ac.uk/research/res...
Moving Image in a Doctoral Frame
25 March 2026
4.30pm - 6pm
followed by Reception
London College of Communication
London SE1 6SB
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Professor Pratāp Rughani in conversation with Edwin Mingard and Alessandra Ferrini & Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ).
Information session: UAL PhD programme in partnership with London Contemporary Dance School at The Place
5 March 2026
12pm ONLINE
RSVP: www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/phd...
theplace.org.uk/lcds-courses...
Benefit from the interdisciplinary arts research & artistic research culture.
Redistributive Imaginaries Seminar: How are digital platforms shaping meanings and practices of redistribution in Europe's mixed economies of welfare?
18 March 2026
12.00-13.30 CET
Join us online to celebrate the launch of the final report from the project.
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Italian Research Projects
3 March 2026
18:30
Italian Cultural Institute
London SW1X 8NX
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CI & UAL, showcase UAL Fine Art Research Fellowship work at the British School at Rome:
Eva Sajovic: Rise and Fall of a Temple
Juan Bolivar: Intermediality in Roman Antiquity
PhD programme offered by UAL in partnership with LCDS at The Place
5 March 2026
12noon – 1.45pm
Online
RSVP: www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/phd...
theplace.org.uk/lcds-courses...
Interdisciplinary arts research within the professional environment, advanced training and artistic research culture.
TrAIN Open Lecture:
Devika Singh - International Departures: A transnational history of art in India
Introduced by Anjalie Dalal-Clayton, UAL TrAIN Member.
📅 Wed 11 Feb
🕓 6-8 pm
In-Person: London
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Online:
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BOOK LAUNCH
Beyond the Visual - Multisensory modes of beholding art.
25 Feb 2026
6pm - 8pm
The Wellcome Collection
London
RSVP
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An open access book, freely available by UCL Press uclpress.co.uk/book/beyond-....
Hear from Editors Ken Wilder & Aaron McPeake
Beyond the Visual - Exhibition
By Investigators: UAL Prof Ken Wilder and Dr Aaron McPeake
Until 19.04 2026
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
View the exhibition trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRxH...
The Observer article: observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
henry-moore.org/whats-on/bey...
Discover PhD and MPhil awards and available studentship routes at UAL Open Events for prospective research degree applicants
4 March
In-Person
High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY
RSVP: www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/ual...
10 March
Online
RSVP: www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/ual...
www.arts.ac.uk/research/phd...
TOMORROW
Alternative Values in Art, Design and Culture: A Roundtable Discussion
31 Oct
1pm-4pm
Chelsea College of Arts
London SW1P 4JU
This roundtable will explore a range of alternative values including alternative vocabularies and discourses of value itself.
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CROFTON BLACK & EDMUND CLARK [UAL]
COSMOPOLEMOS + INCITE PROJECT ‘EMBEDDED’
25.10.25 - 16.11.25
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the US Department of Defense Contract Spending
photooxford.org/exhibitions/...
31.10.25
TRUTH AND PHOTOGRAPHY symposium
Tickets: photooxford.org/events/sympo...
UAL Creative Computing Institute in Somerset House Studios
Led by UAL’s Creative Computing Institute, Somerset House Studios has launched the first phase of ‘n-Space’, a workspace and interdisciplinary network of artists, technologists and academics.
www.zapbangmagazine.com/2025/10/some...
Alternative Values in Art, Design and Culture: A Roundtable Discussion
Fri 31 October
13:00 - 16:00
Chelsea College of Arts
London SW1P 4JU
Roundtable will explore a range of alternative values including alternative vocabularies & discourses of value itself.
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Professor Sturgis, Professor of Painting, UAL:
Hans Arp and Contemporary Art
New York University, New York, USA
30/31 October 2025
RSVP: arp2025@arp.info
The Word and Image are One: Hans Arp and Ian Hamilton Finlay Tate Britain, London, UK
5 December 2025
TICKETS: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
New Landscapes: textiles x technology herald greener garment-making
UAL's Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI) show at the British Council.
Stratford
London
E20 1JQ
until 30 Jan 2026
www.newhamcitizen.co.uk/new-landscap...
UAL Black History Month: The Science of Racism | Professor Keon West
6 October
18.30
Central Saint Martins
London, N1C 4AA
Insights on bias, inclusion and strategies to drive forward meaningful change from West's groundbreaking book.
Free
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TrAIN Open Lecture
Dr. Ashok Mathur and Dr. Ayumi Goto (OCAD)
"ON LONGING AND NOT BELONGING" - An investigation of diasporic practice.
Wed 15 October 2025
6pm - 8pm
Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU
free, all welcome, RSVP:
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2025 BRITISH TEXTILE BIENNIAL
Homo Mondialis - Survey exhibition
Blackburn, UK
2 Oct - 2 Nov 2025
Through intricate embroidery and appliqué works, sculpture and immersive video installations, UAL Prof Lucy Orta’s practice research will be presented.
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A new three-part film series is documenting Alexander McQueen’s archive.
Guided by Professor of Fashion History and Theory at CSM, Alistair O’Neill.
Watch the first episode here:
www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-gb/storie...
Opening today at Tate Britain!
A new three-part film series is documenting Alexander McQueen’s archive.
Guided by Professor of Fashion History and Theory at CSM, Alistair O’Neill, the series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the brand's foundational tailoring techniques and theatrical storytelling.
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THE WAYFARING CINEMA: THE NORTHERN TOUR
20 September to 24 September 2025
Films screening:
Wayfaring Stranger (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 2024, UK, 69m)
Realities Checked (Damian Le Bas, 2025, UK, 17m)
Gypsyland (Delaine Le Bas, 2014-2023, UK, 20m)
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Carnival at the Boundaries: public participation in research in health
Fri 10 Oct
3pm
Chelsea College of Arts
free
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Exploring the role of public participation in complex design collaborations in health.
With Dr Joe Langley PhD, Prof Marie Elf, Dr Aaron Davis.
CASA DE VELASQUEZ
Madrid, Spain
Oct - Dec 2025
www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/.../manufact...
Prof Lucy Orta, Chair of Art and the Environment,
LCF, awarded ‘Laine et Création’ residency at Casa de Velázquez, supported by ADAGP & Manufactures nationales, to focus on materials research.
UAL Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute and the British Council present: New Landscapes R&D Exhibition
15–19 September 2025
British Council
Space House
Stratford
Featuring sustainable fashion & textiles designs from UK & international creatives.
londondesignfestival.com/activities/n...
Prof Sonia Boyce, Chair in Black Art & Design, UAL, has cultivated a multidisciplinary practice that explores play, language & pattern, while questioning the nature of representation and authorship, an inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, will present new work.
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