Earthsuits: CSM Digital Innovation Season 2025

Earthsuits is a design research project exploring the histories and futures of wearables—garments, gear, interfaces, materials—that support navigation, communication, and adaptation on a changing planet Earth. 

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WE ARE THE ROBOTS: MA Narrative Environments annual party

This December MA Narrative Environments’ Year 1 cohort collaboratively designed and produced the course’s annual narrative party.

We Are The Robots translated the essence of the song The Robots by Kraftwerk (released as part of the band’s 1978 album The Man-Machine) into a party format. Students responded to the cultural context and relations of robots today, and challenged traditional party composition, thinking beyond the music itself, to consider phonopsie (or ‘sound seeing’), exploring how narrative environments can enhance and embody music’s deeper meanings.

The event brought together friends of the course, current and prospective students and alumni for an evening of multi-sensory performance and interactive installations paired with specially-mixed Paranoid Android cocktails.

Thank you to all our Year 1 student teams, tutors Claire Healy, Bethany Rigby and visiting lecturer Stan Vrebos of Temporary Pleasure; and to the CSM Events and Hospitality teams, the Learning Technology Support team and to Lizzie Vickery and our Spatial Practices staff for supporting the event production.

2026 Applications are now open!

Submit your application via the UAL website here.

Narrative environments are spatial stories that can be found across cultural, civic, technological and digital spaces. Narrative environments activate dynamic histories, forward immersive presents and propose futures. On this course, you will develop theoretical and practical expertise in designing narrative environments. Working across spatial design, speculative design, social and systems design, you will learn to compose interactive stories that explore systems and phenomena of science, technology, politics, society and culture in new ways. Narrative environments is part of the Spatial Practices programme.