Art, Architecture and Design News from the School of Art, Architecture and Design

Lumen Prize success

Project by MA Fine Art alumna wins gold in prestigious international prize.

Yinka Ilori named as one of 12 artists shaping the world

The London Met design alumnus adds another accolade to an already successful year.

Architecture lecturer creates immersive pavilion at V&A museum

Brando Posocco, co-founder of Nebbia Works, has created an installation as part of the London Design Festival.

The Public Art Experiment

London Met collaborates with British Council Hong Kong for Spark Festival 2021.

Ecological Dialogues: Sustainable Communities and the Question of Nature

New talks series from the London Met Lab explores some of the biggest environmental challenges facing the world today.

HomeGrownHouse: London Met housing project to be highlighted at COP26

A research project led by London Met’s George Fereday which offers sustainable, low-cost solutions to UK construction, will be showcased at the major climate conference COP26.

Unity and celebration through colour

London Met grad Yinka Illori served as headline speaker for Design London, and transforms the city’s pedestrian crossings for the London Design Festival.

London Design Festival: London Met students and alumni contribute new street sculptures

The ‘designpost’ sculptures aim to capture the spirit of one of the festival’s dedicated design districts.

Campaign launched to encourage 'bio-blitz'

The campaign encourages citizens to find as many species of animals, plants and fungi in their outdoor space as they can in one day.

London Met ranks sixth in UK for teaching quality in new Good Uni Guide

Overall, the University climbed 25 places in the Times and Sunday Times league table, with teaching quality and student experience shown to be of a particularly high standard.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Success

Jilly Topping, undergraduate Fine Arts BA student, has had her work included in this year’s show.

London Met surges in Guardian league tables

High scores in student satisfaction, value added and spend-per-student contributed to London Met rising 31 places in the league table.

London Met recognised for gender equality work

Bronze Athena Swan award a significant landmark as work begins on Silver accreditation.

The Master's Show

13 -18 September 2021

The dates have been announced for the School of Art, Architecture and Design's first on-site and in-person graduation exhibition since 2019.

'Enough Already' - Unit 08 Masters of Architecture students exhibit research on the nature of reuse

Christopher Smith, recent MArch graduate and Unit 08 alumnus, explores the recent exhibition and the process of building it.

Exploring Swiss design classics

London Met academics will take part in a fringe event for the Design History Society annual conference.

Interior design alumni makes the finals of national competition

David Haziz, the founder of arbor + co, was named in the Workplace Interiors category.

"Greater sense of confidence in my abilities"

Single father of five Stavros Giannoulatos, who just graduated in English Literature and Creative Writing with first class honours, talks us through his past three years at London Met.

The ecological benefits of green walls

Architect, designer and founder of urban rewilding campaign Rewild My Street Sian Moxon explains why green walls are one way to mitigate environmental problems and improve biodiversity.

East End Archive exhibition

30 September 2021- January 2022

An exhibition of photography of London's East End in the 1970s and 1980s will be held at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives.

Remembering Robert (Bob) Harbison

The former Professor of Architecture at London Met is remembered for the innovative approach he took to to his subject, and for the sense of wonder with which he approached the world.

The first five years after graduation

Theodora Alfredsdottir, Associate Lecturer in Interior Design, will be giving a talk in collaboration with Creative Skills Network.

Art workshop with students from Tower Hamlets

The School of Art, Architecture and Design organised a workshop for students from Stepney All Saints.

London Met photography student selected as Carte Blanche student laureate

Mina Boromond, who is in her final year of London Met’s Photography BA, was one of only four students in Europe whose work will be shown at a major Paris exhibition.

Economy for Common Good

The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement is running a series of events on research around cultural commons.

London Met photography students shortlisted for industry award

The work of Photography BA students Mina Boromand and Kasia Kowalska were recognised in the Association of Photographers Student Awards.

London Met highlighted in COP26 Universities Network

The University has been recognised for the role of its academic research and sustainability strategy in driving a zero-carbon future.

Debut poetry collection to be published from celebrated alumna

Warsan Shire’s new work, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, will be published 3 March 2022.

Learning from Nubia Way

A creative team from The Architecture Foundation is crowdfunding to deliver a short documentary about the Black-led self-build housing scheme.

Made in China: What could be more of a cliché?

Professor Wessie Ling will give a keynote to inform curatorial work for the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen in the Netherlands.

Milling industry support for sustainable housing research project

Wood-Mizer has partnered with the School of Architecture on HomeGrownHouse.

Yinka Ilori on Platinum Jubilee design panel

Yinka will be judging the designs for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee emblem.

Abundant Green Networks: Reimagining our Urban Space

London Met rewilding expert to take part in panel to help cities go greener and healthier, by going pesticide-free.

London Met artist recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours List

Dr Andrew Hewish has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to the Arts, in recognition of his role as founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Recent Drawing.

30 Days Wild

Urban rewilding project run by London Met's Siân Moxon will offer a new tip every weekday to transform cities for the benefit of wildlife.

LIVENESS 2021

The School of Art, Architecture and Design’s annual summer show will launch 29 June.

London Met students redesign early years teaching rooms

As part of a second-year internship, London Met’s Interior Design course students redesigned the rooms to support modern teaching methods.

The Ministry for Common Land

Exhibition co-developed by London Met academic asks whether we could use citizens’ assemblies to develop new strategies for land ownership and use.

Ecology as Public and Mental Health

A discussion as part of London Met’s new interdisciplinary research initiative, Finding Ecologies, explores how we create environments in which we and others can flourish.

The climate crisis and gender inequality: an intimate relationship

'How Women Can Save the Planet', a new book from London Met’s Professor Anne Karpf, will be launched at an event on June 10.

Look Listen Make Things

Major artwork and solo exhibition by London Met Associate Professor Bob and Roberta Smith to be shown in the Harris from 4 June - 2 October 2021.

Contesting Global Fashion through China

Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design and Director of CREATURE, Wessie Ling, will give keynotes at a major fashion conference and for the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen.

London Met joins Tower Hamlets' Cultural Consortium

London Met is one member of the new initiative, which will transform the public spaces of Tower Hamlets through community-led initiatives.

How We Live Now: designing feminist cities

A new installation at the Barbican explores a series of important questions about our public spaces and designed environments, and who they serve.

Operation Edna

Deej Fabyc has curated and will be performing in ‘Operation Edna’, a live, multimedia art event exploring shelter and ageing proudly.

Carpet design success for second-year student

Nanci Byrne-Lynch, a textiles student, has been shortlisted for the COVER Carpet Design Awards 2021.

Stealing Chaplin

London Met Theatre grad Simon Phillips is the star and co-screenwriter of major new film.

London Met students give back to the city

Clinics offering legal advice, sports injury assessment and rehabilitation, and community art projects are on offer for all Londoners, under the supervision of qualified experts.

Echoes in time

London Met's graduating Theatre Arts students will deliver an online theatre festival on 13, 14 and 15 May 2021, streaming live from Shoreditch Town Hall.

Yinka Ilori designs winner's trophies for the Brit Awards 2021

The lockdown during the ongoing pandemic inspired this year’s designs.

London Met rewilding project wins MIT prize

The project provides a vision of the role London can play as a model for cities worldwide in resetting our relationship with nature.

Film grad showcases work at Film Festival

CUPBOARDS, a poetry film by recent graduate Tamanna Jahan, was shown at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

Doyenne of Barking: London Met architecture alumna wins Female Frontier Award

The Female Frontier Awards recognise remarkable, talented and visionary women of all ages, at every level across global architecture.

Big Idea Challenge grand champion launches underwear start-up

MERRI Intimates, which took home the top prize at London Met’s enterprise competition last year, is raising funds for unique, beautiful underwear which promotes gynaecological health.

Designing the Cultural Commons

In early May, students and tutors on London Met's Design for the Cultural Commons courses will be delivering a series of exciting workshops at the Design Museum.

Covid testing at London Met: "Quick, easy and important to keep each other safe"

Student Union President Chrystalle Margallo discusses her experience of being tested for Covid at London Met.

London Met alum takes lead in Netflix's 'Dead Places'

Performing Arts BA graduate Anthony Oseyemi plays the starring role of Will Stone in the supernatural Netflix series.

Building the case for equitable spaces

London Met's Dr Anna Marazuela Kim joins stalwarts from the world of engineering and design for a Dezeen x Buro Happold virtual event.

London Met statement on anti-Asian racism

We are outraged at the rise in racially motivated attacks targeted at East-Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Island people in the UK and around the world.

Ghabrana Nahin Hai: London Met project featured on Platform Asia

A collaborative film made by Digital Media Associate Lecturer Joel Chernin and Fine Arts MFA alumna Shanzay Subzwari highlights the juxtaposing rhetorics of pandemic politics.

An academic difference: value of London Met Theatre and Performance degrees highlighted by the Stage

A new report looks at how London Met's theatre and performance courses create future leaders, and the value that theatre degrees can offer students over traditional drama schools.

Do temporary interventions bring permanent change?

A talk by London Met’s Sandra Denicke-Polcher questioned what permanent change in architecture looks like.

Designs by London Met Textiles students set to adorn historic Petticoat Lane Market

Vote now for your favourite designs to be installed at the Market.

Gallery founded by alumna wins prestigious award

Anna Ray and House on Mars, founded by London Met grad Vanja Bazdulj, have been awarded the Brookfield Properties Crafts Council Collection Award worth £25,5000.

The nature of cities

Lecturer in Architecture and Sustainability Coordinator Siân Moxon spoke at the Nature of Cities Festival to promote urban rewilding.

Lessons for Cities Worldwide

The London Met Lab's proposed COP26 exhibit will highlight five approaches to the environment: research, teaching, student enterprise, partnerships and management.

Fashion in Multiple Chinas

A book co-edited by London Met Professor Wessie Ling has just been released in paperback.

Recent graduates create striking National Student Survey campaign

Former Visual Communications students hope London Met campaign encourages final year students to give the gift of their experience to other students.

Crafts Council Success

Textiles alumna Majeda Clarke joins board of trustees for the national charity.

Praise for London Met Architecture books

A new edited collection and monograph from Professor Nicholas Temple have been described as 'remarkable,' and 'erudite and persuasive', respectively.

From Muppet to Maverick

Animator and director John Stevenson spoke to students from the School of Art, Architecture and Design about his career, from his start on the Muppets at 19, to directing Kung Fu Panda.

From protest to institutional change - Architecture, Race, Gender and Education

Over 200 attended an online event at which keynote speaker Lesley Lokko engaged with issues raised by MASS: Metropolitan Architecture Students Society. MASS asks, now what?

Double success for Textiles alumna

Jodie Barnacle Best joins the advisory board of Craft Scotland and publishes article about her Textile Society Student Award.

Your People, Your Places, Your Things

Deadline 31 March

The School of Art, Architecture and Design launches a national photography competition for school and college students.

Top designer meets Textiles students

Edward Crutchley spoke to a group of students about careers in design and the power of a good portfolio.