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Central Saint Martins Provost Rathna Ramanathan on rethinking the foundations of art and design education
291. Rathna Ramanathan
Rathna Ramanathan is the Provost of Central Saint Martins and the Executive Dean, Global Affairs at the University of the Arts London. Over the last few years, Rathna has led a complete restructuring of CSM, crea...
Back to (art) school with Rachel Berger
A conversation with CalArts’s Vice Provost about art and design education today.
After ten years at the California College of Arts where she served as chair of the graphic design department, in 2024 Rachel Berger (episode 151) moved south...
August 2026: Anti-Fascist Architecture, Dallas, Design Workshops, and Calder Gardens
We’re taking the summer off and rebroadcasting some old favorites from the archives over the next few months. In July, we went back to 2018 to revisit our conversation with Mindy Seu and to 2021 for our conversation with this year’s Wall...
James Dyer and Nick Deakin on Ninety-Nine Graphic Design Workshops
Welcome to the Book Review, a new monthly column from Scratching the Surface on books in and around design, architecture, and culture. Each month, we do a deep dive into a new book or publication, either in the form of a review, an intervie...
Another Architecture is Probable
Illustration by Lane Rick, from the book Antifascist Architecture. Courtesy Park Books.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Antifascist Architecture is a new book by Daniel Jonas Roche and Andrew Santa Lucia from Park Books that is “the first attempt at creati...
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