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CCD is based at Chelsea College of Arts, situated next to Tate Britain. The college has a suite of beautiful rooms which makes it a great place to host face-to-face events; or join us online at one of our many open sessions. 

Watch this space to find out what's coming up and grab yourself a ticket before they sell out.

CHEAD Annual Conference 2023 16/03/23 The Hair: Untold Stories exhibition, Weston Park Museum 10/02 – 29/10/23 Fashion Roundtable Waste Strategy 08/11/22, 10–11am Materials Matters Podcast 04/11/22 TCBL Days 2022 03/11/22 The Conceptual Stitch 02/11 – 15/12/22 Design Practice Research 02/11/22, 10–11am World Circular Textiles Day 2022 07–08/10/22, 4–5.30pm Hair: Untold Stories 01/10/22 – 29/10/23 Future Materials Conference, Budapest 15–16/09/22 Future Scan 5: Conscious Communities 07/09 – 08/11/22 Ceramic Repair with Bridget Harvey, Somerset House 20/07/22, 6.30–8pm Hair Power, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam 09/07/22 – 08/05/23 London Conference of Critical Thought, London 08–09/07/22 Institute of Positive Fashion Forum 30/06/22 Design Research Society (DRS), Bilbao, Spain 25/06 – 03/07/22 Restore Exhibition, Future Observatory, the Design Museum, London 24/06 – 25/09/22 Experimental Ceramics Masterclass, Institute of Making 16/06/22 Eternally Yours: Repair, Care and Healing, Somerset House London 16/06 – 25/09/22 Circular Wool Symposium, online 15/06/22, 10am–12.30pm State of Fashion, Antwerp 01–30/06/22 Repair Revolution 31/05/22 – 15/10/23 Climate Justice: decolonising decarbonisation, online 26/05/22 Raw Assembly trade event, Melbourne 26/05/22 CSIRO Circular economy symposium, online 23–27/05/22 David Cross Lecture, Royal Academy, London 23/05/22 Knots & Knits Exhibition, U-Joints, Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale 22/05 – 04/09/22 Natural Materials Group Seminar: Focus on Textiles, IOM3 19/05/22 Practice Research Symposium, UAL 19–20/05/22 A conversational collaboration on making, Artworkers’ Guild 14/05/22 HEREWEAR Stakeholder Engagement workshop, Naples 29/04/22 MAI-DAY Textile Elements – Reflective Stitch-In, Chelsea College of Arts 30/03/22 Climate Emergency Knowledge Exchange Away Day, Wellcome Collection 30/03/22, 10am–4pm HEREWEAR: biobased material workshop, Centre for Circular Design 25/03/22 HEREWEAR: empowering local, circular, bio-based textiles 24/03/22, 1–6pm Berlin Fashion Summit, Germany 17/03/22 Innovate UK KTN Conference 15/03/22 New Landscapes, Denim-to-Denim Roundtable 15/03/22 Ecopedagogy lecture, Haute École de l’Art et de Design in Geneva 08/03/22, 12–2pm Circular Soirèe with Eliana Ferulli 23/02/22, 11am–12pm Questions of Scale: Economy and Ecology 10/02/22, 12–5pm Contagious Tales 31/01 – 01/02/22, 7.30–9pm TCBL Days Talk 11/11/21, 11am–12pm More than Words: from Strategies into Action 04/11/21, 3–6pm Learning with Urgency: Curriculum Transformation in the Age of Emergency 03/11/21, 3–6pm Beyond Conference 21–22/10/21, 10am–4pm EAD Safe Harbours Conference 12–15/10/21 WCTD 2021 08/10/21, 2–4pm Circular Soirèe with Laura Knight 29/09/21, 11am–12pm UK-India Sustainable Fashion Global Expert Mission (UK KTN) 02–06/08/21, 10am–4pm Circular Soirèe with Dr. Bridget Harvey 13/07/21, 10–11am Circular Soirée with Kay Politowicz 07/07/21, 3.30–5pm Design for Recycling Recycled Textiles - Talk by Cathryn Hall 16/06/21, 11am–12pm Unbauhaus 07/06 – 07/07/21, 1–4pm Launch event: Introducing the KE Community Platform 10/05/21, 11–11.45am ReGenerative Agriculture (ReGenAg) - Talk by Charles Ross 05/05/21, 11am–12pm The CharioCity Workshops - Talk by Professor Rebecca Earley 21/04/21, 11.30am–12.30pm Human Hair as Circular Material - Talk by Sanne Visser 07/04/21, 11am–12pm Fallout Fashion: The hidden resource - Talk by Emmeline Child 24/03/21, 11am–12pm UAL Research Season 2021: Meet the Centres 24/03/21, 12–3pm Play with Purpose: Who Made My Uniform? - Talk by Rebecca Earley 27/01/21, 11am–12pm Circular Soirée with Rosie Hornbuckle 21/12/20, 11am–12pm Fashioned From Nature, Shenzhen 19/12/20 – 06/06/21 Circular Soirée with Rachel Pearce 09/12/20, 11am–12pm Circular Soirée with Rosa Romeo 25/11/20, 11am–12pm There and Back Again III 30/10/20, 10am–4pm Waste Age: What Can Design Do? 23/10/20 – 16/02/22 Book launch: Research Circles 21/10/20, 5–6.30pm Circular Soirée with Kate Wakeling 19/10/20, 11am–12pm World Circular Textiles Day 2020 08/10/20 Circular Soirée with Dr Clara Vuletich 16/09/20, 11am–12pm People and Planet: Creating Change Panel Discussion 07/08/20, 10.45am–12pm Circular Soirée with David Cross 01/07/20, 6–8pm Design for Mechanical Textile Recycling 20/04/20, 10–10.30am International Week of Narrow Textiles 09–12/03/20 Circular Cultures 27–28/02/20, 8am–7pm Sewing Box for the Future 19/02 – 24/05/20, 9am–7pm IBioIC Conference 2020 04–05/02/20 Circular Soirée with Maiko Tsutsumi 26/11/19, 4–6pm The New Materialists, Arts Foundation Awards Event 19/11/19 What is Knowledge Exchange? 15/11/19 Circular Soirée with Jessica Hemmings 16/10/19, 6–8pm Shirt Stories: UAL Professorial Platform Event 26/06/19 Circular Design Speeds 10–11/06/19, 10am–4pm Textile Design for Disassembly 30/04/19 Fashioned From Nature, Denmark 13/04 – 01/09/19, 10am–6pm There & Back Again II 05–07/03/19 Disrupting Patterns 23–25/11/18 T2C @ DDW 20–28/10/18 Fashioned From Nature, V&A Museum 21/04/18 – 27/01/19, 10am–6pm There & Back Again 15/03/18 Dynamic Duos 06/03/18 Circular Transitions Conference 23–24/11/16 Making Circles Exhibition 23–24/11/16 Textile Toolbox Exhibition 13–14/11/14