Very Very Far Away

In this episode—Alchemy of Ruins—we bring you into a moment of transformation: a live recording of a performance by first-year students of the MA Industrial Design course at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. For their first unit, the students responded to a text—a fictional fragment from another time and place, rich with peculiar detail. From this fragment, they conjured life from its ruins. They designed and crafted objects and sounds that might hold meaning in this imagined world, weaving rituals that reconstruct time and space. What you hear is not a narrative in the traditional sense, but the objects themselves speaking—mediators of their own stories. This is a fleeting glimpse into a place both unfamiliar and profound, reaching out to us from very, very far away. This performance features narration by Andrew Friend and is a collaboration with Central Saint Martins’ MA Industrial Design programme. The performance took place on the 11th of December 2024 at the Studio Theatre in king