Becoming_MAIM 2026 Showcase Documentary

Every research project begins with a question. But behind every question is a person and behind every person is a life that made that question feel necessary.Becoming is a ten-episode portrait documentary series following students from the MA Innovation Management 2026 cohort at Central Saint Martins. Each episode takes one person's research topic as its entry point, then moves inward, toward the personal history, unresolved tension, or quiet longing that made them choose it in the first place.A former medical student who remembers every patient's name. A ceramicist who spent years unable to call herself an artist. A young man who has studied freedom his whole life but has never fully circled the island. A meditator who also studies Instagram algorithms, because to her, they are the same question.In the studio, everyone was asked the same set of questions: where is home, what do you want right now, if you could go back to the first day, what would you tell yourself. But the final question, asked of almost everyone, was: after all of this, are you closer to knowing who you are, or further away?Most said closer. Closer to themselves. Closer to their heart.Though never planned, but th

Submitted 9 August 2026 by Rosalie Yu.