MA Cities
University of the Arts, London
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MA - Master of Arts

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Central Saint Martins

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MA Cities creates city-making practices that foreground social and climate justice.Course overviewMA Cities creates city-making practices that foreground social and climate justice. As an art and design college, Central Saint Martins is a place of intense cultural production, generating critical creative practices in complex and conflicting urban settings. Through an enquiry-led approach, MA Cities challenges the conventions of urban development, regeneration, and place-making and provides a ...Read more

MA Cities creates city-making practices that foreground social and climate justice.

Course overview

MA Cities creates city-making practices that foreground social and climate justice. As an art and design college, Central Saint Martins is a place of intense cultural production, generating critical creative practices in complex and conflicting urban settings. Through an enquiry-led approach, MA Cities challenges the conventions of urban development, regeneration, and place-making and provides a platform for generating and implementing innovative forms of civic practice.

MA Cities confronts the pressing social, ethical and environmental concerns of the city and explore the value and agency of alternative practices from around the world. Students will navigate complex and dynamic scenarios using creativity and originality to address current and future city-making challenges. MA Cites understands cities, towns and other dense urban settlements as collaborative and contested spaces – created through interactions between various participants and stakeholders. The course engages in collaboration and knowledge exchange with a wide range of art, design, and architectural practices, external partners and organisations. Students will be immersed in professional contexts of public sector and urban practice through direct engagement with local governments, regeneration agencies, creative and spatial practitioners. The course also works in collaboration with world-wide partners, to ensure that the course is informed by leading international perspectives and becomes a platform for transnational exchange and expertise in creative city-making.

On this course, students will engage with theoretical and practice-orientated approaches, political and ethical positions and a range of scales and methods of city-making. Students will critically reflect upon your own forms of urban practice, and develop new modes of research into critical practices, urban policy, governance and the urban economy –through creative collaboration and experimentation. The course will encourage students to develop an individual position, agenda and methodology, to inform their future urban practice.

Each unit includes a live project with an external partner from across industry, academia or government sectors. In the second year, students lead a live city-making project and self-directed thesis by practice. MA Cities alumni go on to work in many fields—architecture, urban strategy and development in the private and public sector, community collaboration and engagement, teaching and independent practice.

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Entry requirements

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows: an upper second-class honours degree in a relevant field including but not limited to: Architecture, Design (all forms), Anthropology, Fine Art, Theatre, Geography, Landscape, Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Engineering, Environmental Science, Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Politics, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, Performance, UX/UI, Communications, Media, Film, Writing, Journalism or an equivalent EU / international qualification and academic or creative experience working in fields such as architecture, urban, regional and strategic planning, policy, economics, production, curation, community collaboration and engagement, engineering, construction project management, transport planning, environmental strategy, speculative and critical design, film, media, installation, interaction design, industrial design, or other forms of independent and professional practice related to city-making.The course will not normally recruit from end-on students (i.e. those progressing directly from undergraduate degrees).

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£6,980 per year

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The mentioned fee is for 2024/25 entry. There may be a slight increase in 2025/26 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

£18,350 per year

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Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from EU

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The mentioned fee is for 2024/25 entry. There may be a slight increase in 2025/26 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

£18,350 per year

This information is updated by IDP Connect, or in some cases the institution directly.
Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from International

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The mentioned fee is for 2024/25 entry. There may be a slight increase in 2025/26 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

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University of the Arts, London
University of the Arts, London , London

University of the Arts London (UAL) is one of the world’s leading and most prestigious arts universities, maintaining an...

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University of the Arts, London
1 Granary Square London N1C 4AA United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Euston  0.4 miles away Nearest train station: King's Cross Thameslink  0.2 miles away
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