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Study Details: 1 year full-time
17 months full-time
2 years part-time
Spatial design embraces the specialisms of urban, landscape, interior, and architectural design. It engages with contemporary arts practices and public art, and draws on various disciplines—including geography, sociology, and ecology—to focus on working with people, place, and the environment in ethical ways. Expand your approach to the spatial design process on our Spatial Design Practices Master’s course, and discover new interdisciplinary ways to understand, design, and make spaces that have the power to transform the world.
This course emphasises that the components of spatial design, like materials and constructions, are connected to not only our senses and perceptions but also other ‘dimensions’ such as technologies, the biosphere, society, identities, and our thoughts and feelings. You’ll study the practical and theoretical frameworks to engage with spatial design’s interconnected practices, which will help you situate it in and amongst these dimensions (called ‘situated ecologies’).
A good honours degree in a relevant subject, such as
Architecture
Interior Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Urban Design
Civil Engineering
Building Surveying
Geography
Spatial Practices
Fine Art
Other design-related subject
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Spatial design is a growing and in-demand field, with an average salary of £45,000 per year for senior design roles (Prospects, 2023). It is partly due to the remarkable role spatial design plays in influencing not only physical interior spaces, but also the interconnection between society, nature and the environment, and the psychological wellbeing of individuals.
Graduating from our Spatial Design Practices Master’s degree will provide you with an in-depth, versatile, and expert understanding, which will increase your job prospects in commercial, leisure, and domestic settings, both inside and outside the field of architecture.
Core modules:
Research Methods - 30 credits
Thesis - 60 credits
Optional modules:
Conservation and Practice - 30 credits
Conservation: Theories - 30 credits
Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences - 30 credits
Landscape and Urbanism: Sites and Systems - 30 credits
Landscape and Urbanism: Territories and Systems - 30 credits
Spatial Practices: Situated Ecologies - 30 credits
Spatial Practices: Thinking and Making - 30 credits
Work-Based Learning: Opportunity - 30 credits
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