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MA Architecture: Spatial Design Practices

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    MA 1 year full-time (September start), 17 months full-time (January start), 2 years part-time (September start)

Course Description

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’).

Entry Requirements

Qualifications or experience

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

English language requirements

  • English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 (or equivalent) with no component score below 6.0.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

If you meet our criteria, you could get a £3000 tuition fees discount – visit website for details

Student Destinations

Your skills in design and culture, as well as your professional competencies, will prepare you for careers in areas such as:

  • architecture
  • interior design/architecture
  • urban design
  • environmental, resilient, sustainable design
  • performance/fine arts
  • consultancy work
  • NGOs and environmental organisations
  • Regeneration projects

Module Details

There are both core and optional modules in the full-time version of this pathway.

You can choose any of the optional modules to build your specialisation, but you’ll need to complete the modules in bold to graduate with the Spatial Design Practices exit award.

Core modules

  • Research Methods – 30 credits
  • Thesis – 60 credits

Optional modules

All optional modules are 30 credits each.

  • Spatial Practices: Thinking and Making
  • Spatial Practices: Situated Ecologies
  • Conservation: Theories
  • Conservation and Practice
  • Landscape and Urbanism: Territories and Systems
  • Landscape and Urbanism: Sites and Systems
  • Work-based Learning Opportunity
  • Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences

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