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Masters

University of the Arts London

MA Cities

Name: MA Cities
Price: £7550 GBP

UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

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Study mode

Full time

Duration

2 years

Start date

SEP-26

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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Script Writing

Course Summary

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.

Modules

Unit 1: Voices from the City (20 Credits)

Unit 1 considers cities, towns and other dense urban settlements as places where multiple transactions and situations are constantly performed by a variety of participants. This unit addresses the challenges facing cities through transcultural and cross-cultural social experiences and encounters. This is delivered through weekly reports from different constituencies and sectors of urban practice, including citizens, practitioners, policymakers and governors. The unit establishes a situated position for learning and reflecting. It challenges students to confront their own specific cultural identities in relation to others and to reflect upon the situated nature of civic practices.

Unit 2: Community and Collaboration (20 Credits)

Unit 3: Critical Creative Practices (20 Credits)

Unit 4: Commissioning and Governance (20 Credits)

Unit 5: Infrastructures and Transactions (20 Credits)

Unit 6: Practice Manual (Pre-Thesis) (20 Credits)

Unit 7: Thesis (60 Credits)

Tuition fees

UK fees

Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£7,550

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Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£19,845

Entry requirements

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

An equivalent EU / international qualification

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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 aims to recruit post-experience candidates who have graduate-level qualifications and a minimum of one year work experience. The course will not normally recruit from end-on students (i.e. those progressing directly from undergraduate degrees).

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University of the Arts London (UAL) is one of the world’s leading and most prestigious arts universities, maintaining an internationally renowned list of alumni. Located in London, it is ideally positioned for students wishing to study a postgraduate qualification and gain valuable connections to a thriving creative sector. UAL ranks in the top 30 universities in the UK (Complete University Guide, 2025). With modern campus sites spread across...more

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