Overview
Course overview
The MA Narrative Environments at the University of the Arts London (UAL) responds to the growing need for multidisciplinary collaboration and critical, socially-engaged design. It addresses the demand for meaningful visitor experiences in cultural, commercial and community environments. This encompasses heritage sites, museums, retail, travel and leisure destinations, urban public spaces, libraries, health and educational environments.
Increasingly, organisations want to communicate their stories through the physical environment. They may need to inform their communities; overcome social divides; develop their reputation; and increase visitor numbers or attract new audiences. Narrative environments constitute a core part of “the global experience economy”. This addresses the desire for transformational encounters, providing opportunities for learning, discovery, social interaction and cohesion as well as the purchase of products and services.
On MA Narrative Environments, you will explore how story and time can be mapped onto place to create engaging visitor experiences. You will do this through sound, image, object, space. The course addresses current market opportunities by promoting methods which are participatory, multi-layered and meaningful and support economic, social, cultural, environmental sustainability and democracy. You will also be encouraged to employ new technologies to support connectivity and communication.
This course will equip you with the theoretical, practical and critical skills to envision new narrative environments. You will be supported to create work which addresses the complex context and contradictions of a globalised and turbulent world. As such, you will be encouraged to be outward-facing. You will use the city of London as a lab, collaborating with real communities, external institutions and businesses. You will develop proposals through an iterative design process and when possible, build and test them. The course also addresses the need for advanced research in spatial practices. It provides a grounding in design research, narrative environments and intellectual, scholarly debate. This can lead you to MPhil and PhD research degrees.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Methodology and scope of the design of Narrative Environments
- Challenging, originating and repositioning Narrative Environments 1
This unit is designed to provide an opportunity for you define your own direction by doing an industry placement, and developing your major project proposition.
- Challenging, Originating and Repositioning Narrative Environments 2
During this unit, you produce a complex and multilayered visitor experience that critiques and challenges conventional practice. This unit is designed to enable you to prototype, test, and resolve your major project at whatever scale is feasible.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Credits
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Campus Location
- London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Area & Cultural Studies View 312 other Masters in Area & Cultural Studies in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
Entry requirements
- An Honours degree in a relevant field architecture, exhibition, graphic, interior, performance, retail, spatial, theatre, 3D, multimedia or interaction design, museum studies or curatorship, writing, and design management OR
- An equivalent EU / international qualification
AND normally at least one year of relevant professional experience.
Personal StatementYour personal statement should explain what role the course would play in your personal and professional development and where you aim to locate yourself within the cultural and commercial industries.
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Tuition Fee
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21530 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 21530 GBP per year during 24 months. -
National
8065 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 8065 GBP per year during 24 months.
Living costs for London
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Scholarships Information
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