University of the Arts Degree Ma In Museum Exhibition Planning and Design

Apply to showtime in September 2022

This course has places available for UK applicants only. Nosotros are no longer accepting applications from international students for 2022/23 entry to this course. International applications for 2023/24 entry volition open in Autumn 2022.

Narrative environments are spatial stories that tin can be found across cultural, borough, technological and digital spaces. Narrative environments activate dynamic histories, forward immersive presents and suggest futures. On this course, y'all volition develop theoretical and practical expertise in designing narrative environments. Working across spatial blueprint, speculative blueprint, social and systems design, you lot will learn to compose interactive stories that explore systems and phenomena of science, technology, politics, order and civilization in new ways. Narrative environments is part of the Spatial Practices programme.

Why cull this course at Central Saint Martins

• Live projects: The course offers opportunities for live projects. Previously, this has included work with Arup, European Space Agency, National Trust, London Festival of Architecture, Camden Council, Cisco, LVMH, Southbank Centre and Volkswagen.
• Wide-ranging exercise: You lot volition piece of work on a range of design projects – taking upwardly narratives in and about cities and infrastructure, public culture, social innovation, technological systems and climate change. You volition depict upon design methodologies from speculative design, spatial design, graphics, systems design, feel design, social and participatory pattern, and interaction blueprint. This will help you to ascertain your future career in either the commercial, cultural or artistic industries or continue to PhD study.
• Industry mentorship: Yous will acquire from leading industry figures. Nosotros will assistance yous connect with a mentor who can support you at central moments in your studies, providing you with real-earth, professional advice.
• Industry placement: You will have the opportunity to undertake a work placement or manufacture case study. This could be in a blueprint company, an architect'southward do, a museum or a related business or authorities organization, giving yous a sense of the global marketplace for jobs in narrative environments.

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  DisEmbodied, MARGARITA VOGIATZI, 2021 MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins, UAL

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  Queer Botany: Stories from Culture and Nature, Sixto-Juan Zavala, 2021 MA Narrative Environments, Fundamental Saint Martins, UAL

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  Walking Brunel, Tara Corovic, 2021 MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins, UAL

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  Lifecode Dilemma, Francesca Coppola, 2021 MA Narrative Environments, Fundamental Saint Martins, UAL

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  Museum/Globe: Windrush Songs, Phark Lertchanyakul, 2021 MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins, UAL

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  Sowmini Suresh, Sowmini Suresh, 2021 MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins, UAL

Grade publications

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  Spatial Practices Manifesto [PDF, 43KB]

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  Degree Show catalogue 2018 [PDF, 12.3MB]

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  Degree Show catalogue 2019 [PDF, 9.9MB]

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  Sixtine Marechal, MA Industrial Pattern

  The MullenLowe NOVA Awards highlight some of our best graduating work. This year marks a decade of the partnership and the nominated work is fittingly bold and vivid.

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  (Collective - No Name), BA Performance: Design and Do

  We talk to the 2020 graduates who take worked collectively during crunch.

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  Today we are happy to denote the graduating students shortlisted for this yr's MullenLowe NOVA Awards and declare voting open for the YourNOVA Award.

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  Luis Gutierrez Rico, Institute Eden

  As the climate emergency emphasises just how dysfunctional our collective human relationship with nature truly is, we take a look at graduating work – spanning from a biocomputer to a gull costume – that gives nature a vox.

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Course overview

MA Narrative Environments 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 surround. They may demand to inform their communities; overcome social divides; develop their reputation; and increase visitor numbers or concenter new audiences. Narrative environments constitute a core role 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, yous volition explore how story and time tin be mapped onto place to create engaging visitor experiences. You will practise this through sound, image, object, infinite. The class addresses electric current marketplace opportunities by promoting methods which are participatory, multi-layered and meaningful and support economic, social, cultural, environmental sustainability and democracy. You will as well be encouraged to utilise new technologies to support connectivity and advice.

This course will equip you lot with the theoretical, practical and disquisitional skills to envision new narrative environments. You will exist supported to create work which addresses the complex context and contradictions of a globalised and turbulent globe. As such, you will exist 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 exam them. The course as well addresses the need for advanced research in spatial practices. Information technology provides a grounding in blueprint research, narrative environments and intellectual, scholarly debate. This can lead y'all to MPhil and PhD research degrees.

Course units

Narratives are told through artefacts, text, sound, images and film, which are integrated into the physical environs. This is achieved in iii ways. Firstly, through the design of hard concrete structures, materials and class, which tend to remain fairly fixed over time. Secondly, through text, light, image, sound and digital media which can change quickly. Thirdly, through the soft and most unpredictable dimension of man presence and interaction.

On this course, theories of space and narrative will exist introduced and debated through lectures, seminars and conferences. You will also accept access to an online compendium. Theory is integrated with practice in team projects. Yous will gain insight into professional practice through placements, alive projects and visiting practitioners. During the course, y'all will progress towards independent thinking. You will establish your own critical position, allowing you to graduate with a clear set of principles to underpin your future career.

Unit 1: Methodology and Telescopic of the Pattern of Narrative Environments

This unit consists of a series of short, group projects. Information technology will innovate you to a variety of enquiry methods, multidisciplinary collaboration and the telescopic of narrative environs design. Y'all will besides exist introduced to the theoretical, socio-economic and cultural context of practice. Unit i also integrates personal and professional development. This volition enable you to become an active member of a learning community. You will develop your skills in research, advice, reflection, planning, decision-making and artistic practice.

Unit 2: Challenging, Originating and Repositioning Narrative

On this unit of measurement, yous will have the opportunity to define your own direction. You volition research and design a major project proposition. You may opt to do an industry example study or a placement to proceeds direct insight into opportunities and working methods in industry. The case written report or placement will enable you lot to assess your ain abilities, ambitions and career direction.

The major projection suggestion is cocky-directed. You will define your own research question, aims and objectives. Yous will compile a research document and assemble your own collaborative squad to develop a visual blueprint proffer. This unit of measurement allows you to engage with the professional world and go a reflective, artistic and critical practitioner, every bit well every bit explore your career options.

Unit three: Challenging, Originating and Repositioning Narrative Environments ii

In this unit of measurement, you lot will write a projection rationale which will contextualise and justify your direction. You will paradigm, test, produce and install your major project where feasible. Unit 3 concludes with a disquisitional evaluation of your major projection. This project enables yous to define your ain professional and personal goals. It also encourages you to reflect on the dynamics of the industry, to consolidate your experience and advance your skills and cognition.

Mode of study

MA Narrative Environments is offered in extended full-time mode which runs for 60 weeks over two academic years. You will be expected to commit 30 hours per week to study, which includes education time and independent study.

The course has been designed in this style to enable you lot to pursue studies, while also undertaking part-fourth dimension employment, internships or care responsibilities.

Credit and honor requirements

The course is credit-rated at 180 credits.

On successfully completing the course, you will gain a Master of Arts (MA degree).

Under the Framework for College Pedagogy Qualifications, an MA is Level seven. All units must be passed in order to achieve the MA but the classification of the award is derived from the mark for the terminal unit only.

If you are unable to continue on the course, a Postgraduate Document (PG Cert) will normally be offered following the successful completion of 60 credits, or a Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) post-obit the successful completion of 120 credits.

Learning and didactics methods

During your class you will engage with learning and teaching that includes both online and face-to-face modes. Typically, this volition include:

• Unit and project briefings
• Set and cocky-initiated project briefs
• Inductions, lectures and seminars
• Collaboration and interdisciplinary team-working
• Peer learning
• Cocky and peer assessment
• Invitee speakers
• Group discussions, reviews and critiques
• Working with clients on live projects
• Mentoring
• Industry case study or placement
• Collaborative field research
• Dissertation education
• Independent report

Assessment methods

• Grouping presentations
• Audits and reports
• Reflective periodical
• Learning log
• Project output
• Placement diary
• Major project
• Written critical appraisal
• Degree Evidence display

How to apply

Data for disabled applicants

UAL is committed to achieving inclusion and equality for disabled students. This includes students who have:

• Dyslexia or another Specific Learning Difference
• A sensory impairment
• A concrete damage
• A long-term health or mental health status
• Autism
• Another long-term condition which has an bear on on your solar day-to-day life

Our Disability Service arranges adjustments and support for disabled applicants and students. Read our Disability and dyslexia: applying for a grade and joining UAL data.

Entry requirements

The standard entry requirements for this class are equally follows:

• An honours degree in a relevant field: compages, exhibitions, graphics, interiors, functioning, retail, spatial, theatre, 3D, multimedia or interaction design, museum studies or curatorship, writing and design management
• Or an equivalent EU/international qualification

And ordinarily at least ane yr of relevant professional feel.

For farther advice on entry requirements contact Tricia Austin, Grade Leader on +44(0) 20 7514 8535 or email p.austin@csm.arts.ac.uk.

APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Exceptionally applicants who exercise not encounter these course entry requirements may notwithstanding exist considered. The course squad volition consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and culling evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

• Related academic or work feel
• The quality of the personal statement
• A stiff academic or other professional reference

Or a combination of these factors.

Each awarding will exist considered on its own merit but cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

English language requirements

IELTS level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking (please check our main English language language requirements webpage).

Option criteria

We select applicants according to potential and current ability in the following areas:

• Skills and cognition in your own field of study and preferably some examples of post college piece of work in your detail field
• Testify of interest and understanding of narrative structure
• Work demonstrating engagement with narrative in a spatial context, whether that is a real or virtual space
• A reflective and critical arroyo
• Evidence and experience of teamwork
• Self-motivation, ambition and a commitment to the course.

What we are looking for

We actively seek graduates with some experience of architecture, curatorship, writing or design who want to abound their expertise within the cultural and commercial sectors. We seek resourceful, talented and ambitious individuals who work well in multidisciplinary teams. The college's potent international profile is reflected in the wide cultural mix of our students and our international studio placements and exchanges.

Making your application

You lot should employ by clicking on the link to the straight class below. The application grade can be saved as yous make full information technology out, and so you practise not need to consummate it all at once. Y'all will also have the chance to review all the information and make any necessary amendments before you submit the application class.

Deferred entry

Central Saint Martins does not accept applications for deferred entry. You lot should therefore employ in the year you wish to study.

Transfers

If you are currently studying at another institution and if you take successfully completed threescore credits in the equivalent units and modules on your current postgraduate course and wish to keep your studies at Cardinal Saint Martins, yous can utilize to transfer. The Admissions Tutor will consider applications on a case by case basis, subject field to places being bachelor. You must apply directly to the form via the course webpage as early as possible.

Please check our Student Transfer Policy for more of import information and be set to provide u.s.a. with your current form handbook and unit transcripts.

You will need to provide an official certificate (translated into English language) from your electric current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you lot accept completed.

Start your application now

Before y'all use, please take fourth dimension to read the guidance beneath. Y'all volition be asked to provide the following data when completing the online application course:

General information

Personal details (including legal full proper noun, preferred proper name, date of nativity, nationality, addresses)

Current English language level

Current and/or previous didactics and qualification details

Employment history

Personal statement

Your personal argument should explain what role the form would play in your personal and professional development and where you aim to locate yourself within the cultural and commercial industries.

We cannot consider your awarding if you practice not provide all the information above.

Communicating with you

After y'all accept successfully submitted your awarding, you volition receive an email confirming we take successfully received your application and providing yous with your login details for the UAL Portal.  We will request any additional data from y'all, including inviting you lot to upload documents / portfolio / book an interview, through the portal.  You should check your UAL Portal regularly for whatever important updates and requests.

Please add together csm.ukeu@arts.ac.united kingdom to your contacts to ensure that y'all do not miss any important updates re: your awarding to UAL. Also consider altering your spam or junk mail service filter to ensure that emails from @arts.ac.united kingdom go through to you.

Application deadline

Other

This course is open up for Great britain applications until places have been filled. Nosotros recommend y'all submit your awarding as early as possible to allow the Admissions team to quickly resolve any queries.

When you'll hear from u.s.a.

This course receives a loftier volume of applications. Nosotros demand to brand sure that nosotros give all applications equal consideration, and then the course team will review them in two rounds. This means that offers won't be sent to successful applicants until after the relevant application deadline appointment. Outcomes for Round one will be released past 31 March 2022 and outcomes for Round 2 will be released past 30 June 2022.

Remember to check the result of your application in the UAL Portal. If you utilize in Round 1 and don't hear back from united states, nosotros will consider your application inside Circular ii.

Find out more than about what happens after you apply.

There are two ways international students can use:

• Direct awarding
• Through 1 of our official representatives in your country who can support you with your application

You tin only apply to the same grade once per year.

If yous are applying directly you click on the link to the directly form below. The application course can be saved every bit yous fill up information technology out, so yous do not need to complete information technology all at once. You volition too have the risk to review all the information and brand any necessary amendments before you lot submit the application form.

Transfers

If you lot are currently studying at another institution and if you lot have successfully completed 60 credits in the equivalent units and modules on your current postgraduate course and wish to continue your studies at Central Saint Martins, you tin can utilise to transfer. The Admissions Tutor will consider applications on a example by instance basis, subject to places being available. You must utilize straight to the form via the class webpage every bit early on as possible.

Delight cheque our Pupil Transfer Policy for more important information and be gear up to provide us with your current course handbook and unit transcripts.

You will need to provide an official certificate (translated into English) from your current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you accept completed.

Deferred entry

Central Saint Martins does not take applications for deferred entry. Y'all should therefore employ in the year you wish to study.

Visas

Read our visit our clearing and visa communication page to find out whether you need a visa to written report.

Start your application now

Before you lot apply, please take fourth dimension to read the guidance below. You will be asked to provide the following information when completing the online application form:

General information

• Personal details (including legal full name, preferred name, date of birth, nationality, addresses)
• Current English language level
• Current and/or previous education and qualification details
• Employment history

Personal statement

Your 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.

Clearing history bank check

Whether y'all are applying online or through a UAL representative you lot will demand to complete an clearing history check to constitute whether y'all are eligible to study at UAL.  If you do not consummate the bank check nosotros will non be able to continue with your awarding.

We cannot consider your application if you lot do non provide all the data higher up.

Communicating with yous

After you have successfully submitted your application, y'all volition receive an electronic mail confirming we accept successfully received your awarding and providing you with your login details for the UAL Portal.  Nosotros will request any additional data from you lot, including inviting you to upload documents / portfolio / volume an interview, through the portal.  You should check your UAL Portal regularly for whatever important updates and requests.

Please add csm.international@arts.ac.uk to your contacts to ensure that you do not miss any important updates re: your application to UAL. Also consider altering your spam or junk mail filter to ensure that emails from @arts.air-conditioning.uk get through to you.

Application deadline

Other

We are no longer accepting applications from international applicants for 2022/23 entry to this course. Applications for 2023/24 entry will open in Autumn 2022.

When you lot'll hear from u.s.a.

This class receives a high volume of applications. We need to make certain that we give all applications equal consideration, then the grade squad volition review them in 2 rounds. This means that offers won't be sent to successful applicants until later the relevant application deadline engagement. Outcomes for Round ane will be released by 31 March 2022 and outcomes for Round 2 will be released by 30 June 2022.

Retrieve to check the outcome of your awarding in the UAL Portal. If you apply in Round i and don't hear back from the states, nosotros will consider your application within Circular 2.

Find out more almost what happens after you utilize.

After yous apply

What happens next

Initial application check

Nosotros bank check your awarding to see if you come across the standard entry requirements for the form.  If you do, yous will be invited to submit a portfolio through your UAL Portal.

Digital portfolio

Your portfolio should be upwards to fifteen pages and demonstrate your practical and conceptual skills as well as your working processes.

All applicants:

• Your Video Task (details below) – the first page of your portfolio

The remaining content of your portfolio will depend on your field of expertise as follows:

Designers should include:

• Images of visual work
• Examples of moving prototype piece of work if appropriate
• Developmental research fabric
• Samples of written piece of work.

Curators and museum studies graduates should include:

• A link to a detailed professional CV with project descriptions
• Documentation of work where possible

Architects should include:

• Your degree project
• 2 other projects featuring concept drawings and process work that demonstrate your own concerns
• Drawings, designs, visualisations and photographs of models appropriate to your experience and background.

Writers and humanities graduates should include:

• A publications list or CV detailing recent projects (due east.g. screenplays, scripts, art management, articles from journals or newspapers, brusk stories, novels)
• Details of membership of professional organisations (e.g. Writers Guild, NUJ)
• At least three samples of work.

For more portfolio advice delight visit our portfolio advice page .

Video task

We'd like you to submit a 2-3 minute video to help us learn more about you:

• Please speak clearly in English and face the camera
• Your video job is submitted forth with your portfolio
• Read our guidance for how to submit your video job and which file types we take

As part of your video job please respond to the following management:

• Nosotros would like you to identify i project from your portfolio that exemplifies your interest in Narrative Environments and your capacity to create them.  Depict the projection and your part in creating it. Explain how this experience inspired you to employ to the MA Narrative Environments program at CSM.

Interview

Post-obit the review of the portfolio we select a small number of applicants to move on to the next stage of the process.  These applicants will be invited to an online interview, lasting 15 to 20 minutes.

How we notify you lot of the upshot of your application

You will receive the result of your application through the UAL Portal.

Fees and funding

Dwelling fee

£6,650 per year

This fee is right for 2022/23 entry and is subject to change for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees may increase in futurity years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than than i year. For this course, yous tin pay tuition fees in instalments.

Home fees are currently charged to UK nationals and Great britain residents who see the rules. However, the rules are complex. Find out more about our tuition fees and determining your fee status.

International fee

£16,945 per year

This fee is correct for 2022/23 entry and is bailiwick to change for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees may increase in hereafter years for new and standing students on courses lasting more than 1 year. For this course, you lot can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Students from countries outside of the United kingdom will generally be charged international fees. The rules are complex so read more about tuition fees and determining your fee status.

Careers and alumni

MA Narrative Environments extends and enhances your employment opportunities in sectors such as exhibition, event, retail and interpretive blueprint, visitor center development, curating, scripting and creative direction, movie and TV production, architecture, new media and interaction design, make evolution and design for corporate environments.

The postgraduate course also addresses the need for avant-garde research in spatial practices. It provides a grounding in design inquiry and intellectual, scholarly contend that can lead you to MPhil and PhD research degrees.

MA Narrative Environments has excellent links with renowned practitioners across the spectrum of narrative blueprint. Professional fields include: interpretive design; production; architecture; interaction, media, graphic and advice design; make communications; museums and galleries; planning and direction.

Companies and institutions that are affiliates and sponsors of MA Narrative Environments include:

• Arthesia Hard disk drive, Switzerland
• Arup Innovation Unit
• The British Museum, London
• Issue Advice, London
• Eyebeam, NY
• FAT (Mode Architecture Taste) London
• The Freud Museum, London
• Glasshouse Community-led Blueprint, London
• Yard.T.F, London
• Hidden Art, London
• IDEO London and Shanghai
• Imagination, London and NY
• State Design Studio, London
• LDJ lighting design, Yorkshire
• MET London and Hong Kong
• Metaphor, London
• Participle, London
• Ralph Appelbaum Associates London and NY
• Selfridges, London
• the Serpentine Gallery, London
• The Science Museum, London
• The Speaker'southward Corner Trust
• Southbank Centre, London
• Stanton Williams, London
• Tate Modern, London
• United Visual Artists, London
• Wolf Olins, London
• The Wellcome Trust, London.

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Source: https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/architecture-spatial-and-interior-design/postgraduate/ma-narrative-environments-csm

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