About the course

Narrative environments are spatial stories that can be found across cultural, civic, technological and digital spaces. Narrative environments activate dynamic histories, forward immersive presents and propose futures. On this course, you will develop theoretical and practical expertise in designing narrative environments. Working across spatial design, speculative design, social and systems design, you will learn to compose interactive stories that explore systems and phenomena of science, technology, politics, society and culture in new ways. Narrative environments is part of the Spatial Practices programme.

　　Based within CSM’s Spatial Practices Programme, MA Narrative Environments is a two-year course focused on the research and development of environments in which narratives unfold. Narrative environments are platforms, scenarios, and interfaces for communicating information, researching and testing possibilities, hosting events and experiences, and/ or generating diverse forms of intelligences. Narratives include not only stories, but rhetoric, discourse, and programs related to human and non-human languages and communication, including non-human languages, biosemiotics, artificial intelligence/machine learning and large language models. Environments include interior and exterior, physical and digital spaces and temporalities, and synthetic-natural ecological systems across scales. The course researches and develops narrative environments as immersive and interactive systems and hybrid spaces that propose, model, simulate, plan, construct, and/or perform alternative infrastructures, ideologies and worlds.

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Start dates and prices

Course fees are indicative and should be used as a guide. Speak to a counsellor to get an accurate price.

　　Duration: 2 Year(s)Fees: GB£32,900

Intake	Location
Spring (January), 2021	King's Cross
Autumn (September), 2024	King's Cross
Spring (January), 2025	King's Cross
Summer (April), 2025	King's Cross
Autumn (September), 2025	King's Cross

　　

How to apply

Entry requirements for University of the Arts

All Official Transcripts. IELTS - 6.5. (Minimum 5.5 All Sections). TOEFL IBT - 90 (Listening 17, Reading 18, Writing 17, Speaking 20). 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.

　　

English language requirements

　　6.5

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　　TOEFL Internet based overall score: 90.0

　　

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