Close icon

Personalise what you see on this page.

Choose from the options below. We'll show you information based on your current location as default.

I'M FROM

  • United States
Please select so we can show the most relevant content.

LIVING IN

  • United States
Please select so we can show the most relevant content.

LOOKING FOR

  • Undergraduate courses
Please select so we can show the most relevant content.
Viewing as a student from United States living in United States interested in Undergraduate courses

MA Narrative Environments

University of the Arts London

Add to favourites
University of the Arts London

Course options

4 options available

  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    King's Cross Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    2 Years

Course summary

Course overview

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.

MA Narrative Environments explores the interplay between situational and speculative knowledge about narratives and environments as they are, have been, and what they might become. We start by charting and understanding the narrative environments that we find ourselves within today, critically demythologising, deconstructing, decolonising, decommodifying etc. the dominant hegemonic narratives that we tell/are told/sold about who we are, what the rest of the world is etc. This observational and systems mapping practice is the first step towards deep design research and development based on incorporating critical analysis into alternative propositions for infrastructures, ideologies, and worlds. Key research questions include: How are narrative environments transmitted and distributed across space and time? How do technologies shape narrative environments and how do narrative environments shape technologies? How do narrative environments change in the shift from screen-based narratives to spatial narratives embedded throughout cities, landscapes, virtual interfaces, and model worlds? What kinds of places can and should be narrated that aren’t, and what ideologies are reinforced by narratives that shouldn’t be? How do the tools and understandings of narrative environments reshape architecture, infrastructure, science, technology, and planning? How do narrative environments mobilize and complexify facts and fictions, models and simulations, needs and desires?

Tuition fees

Students living in United States
(International fees)

£ 20,505per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of the Arts London

University of the Arts London

  • University League Table

    29th

  • Campus address

    University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London, London, WC1V 7EY, England

VIEW PROFILE

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Art & Design

    23rd out of 84 1

    40th out of 122 5

  • Entry standards

    / Max 239
    156 65%

    19th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    65.0 65%

    36th

    3

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.04 76%

    67th

  • Entry standards

    / Max 221
    147 66%

    34th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    51.0 51%

    111th

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.93 73%

    103rd

    4

Suggested courses

Middlesex University
NEARBY

International Hospitality and Events Management MSc/PGDip/PGCert

Middlesex University

University league table

Oxford Brookes University
SIMILAR RANKING

International Hospitality, Event and Tourism Management MSc

Oxford Brookes University

Business & Management Studies league table

39
London South Bank University
MOST VIEWED

Human Sciences PhD

London South Bank University

University league table

114

Is this page useful?

Yes No

Sorry about that...

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE IT?

SUBMIT

Thanks for your feedback!