MA Cities at Central Saint Martins
The MA Cities course at Central Saint Martins equips students with practical and theoretical skills to successfully navigate urban environments via creative collaboration and experimentation.
This course has now closed
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.
On this course, students will engage with theoretical and practice-oriented approaches, political and ethical positions and a range of scales and methods of city-making.
Students will critically reflect upon their own forms of urban practice and develop new modes of research into critical practices, urban policy, governance and the urban economy – through creative collaboration and experimentation.
The course will encourage students to develop an individual position, agenda and methodology, to inform their future urban practice.
School: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL)
Course: MA Cities
Type: Postgraduate
Location: online and in London, UK
Course dates: September 2026, with a duration of two years (60 weeks) extended full-time
Application deadline: 18 March 2026
What will I learn during this course?
– Theoretical and practice-orientated approaches to urban practice
– Research skills
– Multi-disciplinary skills
What are the 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 and journalism
– Alternatively, an equivalent EU/international qualification to the above
– Academic or creative experience working in relevant fields
– The course will not normally recruit from end-on students (i.e. those progressing directly from undergraduate degrees)
– English language requirements: IELTS level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking. For further guidance, please check our English language requirements
What facilities and resources are available?
– Term-time access to a range of open technical facilities, including the Loan Store, Digital Fabrication Bureau, Digital Labs, Digital Print, Paint/Surface, Photography Studios, 3D Capture Lab and Casting
– Term-time access to specialist facilities including Archway, Digital Make, 3D Make, Media Studios (Video and Sound)
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