The Master's Degree on Sustainable Cities programme at Norman Foster Institute allows students to improve their knowledge and fieldwork experience in sustainable urban design.

School: Norman Foster Institute
Course: Master's Degree on Sustainable Cities
Location: Madrid, Spain
Course dates: January to December 2025
Application deadline: 15 June 2024

The Norman Foster Institute is now accepting applications for its Programme on Sustainable Cities, starting in Madrid in January 2025.

The Programme on Sustainable Cities blends hands-on experience with academic insights from the Norman Foster Foundation’s global network of experts, led by co-directors Norman Foster, president of the Norman Foster Foundation and advocate of the United Nations Forum of Mayors and Kent Larson, director of the City Science Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab.

The 36-week programme is structured across three stages.– Foundations, Transformations and Interventions – with time divided between studio and fieldwork.

Each year, scholars will immerse themselves in three pilot cities, engaging directly with local planners and managers. The 2025 academic year will focus on African cities, one of the most challenging territories that also presents one of the greatest opportunities for urban development.

The Norman Foster Institute provides a master’s degree diploma for the Programme on Sustainable Cities, in partnership with the NFI’s academic partner, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The diploma is signed by co-directors Norman Foster and Kent Larson and by the NFI Provost, prof. Edgar Pieterse, founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town, and by the rector of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, prof. Amaya Mendikoetxea.

The deadline for applications is 15 June 2024 at 24h00 CEST.

Find out more about the course and apply ›

Image by Pablo Gómez-Ogando; courtesy of the Norman Foster Institute.

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