MA Narrative Environments

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.

Two years (60 weeks) Extended full-time

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows

An honours degree in a relevant field architecture exhibitions graphics interiors performance retail spatial theatre 3D multimedia or interaction design experience design speculative design design strategy social or service design gaming environment science communications museum studies or curatorship writing literature and design management
Or an equivalent EU OR international qualification
And normally at least one year of relevant professional experience

IELTS level 6.5 or above with at least 5.5 in reading writing listening and speaking

TOEFL IBT - valid for 2 years - Score Required - 90 - Listening - 17, Reading - 18, Writing - 17, Speaking - 20.
TOEFL iBT Home Edition is NOT accepted.