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New MA in Expanded Spatial Practices launches at Leeds Beckett University
The course is a key addition to existing training available to architecture and design professionals across the country, based on expert-led teaching on a range of dynamic and emerging disciplines, with the aim to train competent and passionate spatial practitioners.
The teaching team in the Leeds School of Architecture together with experts teams across multiple schools at Leeds Beckett University, including the Leeds School of Arts, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the School of Health, have designed an extensive curriculum which draws on: architecture, interior, and landscape, art, performance, choreography, history, public policy, criminology, health, and creative technology, to critically interrogate the ways in which space is thought, represented, produced, and used.
Expanded and critical spatial practice is an emerging interdisciplinary subject area. This programme offers students the opportunity to learn from experts across different disciplines with access to the industry-standard facilities at Leeds School of Arts - one of the largest university arts communities in the northern region.
Sarah Mills, Head of Architecture at Leeds Beckett University, said: “The new MA Expanded Spatial Practices course allows students to explore spatial questions at the unfolding intersections with other disciplines, through using mediated, digitised, coded, augmented and hybridised practices along with the radical potential of new forms of making.”
Lara Rettondini, Course Director for MA Expanded Spatial Practices, said: “This is not only a new course but also a whole new approach to the education of spatial practitioners. The aim of the course is to form a community of competent spatial practitioners, who will be confident in leading change, working across disciplines, delivering complex spatial projects with positive social impact, and undertaking independent and collaborative scholarship.”
Matt Haycocks, Senior Lecturer, said: “Our distinctive pedagogical approach reflects the way space is produced in a combination of disciplines. Students work collaboratively, building on their existing experience and knowledge to deliver live outcomes that are built and tested through an engagement with the public. In this way the course aims to prepare students to work as Spatial Practitioners as part of collaborative teams in government, social and cultural organisations, and in creative and commercial fields.’’
Teaching for the first cohort of MA Expanded Spatial Practices starts in September 2023. The course is full-time, for a duration of 18 months. For entry requirements, more information, and to apply, please visit the Leeds Beckett University website.
For anyone yet to apply to university for September, or waiting for their results, Leeds Beckett University has places available in Clearing. You can pre-register for courses ahead of Results Day or, if you already have your results, apply now by calling 0113 812 3113.