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Preparing you for future careers where intercultural collaboration is?essential.

Why choose this course at Central Saint Martins

Future-oriented: This course prepares you for global creative and cultural sectors increasingly reliant on communication, co-operation, debate and idea exchange

Transformative: Our student-centred curriculum enables you to balance your own research needs and focus on process – not product – as a route to change.

Flexible and interactive online and face to face learning: This course is designed for an international community of students, with real time and asynchronous learning supporting work across different time zones.

International co-operation: As a student on this course, you will be encouraged to engage in intercultural and transcultural activities to forefront co-created learning through cross-cultural exchange

Course overview

Practice based inquiry between spaces, places, and disciplines.

This is an MA by project. Study on the course prioritises making, action research and intercultural dialogue. The unit structure builds from your context and experiences to lead you in the development of your own personal project with potential extensions that might bring about change.

Global themes are best understood and acted on from multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives.?This course?encourages?the?sharing?of these perspectives to develop your agency as?an artist and cultural producer.

The opportunity to engage with transcultural activities means that you will be able to access a broader network of academic interest and practice, from beyond the course community, offering transnational experiences and intercultural conversations.

UNESCO supports interculturalism as a practice and approach that leads to a deeper understanding of the others global perception. As interconnection across and between societies grows, and cultural diversity is increasingly recognized as an inescapable reality of modern life, it is essential that practitioners are equipped with the capacities and knowledge to positively respond to difference and pluralism. This course prepares the next generation of creative practitioners for future careers where intercultural co-operation and the sharing of knowledge through practice is essential. The course proposes a reflexive consideration. of our relationship with both site and history and generates co-operative learning and an exploration of collective memory, evolving new traditions and relational politics. Study on the MA engages with transnational, intercultural and co-operative learning, giving you individual agency within your chosen field while engaging fully with emerging global priorities affecting you and your wider context.

This is a part-time two year course delivered through a mix of online and in person residentials blending teaching, intensive workshops, international teaching exchange, and independent projects. The intensive residentials will primarily focus on critical discourse and habits of reflective practice.

The anticipated student community will have a broad international reach. The course encourages you to draw from your communities of practice and interests and engage with wider transnational networks.

We are committed to developing ethical intercultural practices. To achieve this, we are working to embed UAL's Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into the course.