Urban Design

Entry requirements

The typical offer for this course is a 2:2 or above honours degree in a relevant discipline.

Candidates with professional experience and qualifications in a relevant design discipline, including architecture and engineering, are welcome to apply.

Applicants with qualifications in other subjects, or relevant work experience, will be considered on an individual basis.

Months of entry

September

Course content

On the Urban Design MA from Kingston University, you will have opportunities to work on live projects, such as European and local consultancy briefs, within the Landscape Interface Studio. You will also benefit from international workshops, external lectures and optional visits to London shows, museums and institutions.

Kickstart your career designing the cities of the future

On this course, you will benefit from our state-of-the-art workshop facilities, including:

• 3D workshops, with ceramics, concrete, resin-casting, plastics, metalwork, woodwork and a bronze-casting foundry. As well as a Big Build space for architecture, set design and large scale model making
• Animation and post production studios
• Our digital media workshop
• Knitting and sewing workshops with digital and analogue facilities
• HackSpace (for collaborative, creative, solutions-focused projects)
• Letterpress and printmaking workshop, with digital and analogue facilities, for experimenting creatively
• Our moving image workshop, with studios, editing suite, and industry-standard equipment
• Our photography workshop, including studios, colour and black-and-white darkrooms, and processing facilities

The University also has its own on-site galleries, including:

• Dorich House – the former studio home of the sculptor Dora Gordine and her husband the Hon.
• Stanley Picker Gallery – one of the leading examples of a university gallery in the UK. Its public activities are dedicated to the research, commissioning and presentation of innovative new practice across the fields of art, design and architecture for general, academic and specialist audiences.
• Project spaces at our Knights Park campus, which you can book for the exhibition of large-scale work.

As part of Kingston School of Art, students on this course benefit from joining a creative community where collaborative working and critical practice are encouraged. Our workshops and studios are open to all disciplines, enabling students and staff to work together, share ideas and explore multi-disciplinary making.