Departments

The Critical Studies department offers a two-year Master’s programme in critical thought and inquiry. The programme provides an open, interdisciplinary environment for the development of an independent research practice while giving students a grounding in contemporary critical theory.

The Design Department provides a space for new collective imaginaries reflecting the complexity of designed worlds and design’s implications in social, economic, and ecological issues. The curriculum is responsive to the pressing concerns of both students and tutors such as the current planetary crises and prevailing socio material injustices.

The Dirty Art Department offers itself as an open space for all possible thought, creation, and action. It is concerned with individuality, collectivity, and our navigation of the complex relationship between the built world and the natural world and between other people and ourselves. It is a place to build objects or totems, religions or websites, revolutions or business models, paintings or galaxies.

The Fine Arts Department offers a truly diverse, inclusive, and imaginative context for emerging artists. We offer dedicated time, space, and social structures for each artist to develop their own practice in relation to their peers, the field of art and world at large, and enable them to express intentional and informed positions within society.

The Studio for Immediate Spaces presents a two-year Master’s programme in art practices in the spatial discourse (MA Interior Architecture) that investigates how ecology, politics and economy influence modes of spatial production and, vice versa, how space shapes life.