Combining forces

Masters in Design for Performance & Interaction

The Interactive Architecture Lab based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, runs a 15 month masters programme welcoming applicants from a wide variety of artistic and technical backgrounds.

The core of the programme is the belief that the creation of spaces for performance and the creation of performances within them are symbiotic design activities. Working with interactive technologies enables us to consider objects, space, people and systems as potential performers.

The Masters in Design for Performance and Interaction (M.Arch) has relevance across spatial and urban design, interface and systems design, auditoria and scenographic design, lighting and sound installation, performance and event design and virtual and physical environments that draw people together. Structured to offer the widest scope for creativity, the course facilitates and empowers students to find their own unique design vision, emphasising prototyping, from interactive objects to staged events and performance architecture.

Students learn with advanced skills to design for performance and interaction, informed by multidisciplinary theories from performing arts, digital media, spatial interaction, anthropology, sociology, cybernetics, cognitive neuroscience and aesthetics. The programme is taught in UCL’s cutting-edge facilities at Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a space renowned as a hotbed for technological innovation and home to some of the UK’s leading performance and design companies.

At The Bartlett School of Architecture, the UK’s leading and largest Faculty of the Built Environment, they believe this course provides an unprecedented opportunity for informed, skilled and trans-disciplinary designers to define, and deliver, spaces and systems for performance and interaction in the 21st century.

The possibilities are endless, see their work.