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AAIS explores the boundaries between art, architecture and performance to reveal unseen networks between professions, products and methodologies. The studio operates as an interdisciplinary creative studio for knowledge exchange, allowing students to develop a language with which to communicate between disciplines. Participants in the programme research, design and produce a series of genre-defying spatial performances and installations through which they examine the ways in which creative work and design overlap during the development of projects and events. Students work with visual art, the performing arts, design and media practices, aiming to challenge rather than uphold the accepted divisions between them.
We create pathways for students to learn new skills and techniques. The programme has established connections to other institutions, academics and practices within a wide range of creative disciplines; these contribute to the programme through lectures, seminars, exercises, tutorials and talks. The studio also creates real-world projects that shape the work of the year and enable public participation. Alongside this, students are encouraged to build new professional networks from creative backgrounds as diverse and complementary as performance, design, music, film, photography, fashion, communication and curation.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Architecture and Built Environment
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
AAIS explores the boundaries between art, architecture and performance to reveal unseen networks between professions, products and methodologies. The studio operates as an interdisciplinary creative studio for knowledge exchange, allowing students to develop a language with which to communicate between disciplines. Participants in the programme research, design and produce a series of genre-defying spatial performances and installations through which they examine the ways in which creative work and design overlap during the development of projects and events. Students work with visual art, the performing arts, design and media practices, aiming to challenge rather than uphold the accepted divisions between them.
We create pathways for students to learn new skills and techniques. The programme has established connections to other institutions, academics and practices within a wide range of creative disciplines; these contribute to the programme through lectures, seminars, exercises, tutorials and talks. The studio also creates real-world projects that shape the work of the year and enable public participation. Alongside this, students are encouraged to build new professional networks from creative backgrounds as diverse and complementary as performance, design, music, film, photography, fashion, communication and curation.
Admission Requirements
Admission Requirements
Prospective students must achieve at least the minimum academic and English language requirements to apply for any of the taught postgraduate programmes on offer at the AA. These requirements vary according to the programme being undertaken.
Spatial Performance & Design (AAIS) MA – Bachelor’s degree (minimum second class honours) in architecture, design/creative arts or other disciplines are accepted from a United Kingdom university or a degree of equivalent standard from a recognised university or higher education institution from outside the UK.
Required Documents
All applicants (with the exception of those applying to the History and Critical Thinking MA programme and the PhD Research programme) must submit a digital sample portfolio of original art and design work in addition to the online application form, scanned transcripts and certificates (as required), personal statement and references, which can be sent to the school directly by referees.
Portfolio
Personal Statement
Transcripts and Certificates
References
Written Sample - History and Critical Thinking MA
Research Proposal - PhD Research and Architectural Design
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Immigration Documents
06 Mar 2026
18 Months
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
36,000 GBP
International
36,000 GBP
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Spatial Performance and Design (AAIS) MA
London, London, United Kingdom
# 51-100QS Subject Rankings
18 monthsProgramme duration
36,000 GBPTuition Fee/year
06 Mar, 2026Application Deadline
Programme overview
Main Subject
Architecture and Built Environment
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
AAIS explores the boundaries between art, architecture and performance to reveal unseen networks between professions, products and methodologies. The studio operates as an interdisciplinary creative studio for knowledge exchange, allowing students to develop a language with which to communicate between disciplines. Participants in the programme research, design and produce a series of genre-defying spatial performances and installations through which they examine the ways in which creative work and design overlap during the development of projects and events. Students work with visual art, the performing arts, design and media practices, aiming to challenge rather than uphold the accepted divisions between them.
We create pathways for students to learn new skills and techniques. The programme has established connections to other institutions, academics and practices within a wide range of creative disciplines; these contribute to the programme through lectures, seminars, exercises, tutorials and talks. The studio also creates real-world projects that shape the work of the year and enable public participation. Alongside this, students are encouraged to build new professional networks from creative backgrounds as diverse and complementary as performance, design, music, film, photography, fashion, communication and curation.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Architecture and Built Environment
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
AAIS explores the boundaries between art, architecture and performance to reveal unseen networks between professions, products and methodologies. The studio operates as an interdisciplinary creative studio for knowledge exchange, allowing students to develop a language with which to communicate between disciplines. Participants in the programme research, design and produce a series of genre-defying spatial performances and installations through which they examine the ways in which creative work and design overlap during the development of projects and events. Students work with visual art, the performing arts, design and media practices, aiming to challenge rather than uphold the accepted divisions between them.
We create pathways for students to learn new skills and techniques. The programme has established connections to other institutions, academics and practices within a wide range of creative disciplines; these contribute to the programme through lectures, seminars, exercises, tutorials and talks. The studio also creates real-world projects that shape the work of the year and enable public participation. Alongside this, students are encouraged to build new professional networks from creative backgrounds as diverse and complementary as performance, design, music, film, photography, fashion, communication and curation.
Admission Requirements
Admission Requirements
Prospective students must achieve at least the minimum academic and English language requirements to apply for any of the taught postgraduate programmes on offer at the AA. These requirements vary according to the programme being undertaken.
Spatial Performance & Design (AAIS) MA – Bachelor’s degree (minimum second class honours) in architecture, design/creative arts or other disciplines are accepted from a United Kingdom university or a degree of equivalent standard from a recognised university or higher education institution from outside the UK.
Required Documents
All applicants (with the exception of those applying to the History and Critical Thinking MA programme and the PhD Research programme) must submit a digital sample portfolio of original art and design work in addition to the online application form, scanned transcripts and certificates (as required), personal statement and references, which can be sent to the school directly by referees.
Tuition fees
Domestic
International
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