Our Programmes in CRA

MA in Research Architecture

How can spatial practice engage with questions of contemporary culture, politics, media, ecology, and justice? This innovative programme brings together MA students from a wide variety of cultural and educational backgrounds, and from a diverse range of disciplines to address such questions.

The Centre offers an alternative to traditional postgraduate architectural education through a unique studio-based environment that investigates the urgent political conditions of our time through a combination of fieldwork, theoretical enquiry, and forms of creative practice. The MA culminates in a single major spatial investigation, which includes both practical and theoretical considerations and concentrates on a distinct issue, process or site.

Please note this MA is not a RIBA validated programme.

For students interested in the ground-breaking work of the Forensic Architecture agency you can elect to spend a portion of your studies working directly with the team on various aspects of their current investigations from mapping, modelling, remote sensing, and data visualisation to research and reflection.

Funding

The following are some of the key grants available for this MA programme, you can find more at the Goldsmiths Scholarship Finder.

• Goldsmiths Palestinian Scholarship 
• Aziz Foundation
• Chevening Scholarship for study in the UK

Forensic Architecture Scholarship

For the academic year 2024-25 and 2025-26 the Forensic Architecture agency will offer one full-time MA scholarship to an exceptional applicant who would not otherwise be able to pursue this MA. The scholarship covers tuition fees plus a monthly stipend for a home or international student.

Scholarship Statement: Tell us about your academic and non-academic achievements and how you think this qualification and your experience of studying in the CRA will contribute to your future academic and career plans.

You should include the following:

• Your background and achievements
  Your extracurricular activities or experiences, particularly those relevant to activism, human rights, and environmental justice
• Any barriers you have experienced to your education and how you have overcome them
• Any other achievements that you feel are relevant to studying in the CRA
• How would this MA would enrich or enable your future career plans

Please upload this statement (no more than 2 pages) along with your other admissions materials into the MY Goldsmiths online portal. The deadline for application is March 31st with short-listing and interviews to follow in early May.

 

MPhil/PhD in Research Architecture

The MPhil/PhD programme is aimed at practitioners of architecture and other related practices who would like to develop a sustained multi-year practice-led research project. It allows you to produce intensive, rigorous, and scholarly research as well as to further elaborate your own practice.

The programme is around bi-weekly PhD seminars as well as six annual Roundtable seminars at which students present their research alongside invited guests who bring relevant scholarly knowledge and practices into the Centre. Together these activities combine to create a common conceptual ground for practice and research.

• Research Degree examinations
• MPhil/PhD Research Architecture

Past Guests

Shela Sheikh, James Parker, David Wengrow, Adam Bobbette, The Otolith Group, Radha D’Souza, Thomas Keenan, Adrian Lahoud, Lumumba Di-Aping, Arun Agrawal, Nadine El-Enany, Suhail Malik, Brenna Bhandar, Dilip da Cunha, Cooking Sections, Marco Ferrari, Laleh Khalili, Kader Attia, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Astrida Neimanis, Radhika Subramaniam, Louise Amoore, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ross Exo Adams, Christina Sharpe, Esther Leslie, Heather Davis, Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Jussi Parikka, Jennifer Gabrys, Zygmunt Bauman, Rob Nixon, James C. Scott, James Bridle, Jonas Staal, Michel Feher, Trevor Paglen, Laura Kurgan, Graham Harman, Bruno Latour, Hito Steyerl, Sandro Mezzadra, China Mieville, Avery Gordon, Pelin Tan, Adi Ophir, Michael Taussig, Stefano Harney, Keller Easterling, AbdouMaliq Simone, TJ Demos, Alberto Toscano, Michel Agier, Ursula Biemann, DAAR and many others.