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M.A. Master's Degree in Urban Scenography. Managing spaces in contemporary cities
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
| Start date: | October 2013 |
| Credits: | 75 ECTS |
| Duration full-time: | 10 months |
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| Delivery mode: | On Campus |
Description
The Masters programme in Urban Scenography -managing spaces in contemporary cities- addresses subject matter ranging from the basics of traditional scenography to a modern interpretation and design of urban locations. The lecturers are professionals who work in theatre, virtual film and motion pictures.
This programme includes on-site experiences in urban locations such as real theatres. Through a continuous re-creation process, students will build performance experiences in the city, theatres and virtual spaces, while they compile data, memories and ideas from their shared relationship with the urban territory.
Students will hone their ability to analyse urban reality as they improve their knowledge of and expertise in stage design, by producing a storyboard, managing lighting, and building sets. After obtaining different levels of experience, such as local memories of their city, personal views, perspectives and the historical atmosphere, they will design and create theatrical spaces involving the natural complexity of the disciplines of architecture, theatre and contemporary cities.
The programme boasts institutional connections with other international educational institutions such as the Institute of Design and Technology at Zurich University of the Arts (idt-ZHdK, Switzerland), the Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London (CSSD, England) and the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology (VUT, Czech Republic).
The Masters programme in Scenography will involve major collaboration with professional organisations that operate both locally and internationally. These partners will guarantee that there is a direct approach in the different areas studied in the Masters programme through applicable design and technical aspects.
Our current partners are: DELFINI GROUP, EDSA, FILMAX, FOCUS, GRUPO BASSAT OGILVY, MANTEROLA, MEDIAPRO, NUSSLI, POLAR STAR FILMS, STAGE ENTERTAINMENT ESPAÑA and others (all these appointments are to be confirmed).
Contents
Academic structure
Besides theoretical lectures, this Masters programme includes the following characteristics and activities:
An instrumental scenography project based on a script to be selected and presented to small groups of 5 students at the end of the first term. An executive scenography project on a topic of the students choice to be handed in along with a business plan at the end of the second term. These two projects will be presented to a jury of examiners and supervisors at the end of each term.
A 4-week professional internship in a company working in the field of scenography and creativity. A group presentation at the Scenography Festival in Basel and a visit to the Prague Quadrennial. Two seminars (one per term) at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the University of London (CSSD, England) and the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology (VUT, Czech Republic).
At the beginning of the programme, students will attend a 12-hour practical course (over one weekend) in ESARQ-UIC in Barcelona on instrumental techniques and materials for the scenographic representation of space and time.
They will also participate in a special scenographic event such as a competition held on the premises of Camp Nou, Barcelona's F.C. stadium, or similar.
A description of the Masters project assignment and the corresponding dissertation, which can be either instrumental or executive, will be required. The main subject of the project should be aspects of production, stage direction, design, organisation and presentation. The project should include a discussion of conceptual, dramaturgical, production-oriented and technical issues within the framework of the students Masters project and each will have a different focus, depending on requirements: theoretical and conceptual issues, problems of narrative structure or dramaturgy, aspects of aesthetics and the design of urban spaces, methods, technologies or techniques in detail.
Requirements
Access routes
* Official Masters candidates must hold an official Spanish university degree, or a degree awarded by a foreign university recognised by the European Higher Education Area, which, in the country in which it was bestowed, can be used to access postgraduate courses.
* Those candidates who have gained degrees insystems outside of the European Higher Education Area do not need to have their degrees officially approved in order to apply, pending prior confirmation from the University, of their equivalence to the corresponding Spanish degrees, and of their accreditation in the country in which they were awarded.
* Under no circumstances will this access route involve the official approval of the candidates degree, nor its recognition or significance in any pursuits or endeavours outside of the Masters programme.
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