2.0 Critical Context
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The MA Architecture and Interior Design course allows you to systematically develop your practice in both project work and writing. Each semester you will be asked to undertake a specific research and writing task. As you move through the course the research and writing should become increasingly entwined and implicated in the project work. In semester one, a series of written assignments will be developed and presented during thematic seminars. These can be understood as short stand alone texts, but you are encouraged to think of them as coming together in semester one as a ‘literature review and position statement’. This work will serve as the basis for your thesis research and writing, which will be developed in semester two. Over semesters one and two you will build up a coherent document that will be produced as a book or pamphlet, which can be both presented in your portfolio, exhibition and submitted for a conference, publication or disseminated to particular audiences. In term three, the design project and thesis are synthesized, refined and distilled into a final report, a Research Folio. By establishing a knowledge base and framework, you will be able to situate your own ideas in a literature review and position statement (semester one), thesis (semester two) and Research Folio (semester three). Success in this unit will depend on you actively engaging with the seminars, reading extensively, visiting projects and exhibitions and studying closely the projects that you select as objects of study for your literature review and thesis. [continued...] UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2016-17