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Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

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Undergraduate Study

Our specialist degree courses are characterised by close links between practice and theory. We offer opportunities for an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, which blurs traditional boundaries.

Degrees in Fine Art

Degrees in Design

Degrees in Theatre

Degrees in Film

Degrees in Architecture

Postgraduate Study

LICA offers discipline-oriented or interdisciplinary masters that blur traditional boundaries and explore links between theory and practice. We also provide opportunities to undertake doctoral study supported by world-leading researchers and active arts practitioners.

Masters Study

PhD Study

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Research

Research

LICA is committed to leading interdisciplinary and international research in contemporary arts and rigorous enquiry into the relationship between creative practice, theory and criticism.

Imagination

ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory design research lab which conducts applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.

Insight

Insight is a creative research centre with disciplinary bases in Fine Art, Theatre, Film, Dance and Sound. It focuses on making meaning in the arts.

Facilities

LICA Facilities

Lancaster Arts

News

Members of the Beyond Imagination engagement team in front of the Mainway estate in Lancaster are (from left to right) consultation project Co-Directors Dr Mirian Calvo, Lecturer in Participatory Architecture and Professor Leon Cruickshank, Professor of Design and Creative Exchange with Violet Owen, PhD candidate and Dr David Perez, Lecturer in Radical Co-Design. Picture by Wash Studio.

University team work with residents and council to improve City’s social housing

Lancaster University’s Beyond Imagination team are at the forefront of a consultation for once-in-a-generation proposals to improve social housing on the Mainway Estate, Lancaster, which, this week, were given the green light to move to the next stage.
Woman pondering over artificial intelligence

Someone to watch over AI and keep it honest – and it’s not the public!

The public doesn’t need to know how Artificial Intelligence works to trust it. They just need to know that someone with the necessary skillset is examining AI and has the authority to mete out sanctions if it causes or is likely to cause harm.
ImaginationLancaster team members working on a community consultation at a Lancaster housing project. Picture by Wash Studio.

Design-led research has the power to change the world….

A collection of short films putting the spotlight firmly on the start-up and breadth of a major research project at Lancaster University was premiered on Tuesday.
Silver screen stars from the left: Carole Lombard, Clark Gable and Ginger Rogers. Photographs reproduced courtesy of Picturegoer Magazine postcards.

Lancaster project captures the glamour and glitz of cinema in the 1930s and beyond

Photographs of fabulous film stars and fascinating interviews form part of a stunning new online showcase to help researchers and the public in their quest for information about the silver screen in the 1930s and beyond.

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