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Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

Professor Judith Mottram, Director of LICA, welcomes you to Lancaster University

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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

Testing out the social distancing initiative at The Storey in Lancaster.

New model leads the way to safe social distancing in Lancaster

Lancaster University is spearheading a unique, automated, social distancing and way-finding model for businesses preparing to re-open safely in the post-pandemic recovery.
A vision of our Drone Futures (from left to right): Apartment of the future complete with personal aerial vehicle landing pads (image courtesy of Humphreys and Partners), Drones ready for take-off from a dronepad (image courtesy of Ehang) and an urban droneport (image courtesy of Saul Ajuria Fernandez).

Back to the future: “Roads? Where we're going we don't need... roads!”

A new lower airspace must be developed to accommodate the future world of drone technology and the whole fabric of our cities must adapt to this new lifestyle and new mobility.  The first research of its kind, ‘Drone Futures’ by Lancaster University Senior Lecturer in Design Dr Paul Cureton, predicts a whole new built environment and examines how it will impact our cities in the future. 
work by final year fine art, theatre, film and design degree students

Certainty in uncertain times…students’ Borderless creative celebrations beat lockdown

Students at Lancaster University’s Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) have risen to a major challenge amidst the coronavirus pandemic and will showcase their work online this year.
exhibits by Molly Kent, Doubt in the digital age (Edinburgh University) and Stephen Wallis, Untitled (Lancaster University)

Lancaster leads the way to host art schools’ ‘festival of online degree shows’

Art schools across the UK have pledged to work together to help showcase the work of this year’s graduating fine students thanks to an initiative by Lancaster University.

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