Architecture
Develop an unbeatable mix of practical skills, creative vision, and real-world experience. Your career in Architecture starts here.
Creative Change
Studying at LICA means you will benefit from a high-quality teaching and research environment. Our subjects address real-world issues, such as sustainability, the climate emergency, and health inequalities. Our work generates new perspectives and globally recognised solutions – putting creative thinking into practice.
Develop an unbeatable mix of practical skills, creative vision, and real-world experience. Your career in Architecture starts here.
Respond to complex business and societal challenges by honing practical skills in design research and collaborate on industry projects.
Study the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of cinema and gain a rich understanding of the ways film shapes identities and experiences.
Equip yourself with the skills and experience to succeed in the creative economy. Fulfil your creative potential and ambitions in Fine Art.
Create ground-breaking and thought-provoking performances that respond to the world around us. Socially engaged theatre at the heart of LICA.
Refine your doctoral research with support from internationally renowned researchers and cutting-edge creative practitioners.
Our students possess bright creative talent and enquiring minds.
View their outstanding work here.
LICA is committed to leading interdisciplinary and international research in contemporary arts and rigorous enquiry into the relationship between creative practice, theory and criticism.
ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory design research lab which conducts applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.
Cultures bring together colleagues across all disciplines to conduct historical and theoretical research about cultures, art, and interconnecting lives.
The Centre for Practice is a forum for advancing creative, critical, and theoretical understanding of practice-based research in the contemporary arts.
Our facilities are designed so you can experiment and collaborate with highly-skilled technicians.
Lancaster Arts: a place where ideas, creativity and people connect.
CUT/TO, the Lancaster University Film Journal, was created by students to explore and exhibit all the ways we value films in our lives through a combination of academic, comical, and thought-provoking media.
Read the latest issue here.
The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) is home to over 500 undergraduate students and 145 postgraduates, with sister campuses at Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China and Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur. We're proud of our diverse community and collaborative partnerships.
Being a part of LICA means you’ll join a passionate team who are focused on embedding sustainability and collaboration at all levels of study.
Connect with world-leading creative institutions, travel internationally, and learn from eminent artists and designers.
Lancaster Architecture students founded BurnOut Magazine as a way to express their ideas and thoughts about architecture and student life in a creative and collaborative way.
The magazine includes original articles by students, exclusive interviews with academics and professional architects and documents the society's latest events.
The Lancaster University Design Society is a vibrant and dynamic community of creative minds, dedicated to encouraging innovation and design excellence on campus and Lancaster. With a diverse range of design disciplines, the society provides a platform for collaboration, skill development, and networking opportunities. From workshops and guest lectures to design competitions and exhibitions, the Design Society empowers students to explore their passion for design and make a meaningful impact both within the university and beyond.
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